RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 26 November 1930, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.) WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26. lYA’s concert programme' this evening will he given entirely by the students of the Auckland Training College for teachers. It will be the- first time that such a concert will have been broadcast and all listeners will find something of interest and enjoyment. The programme to be given will include both music and drama. The chief interest on the musical side will be found in the choral work by the College Glee Club, numbering, over 80 vdices. Another feature of the programme will be a one-act play by Mr C. H. Box, of Tauranga, a former student of the college. The' play is entitled “Walking Off” and deals with the struggle which a farmer has in order to make a living off his high priced land. Mr Box has written several plays on New Zealand life.

On broadcast from 4YA and 3YA, Farmer Brown and an agricultural instructor will discuss-ensilage making. The parties to the dialogue will be Mr L. W. McOaskill and Mr R. B. Tennant. Dialogues of this nature have been given before with very satisfactory results, the speakers being specially gifted for the work. The dialogue will be given under the auspices of the 4YA Primary Productions committee.

j The 3YA programme will feature “The Arcadians.” The vocalists will , he the Salon Quartet,' eonsitsing of i Miss Corrie Aslin, soprano. Miss Dulcie Mitchell, contralto, Mr James Shaw, tenor, and Mr J. Graham Young baritone. All the principal concerted and solo numbers of this very popular musical play will be sung. Supporting instrumental music will be provided bv the Studio Octet under Mr Harold Beck. Mr Arthur Cordon’s well known orchestra will provide the instrumental music to he broadcast from 4YA. On the vocal side of the entertainment a new radio artist will he appearing— Master Leslie Coombs, who has a well trained voice, beautifully clear and of delightful qualitv. Mr W. Ruffed, baritone, and Miss A. Finnerty, soprano. complete De programme. Silent (lav at 2YA.

4YA will be on the air to-morrow afternoon from noon to broadcast the results of JV Forbnrv Park Trotting Club’s Spring Meeting.

The borne science talk from IYA, 2V' and 3YA to-morrow afternoon will be on “Budgeting, or Managing tbe Family Income, Part 2.” The talk has been prepared hv the Home Science. Extension Department of Otago University.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 27th A lecture on “Cancer” will be given by IYA at 7.40 this evening by I>r. E. B. Gunson. The Auckland Orpheus Club will be providing lYA’s programme. The orchestra consists of some of Auckland’s leading players and they are a very enthusiastic band of musicians under able leadership. Orchestral items include “Ballet Music” from “Faust” (by Gounod) and “Ballet Music” from “Dance of the Hours” (b,y Ponchielli). There will he a piccolo solo by Mr Will Henderson and cornet solos by Mr Reg. Davies. A new singer to IYA will be heard when Mrs Lambert, considered by many to be one of the finest contraltos in the Dominion, presents her items. In company with Mr Frank Sutherland this artist will sing the well known duet “O Lovely Night.” Mr Sulherland will be heard in two solos with orchestral accompaniment. Included on the programme will be the Asquiths, who will provide a “Twenty Minutes Drawing Room Entertainment.”

At 7.40 p.ih. from 2YA, a talk on “Diet and Dental Disease,” one of the series of lecturettes arranged by the Dental Division, Department of Health, will be given by Mr J. B. Bibbv, an officer of the Department. The Savage Club Orchestra has arranged to give the whole of the evening concert at 2YA. A programme that will appeal to all tastes lias been arranged, outstanding features being Friedman’s “Slavonic Rhapsody,” Massenet’s “Scenes Pittoresque” (descriptive of scenes in and around Algiers), a selection from “H.M.S. Pinafore,” Suppe.s “Carnival” overture, “The Bine Danube” waltz, Leutner’s “Festival Overture” and the' overture to “The Bohemian Girl.” Vocal solos will be given by Savages Wilbur Davies and Lew Campbell. The orchestra will perform under the conductorsliip of Savage Frank Thomas, who is widely known as an orchestrial conductor and accompanist of outstanding ability. The 3YA talk for farmers will be given by Mr ,T. G. McKay, Fields Instructor of the Department of Argieulture, on tbe subject of “Wheat Certification.” 3YA’s broadcast will be on relay from tbe Radiant Hall where tbe third of the season’s concert by the .Christchurch Orchestral Society is to be given. Tbe orchestra plays under the conductorship of Professor Oddone Savini and a very attractive programme has been arranged. The numbers to be presented will include the tone poem “In Memoriam” (composed by Mr R. A. Horne, in memory of tbe late Mr G. Bonnington, ex-President, and arranged by Mr Arthur Lilv, A.R.C.O. The vocal soloist for tbe evening will be Mr W. Tcomey (baritone).