Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 108, 18 July 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

Australian song-writers will be sung in the Youth Show programme from 2ZB next Wednesday night by Joy Nichols, the clever 15-year-old star whose picture appears on the cover of this week’s Listener. The song is entitled Remember to Smile, and it was written by John Eddy and Dick Wordley, who are 19 and 17 years of age respectively. Other highlights of this broadcast are an unusual arrangement of The Donkey Serenade by the whole vocal section of the Youth Show, and items by Graham Wicker, Peggy McDonald, and Bernard Don, a 20-year-old bass. The same programme will be heard from 3ZB on July 30 and from 4ZB on August 8. * * = : hewn tere vet by the rules of the club, members of 3ZB’s recently-formed "Clappers’ Club" should be welcome guests at any local concerts in Christchurch. All members are enjoined to "show appreciation in whole-hearted applause when present at any form of entertainment." It is an uncritical attitude, but one which will doubtless be appreciated by amateur performers. The club came into being early in July and has already enrolled 1,500 children as members. Every Thursday afternoon at five o’clock as many as possible gather at 3ZB’s studio to enjoy a half-hour of community singing conducted by Grace and "Jacko" and items by the club’s "Star Circle." at oe * S a result of one of the final broadcasts of the Apple Quest, a 1ZB listener forwarded a donation of £10 to the Fighting Forces Fund. The previous week he had promised the station that he would give this amount if the winner of the next quest broke the record of cole lecting and delivering the required articles at the studio. That Saturday night the first contestant beat the record by three minutes, and the cheque was duly handed over. * Bs of ACK PARKER, the American tenor who is heard frequently in the Pageant of Music programme from the ZB’s every Sunday night, started his musical career at the age of six as a choir-boy. While he was still a lad, he sang in Gilbert and Sullivan, and, branching out into modern musical comedy, soon made a name for himself as leading man in the New York Rose Marie company. Then Florenz Ziegfeld "discovered" him, and he sang in some of Ziegfeld’s biggest Follies shows. He has appeared with many famous players, including Ralph Morgan, Roland Young, and de Wolf Hopper. A NUMBER written by two young * * * N addition to Station 1ZB’s Diggers’ Session is a bright programme, presented for the first time last Sunday, by Rod Talbot’s Hill-Billies. The HillBillies are a new group of players working with direction and scripts by Arthur Collyns, and items are also given by Epi Shalfoon’s band, a combination well known to 1ZB listeners. Further variety is added to the session by occasional "Pop Concerts" of items by world-famous ‘artists linked by recorded effects,