SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 43, 19 April 1940, Page 39

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avd AUCKLAND | 650 k.c. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. 0 Daventry news 7.10 Selected recordings 9. 0 Daventry news 9.10 Selected Recordings 10. 0 Devotional Service, conducted | by Rev. J. Laird, M.A, 10.15 Selected recordings 11. 0 "Music and Flowers" series: Talk by Irene Hayes, noted American florist, on " Flower Manners " 11.10 Selected recordings 12. 0 Running commentary on the Auckland Trotting Club’s Meeting, relayed from Alexandra Park 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1. 0 District week-end weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3.0 Running commentary on Rugby football match, relayed from Eden Park 3.15 Sports results 4.0 Daventry news 4.30 Sports results 5. O Children’s session, conducted by "Cinderella " 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15) "Marriage of Figaro’ (Mozart); "Luna Waltz" (Lincke); "Evening Chimes"’ (Heins); "Selection of Favourite Melodies’; "Granada" (Vidal); "s8th Century Dance’ (Haydn); "Halloh! Hier Walter Bromme!’"’ (Ralph); "Kleiner Muck’ (A, Brau); "Children of Spring’ (Waldteufel); "Minuet" (Boccherini); ‘Silver Threads Among the Gold’; ‘"‘Torchlight Dance, No. %" (Meyerbeer); "Aquarium Suite’ (Mayerl); "Tllusions’ (Gade); ‘Czardas’ (Grossman). 6.55 Weather report 7. © NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME The Carina Trio, "The First Primrose". Grieg ste. ti Musing". .Kjerulf a ..... Edna Park "Slumber Song " : Gretschaninoff 8.14 Lois Walls (viola), "Arietta" ........ Handel WROTEON ose sci fects. OReh "Danish Song" ..... Sandly "Gavotte Humoristique " Squire "Berceuse" ... Francmesnil 8.26 James Gibson (baritone), "Helen of Kirkconnel " . Keel "Silent Noon" Vaughan Williams "Dedication" ......... Franz "Pipes: ef Paw tces Elgar 8.38 Light Symphony Orchestra, "Two Interlinked French Folk Melodies" .... Ethel Smyth "Minuet" (from "Fete Galante -s **eeeeee Ethel Smyth

8.46 Recordings: Te Mauri Meihana (Maori singer), "Three Love Songs" .. Trad. ve ne «00's ¢ 4 . Trad. "Three Poi Songs" .. Trad. "The Flute Across the Lake" Jones Daventry news Weather report and station notices Recordings: Victor Young and his Concert Orchestra, Suite: "Lament for the EE Waves okkees Harold =

— 9.33 Geraldo and his Orchestra, with Cyril Grantham, the Top Hatters and the Radio Three, Selection: "The Firefly " Friml 9.42 Carl Carlisle (impersonations) "An Evening with the Stars" 9.48 Flanagan and Allen (comedians), "F.D.R. Jones" .... Rowe 9.51 The BBC Dance Orchestra, with Alice Delysia and Les Allen, "C. B. Cochran Presents " 10.0 Sports summary 10.10 DANCE MUSIC 11.15 Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) ; VK SREREARE 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 Gems from the films 8.30 "The Woman in White" 8.45 Interlude 8. 0 "The Cloister and the Hearth" (episode 2) 9.26 Variety show 10.30 Close down

| PAY / WELLINGTON | 570 k.c. 526 m. 6. Ga.m. Station on the air for 6.50 7. 0 7.10 9. 0 9.10 10. 0 10.10 Daventry news Weather report for aviators Daventry news BREAKFAST SESSION Daventry news Selected recordings Weather report_for aviators Devotional Service

10.25 Recordings 10.28t010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 Music and Flowers Series: Talk by Margaret E. Sangster, gifted American poetess-short-story writer: "Flowers and Happiness" 12. O Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1.0 Weather report for aviators and Week-end weather forecast 2. O Selected recordings 3. 0 Sports results 3.28 to 3.30 Time signals 4. 0 Daventry news 5. O Children’s session, from the Exhibition Studio , 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15) | "Love Songs with Sandler’; "Love's Dream After the Bait" (Czibulka) ; "Still Night, Holy Night (Gruber); Citizens’ Waltz (Ztehrer); "Broadway Hostess’’ Selection; ° ‘Polly, Wolly, Doodle’ (Trad.); ""Lagarteranas"’ (Guerrero); "Sussholz" (Brau); "Old Vienna’ (Godowsky); "Acceleration Waltz’ (Strauss); 400,000

