OVER THE WIRELESS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 December 1939, Page 8

OVER THE WIRELESS

TONIGHT’S PROGRAMMES. 2YA, Wellington. 570 k.c. 5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner session. 0.55: Weather report. 7.0: News and reports. 7.28: Time signals. A Ramble in the News, by Coranto. t 7.40: Talk, “Books. Grave and Gay.” j 8.0: Hoffmeister’s Hawaiian Quintet. “Night I and Day” (Cole Porter): “Song of the Islands” (King). ' 8.8: Jim Davidson and the ABC Dance Or- ■ chestra. “Back to Tipperary Days” . (Bimbo-Lumsdaine). 8.11: Cicely Audibert, soprano, “Ay Ay Ay” i traditional): “Star of Love” (Ponce): "Fragile Things” (Phillips); “Love at First Sight” ißryan). 8.23: Harry Horlick and his Orchestra, “Yankee Princess” Waltz (Kalman). 8.2(1: Arthur Askey, comedy vocal. “All to Specification’ (Wilcock-Rutherford). 8.29: Hoffmeister’s Hawaiian Quintet, “Duke Kahanamoku’ (Bright); “Solitude” (Ellington). 8.35: Toralf Tollefsen. accordion, "Invitation to the Waltz” (Weberl. 8.38: Thomas West, tenor. “Song of Songs" (Moyal; “O Sole Mio” (di Capua); “Giannina Mia” (Friml). 8.48: H. Robinson Cleaver, organ. “Gracie Fields Melodies.” 8.51: Arthur Askey, comedy vocal, “The Cuckoo" (Sonin). 8.54: Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra, “The Vagabond King” selection (Friml). 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: Vera Martin, contralto, presents “Songs of Old London" Iby Herbert Oliver); “Buy My Strawberries,” “Down Vauxhall Way.” “The Nightingales of Lincoln’s Inn,” “May Day at Islington.” 9.40: “Breakfast With the Bullfinches” (by Ursula Branstonl. 10.10: Music, mirth and melody. 11.12: Close down. 2YC, Wellington. 840 k.c. 5.0: Light, music. (1.0: Close down. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Chamber Music Hour, featuring, at 8.20. “Quartet in D Minor” (Mozart), played by the Flonzaley Quartet. 9.0: Light variety. 10.0: In order of appearance, Light Recitals by Charlie Kunz, pianist, George Baker, baritone, and Louis Voss and his Orchestra. 10.30: Close down. 2YD, Wellington. 990 k.c. 7.0: Premiere. 7.35: The Crimson Trail. 7.46: Ensemble. 8.7: “Thrills.” 8.20: The 2YD Singers. 8.40: “The Centennial Regatta.” A chat with Clive Highet, rear-commodore Royal Port Nicholson Yacht Club. 8.52: Console-ation. 9.5: A Soldier of Fortune. 9.30: Youth Must Have Us Swing. 10.0: Close down.

IYA, Auckland, 650 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 0.55: Weather report. 7.0: News and reports. 8.0: Concert programme. Mr Chalmers. K.C., “The Bannister Case” (chapter 1). 8.15: “Wandering With the West Wind.” 8.45: “The Fourth Form at St. Percy’s.” 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: Louis Levy and his Gaumont British Symphony, “Shall We Dance?” Selection (Gershwin). 9.31: “Dad and Dave.” 9.44: Interrupted Harmony, featuring the Filmer Boys and George Matthews, comedian. 9.57: Philip Green and his Orchestra. “Blaze Away” (Holzmann). 10.0: Jan Savitt and his Tophatters, with vocal interludes by the Merry Macs. 11.0: Close down.

3YA, Christchurch 720 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 6.55: Weather reports. 7.0: News and reorts. 7.35: Our Garden Expert, “Cleaning the Garden Slate.” 8.0: “The Woman in White.” 8.15: “Personal Column.” 8.27: “The Twelve Labours of Hercules: The Final Task.” 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather forecast and station notices. 9.25: "Night Club." Presenting music by Ozzie Nelson and his orchestra. 10.0: Dance music. 11.01 Close down.

4YA, Dunedin 790 k.c.

5.0: Children’s session. 5.45: Dinner music. 7.0: News and reports. 8.0: “AH Baba and the Forty Thieves.’’ 9.0: Reserved. 9.20: Weather report and station notices. 9.25: Musical comedy gems. Lamoureux Concert Orchestra, “The Comedy of the Wash Tub’’ Overture (Dupont). 9.29: Nelson Eddy (baritone), “Tramp, Tramp. Tramp Along the Highway’ ’(Herbert). 9.32: Jeanette Mac-' Donald and Nelson Eddy (duet), “Ah. Sweet Mystery of Life’’ (Herbert). 9.35: The Salon Group, “Kiss Me Again’’ (Herbert). 9.39: Frank Westfield’s Orchestra, “Our Miss Gibbs” Selection (Monckton). 9.45: Harold Williams and Chorus, “Song of the Vagabonds” (Friml)’ 9.48: Ninon Vallin and Andre Bauge, “Waltz Song” (Lehar). 9.51: Von Dombrowska Quartet, “You Are the Smiling Happiness” (Lehar). 9.54: The 8.8. C. Dance Orchestra, “A Musical Comedy Waltz Concoction” (arr. Hall). 10.0: Music, mirth and melody. 11.0: Close down. Empire Programme. War news will be broadcast from Daventry at the following New Zealand times:—G a.m., 7; 12.30 p.m., 4, G. 15, 9, 11.30. Transmission. One from Daventry (directed 1 to Australia, New Zealand and Oceania), 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. G. 5.8., 31.55 m. (G p.m. to 8.15 p.m.): GSC. 31.22 m. (G p.m. to 6.45 p.m.): GSE, 25.29 m. (from 8.30 p.m.); GSF, 19.82 m. (from 8.30 p.m.); GST, 19.GG m.; GSP, 19.G0 m. (from 7 p.m.).