WEDNESDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 75, 29 November 1940, Page 33

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7 AUCKLAND 650 kc. 462 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) District. weather report, followed by breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON "9. O "Music as ,You. Like It" 10. 0 Devotional Service, conducted. by : Rey. E. S. Emmitt 10.15 "Grave and Gay" 411.0 Talk to women by " Margaret " 11.15 ‘Musical Highlights" 412. 0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.Q "Music and Romance" 2.30 Classical music 3.30 Sports results "From Our Sample Box" 4. 0 Special weather report for farmers and light music 4.30 Sports results 6. O Children’s Session: (‘‘Cinderella’"’ and ‘‘Peter’’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Britannia" Overture (Mackenzie); "I Dream of the Puszta"’ (Bruhne); "Skye Boat Song’ (Boulton); "Forget Me Not’ (Macbeth); "Bells of St. Mary's" (Adams); "Mulguy Braes,’’ "Cameron's Lilt,’ Strathspeys; "Luggie Burn," "Merry Andrew," Reels (arr. Whyte); ‘Music from the Movies""’ March (Levy); ‘Aida’ Grand March (Verdi); Fantasy on * The Rosary" (Nevin); "Church Mouse on a_ Spree" (Froeba); "A Fantasy in Blue’; "Cheek to Cheek" (Berlin); ‘Valse Triste’ (Vecsey); "Lord MaeDonald’s Reel,’ ‘"Moray’s Rant" (arr. Whyte); "Do You See the Stars?’ Tango (Bruhne); "Empire Builders’ March" (Bath); "Rumanian Sirba" (Trad.). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Book Review 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Albert Sammons (violin) and William Murdoch (piano), ‘Sonata in E Minor" . Elgar 7.58 Studio recital by Winifred Hill (soprano), "When I Bring to You Coloured Toys" ........ Carpenter "The White Peace" .... Bax "My Bird is Long in Homing" Sibelius Serenade " ...c.ccee. Strauss 8.12 Studio recital by Ina Bosworth (violin), Lois Walls (viola), Mollie Wright (cello) and Maud Lysaght (piano), "Quartet in D Major" ; Dvorak . 8.33. Charles Panzera (baritone), -.-"Chanson Triste," "Soupir" . Duparc 8.39 The Boyd Neel String Or- ) .- chestra, "Introduction and Allegro for Strings" ............... Elgar 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9. 0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news , 9.15 BBC news commentary, by George Slocombe 9.25 Evening Prayer: Rev. A. V. Whiting of the Congregational Church 9.30 "Martin’s Corner": The story of a family ,

10. O Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East 10.5 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN UV 2K Soke at 5. See Light music 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 "Around the Bandstand," with "Vanity Fair" at 8.30 9.0 Comedy land 9.30 "Joan of Arc" 9.43 Orchestral interlude 10. 0 Variety show 10.30 Close down 12 AUCKLAND 1250k¢, 240m, 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular programme 7. 0 Orchestral and instrumental numbers 7.30 Talk under the auspices of the Government Youth Centre 7.45 ‘Silas Marner" 8.0 Peep into Filmland with " Billie" 9. 0 Light orchestral items, Hawaiian and popular melodies 10. 0-10.25 Signal preparation for Air Force 10.30 Close down 2 y 570k ¢. 526 m. When Parliament is being broadcast this programme will be transmitted b 2YC. Usual hours of Parliament: 2. to 5.30 and 7.30 to 10.30 p.m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) District weather report Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0 Morning variety 10. 0 Weather report for aviators 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Popular melodies 10.28 10 10.80 Time signals 10.45 Talk to women by " Margaret " 11. O Music by popular composers 11.20 Variety on the air 12.0 Lunch music (1.15p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.0 Weather report for aviators 2. 0 Classical hour 3. 0 Ballad singers 3.28 103.30 Time signals Weather report for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 3.32 Musical meanderings 4. 0 Sports results 5. O Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Talk): "A Thousand and One Nights" (Strauss); "Japanese Intermezzo" (Chapius); "Viennese Waltz Medley’ (Strauss); "Summer Festival" (Bruckner); "Old England" (arr. Krish); ‘ ‘Count of Luxembourg" Potpourri (Lehar); "Londonderry Air" (arr. Grainger); "Teddy Bears’ Picnic" (Bratton); "I'll Always be Your Comrade True" (Stolz); "Dance of the Merry Mascots" (Ketelbey}; "The Old Church Bells" (Farrar). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 "Britain Speaks" 7.28 to 7.30. Time signals 7.30 Talk by Our Gardening Expert

