ITEMS FROM THE ZB’s

New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 439, 21 November 1947, Page 31

ITEMS FROM THE ZB’s

DONOVAN JOYCE productions gained success in the recently-con-cluded Academy Award _ Scriptures’ Competition conducted by the Australian Federation of Commercial Broadcasting Stations. The award for the best single-episode programme for 1946 went to Joyce for his series Passing Parade. The award for the best serial went to another Melbourne script-writer, Eric Haydon, who wrote The Sparrows of London. Passing Parade, which is in its third year of production, will have been responsible for 91 episodes heard from Station 1ZB up to December 3, with two less in each case from the other ZB stations. It is heard on Wednesdays at 9.0 p.m. from 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB, 4ZB, and 2ZA. A start has been made by Joyce on a new series of 78 episodes. * * TATION 1ZB reports that its Sunday request session announcer, Hilton Porter, receives an ‘average of 700 letters a month, but to comply with all the requests made therein is, of course, impossible. Dozens of requests are

duplicated, but, even so, a two-hour session cannot accommodate all the favourite itemis desired by listeners. Listeners Were recently asked not to send in any further requests till the existing mail had been covered. But still the requests accumulated, and eventually it was decided to conduct a draw for items to be. played, so that everyone making a request has an equal chance. % * HE contemporary Russian pianist Ania Dorfman, who made her first appearance in America in 1937, will be featured in a recital from 2ZB on Monday, December 1, at 9.45 a.m. Compositions by Schubert and Debussy will be included. * * * HOUGH Rudolf Friml is a recitalist and composer for the piano, his operettas have brought him greatest renown. On Thursday, December 4, at 9.30 a.m., some of Broadway’s stars will be heard in songs from his shows, including Rose Marie and The Vagabond King.