NEWS FROM THE ZB'S

New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 413, 23 May 1947, Page 32

NEWS FROM THE ZB'S

i NEW session to be heard shortly from Station 4ZB Dunedin reminds one of the spacious days when home was home and the centre of family social life; of the evenings when people, capable of finding their own amusement, gathered for parlour games. | It goes under the title of Clues from

| the News Quiz, and starts at 6.30 p.m. on Tuesday, June 3. Using as his sources Dunedin’s two daily Papers, the quizconductor, Russell Oaten, will compile a number of ques-

} tions on news items covering the previous three to four days. So the contestants will be compelled to digest their | daily intelligence thoroughly in readiness for ‘quizzing. The session is scheduled for a 12-weeks’ run and its sponsor has given £100 as prize-money. Bd * ~ & TATION 3ZB’s Sunday afternoon session will feature, at 2.30 on June 1, the bass voice of Norman Allin, who: specialises in ballads. As a boy Allin sang in the Chapel Choir at Ashton-Under-Lyne, Lancashire. In 1906, when he was 20, he won a Lancashire County Council scholarship valued at £240, tenable at any College of Music in Great Britain. His big chance came in 1916 when Sir Thomas Beecham engaged him-to sing leading bass parts in the Beecham.Grand Opera Company. He has broadcast regularly since the early days of the BBC. At present he is Professor of Singing at the Royal Academy of Music, London. Norman Allin toured Australia in 1934-35, 2 a * WAS THERE AT THE TIME ‘is the title of a section recently added to 1ZB’s Sunday night review of topical happenings. Every programme now features an account, either in the form of an interview, or a short talk by a listener, of some interesting event which he or she has seen. The other Sunday it was the eye-witness description of a curious experience which once ‘befel passengers in a Wellington tramcar. This programme is on the air at 7.30 p.m. % a Eo IN Saturday, June 7, at 10.15 pm., listeners to Station 3ZB will hear the first of a series of recorded programmes by famous duo pianists. The first pair will be Rawicz and Landauer. The two-piano style of musical presentation is popular and is frequently used to provide music for a ballet or musical show, and it was by playing the music for a ballet that Rawicz and Landauer (continued on next page)

(continued from previous page) started their career. During the war they were absent from the concert stage, serving with the Czechoslovak Army based in Britain. Other exponents of the two-piano art are Geraldo and Sidney Bright, Carroll Gibbons and Harry Jacobsen, Ivor Moreton agd Dave Kaye and, nearer home, Frank Hutchens and Lindley Evans. All these pianists except Hutchens and Evans, who have arranged: Bach preludes and fugues and some Mozart variations for two pianos, play in light vein. * %* %* HEN Britain’s new post-war commercial plane, the Vickers Viking, arrived: at Whenuapai, a party from 1ZB (Marina, Dudley Wrathall, and technicians) went to meet it. Wrathall covered the arrival, with a description from the control tower and later from the tarmac, and Marina chatted to the two women passengers, Mrs. B. W. A. Dickson, wife of one of the directors of Vickers-Armstrong, and Mrs. M. F. Summers, wife of the test pilot who flew the aircraft. The Viking set her course for New Zealand over the Middle East, India and Australia, the journey taking 10 days. The women were delighted with their trip and said they regretted their stay here was limited to a fortnight. The interview between Marina and Mrs. Dickson was_ broadcast in 1ZB’s Sunday night programme Radio Revue. (Photo on page 249.