7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: The Orchestra: The London Palladium The Singer: Webster Booth (tenor) The Orchestra, " Marche Symphonique " Savino Webster Booth, OTN So cage cecal Feher "As I Sit Here" . Sanderson Once described as the Valentino of tenors, Webster Booth is over six feet high, dark and slim. The combination of a pleasing stage appearance and a really good tenor voice is rare. Among contem-~ porary English singers there are not many who possess both. Booth also has the unusual compass of two octaves and two notes. Herman Finck said of the top D flat which Booth used in "The Three Musketeers," that it was the highest tenor note ever heard in Drury Lane Theatre, The Orchestra: "Japanese Carnival" de Basque 7.58 "BUNDLES": A serial story of London Life, featuring Betty Balfour, the famous English actress 8.27 "Hometown Concert Party": Entertainment from _ the studio by N.Z. artists 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.16 BBC news commentary by | George Slocombe 9.25 Evening Prayer: Rev. A. V. Whiting, of the Congrega- | tional Church 9.30 "The First Great Churchill’: The romantic story of Winston Churchill’s famous ancestor, John, First Duke of Marlborough 9.55 New Light Symphony Orchestra, "London Bridge March" | Coates 10. O Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle | East 5 Abe Lyman and his Cali- | fornians 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN 2 Y 840kc, 357m. | fe -* Pr. Tunes for the teatable 6 0 Musical menu 7. 0 After dinner music ‘8. Q Orchestral masterpieces, featuring at 8.30, the Boston Senay Orchestra Playing " Symphon in G Major" (‘"‘ Surpr ey 9.30 Highlights from the operas 10. es al Signal preparation for Air 10.30 eee down ay Mike seam Cocktails a ‘Billy Bunter of Greyfriars " Musical digest "The Hunchback of Ben Ali" Solo Artists’ Spotlight Stars of the musical firmament "The Life of Cleopatra" Night Club Close down 9 co 90 md nant ve ofo °

QV Sore som | 6,30 p.m. Children’s session 7.30 Lecturette and information service 8. 0 Concert programme 9.0 Weather report and station notices 9. 2 Concert programme 10.0 Close down QV irl 750 kc. 395 m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 11. 0 Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m.* Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. O Light music 5.30 » For the children 45 Light music . O "The Japanese Houseboy " 15 at od FROM LONDON and Topical Ta 45 Weather forecast. Hawke’s Bay Stock Market Reports oO After dinner music or * Soldier of Fortune" 18 30 Recorded talk by Miss F. Street "A College for Grown-up Women Light music "Night Club": Presenting Jack Marshard and his Orchestra 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary, by Georg@ Slocombe ° 9.25 Evening Prayer: Rev. A. V. Whiting of the Congregational Church 9.30 Marjorie Lawrence (soprano) 9.35 London Symphony Orchestra, " Une finished" Symphony in B Minor (Schubert) 10. 0 Radio despatch from the New Zeaew land Forces in the Middle East 10:5 Close down © — a | 2 Y IN 920ke¢. 327m. 7. Op.m. "Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn" 7.25 Light music 8. O Light classical selections 8.30 Variety and vaudeville 9. 0 Band programme 9.30° "Eb and. Zeb" 10. 0 Close down _ These programmes are correct as we to press. Any last-minute alterations will be announced over the air. All programmes in this issue are copyright to The Listerier, and may not be reprinted without permission.

