SATURDAY NATIONAL

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 121, 17 October 1941, Unnumbered Page

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PY eons eee 6. Oam. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 ( 8.45 9. 0 10. 0 10.20 10.45 1. 0 11.15 12. 0 1.15 2.0 5. 0 5.45 approx.) Breakfast session NEWS FROM LONDON "Entertainers All’ Devotional service "For My Lady": A musical miniature of Roger Quilter, English composer "Just Some More _ Interesting People," by Major F. H. Lampen "Domestic Harmony" "Music.While You Work" Commentary on Auckland Trotting Club’s Meeting relayed from Alexandra Park (12.15 p.m, NEWS FROM LONDON) Headline News and Views "Rhythm in Relays’ 3.30 Sports results 4.30 Sports results Children’s session (‘‘Cinderella’’) Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Kings of the Waltz’ (Strauss); "‘Portrait of a Toy Soldier’ (Ewing); ‘In the Chapel in the Moonlight’’ (Hill); ‘‘Intermezzo Pizzicato" (Birch); "Cara Mari" (Zalden); ‘‘Faery Song" tures" (Boughton); "Musical Box Minia(arr. Walter); ‘For Love Alone" (Thayer); "Jealousy" (Gade); "‘Four Corn Fields’’ (Campo); "Le Canari’"’ (Poliakin); "Serenade for Strings’’ (Riviere); "Love in a@ Bunch of Roses" (Ballard); "Fountain" (Kuster); "Little Lantern" (Lincke); ‘Japanese Carnival" (Basque); "‘Moment Musical" (Schubert). 7. 0 Local news service 7.15 Topical talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: 7.40 s 7.46 7.58 8.10 a Grand Symphony Orchestra, "Marinarella" Overture Fucik Doris Arnold’s Kentucky Minstrels, , "Love, Could I Only Tell EEE evkbibtssajselliotselags: Cae London Palladium Orchestra, Suite, "In Holiday Mood" Ketelbey Studio recital by Nora Rees, "Butterfly Wings" . Phillips "If You Would Love me" MacDermid "Golden Slumbers Kiss Your Eyes" (trad.) "Twas April" ........... Nevin Studio recital by Winifred Cooke (piano), | Toccata .......0000. Chaminade Impromptu in A Flat Schubert. "In a Chinese City" : aa of Paradise at a Waterall’ "The Rickshaw Ride" : _ Niemann Studio recital by Jacqueline Page (soprano) and Stewart Harvey (baritone), ‘Duet: "I Would That My Love Might Blossom" Mendelssohn Soprano: "Birds Swift to Change the Air" ........ Mozart Duet: "Calm Silent Night" Goetze ae ee Baritone: "The ‘Sailor Comes 8.34 Ashore" ............... Curschman ' Duet: "Homing". del Riego Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Moto Perpetuo .... Paganini "Dance of ee.

8.42 8.48 8.57 9. 0 9.15 9.25 10.10 11. 0 11.30 Sydney MacEwan (tenor), et gare ee eee Elgar "When the Kye Come Home" arr. McFadden BBC Variety Orchestra, "Lulworth Cove" .... Shadwell SBSVUNS™ ccctsossis viewiees WOOR Station notices NBS newsreel BBC News Commentary Variety, featuring Marie Greene and her Merry Men, Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch, and New Mayfair Orchestra, 10. 0 Sports results "The Masters in Lighter Mood" NEWS FROM LONDON followed by meditation music CLOSE DOWN UNZ2K Seo ee ae . 0-6 © = SB. BRSoRs 0 p.m. — Light music After dinner music ‘Billy Bunter of Greyfriars" Introduction "The Adventures of Marco Polo" Intermezzo * Filmland Memories" Evelyn Lave in songs from "Princess Charming " Finale Close down 124M ieee 4. Op.m:. Band music, vocal gems, piano, _ orchestral and popular selections Piano-accordion, miscellaneous, and organ selections Light vocal numbers, Hawalian melodies, light orchestral and popular music Signal preparation for the Air Force Sports Results: Gordon Hutter Orchestral interlude Dance session Close down NY (AN rats In the event of Parliament being broadcast this programme will be transmitted by 2YC. Usual hours of Parliament, 10.30 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2.30 to 5.30 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7.0 7.30 8.45 NEWS FROM LONDON Breakfast session NEWS FROM LONDON

