OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 October 1938, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children's session. 6.0: Dinner session. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. Talk by Mr W. Atkinson, “Labour Day Sports.” 8.0: “Ports of Call: A Visit to Hungary.” 8.32: “The Life of Emile Zola” (chapter 3). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Dance programme. 10.0: Sports summary. 10.10: Continuation of dance programme. 10.28: Time signals. 11.15: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Instrumental solos, concerted and solo vocal items, featuring at 8 p.m. the Sieber Choir, singing “Wine, Women and Song” (Strauss), and at 8.24: Two items by the Don Cossacks Choir. 9.0: Melody and humour. 10.0: A happy half-hour. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: 2YD Listeners’ Own Session. 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: Dance Time. 9.5: The Nigger Minstrels. 9.20: "Mittens,” an epic of the turf. 9.35: Soft Lights and Sweet Music. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: An interview with Mr A. D. Locke, the famous South African golfer. 8.0: New Light Symphony Orchestra, “Four Ways Suite” (Coates). 8.14: Margaret Mercer (contralto), “Wee Willie Winkie”; “I'm Ower Young” (trdtl); “My Ain Wee Hoose” (Munro); “An Eriskay Love Lilt” (arr. Kennedy Fraser). 8.27: Symphony Orchestra, with harp and organ, “The Judge” (Gounod); “To Music” (Sjoberg). 8.36: Stewart Harvey (Baritone), “Harbour Night Song” (Sanderson); “The Bitterness of Love” (Dunne); “The Green-eyed Dragon” (Charles). 8.47: Billy Mayerl and his Orchestra, “Aquarium Suite” (Mayerl). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Heyn Quartet (male quartet), Potpourri of Tunes of 193738. 9.11: Reginald Dixon (organ), “Dixon Hits.” No 22. 5.17: C. B. Cochran (compere), assisted by Janet Joye,'Edward Cooper and Ray Noble and his Orchestra, C. B. Cochran Medley. 9.25: Rhythm Symphony Orchestra, “Serenade in Blue” (Plessow). 9.31: Elsie and Dorij Waters (comediennes), sketch, “Darts, With Gert and Daisy” (Waters). 9.34: Lani Mclntyre and his Orchestra, with vocal refrain, “Hame Pila,” “Hula Blues” (Noble). 9.40: Billy Mayerl (novelty piano), “Mister Cinders” (Myers). 9.46: The Roosters Concert Party (sketch), ‘Tommy’s Little Day” (Merriman). 9.54: Horvath Sandor Gipsy Orchestra, “Lovely Vienna.” 10.0: Sports summary.' 10.10: Dance music. 11.15: Close down.

3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c.

5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 8.0: “Homestead on the Rise” (episode 12). 8.15: “The Fourth Form at St Percy’s" (episode 26). 8.28: Leslie James (Wurlitzer organ), Everybody’s melodies.' 8.35: “Coronets of England: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots” (episode 2). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: 3YA Orchestra, conduc 7 ted by Will Hutchen, Mus.Bac.: (a) “Velva” Overture (Reissiger); (b) “Amina” Egyptian serenade (Lincke). 9.16: The Chatterboxes, “Spare Parts" (Ryan). 9.26: 3YA Orchestra, “The Quaker Girl” Selection (Monckton). 9.38: The Chatterboxes, “What a Night” (Ryan); “I Like Toffee, But I Can’t Stickjaw” (Walsh). 9.49: 3YA Orchestra: (a) Blue” Intermezzo (Ketelbey); (b) “Poupee Valsante” (Poldini); (c) “Entry of the Boyards” March (Halvorsen). 10.0: Sports summary. 10.15: Dance music. 11.15: Close down.

4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 8.0: 4YA Concert Orchestra, conducted by Gil Dech, “A May Day” Overture (Wood); “Shallow Waters” (Mayerl). 8.11: Trevor Thomas (baritone), “If You Would Love Me” (McDermid); “The Pretty Creature” (Wilson). 8.17: The Orchestra, “SaxoRhapsody” (saxophone soloist, S. George) (Coates). 8.26: Dorothy Barron (soprano), “Happy Song” (Del Riego); “Peace and Rest” (Ronald); “In Springtime” (Newton). 8.36: . The Orchestra, four Edward Elgar songs: (1) Rondel; (2) “Queen Mary’s Song”; (3) “The Shepherd’s Song”; (4) “Like to the Damask Rose.” 8.49: Trevor Thomas (baritone), “Onaway, Awake, Beloved” (Cowan); “Rolling Down to Rio” (German). 8.55: The Orchestra, March, I‘Montmarte” (Wood). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: The Happiness Boys, “Who Cares, Anyhow?” (Cleve). 9.8: Dance programme. 11.30: Close down. Empire Programme. GSC, 31.32 m.; GSD, 25.53 m.; GSE, 25.29 m.; GSF, 19.82 m.; GSO, 19.76 m.; GSP, 19.60 m. 7.0 p.m.: Big Ben. Phyllis Scott and John Rorke. 7.30: Exchange of views on the news of the day, between speakers from different parts of the Empire. 7.50: “What’s It Like?”—3. A revue in a gramophone shop. 8.20: Recital by Arthur Fear (baritone). 8.40: “London Log.” 8.50: News and announcements. 9.15: Close down. TOMORROW’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 9.0: Recordings. 10.0: Weather for aviators. 10.28: Time signals. 11.0: Morning service from Trinity Methodist Church. 12.15 (approx.): Close down. 1.0: Weather for aviators. Dinner session. 2.0: “Modern Composers Series—Vaughan Williams (1872—): “A London Symphony” played by the Queen’s Hall Orchestra, conducted by Sir Henry J. Wood. 2.40: Recordings. 3.28: Time signals. 4.30: Close down. 6.0: Children’s song service. 7.0: Evening service from St Paul’s ProCathedral.

