Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 127, 28 November 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

bree ee See have inspected Station 1ZB’s new studios since they were opened on Monday, October 6. Ten thousand went through the building during the first 14 days, providing hours of strenuous work for the station’s four hostesses. On Labour Day nearly 2,000 people turned up. The rush of visitors usually starts at about 11.0 a.m. and lasts until 9.0 p.m. with a lunch hour peak. eto 20,000 people > + + FrAMILY TREE, a one-hour Christmas programme which went the rounds cf the ZB stations last year, will be heard again this Christmas. It will play from 4ZB,on Sunday, November 30, 3ZB on Sunday, December 7, 2ZB, December 14, and 1ZB on December 21. Another Christmas programme which will soon be on the air from the ZB’s is Songs' of the Season. It consists of selections of carols and other seasonal songs, some of them familiar but many not previously heard over the air in New Zealand. Songs of the Seasons starts on Monday, December 8, from all stations, and will be heard from Monday to Friday at 10.30 am. until January 1. * % x HERE was a cast of 73 players for a recent broadcast of Souvenirs, the Reg Morgan show produced in 1ZB’s radio theatre every Wednesday night. The theme was The Quaker Girl, and the outline of the story was presented in a song composed for the occasion by Reg Morgan and sung by Stewart Harvey. Selections from this favourite old musical comedy were sung by the Auckland Light Opera Company, the principals being Phillis Raudon as the Quaker Girl, Irene Gilling as Princess Mathilde, Ralph Dyer.as Tony, William, McMichael as Captain Charteris, and Stewart Harvey as Prince Carlos. The chorus of 60 was accompanied by the 1ZB orchestra, with Queenie Poore at the piano and Eric Bell at the Novachord. : * %* Bg HE old ZB session Hymns Of All Churches, it may be remembered, : demonstrated how acceptable hymn music -is to most listeners at any time of the week, and 3ZB is proving the same point with its session Hymns at Eventide, broadcast every Tuesday, Thursday and Friday at 6.30 p.m. Dozens of favourite old hymns are played in this programme, ‘including many fine -works which classical composers have contributed to church music. * * % IONEL SCEATS, production supervisor at Station 4ZB, who was selected to study for the Diploma of Public Administration at Victoria University College, Wellington, has joined the announcing staff of 2ZB for the university vacation from Qctober until March, 1942. Originally a Wellingtonian, he was on the staff of 4YA before joining -4ZB some years back. He will resume his university studies in March,