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5} y 720k ¢. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 8.0 Morning melodies 10. O Classical programme 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Hall of Fame 11. 0 Talk to women by " Margaret " 11.10 Women’s session, conducted by) Mrs, L. E. Rowlatt 11.30 Popular tunes 12. 0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.0 Melody and rhythm 2.30 Musical comedy 3. 0 Classical programme 4. 0 Frost and special weather forecast 4.5 Rhythmic Revels 4.30 Sports results Favourites old and new 6. 0 Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Operantics" (arr. Slodden); "Waltz of the Dolls’ (Bayer); "Manhattan Holiday" (Strauss); "Gitana de mis Amores’ (Rietti); "Pissicato Polka’ (Strauss); "Angels Guard Thee" (Godard); "The Rosary" (Nevin); "La Casta Susanna" (Gilbert); "Viennese Tears and Smiles" (Hruby); "Still as the Night" (Bohm); "Summer Rain" (Gibbons); "Old Oaken Bucket," "Little Brown Jug’ (Trad.); ""When a Gipsy Played" (Schmid--seter); ‘Medley of Southern Tunes" (Fos- | ter); "Siamese Guard Mounting" (Lincke); "Mock Morris’’ (Grainger); "How Lovely are the Messengers" (Mendelssohn). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports | 7. 0 Local news service 7.10 ‘The Quest for Health," by a dentist 7.20 Addington Stock Market report 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Tannhauser" Overture Wagner 7.42 Readings by O. L. Simmance: Serial by J. Jefferson Farjeon, "Facing Death." Tales told on a sinking raft: "The Young Man’s Story" 8. 2 Concert by the Royal Christchurch Musical Society (conductor, F. A. Bullock) Chorus and orchestra, "Three Songs of Praise" Dyson Len Barnes (baritone). Accompanist, Carrie James, "To Anise" * Silver " " Maritime Invocation " "The Witch" "Sailing Homeward " : Armstrong Robert Dodgson (boy soprano) "Bright is the Ring of Words" Vaughan Williams "Now Sleeps the Crimson TROBE Lich, doris. Quilter "Song of the Palanquin Bearers " ............ Martin Shaw "It was a Lover and his Lass" Quilter Part song for women’s voices, "The Snow"... ...:... Elgar (with accompaniment by piano and violins) : Haagen Holenbergh "Hungarian Gipsy Airs" _ Robert Dodgson and Chorus, "Lauda Sion" .... Mendelssohn (Relayed from the Civic Theatre)

cc gar 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports, and station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary, by George Slocombe 9.25 Evening Prayer: Rev. A. V. Whiting of the Congregational Church 9.30 Emil Saver (piano) and the Orchestra de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris, conducted by Felix Weingartner, "Concerto No. 1 in E Flat OB aoa as csicislaxiontotniss Liszt 10. O Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East 10.5 MUSIC, MIRTH AND MELODY 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN SV CHRISTCHURCH 1200 kc. 250m. 5. Op.m. Recordings 6.0 "Music for Everyman " 7. 0 After dinner music 8.0 ‘Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan" 8.31 Light music 8.0 An hour for dancing 10. + dig ae Signal preparation for Alr -orce 10.30 Close down Sz 940k c. 319m. 6.50 a.m. Weather report for aviators 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.46 NEWS FROM LONDON 9.5 Morning melodies 10.0 Weather report 10.10-10.30 Devotional service

