SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 44, 26 April 1940, Page 39

SATURDAY

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MAY 4

Ihe AUCKLAND 650 k.c. 462 m. 6 Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. 0 Daventry news | 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 7.30 District weather report 9. O Selected recordings | 9.15 Daventry news | 10. 0 Devotional Service 10.15 Selected recordings 41. 0 "Music and Flowers" series: Talk by Tony Sarg, American artist, creator of children’s toys, humorist: " Marionettes and Flowers " 11.10 Selected recordings 12. 0 Daventry news, followed by lunch music 1. Op.m. District week-end weather forecast 2. @ Selected recordings 3.0 Running commentary on. Rugby Football Match, relayed from Eden Park $3.15 Sports results 4.30 5. O Children’s session, conducted by " Cinderella " 5.45 Daventry news, followed by DINNER MUSIC: "4812 and All That’; "O Fruhling, wie Bist du so Schon!" (Lincke); "Over the Waves" (Roses); "The Student's Fate" (Ibanez); "Tanzereigen," Potpourri; ‘‘Carmen," Intermezzo (Bizet); "Flight of the Bumble Bee’ (Rimsky-Korsakov); "Penny in the Slot" (Ashworth-Hope); "Espana Rapsodte"’ (Chabrier); "Luxemburg Waltz" (Lehar); "The Kerry Dance’ (Molloy); "Gipsy Idyll" (arr. Ferraris); "A Visit to Turkey" (Rirner); "Le Cygne" (SatintSaens); "Gold and Silver’ (Lehar); "Rusttcanella" (Dortopasst). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 NEWS SERVICE ISSUED BY THE PRIME MINISTER’S DEPT. BRITISH OFFICIAL WIPfELESS NEWS 7.10 NEWS AND REPORTS 8. 0 CONCERT PROGRAMME "NIGHTS AT THE SAVOY" Scenes from the lively Gilbert and Sullivan operas 8. O Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.26 Modern dance music 41. 0 Daventry news (During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight) 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.

l Y 880k.c. 341 m, 6. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. O After dinner music 8. 0 Prelude 8.30 ‘The Woman in White" 8.45 Interlude 8. 0 "The Cloister and the Hearth" (episode 3) 8.21 Variety entertainment, featuring at 9.47, Frank Luther and Company in ‘‘Home on the Range " 10.80 Close down

AY | WELLINGTON 570 k.c. 526 m. 6. Ga.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 7.30 District weather report 9. O Recordings 9.15 Daventry news 9.25 Recordings 10. O Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Recordings 10.28t010.30 Time signals from the Dominion Observatory 10.45 "Music and Flowers": Talk by Sir Hubert Wilkins, world explorer: "Flowers in the Polar Regions" 11. O Recordings 12. O Daventry news 12.20 p.m. Lunch music 41.0 Weather report for aviators and week-end forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3. 0 Closing of N.Z. Centennial Exhibition by His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Galway (relayed from the Centennial Exhibition) 4. 0 Running commentary on the (approx.)Rugby football match (relayed from Athletic Park) 4.45 Selected recordings (approx.)

