BROADCASTS FROM TRENTHAM

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 125, 14 November 1941, Page 13

BROADCASTS FROM TRENTHAM

NBS Joins Official Camp Entertainers

HE Official Camp Entertainers (which is their official title) have been active around Wellington since the outbreak of war. Every Wednesday evening a coricert is given at Trentham, and each fortnight some social function is organised for one of the Army camps or garrisons or for one of the R.N.Z.A.F. stations. Trentham, Mt. Victoria, Fort Dorset, Palmer Head, Foxton, Rongotai, and Levin are all visited at times convenient to the O.C, the stations. Mrs. Dennistoun-Wood is hon. organiser of the Entertainers, and Mrs. Gwen Webb is hon. secretary. There are about 32 organisations which assist in arranging programmes for the Official Camp Entertainers, among them being Eric Harrison’s Junior Repertory, the Victory Troubadours, the Breezy Box Revue, the Senior Repertory, Mrs. Charles Macdonald’s, Mrs. Wilfred An-

‘drew’s, Miss Mollie Atkinson’s, Tony Wood’s, Val Jones’s and Geo. Miller’s Concert Parties, Victoria League Bohemian Choir, the Magicians’ Society, and the Savage Club Revue. And now the National Broadcasting Service has joined the ranks of these voluntary entertainers, and once each month the NBS will supply the artists for the Trentham camp concert. The first NBS concert is being given at Trentham this Wednesday, November 12, at 7.30 p.m. The programme includes items by many popular radio enter-tainers-the Swing-time Harmonists; Dan Foley, the Irish tenor; Rosaleen Hickmott (soprano); May Hyam (violinist); George Christie in a hill-billy act; Linda Hastings; the Variety Orchestra; and Henry Rudolph in a musical clown act. There is also a ballet act and a Community Sing with Frank Crowther at the —

piano. This and the subsequent monthly concerts are being broadcast by 2YA. When the Official Camp Entertainers first came into existence, the problem of transport to and from the camps arose. The A.A. at: once placed its boardroom at the disposal of the committee and has helped greatly in arranging transport for the majority of the concerts. Car-owners have given their services willingly and provide free transport for the artists. Other friends of the O.C.E.s provide gifts such as tobacco, chocolates, and books, or money for purchasing them, and these are distributed after the concerts to soldiers holding the lucky tickets.