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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 79, 27 December 1940, Page 29

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NY, AUCKLAND 650 k ¢. 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 ®. 0 "Music As You Like It" 10: O Devotional Service 10.16 "Grave and Gay" 41. 0 Talk to women by " Margaret" 41.15 " Musical Highlights " 11.30° Running commentary on the Auckland Racing Club’s Meeting, relayed trom Ellerslie Racecourse 4.16p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 2.0 ‘‘Music and Romance" 3.30 Sports results 4.'0. ‘Special weather report for farmers 4.30 Sports results &O Children’s session (‘‘ Cinderella" and. ‘s Peter ’’) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Marriage of Figaro’ Overture (Mozart); "FYankee Princess’’ (Kalman); "The Gipsy Princess" ‘Waltz (Kalman); "Love's Dream After the Ball’ (Czibulka); "An Old World Garden"; "The Playful Pelican" (Yorke); "Hejre Kati: Czardas" (Hubay); "Do You Love Me?" (Schroder); "Le Plus Joli Reve" (Arezzo); "An Evening With You" (Dubin); "Hungarian Dance, No. 8" (Brahms); "None But the Weary Heart’ (Tchatkovski); ‘Kiss Me Again," ‘Gipsy. Love Song" (Herbert); "The Frolicsome Hare’ (Hope); ‘Mexicali Rose" (Tenney): "Souvenir" (Drdla); "Intermezz0" (Coleridge-Taylor); Excerpts from "Boccaccio" (Suppe). 6.56 Dominion and district weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Book review 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: The Reginald Paul Piano Quartet, Quartet ....ccsccsseseseseeeee Walton 8. 2 Studio recital by Hilda Reffell (soprano), he "Hark, Hark, the Lark," "The Enquirer," " Impatience," "Wandering " Schubert 8.14 Studio recital by Owen Jensen (piano), "Sonata in C Minor" Jensen 8.29 Nancy Evans’ (contralto). Max Gilbert (viola), and Myers Foggin (piano), "Silent Longing," "Sacred Cradle Song" ........ Brahms 8.45 The Boyd Neel String Orchestra, "Serenata Notturno" Mozart 8.57 Dominion and district weather : reports and station notices & 0 NBS newsreel, A digest. of. the day’s news 9.156 BBC news commentary 9.26 Evening Prayer: Brigadier Charles Gray of the Salvation Army : 9.30 " Martin’s Corner: The Story of a Family" 10. 0 Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East 10. 5 "Cinderella": A Humphrey Bishop pantomime 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN

| Y 880kce. 341m. 5. 0-6.0 p.m. Light music 7. O After dinner music 8.0 "Bands and Ballads," with "Vanity Fair" at 8.30 9.0 Comedy Land 9.30 "Joan of Arc" 9.43 Interlude 10. O Light recitals 40.30 Close down [PAM Biers | 5. Op.m. Light orchestral and popular | music 7. 0 Orchestral selections 7.45 "Silas Marner" 8. 0 Concert 9. 0 Dance music 40. G Close down ON WELLINGTON 570k c. 526 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 ® O Morning variety 40. O Weather report for aviators 40.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Popular melodies 10.28 t0 10.30 Time signals 40.456 "On Tour in Southern Ireland," by Diana Crai 41. 0 Music by popular composers 41.20 Variety on the air 2.0 Lunch music (1.15p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 4. 0 Weather report for aviators 2. 0 Classical hour 3. 0 Sports results Ballad singers 3.28 t0 3.30 Time signals Weather report for farmers and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago 3.32 Musical meanderings 4.0 Sports resulis 5. O Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical apt "In Gipsy + Land’ (arr. Michaeloff): "Golden Shower’ (Waldteufel); "The Lilt of Lehar’; "The Grand Duchess’ (Offenbach); "Dance the Moonlight Waltz With Me" (Grundland); "Radetzky March" (Strauss); ‘Eili Bil’ (Trad.); "La Boheme" Selection (Puccini); "Serenade’’ (Moszkow-

skit); "Indian Mail’ (Lamothe); "I'm In Love all Over Again" (McHugh); "Entrance of the Liitle Fauns" (Pierne). 6.55 Dominion and district ‘weather reports 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 "Britain Speaks" 7.28107.30 Time signals 7.30 Reserved 7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: Music by Erie Coates: The New Light Symphony "London Suite" 7.57 "Bundles": A serial story of: London life, featuring Betty. Balfour, the famous English actress 8.27 Hometown Concert. party Entertainment from _ the. studio by New Zealand 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 9.256 Evening Prayer: Brigadier Charles Gray of the Salva- : tion Army 9.30 "The First Great Churchill’ "9. & San Francisco Symphony Ortra, _"Marche Militaire " Schubert: 10. 0 Radio despatch from N.Z. Forces in the Middle East 10. & Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN 2QN WELLINGTON) 2 840kc. 357m, 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. 0 Musical menu 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Orchestral yee shy featurin at 8.15, Odnosposo (violin), Stefan Auber (celo) and Angelica Morales (piano) with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra laying ‘" Triple Concerto in C ajor, Op. 56" (Beethoven) 9.30 Gems from the operas 10. 0 Light and bright 10.30 Close down