8. QO Morning variety 9.40 ‘Music While You Work" 10.10 Devotional Service 10.25 Popular melodies 10.28 to 10.30 Time signals 10.40 For My Lady: "One Good Deed a Day" 11. 0 "Our Animal Friends: Pongo, a Dog with Personality," by Mrs. Mary Scott 11.15 Something for Everybody 12. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m. NEWS FROM LONDON) (Throughout the day there will be commentaries on the races at Trentham. These will be broadcast by 2YC during News and after 5.0 p.m.) 5. O Children’s session 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "A Garden of Roses’; "Gently, Ever So Gently’ (Stanke); ‘Free and Easy" (Porschmann); ‘Sylvia’ (Speaks); ‘La Foletta"’ (Marchesi); "Nights at _ the Ballet’?}; "At Dusk’ (Colonna); "the First Flower in the Garden" (Heykens); "Maria Mari" (Capua); "The Sleeping Beauty’ Waltz (Tchaikovshi); "Flower of Dawn" (Magna), 7. 0 Official news service 7.15 "Britain Speaks" 7.28107.30 Time signals 7.30 Reserve 7.45 EVENING PROGRAMME: The Mastersingers in "Melodious Memories" 8.14 "Cappy Ricks" 8.26 "Happy-go-Round": Another "Merry go Lucky" variety show, with music and comedy by a company of New Zealand artists. Featuring each week, "High Jinks in History" (Studio production) 8.58 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Make-Believe Ballroom Time 10. 0 Sports summary 10.10 Review of the races at Trentham on Monday, by S. V. McEwen 10.20 Make-Believe Ballroom Time 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN AWC WELLINGTON , 840 ke. 357 m. 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. 0 Musical menu 6.385 Signal preparation for the Air Force 7.0 After-dinner music

8. 0 New classical recordings, featuring at 8.10, Boston Symphony Orchese tra, playing Symphony No. 1 (Schumann); and at 9.30, the Coolidge Quartet playing Quartet in F Major, Op. 18, No. 12 (Beethoven) 10. 0 Variety 10.30 Close down 27 [D) WELLINGTON 990 ke, 303 m. 7. Op.m. "You Asked For It" Sessions From listeners to listeners 10. 0 Close down 27 [33 NEW PLYMOUTH 810 ke. 370 m. 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. 0 Close down 2} Y He ke. 395 m, 7. Oam. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.380 Breakfast session 8.45-9.0 NEWS FROM LONDON 12. 0-2.0 p.m. Lunch music (12.15, NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline News and Views 5. Dance music in strict tempo 5.30 For the Children: "The Adventureg of Marco Polo" 5.45 Light music 6.0 ‘Evergreens of Jazz" 6.15 aby FROM LONDON and Topical Ta 6.45 Cricket resuits 7. QO After-dinner music 7.15 Topical talk from the BBC 7.30 ‘The Woman in White" 8. 0 Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Scherzo Capriccioso (Dvorak 8.9 From the Studio: Nellie Fieldhouse (contralto), "Jhelum Boat Song," "Song of the Bride," "Kingfisher Blue" (Woodforde-Finden) 8.17 The Philadelphia Orchestra, Huns garian Rhapsody No. 2 (Liszt) 8.26 Nellie Fieldhouse, "The Hills of Donegal" (Sanderson), "Sing, Sing, Bird on the Wing" (Nutting), "Audacity" (Eville) 8.36 Marcel Moyse (flute), Andante Cantabile (Tchaikovski) 8.40 Richard Tauber (tenor) tn duets with himself 8.45 Walter Gieseking (piano), Baga« telle in E Flat (Beethoven) 8.49 Lily Pons (soprano) 8.57 Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Hora Staccato" (Dinicu) 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of thd day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 New Zealand Welterweight Chame : pionship Belt Contest, R. Hickland v. K. Meuli (relayed from the Muntcipal Theatre) 10. 0 Close down 2 hgN BPO 7. Op.m.. "Listeners’ own session" 8, 0 Andre Kostelanetz and his Orchese tra, "Revenge With Music" 8.10 "The Nuisance" 8.39 ‘Light recitals 98. 1 Dance music 9.30 Swing session 10. QO Close down | QASJ 980 ke. 306 m. 7. Op.m, After dinner music 7.145 ‘Singapore Spy" 7.40 The Rhythmic Troubadours, Bournes mouth Municipal Orchestra 8. 0 Light concert 8.30 Dance programme 9.30 Hot rhythm 10. O Close down