5. O Children’s session 5.45 Daventry news 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Pearl O’ Mine’ (Fletcher); "Fado Blanquita"’ (Retana); ‘‘Stop Press,’’- Piano Medley; "Amorettentanze’ (Gungl); "Vienna Beauties" (Ziehrer); "Home, Sweet Home" Novelty; ‘‘Eifach Lachha/ft’ (Brau); "La Madre Del Cordero" (Jimenez); "Da Capo" (Boulanger); "The Skaters’ (Waldteufel); "The Merrymakers" (Pedersen); "Czardas" (Strauss); "Blue Eyes" (Mackeben); "Musica Proibita’" (Castaldon); ‘"‘TraumMelodien"’ (Richartz); "‘Princesita’’ (Padilla); "Scherzino" (Moszkowskt). 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.) 7.28t07.30 Time signals 740 TALK by E. Philpot Croweser "The Centenary of Adhesive Postage Stamps " 8. 0 From the Exhibition Studio: Recording: Philip Green and his Orchestra, "Blaze Away" .. Holzmann 8. 5 Maori programme by members of Ngati Poneke Young Maori Club 8.25 Recording: George Formby (comedy vocal) 828 The Herbi Burton Novelty Trio (instrumental) 8.38 Recording: Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra 8.42 Les. Dalley (tenor), presents, "Softly as in a Morning Sunrise? 4 ssa. is «sees Romberg "Mary’s Eyes" ...... Wise "Susan is Her Name 0" Sanderson "For You Alone" ... Geehl "Qne Alone" .... Romberg "Come, Love, Be Mine" ; Leoncavallo 8.53 Recording: Sowande and his Music 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station ' notices 9.25 Recorded Dance Programme 10.0 Sports summary 10.10 Dance music by Stan Grant and his Canadian Capers (Relayed from the Majestic Cabaret) 11. 0 Daventry news (During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight) 2 y 840k.c, 357m. | 3. Op.m. Running commentary on ths Rugby football match (relayed from Athletic Park) 4. 0 (approx.) 4.45 (approx.) Selected. recordings 5. 0-6.0 Light music 7.0 After dinner music 8. 0 Music for the yoomnes An hour of light and popular classical items 9. 0 In lighter vein: 10. 0 Merry and bright 10.30 Close down

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BY CHRISTCHURCH 720 k.c. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 7. OQ Daventry news 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Selected recordings 9.15 Daventry news 9.30 Selected recordings 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Selected recordings 11. O "Music and Flowers": Talk by Grover Cleveland, an outstanding American authority | on interior decorating: "Flowers in the Office" | 11.15 Selected recordings 12. O Daventry news 12.30 p.m. Lunch music 1.0 Week-end weather forecast Lunch music 2. 0 Selected recordings * 3.30 Sports resulls 4. 0 Frest and special weather report and light musical programme 4.30 Sports results 5. @ Children’s session: " Riddleman" 5.45 Daventry news 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Schubert Wadllzes’; "Dreaming Bells’ (Krome); ‘Bubbling Over" (Gibbons); "By the Sleepy’ Lagoon" (Eric Coates); "My Lucky Day’ (Carste); ‘Arie’ (Lotti); "Down the Mall’ (Bellon); "Vienna. Maidens’ (Ziehrer); "Marche Symphonique"’ (Savino); "Mississippi" (Rodgers); "Danube Waves" (Ivanovici); ‘In a»Persian Market’ «(Ketelbey); "Dolores" (Waldteufel); ""Moonbeams Dance’ (Gibbons); ‘Wine, .Women, and Song,’ On. 333 (Strauss). 6.55 Weather report 7.0 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) 8. 0 Recordings: Mayfair Symphony Orchestra "The British Empire" Fantasia .... arr. Haydn Wood 8.10 Richard Crooks (tenor), "If I Am Dreaming," "Without Your Love" .. Millocker 8.17. "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 fulffl 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.

8.32 Raymonde and his Band of Banjos, "On With the March" Sousa 8.38 Jack Buchanan (vocal), "Jack Buchanan. Medley " 8.47 Paul Romby (saxophone), "Saxo- Folly," " Farriente" Valse Boston ...... Marceau 8.53 Paul Robeson (bass), "No, John No!" ..... Sharp 8.56 Jack Hylton and his Orchestra, "Watermelon Fete" Thurbain 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 Recordings: Drury Lane Theatre Orchestra, "The Student Prince" Selection .............. Romberg 9.30 "Poor Old Snell": A Cockney sketch by Mabel Constanduros The petite, versatile entertainer, Mabel Constanduros, is a writer of some talent, and besides sketches she has published a novel, "Poison Flower,’ a comedy with social complications. She is one of the four daughters of Richard Tilling, J.P., managing director of a famous transport firm; her. grandfather was Thomas‘ Tilling, the founder of the business. She has a charming, well-trained singing voice; her natural speaking voice, when she is not impersonating "‘ Mrs. Buggins," " Gramma," "Emmy," "’Aggie," or any other of her Cockney characters, is also delightful, soft, low, and musical. 9.44 Jack Wilson (pianoforte solo) "Raindrops" Medley "Dancing Dolls" 9.50 Leslie Holmes (comedian), *" Ask Me Another" Henderson 9.57 Arthur Young and his Novelty Orchestra, "Kitten. on the Keys" Confrey 10.0 Sporls summary 10.15 DANCE MUSIC 11. O Daventry news (During the war the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight) 3V CHRISTCHURCH 1200 k.c. 250 m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Selected recordings 7.0. After dinner’ music 8. 0 Symphony Concert, featuring at 8.17, * Night Ride and Sunrise, Op. 55" (Sibelius), played by the BBC Symphony Orchestra (conducted by Sir Adrian Boult); and at 8.52 p.m., "Concerto in D Major, Op. 77" (Brahms), played by Fritz Kreisler (violin). and the London Philharmonic Orchestra 9.30 Classical recitals 10.0 Favourite entertainers 10.30 Close down

