RADIO PROGRAMME

Hokitika Guardian, 2 October 1931, Page 8

RADIO PROGRAMME

(Supplied by the Radio Broadcasting Company of N.Z. Ltd.)

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2nd

The Salon Orchestra, tinder the direction of Mr Harold Baxter, will supply the instrumental portion of this evening’s programme at IYA. It will be playing many popular numbers, including “Punch and Judy,” "A Southern Wedding,” “In a Persian Market,” “Wanganui Moon” and “Popular Songs.” The vocalists will be Mr Leslie Belcher (tenor) and Miss Thelma Duflin, mezzosoprano, who is contributing a groan of ballads by English composers. Humour will be supplied by Miss Mvitn living. ■;>

The 2YA Orchestrma will play the overture “Zampa,” the selection “Geisha,” the waltz “Wine, Women and Song,” and the fantasia “Faust Frivolities.’,’ Mr Claude 0. Moss, popular baritone will sing two Mexican songs by Wood-forde-Finden, a,nd two Maori songs. The new novelty instrumental aild vocal duo—Collinson and Lees—will be heard in a number of up-to-date songs and melodies. Mr Edwin Dennis and Miss Ena Rapley will also be 'included on this programme, in duets and solos. Mr . Will MeKeon will supply humour.

A studio concert by the Christchurch Optimists Club • will be broadcast by 3YA. This will be a programme of great variety. 'Some very popular choruses will be sung and there will be quartette by the well known male voice combination, |The Beckenham Four. Miss Marjorie Nelson will contribute soprano solos. Mr J. R. Lester will give two

recitations. There will also be banjo and trombone solos, and popular airs will be played by a trio of steel guitars and ukelelo.

A diversified programme will "be presented by 4YA. Xylophone solos, banjo solos, clarinet solos, humorous items, tenor solos, contralto solos, and soprano solos, all of an exceptional quality will figure on this evening’s entertainment. The clarinet artist, Mr T. Curreri, is a. very line' player. Mrs W. Carson, a brilliant contralto, is a new radio singer. Mr Alex Snell (baritone) .makes his radio rca p pear a nee with two Scottish ballads. (Mr W. N. Satterthwaite, one of the principal soloists of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers’ Choir, will sing three songs. Mrs H. Stokes will delight listeners with banjo solos. Mr Angus Gori'ie will present humorous items, one of thorn being Max Adder's “Mr Barker’s .Picture.” Every line of his item has a laugh in it.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3rd. The Auckland Municipal Band, under the direction of Mr George Buckley, is ’providing-TYA's programme “this’ evening.

A concert by the Wellington Apollo Singers, under the coiiductorship of Mr (H. Temple White, will be relayed from the Wellington Town Hall by 2YA. A very fine prograihme has been arranged, the features of which will be pianoforte solos by Mr Ernest Jenner, A.R.A.M., bass solos by Mr J. M. Caldwell, and tenor solos 'by Mr Eric Rislnvorth. Coster songs by Mr George Titchener, .songs at the piano .with banjolele by the Rose and Thistle Duo, popular airs by Miss Elaine Mood’s Hawaiian Trio (with ukelele and Spanish and steel guitars), entertaining items by The Twq Rascals and a bright programme by the 'Christchurch Salon Orchestra (under Mr Francis Bate) will constitute 3YA’s vaudeville entertainment, which will also be broadcast by 4YA.