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IS MY/ CHRISTCHURCH 720 ke. 416 m. 6. Oa.m. Station on the air for NEWS FROM LONDON 7. 0 NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 (approx.) Breakfast session 8.46 NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0 Modern variety 8.30 Something new 10.0 "For My Lady": Grace Moore, the trials and triumphs of a world celebrity 10.30 Devotional service 10.45 Orchestral interlude 11. 0 "Just Oriental Splendour," by Major F. H. Lampen 71.10 Some light music 11.30 "Music While You Work" 12. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) 1.15 Headline News and Views 2. 0 Bright music 2.30 Happy memories 3. 0 Melodies you know 4. 0 Bands and basses 4.30 Sports results Rhythm and melody 6. 0 Children’s session (Mrs. Dalton’s Mandolins) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk): "Suite of Serenades" (Herbert); "Lotus Flowers’’ (Ohlsen); ‘Marionettes’ (Glazounov); "Reminiscences of Chopin’; ‘Greetings to Vienna’ (Siede); ‘‘From the Welsh Hills" (Lewis); "La Czarina" (Ganne); "Humoreske" (Dvorak); ‘March of ’the Dwarfs" (Grieg); "Ballroom Memories" (arr. Robrecht); "‘Musette"’ (Gluck); "Kunz Revivals’; "Simple Confession (Thome); "Variations" from ‘‘Callirhoe’’ (Chaminade). 7. O Local news service 7.16 Topical talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: Marek Weber and his Orchestra, "From Offenbach’s Sample (Yop ere eauteas arr. Urbach 7.39 "Adventure: The Quest for the Jewels of the Sacred Necklace" 8. 4 "Music and Song," A Studio presentation Directed by Bessie Pollard. Associate artist: James Duffy (tenor) 8.35 Some humour: Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge, Irene Russell and Lawrence Green, "The House That Jack Built" Jeans 8.44 From the Studio: Irene Macdonald (contralto), "Les [dées" ......ccccee. West "T,’,Amour" SOCOTCOCE TORS e eee Godard "Aminte" .......000 Weckerlin "Obstination" de Fontenailles 8.58 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Masical comedy memories 10. 0 Sports summary 10.15 Dance music . 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN Y7[L, SHRISTCHURCH 1200 kc. 250'm. . 5. Op.m. Tunes for the tea-table 6. O Music for everyman 6.36 Signal preparation for Air Force 7. 0 After-dinner music

10. 0 10. Symphonic Programme, featuring the. London Philharmonic Orchestra playing Carnival Ballet Suite, Op. 9 (Schumann); Ania Dorfmann (piano) and the London Symphony Orchestra playing Concerto No. 14 in @ Minor, Op. 25 (Mendelssohn), and the Philadelphia Orchestra playing "Das Rheingold" (Wagner) Favourite entertainers Close down 30 74 GREYMOUTH 940 ke, _319 m. 7. 0am. NEWS FROM LONDON 7.30 8.45 Breakfast session NEWS FROM LONDON 9. 0-10.0 Morning music 12. 0 1.15 2. 0 3. 0 5. 0 5.30 6. 0 Lunch music (12.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON) Commentary on Greymouth Trote oe Club’s meeting at Victoria ar Headline News and Views Variety Afternoon music Merry melodies Dinner music "Every Walk of Life"

be og FROM LONDON and Topical al Sporting results, station notices Merry moments Topical talk from BBC Keyboard ramblings "Thrills" A little bit of everything "The Mystery of a Hansom Cab" Hawaiian melodies NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news BBC News Commentary Radio Rhythm Revue Close down DUNEDIN 790 ke, 380 m. 7. 0 ‘NEWS FROM LONDON 7. — ye ) Breakfast session ae 11. 0 11.20 12. 0 S FROM LONDON While You Work" Random ramblings "A Few Minutes with Women Novelists: Rosamond Lehmann," by Margaret Johnston "For My Lady": "The Laughing Man" Melodious Memories: Novelty and Humour Lunch musie (12.15 p.m., NEWS FROM LONDON)

