ACROSS THE TASMAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 290, 28 February 1928, Page 14

ACROSS THE TASMAN

TO-DAY Australian broadcasting stations transmit as follows: 2FC Sydney: 442 metres, 5,000 watts. 8.15 p.m., children’s session—Hello Man; 9.30, news; 10, studio concert of vocal and instrumental items, dance music. • * * 3LO Melbourne: 371 metres, 5,000 watts. 8.30 p.m., children’s session; talks on “Public Affairs” (10), and “Bowls” (10.15); 10.30, relay of official opening of Wireless Exhibition, items by the Bairnsdale Citizens’ Band, studio orchestra. Mr. Browne (baritone), Miss Riddell (contralto), and dance music. 4QG Brisbane: 385 metre?, 6,000 watts. 8.30 % p.m., news; 8.40, dinner music; 9, children’s session—Uncle Jim; 10.15, talk on “The Propagation of Plants”; 10.30, concert by the Silkstone Apollo Club. NOTES All the vocal items to be broadcast from 2YA this evening will be taken from “The Princess of Kensington,” by Edward German. The local station is to broadcast a scene from the “Bohemian Girl,” by Balfe, at the end of to-night’s programme. The vocal numbers will include the songs: "I Dreamt That I Dwelt in Marble Halls,” “When Other Lips,” “The Heart Bowed Down,” “Love Smiles but to Deceive,” “From the Valleys and Hills,” and “Through the World.” The plot of the “Bohemian Girl” is as follows: At the estate of Count Arnheim, in Austria, festivities are being held. A troop of Gipsies come on the scene and induce Thaddeus, a rebel, to join them. News is brought by some of the hunting party that Arline. the Count’s daughter, is being attacked by a stag. Thaddeus rescues her, and he and the gipsy chief take her to her father's castle. Thaddeus is given wine and asked to drink to the Emperor. He refuses. In the ensuiing uproar he escapes and in revenge steals the little daughter of the Count. The girl Arline grows up among the gipsies, and falls in love with Thaddeus. She tells him that in her dreams she sees the marble halls of her childhood. She is accused of stealing a medallion, and subsequently taken before the Count, her father, who recognises her by a scar. The story ends happily. Arline. being restored to her former position, confesses her love for Thaddeus, who proves to be of noble birth, and is allowed to marry her.