Items from the ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 426, 22 August 1947, Page 15

Items from the ZB's

TATION 4ZB_ presents Tusitala, Teller of Tales in a new programme of short stories every Friday at 7.45, p.m, These include Oscar Wilde’s Sphinx Without a Smile, Anton Chekov’s A Work of Art, de Maupassant’s -Happiness, and Mary Coleridge’s The King is Dead. * % * A RADIO adventurer remembered as the Elusive Pimpernel of wartime Europe will entertain listeners again in The Return of First Light Fraser, who will make his broadcast come-back starting on Monday, August 25, at Stations 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB, and 4ZB, at 8.0 pm. ES * * | WRITTEN in 1844, the Dumas story, | The Three Musketeers remains one | of the world’s masterpieces of adventure. A radio version of it, with the cast headed by Haydn James as D’Artagnan, with Mary Ward as Milady de Winter, ‘and with the roles of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, played by Gordon Gow, Keith Eden, and Laon Maybank respectively, will start at 1ZB on Monday, August 25; at 2ZB on Monday, September 8; at 3ZB on Monday, September 22; and at 4ZB on Monday, October 6. Listening time in each case will be 7.15 p.m. * * * OT since the days of Yes, We Have No Bananas has a catch phrase from a song so caught on in America as Open the Door, Richard. The story goes that it is being used for advertising, as a text for sermons, and that it has been heard even in Congress. Yet it is 20 years old, and is the title of a Negro vaudeville act written by John Mason. It tells of a reveller getting home with the milk and, having no key, saree 5 pathetically, "Open the door, Richard, and let me in." The original singer was a Negro comedian, "Dusty" Fletcher. Last. year an American band leader heard the piece and made it into a dance ‘song. Richard will be asked to open the door from 2ZB at 9.30 p.m. on Monday, August 25. : * * * DWARD SILVER (known to New Zealand radio listeners as "Neddo’’) who died recently, conducted sessions ‘from 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB and 4ZB on Saturday mornings. He was associated with -1ZB since the inception of commercial broadcasting. Later he left 1ZB to manage the privately owned radio station, -2ZM Gisborne. When he returned to Auckland last year he organised the Fike aioe New Zealanders’ Theatre Club. % * * -CTATION 1ZB, Auckland, has asked " disteners for their own ideas in the search for something novel in programmes. Like other stations, it frequently receives material for sessions. Sometimes there is just a germ of an idea; sometimes a complete script, or an original suggestion which might lead to a full-scale programme. So now, every Sunday at 8.30, the station presents for 15 minutes You Tell Us, which is precisely what 1ZB_ wants its listeners to do. This session is expected to be a useful guide to listeners’ tastes.