Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 134, 16 January 1942, Page 21

Items From The ZB's

Soa test of public reaction to the Sunday afternoon series, Accent on Youth, station 4ZB recently conducted a popularity poll, votes being sent in from as far north as Auck land. Accent on Youth features groups of young artists usually heard on Sun day afternoons in 20 minute cameos and on a recent Sunday a full how was set aside for a "grand parade" ol all who have participated in the pro grammes. The poll was topped by Dave Christiensen, the boy cornetist, whose picture appeared in a recent Lis tener, with the singers Delda Osborne and June Holmes, following. These three, and other clever young Dunedin artists, will in future be heard in the Accent on Youth cameos every Tuesday at 6.30 p.m. s * Eg ONGS of Yesteryear, the musical session broadcast from 4ZB every Tuesday evening at 7.45 p.m., is further proof that the taste of the average listener in these days of ragged and war-worried nerves is for neither highbrow nor lowbrow music, for neither violent swing nor arid classics, but something between the two. Songs of Yesteryear is essentially a session of favourite, well remembered ballads, recalled at a fireside. An old reed organ, a ’cello and a male quartet provide the music, and the songs are as familiar and timeless as "Just a Song at Twilight" and "When You and I Were Young." + * * MONG the Christmas and New Year greetings broadcast from the ZB stations was a message from Fred and Maggie Everybody and Daisy Sproggins, who in private life are Mr. and Mrs. Edward Howell, and their daughter Madeleine. Their greetings were distinctly "in character" though there was an underlying note of seriousness in their thought for children in hospitals and those who were celebrating Christmas apart from their families. The Howells visited New Zealand a few years ago, and made many friends here, % % % PROGRAMME Notes: The "Lone Ranger," hero of countless young people in both America and New Zealand, will ride again in the near future, The voice of the "Lone Ranger" was killed in a motor car accident last year, but a new voice has been found with which to continue his adventures. The Lone Ranger Rides Again starts from the ZB’s on Thursday, January 29, and will be heard at 7.30 p.m/ from all stations. The Musical Army is on vacation during the school holidays, but will re-start on Tuesday, February 10. There are Musical Armies at all ZB stations, and they are on the air twice weekly in the children’s session. New serials soon to be heard from the commercial stations are On His Majesty’s Service, a modern tale of espionage inside Nazi Germany, and One Girl in a Million. Starting dates will be announced shortly.