12.0 Lunch music 1.15 p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 3.0 Afternoon programme 3.30 Classical music 4. 0 Dance numbers 4.30 Weather report. Variety 5.0 Children’s session (Norma) 5.30 ‘Carson Robison and his Pioneers" 5.45 Dinner music 6. 0 ‘"‘Here’s a Queer Thing!" 6.15 NEWS FROM LONDON, topical talk 6.40 After dinner revue 6.57 Station notices, weather report 7. 0 Evening programme 7.10 "Vanity Fair" 7.23 You can’t blame us! 8.0 These are popular 8.30 "The Channings" 8.43 Lucky dip 8.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.16 BBC news commentary by George Slocombe 9.25 Evening Prayer: Rev. A. V. Whiting, of the Congregational Church 9.30 Musical all-sorts 10. 0 Radio despatch from the New Zealand Foroes in the Middle East 10.5 Close down al y 790k c. 380m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 6.50 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 10. 0 Weather report for aviators 10.15 Devotional Service 10.50 Talk to women by ‘" Margaret" 11. 0 Talk by Miss D. McStay: "Cooking by Electricity "’ 11.15 Musical silhouettes; Tunes of the times 12.0 Lunch music (1.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.0 Weather report (including for aviators) 2.0 Rambling in rhythm: Duos, trios and quartets; At the London Palladium 3.15 A.C.E. TALK: "Christmas Preparations "’ 34.30 Sports results Classical music 4. 0 Weather report and special frost forecast for farmers 4.30 Music in a Cafe 4.45 Sports resulls 5. 0 Children’s session (Big . Brother Bill and the Travelman) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Monckton Melodies" (arr. Robinson); "Sweetheart" (Strauss); ‘Czardas’ (Monti); "Volga Song" (Lehar); "Haffner Serenade" Rondo (Mozart); "Streetsinger of Naples" (Winkler); "On the Bay of Naples" (Guardiag; "We're Not Dressing" (Revel); "La Toca" Selection (Puceint); "Sweelheart Czardas’ (Marie); "Stephanie Gavotte" (Czibulka); "Slav onic Dance, No. "ogee (oerents "Autumn Melodies" (Waldteufel). : 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.10 Burnside Stock Market report 7.15 Book talk 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, "Overture in D Minor" Handel 7.38 Corinee Rider-Kelsey (soprano), "Angels Ever Bright and Fair," "O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me?" .... Handel 7.46 Anton.van der Horst (organ), "The Mickoo and the Night- + INGAlC"> sé....cccocecreseo0e.. Handel

2 on vo 10. 0 Sir Thomas Beecham and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Suite de Ballet" ........ Handel The Combined Choirs of the Dunedin Choral _ Society, Oamaru Choral Society, Royal Dunedin Male Choir and Returned Soldiers’ Choir, with Orchestra, present: "THE MESSIAH" .... Handel Soloists: Madame Winnie Fraser (soprano), Joyce Ashton (contralto), Grahame MeKinlay (tenor), Russell Laurenson (bass) Conductor: Alfred Walmsley (Relay from the Town Hall) HAL KEMP AND HIS OR(approx.) CHESTRA 11. 0 11.30 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation musi¢ CLOSE DOWN aly DUNEDIN 1140kcec. 263m. 0 0 0 0 Pests? 9.15 9.25 9.30 10. 0 10. 5 10.30 Op.m. Tunes for the teatable Melody. and song After dinner music Variety Parade NBS Newsreei: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary, by George Slocombe Evening Prayer: Rev. A. V. Whiting of the Congregational Church Recital programme Radio despatch from the New Zea= land Forces in the Middle East With a smile and a song Close down AW/ INVERCARGILL 680kc¢. 441m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast. session 8.45-9.0. NEWS FROM LONDON 11. 0 Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS 5. 0 5.15 5.45 6. 0 6.15 6.45 + _7.30 7.50 8. 0 8.26 8.45 8.57 9. 0 9.15 9.25 | 9,30 Pree | 10. & FROM LONDON) Children’s session (Round the World with Father Time’’) Light opera. and musical comedy Tunes of the day "Personal Column" a FROM LONDON and Topical a "Birth of the British Nation" After dinner music Talk by Michael Terry: "The Air Force and the Empire" These were hits "Out of the Silence"’ Their colour is black! * Here’s a Queer Thing " Weather reports, station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary by George Slocombe Evening Prayer: Rey. A. V. Whiting, of the Congregational Chureh Swing Session: Compered by Frank Beadle Radio despatch from the New Zeaq= land Forces in the Middle East 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 ht to The Listener, and may not be pant without permission.