MONDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 13, 22 September 1939, Page 17

MONDAY

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SEPTEMBER 25

NY. AUCKLAND) | 650k.c_ 462m. | 7..0a.m. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Devotional Service, conducted by Rev. Frank de Lisle 10.15 Selected recordings 11. O Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 12. 0 Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 2.30 Classical hour 3.15 Sports results 3.30 TALK, prepared by the Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section of the University of Otago: "Further Pointers on Running Business Meetings" 3.45 Light musical programme 4. 0 Special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s session,. conducted by "Cinderella" and "Tim" with, at 5.40, the special feature: "Coral Cave: Strange Adventures in Tropic Seas — ‘Ledoigt’s New Plan’" (episode 25) 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "In Memory of Franz Schubert" (arr. Fetras); ‘My Isle of Golden Dreams" (Blaufuss); ‘Slavonic Dance No. 15 in C Major" (Dvorak); "Assuncion"’ (Nicolas); "Coeur Brise’ (Gillet); "Second Serenata’ (Tosselli); "Menuett No. 1’ (Paderewski); ‘‘Tarantelle for Flute and Clarinet’ (SaintSaens); ‘Manhattan Serenade" (Alter); "Street Singer's Serenade" (film selection); "Puszia Fox’ (Mihaly); ""Manhattan Moonlight" (Alter); "Pale Moon" (Logan); "Czardas" (Monti); "Old Folks at Home and in Foreign Lands" (Roberts). 7. © NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 710 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.40 "The Young Farmers’ Club Movement in Australia," by H. Woodyear-Smith 8.0 CONCERT PROGRAMME Tales of the Silver Greyhound: "MERCURY SMITH " (chapter 20). Adventure and thrills in the service of England Wearers of the,» Silver. Grey-

hound, the emblem of messengers of the British Foreign Office, are mostly exservice men specially selected for their courage and resourcefulness. Important documents relating to international affairs are entrusted to them for safe delivery, and it frequently happens that they meet with determined opposition from international crooks and. spiés, Bringing their resourcefulness into play. the " Silver Greyhounds’? manage to outwit their unscrupulous opponents. 8.30 Dramatic presentation: "THRILLS." 8.45 "John Halifax, Gentleman": Dramatisation of the famous novel by Mrs. Craik, presented by George Edwards and Company (episode 45) 9. 0 Weather report and station notices 9. 5 Ringside commentary on professional wrestling match relayed from the Auckland Town Hall :

10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN NY AUCKLAND 880 k.c. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 Light orchestral music and ballads, with at 8.14, Gil Deeh and his concert orchestra, ‘* Maori Selection " (arr. Bech) : 9. 0 "Scott of Scotland ‘Yard’; * The Case of the Golden Mask " 9.40 . Musical comedy corner 40. O Light recitals, featuring Jack Mackintosh (cornet) =. . 10.30 Close down

AY | WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. If Parliament is being broadcast this programme will be transmitted by 2YC. Usual hours of Parliament: 2.30 to 5.30, and 7.30 to 10.30 p.m. 6.50am. Weather report for aviators 7. O Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. 0 Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28t010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 Talk to women by " Margaret "

11. 0 11.10 12. 0 Fashion talk by " Lorraine": "Frills and Fashions" (10) Recordings Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for 2. 0 3. 0 aviators | Classical hour TALK prepared by the A.C.E., Home Science Tutorial Section of Otago University: "Further Pointers on Running Business Meetings " 3.15 Sports results Selected recordings 3.28to3.30 Time signals Weather report fer farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 4.0 Sports resulls

