Saturday, December 27

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 443, 19 December 1947, Page 44

Saturday, December 27

UWA 6. 0,7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS 8.10 Progress Results of Chess Championships 8. 0 In Holiday Mood ~~ Devotions: Mr. J. H, Man10.20 For My Lady: Mendelssohn and his Music 11. 0 Auckland Trotting Club: Meeting at Alexandra Park 72. 0 Lunch Music 2..0 p.m. Rhythm in Relays 3.30 Sports Results 5. 0 Children’s Hour 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7.0 Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME The National Symphony Orches tra "The Barber of Seville" Over ture Rossin ns 7.389 . Dora Labette (soprano), Muriel Brunskill (contralto), Hubert Eisdell (tenor) and Harold Williams (baritone) Song Cycle "In a Persian Garden" Lehmann 8149 LL. D. Austin (pianist) Duetto Valse Triste Mazurka Etude Austin | 8.31 BBC Chorus | This Have I Done for my True Love | Wassail Song Holst 8.39 London Symphony Orchestra | "L’Arlesienne" Suite No. 2 Bizet. 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 "Stand Easy": Cheerful Charlie Chester and his Gang 10. 0 Sports Summary 40.40 Masters in Lighter Mood 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 41.20 Close down W/72> AUCKLAND 880 ke. 341 m. 5. Op.m. Symphony Hour 6. 0 Tea Dance 6.30 Tunes of the Times 7.0 #£After Dinner Music 8. 0 Radio Theatre: "The Man Who Broke Bingo" 8.30 Spotlight on Music 9.0 Claude Debussy, a programme of the- man and his Music 45 The Madrigalists: Vocal Music of the Renaissance 10.10 Music of India and the Far East 10.30 Close down 1250 kc. 240 m, 411. Oa.m. Morning Variety 12.0 Melody Fair 5.30 p.m. Salon Music 6. 0 Music for the Piano 6.30 Songs from the Shows 7. 0 # ‘The Light Orchestra (Studio Presentation) 7.30 Evening Star: Nelson Eddy 7.45 "Presh..Heir" 8. 0 Dancing Time 11. 0 Close down Y r nop H ONS WELLINGTON It 570 ke. 526 m. 6. 0,7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWs 8.10 Progress Results of Chess Championships 9. 0 Music for the Bandsman 9.30 Local Weather Conditions ~ 9.32 Paul Robeson (bass) 9.40 Music While You Work 10.40 Devotional Service 10.25 ulet Interlude 10.28-10.30 Time Signals 10.40 For My Lady: "The White ~ Cockade" (A New Feature)’

11.0 Plunket Shield Cricket: Wellington v, Otago commentaries during the day, Auckland y. Canterbury Results 12. O Lunch Music 2.0p.m. Saturday Afternoon Matinee 5. 0 Children’s Hour: "The Scarlet Aeroplane," by Aunt Jane, "The. First Friend,’? Uncle Ernest. with his Songs 5.45 Dinner Music 6. 0 Plunket Shield Cricket: Stumps score ; 6.30 LONDON NEWS

6.40 Plunket Shield Cricket: Stumps scores Wellington v. Otago, Auckland v. Canterbury 7. 0 Sports Results 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME "In Reserve" 8. 0 Variety Magazine (BBC Programme) 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 " "On the Sweet Side’ 10. 0 Sports Summary 10.10 Make Believe Ballroom Time 10.40 The Hit Kit of Popular Songs and Music 411.0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down QVES Wg 8.30 Tommy Handley Again 3. O p.m. Light Music 5. 0 Sweet Rhythm 5.30 Tea. Dance 6. 0 Songs for Sale i 6.30 Serenade to the Stars (BBC Production) 6.45 Music of Manhattan 7. 0 The Jumping Jacks 7.156 "Sweet. and Lovely" 7.45 The Masqueraders 8. 0 Classical Music: Franck The Covent Garden Royal Opera Orchestra, conducted by Eugene .Goossens The Accursed Hunter 7.30 Baritones and Basses Cesar

