OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 March 1939, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Cricket summary. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. 7.45: Summary oi play in the cricket Test match. 8.0: "Coronets o£ England: The Life cf Queen Elizabeth” (chapter 8). 8.32: "Ports of Call: A Visit to Haiti.” 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Dance programme. 10.0: Sports results. 10.10: Continuation of dance programme. 11.30: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0: Light musical programme. 6.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Light classics—a programme of concerted vocal items with instrumental interludes, featuring at 8.17: A recital by the Russian Cathedral Choir. 9.0: In lighter vein. 10.0: Mirth and music. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: 2YD Listeners’ Own Session. 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: Dance music. 9.5: 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. G.O: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 8.0: The Master Singers Vocal Ensemble, Hungarian Dance No 5 (Brahms); “Narcissus” (Uevin); "I See Your Face Before Me” (Schwartz). 8.10: Richard Leibert (organ), “Ballet”; “Little Shepherd” (Debussy); "Under the Leaves” (Thome). 8.19: The Euterpe Trio—Patricia McLeod (soprano), Alan Pow (pianist), Frank Poore (flautist). Trio, “From the Land of the Sky Blue Water” (Cadman). Piccolo, “The Comet” (Brewer). Soprano, “Bell Song” (“Lakme”) (Delibes). Piano, “Florentine Serenade” (Godard). Trio, “Rondo Alla Turca” (Mozart). 8.35: Rosario Bourdon Orchestra. “Gondoliers” Overture (Sullivan). 8.40: Stewart Harvey (baritone), “The Linden Tree”; "The Wanderer” (Schubert); “None But the Lohely Heart” (Tschaikowsky); "Lord. I Want to Be” (spiritual) (Wille). 8.52: Rosario Bourdon Orchestra, “Village Swallows” (Josef Strauss); “Russian Sailors’ Dances” (Gliere). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Columbia Light Opera Company, "Comedy Land.” 9.13: William Stark (novelty piano), “Humoresque in Fancy Dress’ (arr Stark). 9.19: The Hillbillies. “She’s the Daughter of the Old Grey Mare" (Lisbona); “On the Sunny Side of the Rockies” (Tobias). 9.25: Donald Thorne (organ), “Smash and Grab” (Leach); ‘Temptation Rag" (Lodge). 9.31: Rex Naughton and his Boys and Girls (comedy Sketch), “Disorder in Court.” 9.37: William Stark (novelty piano)', “At Home with the Old Folks and Some Great Masters” (arr Stark). 9.43: Frank Crumit (comedian), “Connie’s Got Connections Connecticut” (Adler); “Josephine” (Kahn). 9.49: Jack Buchanan and Elsie Randolph, with Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends, “Mr Whittington.” 10.0: Sports summary. 10.10: Dance music. 11.15: Close down.

3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c.

5.0: Children’s hour. G.O: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 8.0: Quarter-hour in the “Homestead on the Rise.” 8.15: “The Fourth Form at St Percy’s.” 8.28: Alfredo Campoli and his Salon Orchestra, “Cavatina” (Raff); “Canzonetta” (d’Ambroilo). 8.35: “Coronets of England: The Life of Mary Queen of Scots” (episode 21). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: The Bessie Pollard String Ensemble, Four Scottish Melodies. “Skye Boat Song”; “Eriskay Love Lilt”; “Road to the Isles” (trad, arr Pollard); “Coronach” ißarrattl. 9.15: The Chatterboxes in an Original Patter Sketch, “Full Name, Please” (Ryan). 9.24: Sydney Gustard (organ), "Drury Lane Memories.” 9.32: Anne Welch and Victor Conway (vocal), “The Geisha” vocal gems (Jones). 