SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 84, 31 January 1941, Page 38

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VW AUCKLAND fl 650k c. 462 m. 6. Qa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0 "Entertainers All" 40. 0 Devotional. service, conducted by Rev. Frank de Lisle 10.20 "For My Lady": A charming veteran of yesterday--De Pachmann, Russian pianist 10.45 "A Few Minutes With Women Novelists": "Somerville and Ross," by Margaret Johnston 41. 0 "Domestic Harmony" 42, 0 Running commentary on Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting, relayed from Alexandra Park 1.15 p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON 2.0 "Rhythm in Relays" 8.30 Sports resulis 4.30 Sports results &. 0 Children’s session (‘‘Cinderella’’) 5.45 Pinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM ONDON and Topical Talk): "A of Roses"; "Gently, Ever So Gently" (Stanke); Blue Serenade" ote "Free and Easy" (Porschmann); (Tonge. | Bert Folletta’’ (Marchesi ns Kd (Hirsch); "Nig is at the Ballet"; Sleeping Beauty" (Tehaikouski) ;" "Maria Mari’ (Capua); "Aquarium, Suite" (Mayerl); "At Dusk" (Na odleon); "The First Flower im the arden" (Heykens); "Flower of Dawn" (Morgan); "‘Mattinaia’ (Leoncavailo). 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Light Symphony Orohestes, " Miniature Suite" .... Coates 7.44 Studio recital by Colleen Challis (contralto), " Easter Flowers " "Hills of Donegal " "Beyond the Dawn" "Green Pastures " Sanderson 7.56 Sigurd Rascher (saxophone) with orchestra, " Saxo-Rhapsody" .... Coates 8. 4 Studio recital by the Euterpe rl0, Trio: "I Follow Thee Also" . Bach " Cleopatra" | Damare Soprano: "T Am Titania" Thomas Piano: "Shenandoah," " Billy Bo ad sessereseseeeeve ALT. Ru tland Trio: Theme and Variations " Ah! vous dirais je Maman" Mozart 8.24 Pinero (violin) accompanied _ by William Wirges, "Schon Rosmarin" | Kreisler ‘Valse Viennoise" . Wirges ‘ "Doin’ Things" ....... Venuti ; "Runnin’ Ragged" . Venuti 8.33 John MeCormack (tenor), | "ithe a Tee : OBrien "Ves jjnbictelnacnhn ORES "Sou "Winds" cations, ODD.

8.45 8.57 9. 0 9.15 9.25 9.31 10.10 11. 0 11.30 Raie da Costa (piano) with Orchestra, "Four Aces" Suite . Mayerl Station notices NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC news commentary Fred Hartley and his Orchesra, "Mr, Whittington" Newman BBC programme: "The Heart of England" A programme from the Midlands 10. 0 Sports summary DANCE MUSIC NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN UV 2X fone nie 5. 7. 0 7.45 8. 0 10.30 Op.m. Light music After dinner music ** Billy Bunter of Greyfriars " Week-end frivolity, with ‘ The Dark Horse" at 8.30, and at 9.30, Judy Garland in songs from her film successes Close down |Z AUCKLAND 1250k,¢. 240m, 1. O0p.m. Band music, vocal gems, 2.40 4. 0 5. 0 7. 0 7.30 8. 0 10, 0 10.25 11, 0 piano, piano-accordion, and organ selections Light popule? and orchestral items Piano and light vocal selections and popular medleys Light orchestral and popular recordings Sports results and comments: Bill Hendry Orchestral items Dance session Signal preparation for the Air Foree Dance session (continued) Close down