8.12. Myra Hess (piano), with the City of Birmingham Orchestra, conducted by Basil Cameron Symphonic Variations 8.28 Hephzibah and Yehudi Menuhin Sonata in A 9. 0 Germaine Martinelli (soprano) Mater Dolorosa ("The Beatitudes’’) 9. 4 Edouard Commette (organ Piece Heroique 9.12 ‘The Columbia Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Howard Barlow Symphonic Poem: Les Eolides 9.22 The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham Symphony in D Minor 10. 0 Music in the Tanner Manner 10.30 Close down

ON7 WELLINGTON 990 kc. 303 m. 7. Op.m. "You Asked For it" ‘ny 0 B ce aes District Weather ep ‘donk 22S7 NEW PLYMOUTH | 810 ke. 370m. 6.30 p.m. An Hour for the Children: Favourite Fairy Tales 7.30 Sports session 8. 0 Concert Session 8.30 "Cappy Ricks" 8.42 Concert Programme 10. 0 Close down 4H NAPIER 750 ke. 395m, 7. 0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast session 8.10 Progress Results of Chess Championships 9. 0 Morning Programme 11.15 "Grand Hotel" * Q Lunch Music Op.m. Afternoon Variety & 0 Children’s Hour: Aunt 5.30 Tea Dance 5.45 Accordiana 6. 0 Dinner Music 6.15 Race Results 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Station Announcements After Dinner Music 7.15 Sports Results 7.30 Evening Programme Saturday Night Variety; Latest record releases

8.30 "ITMA’’. 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Romance in Rhythm; Sweet Dance Music 10.16 District Sports Roundup 10.30 Close down BYR aE 920 ke. 327m. 7. 0 p.m. Listeners’ Own Session 7.20 Local Sports Results 8.30 ‘Stand Easy" (BBC Programme) 9.0 The Royal Artillery String Orchestra 910 "Fresh Heir" | 9.32 Light Recitals: Jimmy Leach and his New Organolians, Mordy Bauman (vocal), and Victor Young’s Orchestra 10. 0 Close down

22) GISBORNE = 980 ke. 306 m. 7. Op.m. Light Orchestral 7.16 Local Sporting Results 7.32 "Coronets of England" 8. 0 Marek Weber Orchestra Tales from the Orient 8.8 Richard Tauber 8.20 "Stand Easy": Charlie Chester and his Crazy Gang 9.4 Palace of Varieties 9.30 Dance Music 10. 0 Close down \V/ CHRISTCHURCH 3 720 ke, 416 m. 6. 0,7.0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS 7.58 Canterbury Weather Forecast 8.10 Progress Results of Chess Championships 9. 0 ‘Dusting the Shelves" 9.30 Rollicking Songs 9.45 Hawaiian Rhythm 410. 0 Four Hands in Harmony 1010 For My. Lady: Antony Arensky, Composer 10.30 Devotional Service 10.45 Strictly Instrumental 11. 0 English Comedians 41.46 Plunket Shield . Cricket: Canterbury v. Auckland, further commentaries at 12.45, 2.30, $.30, 4.45, and 5.45 411.30 Tunes of the Times 12. O* Lunch Music 2. Op.m. Bright Music 4.30 Sports Results Saturday Siesta 5. 0 Children’s session: "Robin Hood and the Merry’ Old Woman," and "Mystery Island" 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Local News Service 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME Meredith Willson and his Concert Orchestra American Caprice Gould American Humoresque Romberg 7.39 JEAN SCRIMSHAW (soprano) Estrellita Ponce By the Bend of the River : Edwards Song of the Rose Bottero Sweethearts Herbert (Presented from the Studio) 7.50 The Norman Cloutier Orchestra and the Allan Roth Orchestra 8.0 "The Corsican Brothers" 8.26 "Stand Easy," with Cheerful Charlie Chester and his Crazy Gang The Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra Dance of the Tumblers Finck 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Echoes of Variety : 10. O District Sports Summary 10.16 Modern Dance Music 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down