9.40: The Bessie Pollard String Ensemble, “Under the Balcony” (Haykens); “Londonderry Air” (arr Kreisler); “Liselotte (Adam). 9.49: The Chatterboxes in an original patter sketch and song. Patter sketch “Is That Your Best?” (Ryan); Song. “Teas. Light Refreshments and Minerals” (Long). 10.0: .Sports summary. 10.15: Dance music. 11.15: Close down. 4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 8.0: The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, “Slavonic Scherzo” (Sistek); “Moto Perpetuo” (Lotterr). 8.10: Mrs Trevor Stedman (soprano), “Two Irish, Eyes” (Blund); “The Bells of Shannon” (Mahoney). 8.16: The Light Symphony Orchestra, “Mannin Veen” (“Dear Isle of Man”) (Wood). 8.24: Arthur J. Lungley (baritone), four Negro spirituals, “I Got a Robe”; “Stel Away \ “Peter, Go Ring Dem Bells”; “Were You. There?” (arr Burleigh). 8.33: Bert Hirsch’s Novelty Orchestra, “Barcarolle” (Offenbach); “Back Talk” (Breuer): “A Leafy Lane in Caroline” (Zelda); “Starry Night” (Hirsch). 8.4 G: Mrs Trevor Stedman (soprano), “Idle Words” (Weatherley) “Days of Joy are Here” (Bowles). 8.52: The Boston Promenade Orchestra, Prelude in G Minor (Rachmaninoff); “Artists’ Life” Waltz (Strauss). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Dance music. 10.0: Sports summary. 10.10: Dance music. 11.15: Close down. Empire Programme. GSD, 25.53 m.; GSE, 25.29 m.; GSF, 19.82 m.; GSO, 19.7 G m.; GSI, 19.GG m. C. 30 p.m.: “Cards on the Table.” Exchange of views on the news of the day between speakers from different parts of the Empire. G. 50: Dance music. Ray Ventura and his Band. 7.40: Recital of folksongs. 8.8. C. Men’s Chorus; conductor. Leslie Woodgate. 8.10: "London Log.” 8.20: News and announcements. 8.45: Close down, i TOMORROW’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 9.0: Recordings. ( 9.15: A programme by the Wellington Salvation Army Band. 9.45: Recordings. 10.28: Time signals. 11.0: Anglican Church service from St Peter’s Anglican Church. 12.15 (approx, i: Recordings. 1.0: Weather report. Dinner session. 2.0: “Scotch Symphony” (Mendelssohn’, played by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. 2.32: Recordings. 3.0: “Musical Confessions of Famous Folk” No 31.

3.20 (approx.): Recordings. 3.28: Time signals. 4.30: Close down. 6.0: Children’s song service. 7.0: Roman Catholic service from St Gerard’s Redemptorist Church. 8.15 (approx): Recordings. 8.30: The Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, conducted by Professor Willem Mengelberg, “Alceste Overture” (Gluck). 8.39: Suzanne Balguerie (soprano), "Dieties of the Styx”; “Air of Iphigenia—O Unhappy Iphigenia” (Gluck). 8.47: Harold Samuel (piano), “Gavotte” (Gluck). 8.51: Beniamino Gigli (tenor), “O Del Mio Dolce Ardor” (Gluck). 8.55: Berlin State Opera House Orchestra, “Musette” (from “Armida’ Ballet Suite”) (Gluck). 9.0: Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Music from the Theatre. Gluck’s delightful Grecian opera. “Orpheus and Eurydice.” 10.20: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. C.O: Recordings. 8.30: Popular radio artists, recital programme featuring: The Albert Sandler Trio. W. H. Squire (’Cellist). Sidney Gustard (organist), Jeanette MacDonald (soprano). Nelson Eddy (baritone), and Flotsam and Jetsam (vocal duet). 10.0: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Jay Wilbur and his band. 7.35: Coronets of England—chapter 10 of the story of ( Charles 11, “The Merry Monarch.” 8.0: Tit-Bits of Today: Hits of Yesterday. 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: Dad and Dave from Snake Gully. 9.0: Radio play. The Twelve Labours of Hercules—" The Augean Stables.” 