AWAD espe 7. m. Cocktails ‘Billy Bunter of Greyfriars." 7.47. Musical digest 8.15 ‘The Hunchback of Ben Ali" 8.28 Let’s make it a party 9. 0 The Life of Cleopatra 9.30 Night Club 0.0 Close down — 2 Y 810ke. 370m. Op.m. Children’s session Lecturette and information service Coneert programme Weather report and station notices Concert. programme Close down QVirl 750.k.c. 395 m, O-a.m. NEWS ‘FROM LONDON 730 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 411.0 Light music 12. 0-2.0p.m. lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. 0. Light music 5.30 For the children 5.45 Light music 6. O ‘The Japanese Houseboy" 6.15 K =e FROM LONDON and Toptcat a 6.45 Weather forecast 7. QO After dinner music 7.30 "Soldier of Fortune" 8. 0 Light music 8.30 "Night Club’: Presenting Abe Ly man and his Californians 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.16 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: Brigadier Charleg Gray, of the Salvation Army 9.30 London Philharmonic "Symphony No. 29 in A Major" (Mozart) 10. O° Radio Despatch from the New Zeae land Forces in the Middle East 10. S&S. Close down 2 Y 920ke. 327m. 7. Op.m... * Recollections of Geoffrey Hamlyn " 7.25 Light’ music 8.0 "The Masked: Masqueraders og 8.30 Variety and: vaudeville 9. 0 Band music 9.30 "Eb and Zeb" 10. 0 Close down 6.3 7.3 8. 9. 9. 10. Onooo a

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Vi CHRISTCHURCH 5} 720k ¢. 416m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0 Morning melodies A40..6 Classical programme 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Hall of Fame 41, 0° Talk to women by " Margaret" 11.10 Light orchestral session 41.30 Popular tunes 11.45 Relay from Addington of Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s Meeting 12.0 Lunch music (1.15p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) *2. 0 Melody and rhythm 2.30 Musical comedy Classical programme Frost and special weather forecast Rhythmic revels 4.30 Sports results Favourites, old and new 6. O Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "The Chocolate Soldier" Selection (Straus); "Eternelle Ivresse" (Ganne); "Serenade"; "Love Light in Thine Eyes’; "Monkey (Groitzch); "An Hour With You?" (Eisele); ‘My Treasure" (Becucet); "By the Tamarisk" (€oates); ‘Delicatesse"’ Serenade (Deltour); "Russian Fantasy"’ (arr. Bor); * Tm, Forever Blowing Bubbles" (Kenbrovin) ; "Fairies in the Moon" (Ewing); "Melody Masters — Franz Lehar"’; "The Whistler and His Dog" (Pryor); "Blanca Flor’ (Mateo). 6.55 Dominion and district weather reports 7.0 Local news service _ ae EVENING PROGRAMME: Some recent releases: Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra, "The Valkyries" Magic Fire MUSIC: © sinks ccsdccticctenns | Wagner 7.38 Elisabeth Schumann (soprano), "Oh Quand Je Dors" . Liszt "Wiegenlied" errors 7.46 Richard Crooks (tenor), "T Still Seem to Hear" Bizet "Lamento di Frederico" Cilea 7.54 Lily Laskine (harp), "Patronille". "Follets Caprice Etude" Hasselmans 8. 0 Readings by O. L. Simmance: "Facing Death," by J. Jefferson Farjeon Tales told on a sinking raft: "The Astronomer’s Story" 8.20 The Boston Promenade Orchestra, "None But the Lonely Heart" Tchaikovski 8.23 Sydney MacEwan (tenor), OUI," ciscecsecctnionias jee ae "The Rowan Tree" arr. Mudie 8.29 "Dark Lady of the Sonnets" Play by G. B. Shaw, produced by the NBS ca aoo

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. 9.25 Evening Prayer: Brigadier Charles Gray of the Salvation Army. A Studio recital by Maurice Clare, the eminent English violinist (Noel Newson, accompanist) "Spanish Dance from ‘La Vida Breve’ " ........0.0.9.060. Falla "Garden Melody" Schumann "Guitarre" ..... Moszkowski "Serenade from ‘Hassan’" Delius "Hungarian Dance in D Minor" ........cccc00cesee0e8 Brahms "Cradle Song" ........ Schubert "Dance of Terror" .... Falla