S\/(L, cunistonuRcH 1200 ke. 5. 0 p.m, Tunes for the call 6. 0 Concert Time: Featurin Symphonic Marches : 7.0 Musical What’s What 7AS Five Bright Tunes 7.30 "How Green Was M¥# Valley" : 7.43 The Orchestre Raymonde The Horse Guards Haydn-Woog John Charles Thomas Take Me Back to My Boots and Saddle Powell 7.49 Charlie Kunz, Bing Crosby 7.55 The Orchestre Raymonde The Runaway Rockinghorse whité 8. 0 Symphonic Programme The Indianapolis Symphony. or. chestra conducted by Fabie Sevitsky Overture to the School fox Scandal The NBG Symphony Orchestrg conducted by Toscanini Adagio for Strings The Philadelphia Orchestra cons ducted by Eugene Ormandy Essay for Orchestra Barbe# 8.23 Maurice Gendron (’cello) and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Kar] Rankl Concerto in B Minor, Op. 104 Dvorak ' 9. 0 ‘The Halle Orchestra con« _ ducted by John Barbirolli | A Shropshire Lad Rhapsody Butterworth Threnody for a Soldier Killed in Action Heming-Coailins 9.145 The Boston Symphony Ore chestra conducted by Serg@ Koussevitsky Symphony No, 8 in F, Op, 93 9.40 The Berlin Philharmonig Orchestra conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler Prelude to "Parsifal’" Wagneg 9.52 The London Philharmont Orchestra conducted by §& Thomas Beecham Overture to "The Mastersin ers of Nuremburg" Wagn 10. 0 Humour and Harmony 10.30 Close down (Sz Shermoure 7. 0,8.0a.m. LONDON NEWS . 8.10 Progress Results of Ches§ og pace 9. 0 Favourites from Serioug Music 915 Artie Shaw 9.30 Personality Parade 10.30 Chorus Time 10.46 Hawaii Cails 11. 0 Music for ak fags 12. 0 Lunch Music 2. O0p.m. The Saturday Aftems noon Matinee 3. 0 Feature Time 4 Sports Summary 5. G@ Children’s Hour: Aunt Pag 6.30 Kookaburra _ Stories: "Skip 3 ge the Rain Fairy" 5.45 n the Beat 6. 0 "The Spoilers" 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7. 0 Sports Summary 7.30 Evening Programme Feature Time 8. 0 "Enter a Murderer" © 8.24 Alfredo Beano and hig Salon Orchestra The Knave of Diamonds Steel Love in Idleness Macb 8.30 Serenade : 9.0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 The Phil Green Programm@ with Dolores Leslie Dougl Benny Lee, The Aristocrats, an The Concert eeuae * ioe estra 10. 0 Sports Summ 10.10 The Night Discs 10.30 Close down » — LISTENERS’ SU nee in advance at any Office: Twelve months, 7 ae Bey ogg cy N ys your Ne to reserve a copy of TH

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GINZ/a\ DUNEDIN 790 ke. 380 m. 6. 0,7.0,8.0a.m, LONDON NEWS 8.10 Progress Results of Chess Championships 9. 0 Tunes of the Times 9.15 From the Jerome Kern Shows 9.30 Local Weather Conditions 9.31 Music While You Work 70.20 Devotional Service 10.40 For My Lady: ‘The Vagabonds" 41. 0 Music and Nature Dunedin Jockey Club: Meeting at Wingatui , 411.15 Songs of the Islands 41.30 The Symphony of Music | 412. © Sports Announcements Lunch Music’ 2. Op.m. Local Weather Conditions ; ie Saturday Matinee 4.46 Sports Summary 5. 0 ‘Children’s Hour | 6.45 Dinner Music 6. 0 Late Sports Results 6.30 LONDON NEWS 7,2 Sports.Summary No, 2 7.30 EVENING PROGRAMME Music for Pleasure "Nutcracker" Suite Tchaikovski 8. 0 The story and music of Sigmund Romberg > 8.30 "Carry On, Clem Dawe"