9.45: Carson Robison and his Buckaroos. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 6.0: Children’s song service. 7.0: Roman l Catholic service from St Patrick’s Cathedral. 8.15: Recordings. 8.30: Berlin State Opera Orchestra, “Don Giovanni” Overture (Mozart). 8.39: Helene Ludolph (soprano), “Oh! For the Wings of a Dove” (Mendelssohn); “With Verdure Clad” (Haydn). 8.47: Henry Shirley (piano), “Waltz in A Flat Major (Chopin); “In the Palm Court” (Henry Shirley); Rhapsody No G (Liszt). 9.0: Weather report. Station notices. 9.5: Nancy Evans (contralto). Spanish Folk Songs (de Falla). “El Pano Moruno”; “Sequidilla Murciana”; “Asturiana”; “Nana”; “Cancion”; “Polo”; “Jota.” 9.19: Jean Clarkson (’cello), Adagio (Haydn); Allegro Appassionato (Saint-Saens). 9.31: Charles Panzera (baritone), songs from “Dichterliebe” (Heine and Schumann). 9.44: Philharmonic Orchestra of Paris, “Les Preludes”—Symphonic Poem (Liszt). 10.0: Close down. 3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c. 5.30: Children’s song service. 6.15: Recordings. 7.0: Anglican service from St Mary’s Church. 8.15: Recordings. 8.30: Sir Hamilton Harty conducting the London Philharmonic Orchestra. ' Overture to a Picaresque Comedy (Arnold Bax). 8.40: Marie Campbell (Mezzo-soprano), “Where Corals Lie” (Elgar); “A Fairy Town” (Parry); “Melisande in the Wood” (Goetz); “Damon” (Strange). 8.50: New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Edward Elgar, Two Interludes from “Falstaff,” Minuet. Op 21 (Elgar). 9.0: Weather forecast. Station notices. 9.5: Len Barnes (baritone), “The Pauper’s Drive” (Homer), “May the Maiden” (Carpenter); “My Menagerie” (Foster); “I Will Make You Brooches” (Bury), “Sea Winds” (Harrison). 9.19: Nancy Estall (’cello), with harp accompaniment by H. G. Glaysher, “Star of Eve” (Tannhauser) (Wagner); “The Flower Song” (Faust) (Gounod); “Ah! Fors a Lui” (Traviata) (Verdi); “None So Rare” (Martha) (Flotow); “Waltz Chorus” (Faust) (Gounod). 9.35: John McCormack (tenor), “Serenade” (Schubert); “The Palms (Faure); “Ave Maria” (Schubert). 9.47: London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Geoffrey Toye, "In a Summer Garden” (Delius). 10.0: Close down. 4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. 5.30: Children’s song service (Big Brother Bill). G. 15: Recordings. G. 30: Congregational service from Moray Place Congregational Church. 7.45: Recordings. 8.30: The Lightj Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Haydn Wood, “Rondel”; “Nina”; “Like to the Damask Rose”; “Queen Mary's Song” (Elgar). 8.39: The Russian Cathedral Choir. “Cossack Song to the Prisoners”; “Song of the Oleg”; “Memories of Youth”; “The Young Recruits.” 8.52: Fritz Kreisler (violin) “Shepherd’s Madrigal” (Kreisler); “A May Breeze” (Mendelssohn). 9.0: Weather report. Station notices. 9.5: “Arctic Rescue —by Taffrail.” 9.38: Richard Leibert (organ), “Au Printemps” (Gounod); “Solveig s Song (Peer Gynt) (Grieg); “The Flatterer” (Chaminade); “Barcarolle’ (Offenbach). 9.48: The Lang Worth Concert Orchestra. “Serenare” (rustic wedding symphony) (Goldmark); “How Lovely are the Messengers” (Mendelssohn); "Spanish Serenade” (Bizet): “Eugen Onegin” Waltz (Tschaikowskyl. 10.0: Close down. Empire Programme. GSD, 25.53 m.; GSE, 25.29 m.; GSF. 19.82 m.; GSO, 19.7 G m.; GSI, 19.66 m. G. 30 p.m.: “Royal Palaces: Buckingham Palace”—4. Written by L. du Garde Peach. 7.0: Recital of music for two pianofortes by Esther Fisher and Cyril Scott. 7.20: Religious service (Church of England), from Lichfield Cathedral. 8.10: Sunday news, weekly newsletter. sports summary, Saturday’s sport, and announcements. 8.45: Close down.