Six grey-haired matrons wearing long-sleeved dresses, two young men in black sweaters, a middle-aged woman who never used her lorgnette, and a Senior in formal attire who left early, along with some six-hundred ordinary people attended last night's joint concert by the Radcliffe Dance Group and the Radcliffe Choral Society. The evening began and closed well and there were several delightful numbers in the middle, but it was too long.

The Choral Society with G. Wallace Woodworth conducting, opened with the full chorus singing Hassler's Cantate Domino from Sacri Concentus. For such a large group, the girls appeared excellently drilled. The Choral Society did not fare so well for most of the remainder of the evening, the Sopranos in particular being somewhat thin and ofttimes shrill. The group sang Mabel Daniels' new Carol of a Rose. The selection, with words from a fifteenth century Flemish poem, was quite unexciting. The highpoint of the Choral Society's performance was a full and lively rendition of Schubert's Valses Nobles, Op. 77. The first sopranos maintained a pleasant pitch, the second sporanos did not get lost in the altos, and the results were enjoyable.

For their first joint number, the Choral Society and the Dance Group performed Bach's Guter Hirte, Trost der Deinen. The choreography for two women and a man had little rapport with the Bach, and all by itself was pretty poor. The three dancers did not seem agreed as to the meaning of the simple pastoral dance they were trancing their way through. The Bach was followed by Two Choruses from Alice in Wonderland. The Lobster Quadrille, featuring six girls in red flannel pajamas playing crustacean, was not art but was lots of fun. Father William was charmingly danced by Jane Classen and Adele Logan. The choreography by Miss Classen was repititious at times, but still pleasant.

In Bacchanale, John Holden (the one male in the cast) fared better than he had previously. In Three Studies in Lostness, Holden seemed more sure of himself, although his performance could not compare with that of Ruth Emerson, who also choreographed the studies. Miss Emerson is, at least, a very striking dancer.

Elizabeth Theiller provided the high point of the evening with her performance of Things Are Getting Curiouser and Curiouser. Her "Requiem for a flattened banana" exhibited an excellent sense of humor and some charming interpretive dancing.

If both the Dance Group and the Choral Society had been a bit more selective, the evening would have been considerable more enjoyable. Even so, the performance was generally entertaining.