8.15 (approx.): Recordings. 8.30: A recital by Dorothy Hanify (pianist): “Chant Polonaise” (No 5) “My Delight”) (Chopin, Liszt); “Tarantella” (“Napoli”) (Leschetizky). 8.45: Mary Pratt (contralto), “Ships of Arcady”; “Beloved”: “A Blackbird,. Singing”; “Sweet Chance” (Michael Head); “Indian Squaw Song” (Orlando Morgan). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: “Victoriana,” No 5. Commemorating the life and reign of Queen Victoria. 10.23: Close down. 2YC, Wellington, 840 k.c. 6.0: Recordings. B.3o:'Sunday night band concert. 9.0: Symphonic programme, featuring at 9.20: Symphony No 2 in D Major (Brahms), played by the London Philharmonic Orchestra. 10.0: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Casa Loma Orchestra. 7.35: Coronets of England. 8.0: The Masked Masqueraders. 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: “Dad and Dave.” 9.0: Play, "Atlantic Mystery.” 9.45: Carson Robison and his Buckaroos. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 9.0: Recordings. 11.0: Morning service from AU Saints’ Anglican Church. 12.15: Close down. 1.0: Dinner music. 2.0: Recordings. 3.30: Myra Hess, Schumann’s Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra. 4.5: Recordings. 4.30: Close down. 6.0: Children’s song service. 7.0: Evening service relayed from the Baptist Tabernacle. 8.15: Recordings. 8.30: The Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin, “The Armourer” Overture (Lortzing). 8.38: Kerstin Thorberg (soprano), “Give Me Thy Heart” (Melartin); “Mattinata” (Tosti). 8.44: Tossy Spivakovsky (violin), “Ave Maria” (Schubert, Wilhelmj); “Rondo” (Mozart, Kreisler). 8.52: The Sieber Choir with Orchestra, “Roses of the South” (J. Strauss). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Debate: Auckland University College versus Canterbury University College. 10.0: Close down.

3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c.

9.0: Recordings. 11.0: Morning service from St Mary’s Anglican Church. 12.15 (approx.): Close down. 1.0: Dinner music. 2.0: Recordings. 3.0: Albert Schweitzer (organist) plays Prelude and Fugue in F Minor (Bach). 3.13: Recordings. 4.30: Close down. 5.30: Children’s song service. 6.15: Recordings. 7.0: Evening service from St Albans Methodist Church. 8.15: Recordings. 8.30: The Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin, conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler, “The Marriage of Figaro” Overture (Mozart). 8.35: Illustrated talk by Felix Swinstead (pianist and composer), Examiner for the Royal Schools of Music, London: “The Left Hand in Piano Playing.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Debate: Canterbury University College versus Auckland University College. 10.5 (approx.): Close down.

4YA, Dunedin **9o k.c.

9.0: Recordings. 11.0: Morning service front Church of Christ. 12.15 (approx.): Close down. 1.0: Dinner music. 2.0: Recordings. 2.30: Song cycle, “In a Persian Garden" (Liza Lehman). 3.8: Recordings. 4.30: Close down. 5.30: Children’s song service. 6.15: Recordings. G. 30: Evening service from Hanover Street Baptist Church. 7.45: Recordings. 8.30: Half an hour with Wagner: The Bayreuth Festival Orchestra, “Siegfried: Forest Murmurs”; Prelude to Act 3: “Siegfried.” 8.38: Gotthelf Pistor (tenor), “Siegfried Follows the Forest Bird.” 8.42: Lauritz Melchior and Albert Reiss, “Forging Song.” 8.46: London Palladium Orchestra, “Lohengrin”—Prelude to Act 3. 8.50: Lotte Lehmann (soprano), “Elsa’s Dream.” 8.53: Alexander Kipnis (bass), “The King’s Prayer.” 8.57: The Berlin State Opera Orchestra and Chorus, “Bridal Chorus.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Gems from “Carmen” (Bizet): The Symphony Orchestra of Paris, Overture. 9.9: Marthe Nespoulons and Guenot, with chorus. Opening Chorus. 9.13: Raymonde Visconti and chorus, “ ’Tis the Mid-day Bell.” 9.17: Symphony Orchestra of Paris, with Chorus, “When Soldiers Mount Guard.” 9.21: Conchita Supervia (soprano). “Habanera.” 9.25: Marthe Nespoulons and Georges Thill (vocal Duet), "Speak to Me of My Mother.” 9.29: Raymonde Visconti and Georges Thill, "By the Ramparts of Seville” (Sequidilla”). 9.23: The Royal Opera Orchestra, Ballet No 2. 9.37: Georges Thill (tenor), “Flower Song." 9.41: Lawrence Tibbett (baritone), "Toreador’s Song.” 9.45: The Symphony Orchestra of Paris, Entr’acte to Act 3. 9.49: Hildegarde Ranczak (soprano), Michaela’s Aria. 9.53: Raymonde Visconti, Georges Thill and Chorus, “Smugglers’ Chorus.” 9.57: Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera Comique, March and Chorus. 10.0: Close down. Empire Programme. GSC, 31.3.2 m.; GSD, 25.53 m.; GSE, 25.29 m.; GSF, 19.82 m.; GSO, 19.76 m.; GSP, 19.60 m. 7.0 p.m.: Big Ben. “After Dinner.” Play for broadcasting, by Alwyn Whatsley. 7.30: Pianoforte recital by Sidney Harrison. 7.50: Religious service. (Church of Scotland). 8.50: News and announcements. 9.15 Close down.