RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 23 February 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.) MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23rd. This evening 2YA will be relaying from the Wellington Town Hall a special concert programme to' be presented under the direction of Mr Victor Lloyd and Air Leon do Manny. A further departure from the usual .Monday evening programme is being made by 3YA, when at St. Albans Farit, an open-air dance programme is to lie given. The music will la* supplied by the New Brighton .Municipal Band. Foxtrots, waltzes, Boston two-steps and slow foxtrots will be played. There will be humour by Mr George Titchener. IYA has a special programme entitled “An English Ballroom Scene in the Eighties” which will be what its name implies. Some of the ballroom dam es presented by Dagg’s Band will be D’Alberts, Polonaise, Polka, Quadrilles, Valse Vienna, and waltif. Those listeners who can remember only too well such delightful songs as “Two Little Girls in Blue,”, “If Those Lips could only Speak,” “On the Ball” and hosts of other well-written melodies, will be able to sit back and enjoy remininsceneos. A quartet of artists, the Harmonists, will provide the vocal section of the evening's entertainment. Mr ,f. B. Flynn will recite. Featured on 4YA’s programme will he .Miss Cicely Audibert (soprano) who has been engaged by the Broadcasting Company to make a tour or all stat-

ions. Silent day at IYA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21th. Miss Merle Miller, of Christchurch, studio pianiste at 3YA and an exceptionally fine dramatic mezzo-so-prano, will give a vocal recital at IYA this evening. While in Sydney, Aliss Miller sang with Joseph Hislop in a presentation of “Faust,” she taking the part of Seibel. Her IYA recital will comprise five songs. Also on the evening’s programme will be Air Len Barnes who will sing two operatic numbers and Salter’s “Ulysses.” Air A. B. Chappell, ALA. will give his weekly Topical Talk. The instrumental side of the programme will he presided by Mr Cyril Towsev (pianist) and the Studio Orchestra Octet, under Mr Harold Beck. Tn contradistinction to lYA’s oper-atic-classical programme, 2A'A has a concert of light variety. Mr Jack

Farrell and his banjo quintet will play ■jome assorted numbers. The vocalists will be: Miss Ella Fair (soprano), Aliss Renee Shea id (contralto) and Mr Harry Matthew (baritone). Mr W Haydock, violinist, will play Tsohaikowsky’s “Afelodie,” with orchestral accompaniment. The programme to be presented by the Salon Orchestra will include “Russian Dan<;cs” by Bortkiewioz. Aliss Cicely Aiulibert, touring the New Zealand stations under engagement to the Broadcasting Company, will give her second recital at 4A r A. The Saxophone Band will provide all the instrumental portion of the evening’s programme. This combination contains at least 20 saxophonists, under the direction of Mr J. AfcCaw. The selection on this occasion will include popular waltzes, marches and foxtrots, with a quartette ami solo to add variety. The artists appearing in sunnort of this combination are: Aliss Alary Somerville (contralto), Air J. B. Hamilton (tenor) and Mr James A. Paterson (Scottish humorist). The talk by the Home Science Extension Department of Otago University from 4YA to-morrow afternoon will be on “Kitchen Talks.” Silent day at 3YA.