5. O Children’s session, conducted by Aunt Jean 6.0 DINNER SESSION: "Raymond Overture" (Thomas); ‘‘Minuet Sicilienne’ (Squire-Hart); ‘Polonaise No, 2" (Liszt); ‘Folly to be Wise’; "Scenes Pittoresques’"’ (Massenet); -'’ Londonderry Air’ (arr. Bridge); ‘La Feria’ (Lacome); "Serenata" (Moszkowski); "Operatica" (arr. Squire); "La Vida Breve’ (Falla). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28 to 7.30 Time signals 7.30 WINTER COURSE TALK: "What’s the Weather Going to Be?" (3) Mr, Everyman interviews an official , forecaster 8. 0 A programme featuring Olga Coelho, brilliant Brazilian soprano and guitarist 8. 0 Nola Pritchard (piano), " Ballade in F Minor, Op. 52" Chopin More than one good judge has stated his opinion that this Ballade is the greatest thing Chopin ever wrote. Dr. Ernest: Walker declared:+ ‘*The F Minor Ballade is un--doubtedly the crown of -Chopin’s work." It was probably written in 1842, for on December 15 of that year Chopin wrote to the publishers, Breitkopf and Hartel: "T have to olfer you a Scherzo. (for 600 francs), a Ballade (for 600) and a Volonaise (500)."’ The Scherzo was the E Minor, the Polonaise the one numbered Op. 53. 8.16 Olga Coelho (brilliant Brazilian soprano and guitarist 8.41 Recorded TALK by O. E. White: "The Sea Hath its Pearls" (2) "Values and | Excitements"The second of a series of talks on the pearl fisheries of Australia and the East Indies by a man who has personal experience of the industry. 9. 0 Weather report and station , notices 9. 5 Ringside description of the Wrestling "Match (relayed from the Town Hall) 10. © Dance music by Mavis Ede (approx.)monds and her Rhythm 10.30 Recorded dance programme (approx.) ; E ‘11. 0 CLOSE DOWN _ (approx.) Q2Y WELL thd : /& & Light musical programme 6. 0 Close down 7. 0. After dinner musie 8.0 With trumpet and drum. Band music with humiorous interludes featuring, at 8.39 pm., a recital of sSosa’s marches played by the American Legion Band of Holly- _ Wood... J | 9.0 Gems from the stage } A. programme ‘of light opera and ; musical comedy gems 40. 0 Thirty minutes of varlety 10.30 Close duwn

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SV CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 7. Oa.m. Physical exercises 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Close down 10. O Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Sclected recordings 411. 0 Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Selected recordings 472. O Lunch music 2. Op.m. Selected recordings 2.30 TALK, prepared by the -Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section: " Further Pointers on Running Business Meetings " Classical music Frost and special forecast and light musical programme 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s hour; Stamp Club 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Around the Volga’ (Borchert); "Seleetion of Chopin Melodies’; "Les Millions D'Arlequin’ (Drigo); "Love's Serenade" (Glan); "Italian Airs’; "For You Alone, Lucia" (Birio); "Follow. the Fleet’ (Berlin); "The Kiss’ Serenade (de Micheli); "Black as the Night are Your Eyes’ (Rixner); "Der Kaspek’ (de Groot); "Du Und Pu’ (Strauss); "Master of My Soul (Stolz); "Maid of the Mountains" (Fraser Simson); "Andrea Chenier" (Giordano); ‘Katja the Dancer’ (Gilbert). 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME. MINISTER’S _DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.35 TALK, by the Garden Expert: "Doubts and Difficulties " 8.0 Recordings: Band of H. M. Grenadier Guards, "Sabre and Spurs" March Sousa "A Children’s Overture " Quilter 8.12 Peter Dawson (bass-baritone) "Westward Ho!" .... McCall] "Song of the Drum" McCa!l 8.19 Recordings: BBC Wireless Military Band, "Prince Igor Ballet Dances " Borodin > @ a) 2.28 Eb and Zeb 8.37 Band of H.M. Coldstream Guards, "Mikado" Selection Sullivan 8.46 Peter Dawson (bass-baritone) "Captain Harry Morgan" Bantock "Chorus, Gentleman" Lohr 852 Band of H. M. Royal Air Force, "Songp of Britam" Selection (traditional) 8. 0 Weather forecast and station ~ notices

