NEW AMERICAN FEATURES FROM ZB STATIONS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 189, 5 February 1943, Page 11

NEW AMERICAN FEATURES FROM ZB STATIONS

EXT week the Commercial Broadcasting Stations will present three new serial features which have newly arrived from America, all of them described as "topgrade U.S. productions." Hollywood Radio Theatre is the successor of Academy Award. It has been produced by Kimbell $. Sant, the author of The House of Peter MacGregor. Hollywood Radio Theatre is a series of plays based on books by authors from all over the

world, Each episode is a self-contained story, and each is acted by Hollywood actors. This programme begins at 2ZB on February 9, at 1ZB on February 16, at 3ZB on February 23, at 4ZB on March 2, and at 2ZA on March 9, It will play at all these stations on Tuesdays at 8.0 p.m. The Green Hornet has won guch popularity on the screen and over the air that an entirely new series about this modern Robin Hood should be welcome. This thriller begins at 4ZB on February 8, at 3ZB on February 15, at 2ZB on February 22, and at 1ZB on March 1 (Mondays and saree at 7.15 p.m.), American Challenge is a series of dramatised incidents from American history, Oddly enough, the idea for this programme came from a small group of farmers in the Challenge Valley, discouraged by the losing battle of selling their products to city commission men, determined to band together and sink or swim by selling their products direct to the retailer. A few of the titles will give some idea of the scope of the programme: "Lincoln, Grant and Lee," "The Panama Canal," "Andrew Carnegie," "The Purchase of Alaska," "William Penn," and "Bombers to Britain." This serial begins at 2ZB on February 11, at 1ZB on February 18, at 3ZB on February 25, at 4ZB on March 4, and at 2ZA on March 11 (Thursdays at. 8.5 p.m.).