C | VY DUNEDIN 790 k.c. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for Daventry news 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. O Daventry news — 7.10 BREAKFAST SESSION 9. 0 Selected recordings 9.15 Daventry news 9.30 Selected recordings 10. O Weather report for aviators Selected recordings 10.50 Talk to women: * Music and Flowers" series: Mrs. Bert McDonald, Chicago flower stylist of international reputation: "* Flowers in the Home" (No. 8) 12. 0 Daventry news Lunch music 1. Op.m. Weather report for aviators Weather forecast 2. 0 Selected recordings 3. 0 Commentaries on Rugby football match (relay from Carisbrook) 3.30 Sports resulls 4.0 Weather report for farmers and special frost forecast 4.45 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session, conducted by Big Brother Bill 5.45 Daventry news 6. 0 DINNER MUSIC: "Nights at the Ballet, No. 4°; *"‘Reminiscences of Friml’; "Poem" (Fibich); ‘‘Remembrance"’ (Melfi); "To an Oriental God" (Jalowicz); ‘Serenata’ (Sanderson); "The Gondoliers" (Sullivan); "A la Luz de la Luna" (Pallas); ‘Alegrias’"’ (Gomez); Simple Little Melody"’ (Straus); "Grinzsing"’ (Benatsky); "Waltz Serenade" (Tichy); "Faust," Varialions (Gounod); ‘Melodie’ (Tchaikovski).

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 Records: The Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Morning, Noon and Night in VRGROR Wins 6s pcamcets Suppe ~ 8.10 Rena Roche (contralto), "Johneen" ....... Stanford "O Peaceful England" German The New Light Symphony Orchestra, _"Three English Dances" Quilter 8.25 Arthur Robertson (baritone), "Scotland Yet" ..... Moffat "Mary Morrison" .... Lees | * 76. AMR Css Hatton The words of * To Anthea" are by Robert Herrick, poet, country parson, and a bit of a wag, who taught his pig ‘to (drink out of a tankard. Herrick paid more attention to neat ankles than one should expect of a clergyman, and he made it a custom to kiss all the pretty brides. He died a bachelor at the age of 838, and of his thirteen hundred poems, ‘‘ To Anthea," " Cherry Ripe,’ and. "Gather Ye Rosebuds," will never grow stale. The music of * To Anthea’? was composed by John Liptrott Hatton, once musical director to the actor Charles Kean. 8.34 The Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Entry of the Boyards" Halvorsen "At Dawning" .... Cadman "Jealousy, Tango" .. Gade 8.45 Rena Roche (contralto), "Sing Merrily To-day " Phillips "The Meeting of the Waters" : Moore 8.51 Records: New Light Symphony Orchestra, "Handel in the Strand," "Mock Morris" ............. Grainger 9.0 Daventry news 9.20 Weather report and station notices 9.25 DANCE MUSIC 10.0 Sports summary 10.10 Dance music 11. 0 Daventry news (During the war, the station will remain on the air until 12 midnight) | ANVO) DUNEDIN | 1140k.c. 263m. 3. Op.m. Selected recordings, during a of football match through 4Y 8.16 Records: 5. 0-6.0 Recordings 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 ‘Marie Antoinette " 8.14 In tune with the times 8.30 The Mystery Club: "The Fatal Tree "’ 9.0 ‘Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan" 9.30 Band programme 10. 0 Merry and bright 10.30 Close down