2 y 570k ¢, 526 m. 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 variety 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Popular melodies 10.2810 10.30 Time signals 10.40 "For My Lady": ‘Dickens — Dombey and Son’"’ 11.0 "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists " 11.15 Something for everybody 12. 0 Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.0 Saturday matinee 3,28103.30 Time signals 4. 0 Sports results 5. 0 Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15. NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Nights at the Ballet"; "Cradle Song of the Virgin Mary" (Reger); "Snow While and the Seven Dwarfs’; "Narcissus" (Nevin); "The Flowers’ Caress"* (Leuntjens); "Sevillianas Y Panaderos’ (Gomes); "In Tulip Land" (Pazeller); "Merry Widow" Selection (Lehar); "Ignacio" (Carrara); "Listen to Liszt’ (arr. Bor). 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 ‘Britain Speaks" 7.28 107.80 Time signals 7.30 Reserved 7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: With a Smile and a Song7.46 Louis Levy and his Orchestra, "Music From the Movies of 1938" Louis Levy was one of the first to realise that fnusical accompaniments could be adapted to the moods of the films, and so strengthen their dramatic values, . and he acquired a library of over fifty thousand works. His services were constantly in demand for trade shows. That was in the ‘silent days." He once assembled a ninetypiece orchestra, a choir of the same dimensions, and a tableau involving a further 120, to put over " The Sea Hawk" at the Albert Hall. The advent of the talkies found him undaunted, eager to make fresh opportunities for himself, 7.50 Alec Templeton, "Vocal Impressions of a Russian Basso and An English Ballad Singer" 7.53 Jane Pickens With Male Chorus, "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" .....0 Romberg 7.66 "Krazy Kapers": An hilarious variety show 8.22 "YES, MADAM!": A musical comedy, hes aig Bobby Howes, Bonnie Hale, Bertha Belmere, Vera Pearce and Wylie Watson, with the Hippodrome Theatre Chorus and Orchestra 8.57 Station notices 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary 9.25 Old-time dance music by the 2YA Old-time Dance Orchestra. Conductor: Frank Crowther. Compere: E, E. Grove, Vocals by the Variety Singers 10. 0 Sports summary 10.10 Continuation of dance programme 11,0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN

QVC Mia sim 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. O Musical menu 7. 0 After dinner music 8. 0 Classicana: A programme of popue lar classies 10. gests Signal preparation for Air force 10.30 Close down QD) WELLI NGTON 990ke¢. 303m. 7. Op.m. "You asked for it" sessions 10. 0 Close down NAB NEW PLYMOUTH 810ke 370m. 6.30 p.m. Children’s session 7.30 Sports results and reviews 8. 0 Music, mirth and melody 9. 0 Station notices 9.2 Recordings 10. O Close down 2 NAPIER 750 kc. 395m. 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast session 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON 11. O Light music 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. 0 Danee music in strict tempo, with vocal interludes 5.80 For the children: (‘The Adventures of Marco Polo’) 5.45 Barnabas von Geczy and his Orchestra 6. 0 ‘Carson. Robison and his Pioneers" 6.15 Re we FROM LONDON and Topical a 6.45 senior cricket results . O After dinner music 7.15 Topical War Talk from the BBC 7.30 ‘The Circle of Shiva 45 Light music . O The Philadelphia Orchestra, ‘"Invi9 tation to the Waltz’? (Weber) Studio Recital by Myrtle Daniel (contralto): "Indian em AL ig ecnik), "The Powis, Soe the Waters" (Trad ong My Mother Sang" (arr. 8.20. The New Symphony Orchestra, "Mors Et Vita" Judex (Gounod) 8.24 Malcolm McEachern (bass) 8.36 Walter Gieseking (piano), "Alla Turca’ (Mozart) 8.40 The Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, "‘La Source" — Ballet (Delibes) Love Scene and Scherzo Polka 8.46 Myrtle Daniel (contralto), "When Childer Plays’ (Walford Davies), "Eleanore" (Mallinson) 8.52 BBC Symphony Orchestra, "La Boutique Fantasque"’ Selection (Rossini-Respighi) 9.0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day's news 9.18 BBC News Commentary x "Thrills" 9.40 Medleys from the Shows 10. 0 Close down GYAN note *n Local cricket results * Listeners’ own session "’ 8.0 London Philharmonic Orchestra, "Kings of the Waltz" > 8.10 ‘Scott of Scotland Yard": ‘ The Case of the Priceless Collection " 8.50 Light recitals 9.15 Dance music 9.30 Swing session 10, 0 Close down

