THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 188, 29 January 1943, Page 2

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

HE sessions "In Quiet Mood" and "Life is nothing without Music," which were broadcast over the main National Stations with great success during most of last year will be repeated from 4YZ Invercargill. Henri Penn, who is holidaying in Southland, found time to collaborate with Miss Mary Gilbert (pianist), P. Poole (violinist), and N. McWilliam (’cellist), with the result that listeners to 4YZ had the opportunity of hearing the session "In Quiet Mood" broadcast on January 17. The first session of "Life is nothing without Music" may be heard this Saturday (January 30). Local singers also appear in these sessions. Fact and Fiction Not next week but the week after, ZB listeners may loek forward to three new serials hot from America. American Challenge is a programme of dramatised American history, and we recommend all those who still wonder why Paul Revere rode, or where the tea went to at the Boston Tea Party, to tune in. As an antidote to fact, the new series of The Green Hornet should keep you in a buzz of excitement. The third programme, Hollywood Radio Theatre, is a series of half-hour plays acted by Hollywood stars. Genera: Post One of the big changes that we have all noticed in recent months has been the influx of "refining influences" in the Post office. But these new members of the staff have brought more than refinement with them. They have brought energy and efficiency. "The Post Office in War Time" will be the subject of three talks in "The Home Front" series which may be heard on Monday mornings from 2YA at 11.0. All the problems of posting and parcelling and how this affects the housewife and how the Post Office is dealing with. the present situation will be tackled. A Spell But Not a Charm "There’s a magical spell over the Bay these warm moonlit nights," writes one of our young and still hopeful friends; and, walking along the beach for a breather before bed, we don’t wonder that she has noticed it. Even through our spectacles, which are certainly no longer rose-tinted, we have seen many a sight to make us agree. The evening spell; yes. But we feel that it must be mecessary to be very young and very hopeful to be able to talk about the "Morning Spell" as Mrs. Mary Scott is to do from 2YA this Saturday (January 30). Her talk is entitled "The Morning Spell: By-Ways," and it will be interesting to hear what magic charm she has found in this more prosaic end of the day. A Miner's Tale "Young Rex Harrison," of the NBS play which may be heard from 2YA next Wednesday evening, is neither the Brit-

ish film actor nor the Christchurch singer of that name. He is in fact a young miner who has the fortune, or misfortune, to kiss the mine manager’s wife under the impression that she is his daughter. All pro-wedding ring readers will be pleased to hear that the drama

develupes from the fact that the wife leaves her ring at home when she goes to a dance, a mistake disastrous both to herself and to her husband’s career. Bolivian Day-Mare A passenger air-liner is about to take off. from a Bolivian air-field; a man is running to catch it; but when he does

he seems so ill at ease that a fellow Passenger asks him what he fears. The man has had a dream about a disastrous air-journey over mountains with a blinding fire at the journey’s end. "Pure coincidence" scoffs the fellowpassenger when they begin to cross the Andes, "you’ve been reading The Time Machine." And then the plane fails to gain the necessary altitude and fear grips the passengers in a most stirring climax. The story of this thrilling airjourney is told in "Flight of Fancy," a play by Philip Waterworth, to be read this Sunday evening (January 31) by the Auckland Repertory Theatre from 1YA. Frankly Moody It has always pained us to hear people say that they simply adore children; unqualified like that the statement just can’t be what’s ordered in the witness box. So when we hear that the For My Lady session at 1YA on February 4 is going to deal with "Moods: With the Children" we are surprised, but pleasantly so. We've always felt a little that way and have often been worried about our habit of beginning all our sentences with "Don’t." Perhaps this talk is going to show us some effective ways of controlling our moods with the children; we have no authority over other parents, of course, but we feel it our own duty to tune in.