May 4

al INVERCARGILL 680k.c. 441 m. 7. 0am. Daventry news 7.15 Breakfast session 9.15-9.30 (approx.) Daventry news 11. 0 12. 0 Recordings Daventry news 12.15 (approx.)-2.0 p.m. Luncheon session 5. 0 5.30 5.45 6.15 6.45 7.0 Light music Children’s session Daventry news Saturday special "One Good Deed a Day" Re-broadcast of official news 7.10 (approx.) After dinner music 7.30 8. 0 8.5 9.0 9.15 10. 0 Station announcements Local results Shall we dance? Daventry news For the music lover Close down SAR SARIN aTe 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7. 0 7.10 9.15 9.25 Daventry news Breakfast session Daventry news Morning programme 10. 0-10.10 Weather report 12. 0 Daventry news 12.20 p.m. Luncheon music 2.0 3. 0 3.30 4.0 5. 0 5.15 5.45 Selected recordings Afternoon programme Classical music Merry melodies Light variety The Crimson Trail Daventry news

6. 6 Dinner music 6.30 After dinner music 6.57 Weather report and station notices 7. OQ News service issued by the Prime Minister’s Department 7.20 Spotlight Parade 7.45 The Ogboddy’s Outing: A BBC comedy sketch 8.0 The Dajos Bela Orchestra, The Four Jolly Fellows (vocal), and Pancho and his Orchestra 8.30 Joan of Arc 8.43 Unchanging favourites 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 The Rich Uncle from Fiji 9.32 Correct dance tempo, played by Victor Silvester and his Orchestra, Josephine Bradley and her Ballroom Orchestra, interludes by Rose Marie 10.0 Close down QV rl 760 k.c. 395m. 7. Oa.m. Daventry news 7.10 Breakfast session 9.15 Daventry news 11. 0 Light music 12.0 Daventry flews 12.15-2.0 p.m. TIunch session 5. O Light music 5.30 For the children, featuring ‘‘Westward Ho!" 6.45 Daventry news 6. 0 "Carson Robison and his Pioneers" 6.16 Light music 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. O Re-broadcast of Government news 7.15 "The Circle of Shiva" 8. 0 Concert session: Boston Promenade Orchestra, ‘""William Tell Overture" 8.14 The Madrigal Singers 8.20 Claudio Arrau (piano), ‘Fountains at the Villa d’Este" (Liszt) 8.28 Boston Promenade Orchestra 8.34 Esther Coleman (contralto) 8.40 London String Orchestra 8.48 Temianka (violin) 8.52 Symphony orchestra 9. 0 Daventry news 9.20 ‘The Crimson Trail’ 9.31 Light music 10. 0 Close down 2 Y IN 920k.c. 327m. 7. Op.m. Light popular music 8. 0 Concert programme 8.10 "Singapore Spy" (20) 8.35 Light music 9.15 Dance music 9.30 Swing session 10. Close down DVI WELLINGTON 990 k.c. 303 m.7. Op.m. "You Asked For It"; From listeners to listeners 10. 0 Close down 1PZAM i 1250 k.c, 240m, 1. Op.m. Band music, vocal gems, piano and piano accordion items 3.0 Light orchestral and organ selections, light popular numbers 4.30 Selections from the shows 5. 0 en orchestral and popular selections 6.45 Piano selections 7.0 Sports results and comments: "Bill’’ Hendry 7.30 Orchestral excerpts 8. 0 Dance session 12. 0 Close down °

Gardening Talks

1YA: 2YA: 3YA: 4YZ: 3ZB: 4ZB: 2ZA: Tuesday, April 30, at 7.30 p.m, Wednesday, May 1, at 7.30 p.m. Monday, April 29, at 7.35 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, at 8 p.m. Monday, April 29, 6.45 p.m. Saturday, May 4, 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 1, 7.15 p.m.