Glocken Lauten’’ (Meisel); "O Du Forhliche’; "Ballet Music’ (Bizet); "In My Bouquet of Memories’ (Akst); "Vagabond King Selection’ (Friml) 6.55 Weather report 7. 0 OFFICIAL NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 7.28to7.30 Time signals 8. G CELEBRITY CONCERT Under the auspices of the National Patriotic Fund Board Featuring Heddle Nash, tenor; Isobel Baillie, soprano; Gladys Ripley, contralto; Cscar Natzke, bass; and the Centennial Festival Symphony Orchestra, under the conduetorship of Anderson Tyrer (Relayed from Wellington Town Hall) The first hour of this concert will be taken by 2YA, and the second hour will be broadcast through 2YC 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 DANCE PROGRAMME 10.0 Sports summary 10.10 Dance music by Stan Grant and his Canadian Capers (relayed from the Majestic Cabaret) 11.15 Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) 2\i 840k.c. 357 m. | 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 From the Exhibition Studio: Anton and the Paramount Theatre Orchestra, "Champagne Waltz" Selection 8.5 A Maori programme by _ Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club 8.25 International Novelty Orchestra, "Rhythm of the Clook" (HuntKane) 8.28 Hoffmeister’s Hawaiian Quintet, "Linger Awhile’ (Ross-Owens), "Hula Blues" (Noble), "Mexicali Rose" (Stone-Tenney), ‘An Apple ¥ for the Teacher" (Monaco-Burke) 8.40 Tommy Handley (comedy vocal), "Who Is That Man?" (KesterWatt) 8.43 Billy Mayerl as "Sweet William" (Mayerl ; 8.46 Ray Trewern (tenor), "At DawnIng’ (Cadman), "Heaven in a Song" (Straus), "In My Garden" (Firestone) ; 8.56 Anton and the Paramount Theatre Orchestra, "Banjo On My Knee" Selection 9. O© CELEBRITY CONCERT, under the Z auspices of the National Patriotic Fund Board, featuring Heddle Nash (tenor), Isobel Baillie. ove egg Gladys Ripley (contralto), Oscar Natzke (bass), and the Centennial Festival Symphony Orchestra, under the conductorship of Anderson Tyrer speared from Wellington Town ). The first hour of this concert will, be taken by 2YA, and the. second hour will be broadcast through 2YC 40. O In lighter vein 10.30 Close down

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BV CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. @ Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Daventry news 9.10 Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Selected recordings 11. 0 "Shoes and Ships and SealingWax," by Miss Nelle Scanlan 11.10 Selected recordings 12.0 Lunch music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1.0 Week-end weather forecast Lunch music 3.30 Sports results 4. 0 Daventry news, followed by frost and special weather forecast for farmers 4.30 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session 5.45 DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15 p.m.) "Czar and Carpenter’ (Lortzing); "Village Swadliows from Austria" (Strauss); "Fairy Tale’ (Komszak); "Fireworks" (Kuster); "Chanson D'Amour" (Suk); "Rund Em Den Film" (Lubbe); "River Reveries’ *; "Dream--ing Flowers’ (Translateur); "Dances of the’ Polovtsian Maidens" (Glasounov); ‘Deluge’ | (Saint-Saens); ‘Crocodile Tears"’ (Groitzach); "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (Morey); "Entrance of the Queen of Roses" (Rhode); "Pagliacci Serenade’ (Leoncawallo). 6.55 Weather report 7. Q@ NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPARTMENT. BRITISH OFFICIAL. WIRELESS NEWS | 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 7.45 TALK by George Bagley: _ "Understanding Europe: Italy " (2) 8. 0 Recordings: London Theatre Orchestra, "A Country Girl " Selection Monckton 8.10 Peter Dawson (bass baritone) "Tommy Lad" . Margetson "Where’s the Sergeant?" . Longstaffe 8.15 "One Good Deed a Day" A’ comedy serial by George Edwards and Company Mr. and Mrs. Roger Lamb must perform one good deed.a day for twelve months in order to fulfill the conditions of their late uncle’s, will, and take possession of his very desirable fortune. If they default all the money goes to found a home for starving, street sparrows. 8.30 Harry Robbins (xylophone solos), "Dancing Dolls" 8.36 Layton and Johnstone (vocal duets), "Let’s Do It; Let’s Fall in ‘Love" ......+.... Cole Porter Beane "Looking at. You".C. Porter 842 Erwin~- Steinbacher (saxophone), "Stage Fright" . Steinbacher