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¥ y 720 ke. 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 8. 0 Morning melodies 10,0 "For My Lady": Popular instrumental Ensembles--Carroll Gibbons and his Boy Friends 430 Devotional service 45 English comedians Q "Some Remarkable Women | Have Met:" Talk by Mrs. Vivienne Newson 11.10 Light orchestral session 11.30 Popular tunes 11.45 Relay from Addington of Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting 12.0 Lunch music (1.45pm, NEWS FROM LONDON) 2.0 Bright music 2.30 Happy memories 3.0 Tunes everyone knows 4.0 Bands and basses 4.30 Sports results Rhythm and melody 6. 0 Children’s session 6.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "The Merrymakers" (Coates); ‘‘Serenade" (Romberg); "Closing Time in the Village" (Schimmetpfennig) ; "Songe D’Automne" (Joyce); "Under the Rainbow"’ (Waldteu/el) ; "Molly on the Shore" (arr. Grainger); "The Song is You" (Hammerstein); "Ralph Benatzky Selection" ; "There's Something in the Air’ (McHugh); "Old Vienna Melodies’ (Pollack); ‘‘Blue Butterfly" (Steinbacher); "Troika Drive" (Winkler); "Vienna, City of My Dreams" (Sieczynski); "Spring" (Hildach); "Soiree D’Ete" (Waldteufel); "Waltz of the Flowers’ (Tchaikovski). ; 7. 0 Local news service 7.16 Topical war talks from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Viennese Waltz Orchestra, "Happy Vienna" arr. Walter 7.39 "Exploits of the Black Moth": "The Abdication of a Multiple King" 8. 4 Gloria Jean (soprano) "Penguin Song" ......... Sousa "Annie Laurie" ............ Scott "Love’s Old Sweet Song" Molloy "Villanelle" ...... Dell’Acqua Lo, Here the Gentle Lark" Bishop "T’m Like a Bird" ° arr. Previn $8.24 Lukewela’s Royal Hawaiians "Honolulu Harbour" "Aloha no wau iko moka" "Ama Ama Hula" "QO Kalena Kai’ ........ Noble

8.31 Presenting the Al Kavelin Orchestra and the Melodeers Quartet: The Orchestra, "Let’s Make Memories ToINN cath; cbitoepicgresast . Tobias "Song of the Metronome" Berlin UY INTL" * ic eesscees . De Sylva 8.39 The Melodeers, MIIAMTINITE = cictethiseetiss King "Sweet Little Headache" Rainger 8.43 The Orchestra, "Grateful" ......0....00.. Reisfeld "White Sails" .......... . Kenny 8.49 The Melodeers, "TI Long to Belong to You" Redmond "Mother, Oh Mother I Love" Garreau

9.15 9.25 9.34 10.15 11. 0 11.30 8.53 The Orchestra, "An Old Fashioned Tune" "When Winter Comes" Berlin Station notices NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC news commentary Variety programme, featuring Brian Lawrance, Frank Crumit, Reginald Dixon and Elsie and Doris Waters Brian Lawrance and _ his Quartet, "Ain’t She Sweet?" .... Ager "Somebody Stole My Gal" Wood Brian Lawrance and his Sextet, "The Darktown Strutters Ball" «.. Brooks From the Studio: George Titchener (comedian), "Water Scenes" ...ccorses Grey "That’s Another Scottish SUIT: — scignheapecieccsines Flanagan 9.44 "Dixon Hits No. 3" 9.50 "Gert and Daisy Make a Christmas Pudding" 9.56 Brian Lawrance and the Lansdowne House Sextet, "Alexander’s Ragtime Band" Berlin "Broken Doll" ........cc. Tate 10..0 Sports summary Dance music NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN SVL ibe wom. | 5. Op.m. Recordings 6. 0 7. 0 8. 0 "Music for Everyman" After dinner music Symphonic Programme: Featuring at 8.23, Yehudi Menuhin (violin), and Orchestre Symphonique de Paris playing "Symphonie Espagnole, Op. 21" (Lalo), and at 9.35, Serge Prokofleff (piano), and the Symphony Orchestra playing Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26 (Prokofieff) 40. 0-10.25 Signal preparation -for the 10.30 Air Force Close down