9.55 Jeanette MacDonald (soprano), Not Go My Love" Hageman "When I Have Sung My BORIS ciisscctstercopsccties . GHATIOS Graduating from the chorus of a New York show staged by Ned Weyburn, the lovely, slim, sweet songstress, Jeanette MacDonald, had her first principal part in ‘"Trene." Red-gold hair and blue-green eyes make Jeanette remarkably attractive for a daughter of America’s Quaker City, Philadelphia, whose triumphal progress to fame was in " The Love Parade." By the way, the MacDonald family can become enraged if you happen to leave the "a" out of ** Mac," for they are of that MacDonald branch which treasures its tartan, 40. 0 Radio despatch from the New | Zealand Forces in the Middle ast 10. & Variety programme, introducing "The Radio Nitwits" at 10.30 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, | followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN

SIVA CHRISTCHURCH 1200kc. 250m. p.m. Recordings "Music for Everyman" After dinner music "Leaves from the Diary of a Film Fan" Light music 5 Dance time! 10. Melody 10.30 Close down SIAR, 940k cc. 319m. 6.50a.m. Weather report for aviators 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM.LONDON 9. & Morning melodies 10. O Weather report 10.10-10.30 Devotional Service 12. 0 Lunch music, and relay of races from Omoto 1.15 p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 8. 0 Afternoon programme 3.30 Classical music 4.0 Dance. numbers 4.30 Weather report. Variety 5.30 Carson Robison and his Pioneers 5.45 Dinner music 6.15 NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talks 6.40 After dinner revue 6.57 Weather report, station notices 7.0 Evening programme 7.10 "The Woman in Black" 7.24 You can’t blame us 8.0 Out of the bag 8.30 "Mittens" 8.43 We heard these at the movies 8.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.16 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Evening Prayer: Brigadier Charles Gray of the Salvation Army 9.30 Musical all-sorts 10. 0 Radio noone from N.Z, Forces in the Middle East 10.5 Close down a7, DUNEDIN 790 kc. 380 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEws DON 6.60 Weather report for aviators 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.). Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON Weather report for aviators 15 Devotional Service 50 A talk to women ys "Margaret"’ 0 susiesl Silhouettes; Tunes of the times ; © 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 3.30 Sports results Classical music 4. 0 Weather report and special frost forecast for farmers 4.30 rar ge ~ ear 4.45 Sports results 5. 0 eee Serene: Brother Bill and the Travelm 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): ‘""March Review Medley (arr. Woittschach); "Give Me Your Heart" (Gade); "I Have a Heart for Lovely Women (Kunneke); ‘‘Entr’Acte"’ (Helmesberger); At Dawning "’ (Cadman); os La | Farruca (Gomez); "Irish Under the Balcony’’ (Mohr); "Evensong (Martin); "Gavotte" (Bach); "‘Medley of Folk Songs" (arr. Lutzow); "‘Just a Little Adventure" (Rust); "Hungarian Flower Waltz’ (Trad.); "Born to Dance" (Porter). 6.55 Dominion. and district weather reports ON OTM © @ . eco Coco 12.

7. 0 7.14 7.30 7.40 7.53 8.31 8.43 9.33 10. 0 10. 5 11. 0 11.30 Local News Service Recorded Talk by Reg. Kavanagh: "Smashes, Crashes and Drops" EVENING PROGRAMME: Dajos Bela Orchestra, "Johnny Strikes Up" "The Bold, Bad Buccaneers" in humour and harmony "The Hunchback of Ben Ali." Adapted from Marie Craik’s novel "Olive" VARIETY: Ted Steele (novachord), the Oleanders Negro Quartet and Bert Hirsch’s Novelty Orchestra "The Fourth Form at St, Percy’s" "Live, Love and Laugh" 8.57 Dominion and district weather reports and station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary Evening Prayer: Brigadier Charles Gray of the Salvation Army "The Life of Cleopatra" Radio despatch from the New Zealand Forces in the Middle East sn Clinton and his Orchesra NEWS FROM LONDON, fole lowed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN ret EE ag aa © GVO ONEOIN 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. 0 0 Melody and song After dinner music Concerto programme, featuring at 8.20, Edwin Fischer (piano) and London Philharmonic Orchestra -playing ‘" Concerto in C Minor" (Mozart) Recital programme Harmony and humour Close down QZ NARRCARGILL 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 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. 0 7.15 7.30 8. 0 8.40 8.48 8.54 8.57 9. 0 9.15 | 7.30 | 9.25 10.15 FROM LONDON) Children’s session Light opera and musical comedy Tunes of the day "Personal Column" ee FROM LONDON and Topical a "Birth of the British Nation" New Year’s Day sports results These were hits New recordings for the New Year "Trouble with Tears’: A comedy of domestic errors "These Foolish Things" Selection fo a and Allen (vocal duettists) Fred Lowery (whistling) Weather reports and station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary Evening Prayer: Brigadier Charleg Gray of the Salvation Arm "Liberators March" (Ancliffe) Romance in rhythm Radio Despatch from the N.Z, Forces in the Middle East Prospects for Southland Racing Club’s Meeting, by the "Sportse man" Close down