OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 April 1939, Page 2

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT'S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 0.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.28: Time signals. '• 7.30: Talk for farmers. 7.40: Talk, “Lubrication of Automobiles.” 8.0: Chimes. The Pablo Casals Symphony Orchestra of Barcelona, “Ruins of Athens” Overture (Beethoven). 8.6: Evelyn Davies (soprano), “Love Triumphant” (Brahms); !‘My Heart is Like a Singing Bird” (Parry); “The Linden Tree” (Schubert). 8.18: Berlin State Opera House Orchestra, Symphony in B. Minor (Schubert). 8.42: Talk, Professor Skotzberg, “The Mystery of Easter Island.” 9.5: Music from the Theatre: “Memories of the Ballet” (No. 7). 9.35: Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone), “Talismans,” “Provencal Song,” “The Soldier” (Schumann). 9.43: Geoffrey Shaw (piano), “Funny Story,” “Birthday March,” “The Merry Peasant,” “Catch Me If You Can, Old Bogie” (Schumann). 9.51: Lore Fischer (contralto), “Wehmut,” “Waldesgesprach” (Schumann). 9.57: Boston Promenade Orchestra, Polonaise Militaire in A Major, Op. 40, No. 1 (Ch'opin, orchestra by Glazounov). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 10.28: Time signals. 11.0: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0: Light musical programme. 0.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Two hours of light entertainment, featuring at 8.4, “America Calling”—a radio burlesque; at 8.46, Tommy Handley’s impressions of Olympia; at 9.43, a short session of musical gymnastics. 10.0: In order of appearance: Sandy MacPherson (organist), Mimi Thoma (soprano), and Gleb Yellin’s Gipsy Orchestra. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Stop Press—new recordings. 7.35: The Kingsmeh—Radio’s Royal Quartet. 7.48: Musical melange. 3.25: “Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture.” 8.40: Trailer. 8.45: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 9.0: Melody time, 9.15: “Exploits of the Black Moth: The Northumberland Tramp.” 9.45: Romance and melody. 10.0: Close down. IYA, Auckland. 650 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: Talk, “Bulbs for Spiting Display.” 8.0: Barnabas von Geczy and his Orchestra, “Gipsy Wine” (Ritter). 8.5: "The Rich Uncle from Fiji” (episodes 21 and 22). 8.17: “A Pleasant Quarter-hour in the Homestead on the Rise.” 8.32: “Eb and Zeb.” 8.41: “Melodies by the Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture.” 8.53: Marie Burke (soprano), ‘l’ll Always Be True” (Benatzky). 8.56: Barnabas von Geczy and his Orchestra, “Free and Easy” (Porschmann). 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Talk, “The Potter and the Poet,” Miss Briar Gardner. 9.20: Dance music. 11.0: Close down. 3YA, Christchurch. 720 k.c. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.35: Book review. Miss G. M. Glanville. 8.0: Chimes. “Soldier of Fortune.” 8.27: “Here’s a Queer Thing.” 8.40: Josef Kaartinen (Finnish saxophonist), “La Cinquantine” (Gabriel, Marie); “Carry Me Back to Old Virginny” (Band); “On the Sea” (Merikanto); “Scandinavian Sailors’ Medley” (arr. Kaartinen). 9.0: Weather forecast. Station notices. 9.5: Talk by Douglas Cresswell, “The Cradle of New Zealand.” 9.20: “The Old-Time The-Ayter.” 9.34: “The Hawaiian Serenaders” introduce “Sweet Lei Lehua, “Waipio,” “Kalakaua’s Serenade,” “Hawaiian Medley.” 9.47: “The Nigger Minstrels.” 10.0: Dance music. 11.0: Close down. 4YA, Dunedin. 790 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: News. 7.30: Winter course talk, Mr A. W. O’Reilly, “Great Figures of Modern Europe (2i: Mussolini.” 8.0: Chimes. The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, “Boccaccio” Overture (Suppc). 8.8: The Don Cossacks Choir, Ukranian folk song, “Bandura.” 8.11: A musical dramatisation by Lew White, “The Bells of St. Mary’s” (Adams). 8.15: Tino Rossi (tenor), “Colombclla” (Pierlas). 8.18: Eddie Peabody and his Dizzy Strings. “Love Walked In” (Gershwin). 8.21: Nelson Eddy (baritone), “Sun-up to Sun-down” (Romberg). 8.25: Primo Scala’s Accordion Band, “The Humming Waltz” (Evans). 8.28: Conchita Supervia (soprano), “Un Barberillo Alegre” Cancion (Prado). 8.31: Green Brothers Marimba Orchestra. “Underneath the Mellow Moon” (Hall). 8.34: Marjorie Stedeford, Jack Plant. Dinah Miller. Dan Donovan. Alice Mann and Jack Cooper. “Singers oh Paratle." 2.41: Grund Dance Orchestra,

“I Dream o£ the First Kiss Till I Get the Second” (Richartz). 8.44: Talk by Harold Abrahams. Captain of the British athletic team at the Olympic Games in 1928. 9.0: Weather report. Station notices. 9.5: The Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards. “Amparifa Roga” March (Texidor); “Euryanthe” Overture (Weber). 9.14: Walter Preston and Evelyn MacGregor (duets), “With All My Heart” (Jimmy McHugh); “Ail Alone” (Irving Berlin). 9.19: The Lang Worth Military Band, “March of Italian Riflemen” (Eilenberg); “Gipsy Rondo" (Haydn); “Hoch Hapsburg” (Kral); “Through Battle to Victory” (von Bion); “The Land of the Maple" iLaurendeam. 9.31: “Eb and Zeb.” 9.40: The Band of H.M. Grenadier Guards, “Anitra's Dance"; “In the Hall of the Mountain King" (both

from “Peer Gynt” Suite) (Grieg). 9.48: Patricia Rossboorugh (piano), “Piano Memories.” 9.54: The American Legion Band. “The Jolly Coppersmith” (Peter); “Parade of the Legionnaires” (Halley). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. Empire Programme. GSD, 25.52 m.: GSB. 31.55 m.: GSF. 19.82 m.: GSO, 19.76 m.; GSI. 19.66 m. 6.30 p.m.: The Open Air Club meets between the Cotswolds and the Severn. 7.0: Band of Queen Victoria’s Rifles (the King’s Royal Rifle Corps). 7.30: “Shinty”: Sport of the Gael from earliest times to present-day. 8.0: News. 8.15: 8.8. C. Men’s Chorus. 8.45 (to close downi: Sports neWs and market notes.