9. & Reserved 9.20 Isolde Menges and Harold Samuel (violin and piano), "Sonata in A Major" Brahms This Sonata suggests thoughts of summer, a8 indeed it should, for it was written by the Lake of Thun duritg months of sunshine in 4886. For that reason it is known as the ‘" Thun". Sonata, and is generally aecepted as the finest of the three that Brahms wrote. During that summer, the Widmanns, friends of Brahms, were at Berne not far off, and they .often made visits to one another. It was at the house at Berne that this Sonata was first performed. Widmann himself was so impressed that he wrote and inscribed a poem to the work. | 9.40 Elsa Alsen (soprano), " Libestreu, Op. 3, No. 1" Brahms 9.43 Griller String Quartet, "Quartet in A" Armstrong Gibbs 10.0 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 CLOSE DOWN iV AI CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Saxo-rhapsody 8.9 John McCormack (tenor) 8.15 Beatrice Harrison (’cellist) 8.21 Three Shades of Blue 8.30 ‘Crazy Couplets " 9. 0 Fred and Ginger medley 9. 7 Larry Adler playing and singing 9.13 ‘Running an Office" 9.22 The Radio Rogues in "A Radto : Party " Hy + "The Crimson Trail" ‘9 Variety 10. 0 Light musie 10.30 Close down

ay DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 650a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. 0 Physical exercises 7.10 Breakfast session 9. 0 Close down 10. 0 Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 10.16 Devotional Service 10.50 Talk to women by "Margaret" 12. O Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3.30 Sports results Classica! music 4.0 Weather report and special frost forecast 4.30 Light musical programme 4.45 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by Big Brother Bill 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "From the Welsh Hills’ (arr, Walter); "Paraphrase of Paderewski's Minuet" (arr. Kreisler); "Berceuse De Jocelyn" (Godard); "Intermezzo" (Brahms); "Memories of Sweden" (Heinecke); "No More Heartaches, No More Tears’ (Watlace); "April Smiles" (Dupret); "Serenade" (Schubert); "Chu Chin Chow" (Norton); "Wedding Dance Waltz" (Lineke); "Midnight, the Stars and You" (Connelly); "‘Ballade in G Minor’ Op. 118, No. 3 (Brahms); "Lysistrata Waltz" (Lincke); "Aloha Oe" (Liliuokalani); "Sweet Walts Memories" (Lumbye). 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. nee OFFICIAL WIRELESS }

7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.30 7.40 8. 0 9.11 9.14 9.18 9.31 9.37 9.40 9.44 9.47 9.54 9.57 10. 0 11. 0 Recorded TALK by an Officer of the Fields Division of the Department of Agriculture: " Selection and Preparation of Areas for Cropping in Dairy Farming " TALK under the auspices of the Territorial Association MASTERPIECES OF MUSIC with thematic illistrations and comments by Prof. V. E. Galway, Mus.D. "CONCERTO No. 2 IN B FLAT MAJOR" ., Beethoven Played by Artur Schnabel and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Malcolm Sargent Reserve Weather report and station notices A VARIETY PROGRAMME Oskar Joost Dance Orchestra, "Bright Stars are Shining " Leux Vienna Boys’ Choir, "Santa Lucia" Folk Song Cottrau Lew White (organ), A musical dramatisation — "The Roaerg 7k Nevin The Three Musketeers, " Ballorvta®: 4 och Bootz "The Old Bassoon" . Ashlyn Primo Scala’s Accordion Band, " Six Hits of the Day," No. 23 Harry Gordon and Jack Holden (sketch), "The Stage Cleaner" Gordon and Holden George Freundorfer (zither with orchestra), "Costume Festival in Berchtesgaden" ..... Freundorfer The Merry Maes, "Patty Cake, Patty Cake" Waller Dick McIntire and his Harmony Hawaiians, "The One Rose" . McIntire The Mastersingers (mixed chorus), " Begin the Beguine" . Porter "Say it with Music". Berlin Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye (piano), POL PERS, aes ks Kaye Edith Lorand and her Viennese Orchestra, "My Blonde Dream". Doelle DANCE MUSIC CLOSE DOWN GNA) Ps sg a. 5. 0-6.0 p.m, Recordings After dinner music Melodies of the moment Recorded play: ‘"‘ The Element of Suspense" The brightest and best of recent recordings * Songs from the Shows": Musical comedy and light opera favourites Melody and humour Close down