8.46 8.54 9. 0 9.20 9.25 10.15 11.15 Nelson Keys and Ivy St. Helier (imitations), "Our Friends the Stars" Herbert Kuster’s Piano Orchestra, "Shadowplay" ...... Kuster "Monkey Tricks" Intermezzo Groitzsch Daventry news Weather report and _ station notices "THE VILLAGE CONCERT" A BBC programme Devised by Frederick Grisewood. Presented by William Maclurg 10.0 Sports summary DANCE MUSIC Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will be on the air until 12, midnight. (Daventry news 11.30 p.m.) 3V/ CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings 7.0 8. 0 9.30 10. 0 10.30 After dinner music Symphony Concert, featuring at 8.12. p.m:, "Symphony . No. 4" ("‘Italian’’?) in A Major" (Mendelssobn), played by the Halle Orchestra, and at 8.45, ‘* Concerto No. 1 in E Minor for Piano and Orchestra (Chopin), played by Arthur Kubinstein and the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by John Barbirolli Classical recitals Favourite entertainers Close down

ai DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for 6.50 7. 0 7.10 9. 0 9.10 10. 0 10.50 12. 0 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 1. 0 2. 0 4. 0 5. 0 5.45 Daventry news Weather report for aviators Daventry news BREAKFAST SESSION Daventry news Selected recordings Weather report for aviators Selected recordings Talk to women in the "Music and Flowers" series, by Rafaelo Diaz, popular tenor of the Metropolitan Opera, New York: "A Singer Talks on Flowers." (7) Lunch music Weather report for aviaters — Weather forecast Selected recordings 3.30 Sporls resulls Daventry news 4.45 Sports results Children’s session: " How to Make" Club DINNER MUSIC: (Subject to interruption for Daventry news at 6.15) "Wenn Die Kleinen Veilchen Bluhen"’ (Stolz); "Fantasie Orientale’’ (Lange); "Long Ago" (Kudritzki); "Under the Startit

Sky" (Roland); "Tango of Longing" (Plessow); "Love in Idleness’’ (Macheth): "Prunella" (Bridgewater); "The Bartered Bride" (Smetana); ‘"Liebeslied" (Kreisler); "Nothing But. Lies’ (Jary-Balz); "Poppies" (Moret); "Echoes from the Puszta’ (Ferraris); "Kunz Revivals, No. 5°; "Wind at Night" (Gardens); ‘‘Delibes in Vienna" (arr. Waller). 6.55 Weather report 7. 0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIRELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS (approx.) 8.0 LIGHT ORCHESTRAL AND ' BALLAD CONCERT 4YA Concert Orchestra, condueted by Gil Dech, "The Seven Seas" March | | | Coates "Dancing Clowns " Leoncavallo 8.10 Peter Dawson (bass-baritone), Four Indian Love Lyrics Woodforde-Finden "The Temple Bells" "Less than the Dust" "Kashmiri Love Song" "Till I Awake " 8.22 The Orchestra, "Master Melodies" arr. Geiger 8.37 Recordings: Essie Ackland (contralto), "Easter Flowers ". Sanderson "My Treasure" ... Trevalsa "The Hills of Home" .. Fox 8.47 The Orchestra, "Virginia," A Southern RhapS009 Ati sais. Haydn Wood "Maori Selection" arr. Gil Dech 9.0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 OLD-TIME DANCE PROGRAMME by Ted Andrews and the Revellers’ Dance Band 10.2 Sports summary 11.19 Dance medley 11.30 Close of normal programme. During the war, the station will be on the air until 12 midnight. (Daventry news, 11.30) 4) i 1140 k.c. 263 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 ‘Marie Antoinette" 8.14 In tune with the times 8.30 The Mystery Club: "The White Witch Doctor" 9. 0 "Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan" 9.30 Band programme 10.0 Merry and bright 10.30 Close down These programmes are correct as we go to press. Any last-minute alterations will be announced over the air. All. programmes in this issue are copyright to The Listener, and may not be reprinted without permission.

