RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 12 March 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.) THURSDAY, MARCH I2tli. Tin's evening an old-time Nigger Alinsstrel Show will be featured by the I.YA Broadcasting Choir and the following artists: Mr J. M. Clark (interlocutor) and (Messrs Elton Black. Stan Asquith, Erie Waters and Len Bnntes( corner-men). Soloists will be Mh.fi Audrey McDonagh and Mrs A. M. Smith, with Mr C. Thomas as banjo accompanist. The 2YA programme will he given by the Wellington Artillery Band, under Captain T. Herd and 2YA artists. The vocalists will he the Lyric Quartet and Miss Blanche Godier (contralto). Miss Godier is a newcomer to 2YA. 3YA's programme will be of an operatic-classical nature, followed at 0.30 by a dnncp session. The contributing artists will be: Mrs J. A. Stewart (mezzo-soprano), Miiss Betty Sutton (soprano). Air Robert Allison (baritone), Air A. E. Hutton (flautist) and the Studio Octet. Four of the studio violinists will play Tolhurst’s “Anne Bolevn Gavotte.” Silent day at 4YA.

FRIDAY, MARCH 13th

JYA will this evening provide an entertainment in which will be included a short play, two stories by 0. Henry and a musical tantasy. The whole of tin 1 performance will he given under the direction of Mrs Zoe Bartley-Baxter. The 0. Henry stories which have been dramatised and arranged by Mrs Baxter will be "The Gift of the Magi” and “Tiie Third Ingredient,” The musical fantasy is based on a fairy tale by Oscar Wilde. The one-act play is entitled "The Price” and i;s from the pen ol George do Clive Lowe, of Auckland.

Aliss Cicely Audibert will give her third recital at 2YA this evening, singing to orchestral accompaniment the following songs: “Boat Song” (Ware), “Nymphs and Fauns” (Bernberg), “The Dreary Steppe” (Grechaninoff) and “Robin’s Song” (White). The Orchestrion, under Signor A. P. jTruda will supply the instrumental music for SYA’s programme. Mr Eric Harrison (baritone) will sing in tour songs. All' Stan. AVillianison, banjo virtuoso, will be heard in a number of solcn and Air William .J. AlcKeon (humorist) will amuse listeners. The concert programme from 3A'A will he light and bright, and of a varied nature. Aliss Lucy Fullvood will sing “Break O’ Day” and “Coinin’ Thro tlm Rye.” Miss .Jean Johnson’s contralto solos will ho Bemberg’s “Hindoo Song” and Sanderson’s “Harbour Night Song.” Ale.ssrs T. G. Rogers and E. J. Johnson will be the male singers. Several quartettes will be filing. Miss Muisie Ottey, a clever pianiste, will give novelty numbers 011 the piano. Other instrumental items will he contributed by Aliss Irene .Morris (vToliniste), Air M. E. Withers (clarinetist) and the Christchurch Broadcasting Trio.

Featured 011 4YA’« programme will )>e the enactment of scenes from “Tom Brown’s Schooldays.” The occasion is the anniversary of the death of Thomas Hughes, the author of that fine and famous English literary elastic. Scenes will be presented by Mr McConnell and Mr Lester Moller and Air D. K. Dali. The vocalists 011 the supporting programme will be Miss Irene Hornihlow (contralto) and Air Wilfred Kershaw (bass). Instrumental numbers will be given by a trio, Misses Fraser, Moffatt and Judd.