September 25

aly INVERCARGILL 680k.c, 441 m. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 5. 0 5.30 5.45 6.15 6.30 6.45 7. 0 8. 0 8.15 8.45 8. 9 9.30 10. 0 Tea dance Children’s session, " Toyshop Tales" Light miusic *Eb and: Zeb" Dominion Day ‘*"The Moonstone " After dinner music (7.30, Station announcements ) Sports talk: * Tennis," by P. F. de la Perrelle Trio im D Major, Op. 70, No. 1 (Beethoven) and Lotte Leonard (soprano) Mr, Chalmers, K.C.: " The Case of Norman Qsborne"’ Band programme, with studio recital by F. H. Johnson (tenor) Rhythm time Close down SAR Bat art 7. OQa.m. Breakfast session 9. 0 Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon music 1.0 3. 0 3.30 4.30 5. 0 6. 0 6.30 7.0 7.32 7.48 8. 0 8.30 8.43 8.51 9. 0 9.15 9.30 10. 0 Ww eather report Josephine Clare conducts’ the women’s session: "Our Feathered Friends" Afternoon programme Weather and shipping news The Legends of Umbogu: " The Story of the Hippopotamus" Dinner music News and reports The Goldwyn Follies "Marie Antoinette " Recital by Len Fillis (guitar), and Gracie Fields "Dad and Dave" Classical programme: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, * Jupiler Symphony " (Mozart) Search for a Playwright (episode 1) London Palladium Orchestra; "The Leek " Selection Manchester Children’s Choir, with the Halle Orchestra, conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty, in ‘ Hansel and Gretel" (dance duet), and "Nymphs and Shepherds" Hot spot, featuring ‘"‘ Down Haarlem Way" ** Personal Column" Marek Weber's Orchestra and Malcolm McEachern (bass) Close down OW) rte ER. 7. 0-9.0 a.m. Breakfast session 11. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session 5. 0 5.30 5.45 6.45 7.0 8. 0 8.25 9. 0 10. 0 Light musical programme "Eb and Zeb" Uncle Ed and Aunt Gwen Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay After dinner music Light popular programme **His Last Plunge" Light classical progrsnime Close down

LOVIN occ tm, 7. Op.m. Light music 7.30 "First Aid": Talk contributed under the auspices of the St. John Ambulance Association 8.0 Concert programme: Classical music featuring ‘Concerto No. 1 in D Minor Op. 15" (Brahms), played by Artur Schnabel (piano) and London Philharmonic Orchestra 0 * The Circle of Shiva" (episode 4) 6 Humorous interludes 0 18] Light music Close down WELLINGTON 2 990 k.c. 303 m. 7. Op.m. Rhapsodies in rhythm 7.35 Personal Column 7.45 "Sing as We Go" 8.15 "The Woman in White" 8.28 Aerotones 9. 3 "His Last Plunge" (episode 3) 9.16 Black and white studies: A session of keyboard rhythm 9.30 "Revue in Rhyme" 10. O Close down 2 AUCKLAND 1250 k.c. 240 m. 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and pupular selections 6.45 Announcements 7. 0 Orchestral numbers 7.20 Horticultural Society’s home garden talk 7.45 ‘Lorna Doone" 8, 0 Music lovers’ session: "A London Symphony" (Vaughan Williams) 8.30 Concert session 9.30 Latest hits 10. 0 Close down