April 27

ay Y 680k.c. 441m. 7. Oa.m. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 9. 0-9.15 (approx.) Daventry news 41. 0 Recordings 12, 0-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 12.30 Daventry news 5. O Light inusic 6.30 Children’s session 5.45 Saturday special 6.15 Daventry news 6.45 "One Good Deed a Day" 7. 0 Re-broacast of official news 7.10 (approx.) After dinner music (7.30, Station announcements) 8. 0 Local results 8. & Shall we dance? 9.0 Daventry news 9.15 For the music lover 10. 0 Close down SAR Gaal te 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. 0 Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 9. 0 Daventry news 9.10 Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0 Luncheon music 12.30 p.m. Daventry news 2. 0 Selected recordings 3. 0 Afternoon programme 8.30 Classical music . Daventry news 6. O Light variety s 5.30 ‘The Crimson Trail" 6. O Dinner music 6.15 Daventry news 6.40 After dinner music 6.57 Weather report and station notices

7. 0 News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department 7.20 Spotlight Parade 7.45 ‘The Vicar’s Concert Party": (BBC production) 8. 0 At the Cafe Colette 8.30 Joan of Aro 8.44 Vesta Victoria (old-time medley) 8.52 Sidney Torch (organ) 9. O »Daventry news 9.20 "The Rich Uncle from Fiji" 9.32. Correct dance tempo, played by Mantovani and his Orchestra, Henry Jacques and his Correct Tempo Orchestra, Joe Loss and his Band, interludes by Connie Boswell 10. 0 Close down 7. Oa.m. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 8. 0 Daventry news 411. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch session. 12.30 Daventry news 5. O Light music 5.45 For the children, featuring ‘‘ Westward Ho!" 6. 0 "Carson Robison and his Pioneers" 6.15 Daventry news 6.30 ‘The Japanese Houseboy " 6.45 Weather report and forecast for Hawke’s Bay. Recorded talk by Professor Arnold Wall: "Plain Man's English " 7. 0 Re-broadcast of Government news 7.15 "The Circle of Shiva" 8. Q Concert session: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, ‘ Village Swallows" Waltz (Strauss) 8.10 Albert Sammons (violin) 8.15 Nelson Eddy (baritone) 8.24 Boston Promenade Orchestra 8.32 The Madison Singers 8.41 Louis Voss Grand Orchestra, "Suite Ballet Moderne " 9. O Daventry news 9.20 "The Crimson Trail" 9.31 Light music 10. 0 Close down 2 Y N 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. Programme of light popular music 8. 0 Concert programme 8.10 "Singapore Spy" 8.35 Light music 9.15 Dance masic 9.30 Swing session 10. 0 Close down QW WELLINGTON 990k.c. 303m, 7. Op.m. "You Asked for It’; From ’ listeners to listeners 10. 0 Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250 k.c, 240m. 1. Op.m. Band music, vocal gems, piano, piano accordion and humorous selections 2.40 Light popular and orchestral numae organ medleys, light vocal tems 4.0 Popular medleys, Hawaiian melodies, Western songs, light orchestral and popular selections 6. 0 Miscellaneous items 7. 0 Sports results: "Bill" Hendry 7.30 Orchestral programme 8. 0 Dance session 12. 0 Close down

| Gardening Talks

1YA: 2YA: 3YA: 4YZ: 3ZB: 4ZB: 2ZA: Tuesday, April 23, at 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, at 7.30 p.m. Monday, April 22, at 7.35 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, at 8 p.m. Monday, April 22, 6.45 p.m... Saturday, April 27, 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, 7.15 p.m,