OZ GREYMOUTH 940k c. OOMNN Rook ao » O29 OHPNNNH SogaTysN Bright Talk & ToSsce Bio b= — ag ono NBs Ne Oam, NEWS FROM LONDON '30 Breakfast session NEWS FROM LONDON Snappy programme Close down Lunch music p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON Variety spot "Joan of Arc" Dinner music " William the Conqueror" NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical ht parad Sporting results and station notices Merry moments Topical war talks from the BBC Hawaiian melody "The gett, AS wsreel: ‘ digest of the day’s ew News Commentary Dance with: Hal Kemp and Victor Silvester and their Orchestras, Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, Interludes by Dorothy Lamour down 10. 0 Close

al Y 790 k ¢. 380 m. 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 10. 0 Random ramblings 10.40 "A Few Minutes With Women Novelists: Jane Austen," by Margaret Johnston 11.0 "For My Lady": "Ernest Maltravers" 11.20 Melodious memories; Novelty and humour 12,0 Luneh music (1.145p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 2. 0 Vaudeville matinee; Bands, Banjos and baritones 3.30 Sports results 3.45 Revels, recitals and rhythm; Cafe music 4.45 Sports results 5. 0 ues session: "How to Make" u 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "In Indra’s Land" Overture (Lincke); "Manhattan Moonlight" (Alter); "Eva" -(Lehar); ‘Ye Merry Blacksmith" (Belton); ‘Young, Love" (Alex); ‘Waltz rom Vienna" (German); "Love's Joy" (Kreisler); ‘Roses of Picardy" (Wood); "In Memory of Franz Schubert’; "Waltz Memories’’; Juanita" _(Norton); "Manhattan Serenade" (Alter); "Turkey in the Straw" (Hartley) ; Pattern" (Lowry); ‘Bells at Evening’ (Williams); ‘‘Trepak’ (Tchaikovshi). 7. QO Local news service 7.16 Topical war talks from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Light orchestral and ballad programme London Palladium Orchestra, "Palladium Memories" 7.40 International Singers, "The Bare Foot Trail" Wiggins "Duna" SSSR EHS EOSEREHEEE FET ee McGill "Until" ccccooscooore SANderson 7.47 J. H, Squire Chamber Orchestra, "T’Arlesienne Suite No. 1" Bizet 7.55 Sandy Macpherson (organ), "Loch Lomond" sss. trad. "Annie Laurie" 8. 1 Boston Promenade Orchestra, "March of the Little Lead Soldiers" .....c000000008 Pierne "None But the Weary Heart" Tchaikovski "Hungarian Dance No. 6"

8.10 8.17 Brahms Studio recital by L. E. Dalley (tenor), "Come Silent Night" . Adams "Dorothy’s a Buxom Lass" Carr "TI Heard You Singing" Coates Erie Coates and Symphony Orchestra, "London Again" Suite Coates Studio recital by Aileen Young (soprano), "Advice to the Fair Sex" "Hope Told a Fiattering Tale" Linley "Tanthe the Lovely" Barrett "Still the Lark Finds Repose" Linley The Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Bacchanale" from "Samson and Delilah" .. Saint-Saens

8.46 L. E. Dalley (tenor), "David of the White Rock" Jenkins "Somewhere" ....0... Meale 8.52 Louis Levy and his Orchestra, "Sweethearts" ... Stothart 8.58 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC news commentary 9.25 Dance music 10. 0 Sports summary 10.10 Dance music 11. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 Close down 4) y 1140 k.c. 263m. 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. O An hour of melody and song 7. O After dinner music 7.45 ‘ The Crimson Trail" 8. 0 Hit parade 8.30 ‘The Mystery Club’’: " The Missing Will" 9. 0 Follow the drum: A band programme 10. O People in Pictures 10.30 Close down aly INVERCARGILL 680k. 441m. 7. Oam. NEWS rxOM LONDON 7.30 Breakfast . sessio 8.45-9.0 NEWS LONDON 11. 0 Recordings 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (1.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 5. O Children’s session 5.16 Saturday special of new releases 6. 0 "Carson Robison and his Buckaroos"’ 6.15 a FROM LONDON and Topical a 6.45 New Mayfair Novelty Orchestra 6.48 To-day’s sports results 7. O Accordiana 7.15 Topical War aoe from the BBC 7.30 Screen Snapshot 8.0 Shall We aaa Modern dance music with interludes by Kenny Baker 8.57 Station notices 9. 0 il newman A digest of the ay’s 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Late a ben J 9.30 For the connoisseur, introducing John Ireland’s ‘"Phantasie Trio in A Minor" | 10. 0 Close down