THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 179, 27 November 1942, Page 2

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

USIC lovers who listen to the "Music Lover" session from 3YA next Sunday (December 6), will hear two recordings of which most of them will ardently approve. Kirsten Flagstad and Lauritz Melchier will sing the "Love Duet" from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, and Edwin Fischer will play Beethoven’s "Pathétique" sonata. Escape to Freedom Now that the West is no longer wild, and Africa not particularly dark, darker, or darkest, we have to look to countries once considered civilised and unexciting to supply fare for adventure-lovers. This is what we may expect to hear next Wednesday evening at 9.46, when the adventures of three French students and their "Escape to Freedom" will be retailed from. 2YA. Where Cash and Coupons Meet We are looking forward to the A.C.E. talk on "Caring for Clothes" from 1YA on Monday, November 30. We have heard of some people going about cadging coupons for clothes, but we never seem to be able ourselves to make our cash meet our coupons anywhere but half-way (13% still in our first book). However, if people are coming | eee t

out with good ideas for preserving clothes with the object of helping Those Who Have No Coupons Left, we'll be glad to listen-in, because the same methods should be good for keeping both kinds of old clothes free from the corrupting influences of moth and rust. We'll also be glad to hear of short cuts to dry cleaning costs, Island To Let In these days when most Pacific Islands. are claimed by two nations at once, it’s unusual to find one unclaimed by anyone at all, and that is why we have admiration for Ben Slade, resourceful hero of 2YA’s new serial

Nobody’s Island, who manages to discover a scarcely shdp-soiled Pacific Paradise pf his very own. Ben is a typical clean-cut Australian, who cuts clean through convention to carry off to his_ atoll his typically golden-haired English Edith who is, as far as we can gather, a Nordic version of Dorothy Lamour. We cannot promise listeners typhoons and sarongs, but we have it on excellent. authority that the plot is full of incident | and aglow with romance. WNobody’s Island has just begun at 2YA, and is heard on Saturday evenings. Pimpernel Fraser Who is "First Light Fraser?" We don’t know yet, but we hope to find out by listening-in to 2ZB each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 6.30 p.m. And why is he "first light’? Is he lightfingered, light-footed, or light-headed? It, will take us a good many half-hours to answer all these questions, but in the meantime we are getting ourselves ready for hairbreadth escapes from Gestapo officials, and for the plottings and mysteries of underground activity in oppressed Europe. For Schubertians : Some of the less known Schubert songs will be heard in the "Schubert Half-Hour" programme from 2YA on Sunday, December 6, at 9.27, when Alison Cordery, soprano, will sing "My Peace Thou Art," "The Question," "Sunset Glow," and "Serenade." The song recital will be followed ‘by two Schubert recordings: "Rosamunde" Ballet Music (State Opera Orchestra), and the "Sanctus" and "crede" from Mass in G, sung by the Philharmonic Choir. Hard Tack We are not sure if we approve of the A.C.E.’s intention to talk from 4YA next Wednesday about "Food Drying at Home." We have been in boarding houses which could give the Empire Marketing Board points on dehydration,

and we have no particular desire to see the process extended to our own domestic establishment, especially now that there are so few worts (or is it orts?) in the beer. Even in Darkest Africa, where the darkness can be veldt, biltong and mealies is only a stand-by. But perhaps there are cases where one man’s meat is another man’s pemmican.