1.15 Headline News and Views 2. 0 Vaudeville matinee 3. 0 Bands, Banjos and_ Baritones: Revels, Recitals and Rhythm 4.30 Cafe music 4.45 Sports resulte 65. 0 Children’s session ("How to Make" Club) 5.45 Dinner music (6.15, NEWS FROM LONDON and Talk): "With the Classics" (arr. Crook); "Cuckoo Waltz" (Jonassen); * ‘Irene’ (Tot); "Trish Medley"’; "Onder the Balcony" (Hey‘kens) ; * "Waltz Time and a Harp"; "Giannina Mia’ (Friml); "Perfume" (Brau); ‘ ‘Sirens (Ww ""Barcarolle"’ "Chanson Triste"’ (Tchaikovski); ‘Brigitte" (Moretti) ; "Dancing Dolis’’ ; *Poesie" (Rizner); "The Merry Widow (Lehar). 7. 0 Local news service 7.16 Topical talk from the BBC 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME: The Boston Promenade Orchestra, "Carnaval Romain" Overture Berlioz 7.40 The Melodeers Quartet, "Give Me a Roll on . Drum" omberg. "Dear Old Pal of Rice "There’s a Long, Long Trail" Elliott 7.47 Harry Horlick and his Orchestra, "Spanish and Mexican Melodies" 7.56 Sidney Torch seqene) "Kiss Me aoe . Herbert "Trees". sccssueeees.... 8. 2 The PER Palladium Orchestra, | "Sylvan Scenes" Suite | Fletcher 8.14 Studio recital by Dorothy Mackay (soprano), "Two Little Stars" "Little Snowdrop" .. Stanford 8.20. The New Light Symphony Orchestra, "Malaguena" Spanish Dance Moszkowski "Abandonado Waltz" Posadas 8.28 Alfred Piccaver (tenor), "The Minstrel" Easthope Martin a) | Hear You Calling Me" Marshall "Out of the Twilight" ... Parker 8.37 The Hans Busch Orchestra, "The Fiddle, Yes, the Fiddle!" Grothe "Gallantry" ....s... Borchert "Eternal Sun" ........ Llossas 8.46 Dorothy Mackay, "An Island Sheiling Song" a Fairy’ s Love Song" Kennedy-Fraser 8.51 Sydney Kyte and the Piccadilly Hotel Band, "Tt’s Love Again" .... Woods Few dance band leaders have had as interesting a career.as Sydney Kyte. Four years at the Savoy, three ee at the Berkeley, from there to Ciro’s, and on to the In addition to all this, he has..been for ten years musical director to. the Duke of Westminster at. his Grand National parties at Eaton Hall, Cheshire, since 1924. Standing in that lovely ball-

room that is almost as large as the restaurant at the Piccadilly, Sydney found it hard to concentrate on dance. musie, with an enormous Italian mosaic fireplace, windows looking on to the gardens, and old masters on the walls. 8.58 Station notices 9. 0 NBS Newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.15 BBC News Commentary 9.25 Old-time dance programme by Ted Andrews and the Revellers Dance Band 10. 0 Sports summary 11.0 NEWS FROM LONDON, followed by meditation music 11.30 CLOSE DOWN ai Y ©) 1140 ke, 263 m. 5. Op.m- Tunes for the tea-table 6. 0 Melody and song :. O After dinner music 7.45 "The Crimson Trail" . O Variety 8.20 ‘The Moonstone" 9. 0 Band programme 10. O People in pictures 10.30 Close down "at Y, LA 680 kc. 441 m. ee an ee ee 7. Oam. NEWS ae LONDON Sy Breakfast sessio .45-9.0 NEWS LONDON aa OQ Recordings 12.0-2.0 a Lunen music (12.15, NEWS LONDON) tes Headline and View 5. 0 Children’s session: or Peter the Wolf Club’ 65.15 Saturday Special 6. 0 "Buccaneers of the Pirate Ship Vulture" 6.16 NEWS FROM LONDON and Topical Talk 640 The Orchestra Mascotte 6.50 ‘To-day’s Sports Results 7. 0 Accordiana 7.16 Topical Talk from the BBC 7.30 Gcreen Snapshots 8. 0 Shall We Dance? Interludes by Andrews Sisters 8.57 Station notices 9. 0 NBS newsreel: A digest of the day’s news 9.16 BBC news commentary 9.25 Late Sporting 9.28 For the Musical Connoisseur, introducing Quartet in E Minor, Op. 59, No. 2 (Beethoven), played by the Budapest String Quartet 10. 0 Acceptances and prospects for the Gore Racing Club’s meeting 10.16 Close Down