SE 9. 0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.30 Old Time Dance Music by Ted Andrews and _ Revellers Dance Band and Piper A. McMillan 70. 0 Sports Summary No, 3 40. 10 Old Time Dance Music (continued) 11. 0 LONDON NEWS 11.20 Close down LISTENERS’ SUBSCRIPTIONS-Paid in advance at any Money Order Office: Twelve months, 12/-; © six months, 6/-. For the holidays ask your Newsagent to reserve a copy of THE LISTENER for you.

ANV{O) DUNEDIN 1140 ke. 263 m. 5. Op.m, Saturday "Proms" 6. 0 Dance Music 6.30 Songs of the West 6.45 Xavier Cugat Xnd his Orchestra > PE Popular Parade 7.30 "Hopalong- Cassidy" 7.45 Harmony and Humour 8.15 Sammy Kaye’s Song Parade 8.30 "The White Cockade" | 9.0 Classical Music Leopold Stokowski and = the Philadelphia Orchestra Overture in D Minor Handel, trans. Stokowski

a 9. 7 Viadimir Horowitz (piano) Sonata No. 1 in E Flat Haydn 9.25 Yella Pessl (harpsichord), Frances Blaisdell (flute) and William: Kroll (violin) with String Orchestra Concerto in A Minor Bach 9.47 Constant Lambert and the Halle Orchestra .Comus Ballet Suite Purcell, arr. Lambert 10. 6 Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia. Orchestra Divertimento No. 10 in F, for Strings -and Two _ Horns, K.247 Mozart 10.30 Close down "lN7 72 INVERCARGILL 680 kc. 441 m. 7. 0, 8.0 a.m. LONDON NEWS Breakfast Session 8.10 Progress Results of Chess Championships 9. 0 "Homestead on the Rise" 9.15 Variety Round-up 10. O Devotional Service 10.15 In Quiet Mood 10.30 . Health in the Home; "Epilepsy" 10.33 "Bright Horizon" 11. 0 "Girl of the Ballet" 11.24 Primo Scala’s Accordion Band 11.30 Hollywood Spotlight 11.42 Songs’ of the Pratrie 12. 0 Lunch Music 2.0 p.m. Radio Matinee 4.0 + The Floor Show oe Children’s Hour; "The Invincible Armada" -20 Music for the Tea Hour fs) Hawaiian Harmonies 10. Crosby Time .30 LONDON NEWS 0 To-day’s Sports Results

7.30 Old Time Music Hall 8. 0 Tunes You Used to Dan To, with Victor Silvester. an his Orchestra 8.30 Musical Comedy Theatre 9.0 Overseas and N.Z. News 9.15 Music Hath Charms 10. O District Sports Summary 10.10 Tunes of the Times 10.30 Close down

Saturday. December 27

Local Weather Forecast from ZB’s: 7.32 am. 1.0 p.m, 9.30 p.m. 1ZB 6. O0a.m. Morning 8.15 Late Sports Preview 8.45 Auckland District Weather Forecast Drive Safely 9. 0 Sports Preview 9.45 We Travel the Friendly Road with the Traveller 10. 0 Tops in Tunes 10.15 Variety Programme 11.30 Sports Postponements 12. 0 Music and Sports Flashes 12.30 p.m. Sports Postponements Gardening session AUCKLAND 1070 ke. 280 m. Melodies for a Leisure 1.30 1ZB Happiness Club (Joan) 2.0 Priority Parade 2.30 Musical Variety 3.15 Gems from Hawaii 3.30 From the Variety Stage 4.16 The Papakura Programme 4.30 Sports Results Summary: Milestone Club 5. 0 The Sunbeam session 5.30 Junior Jury EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Reserved 6.15 Fairy Tales: The Boy Who Called Wolf 6.30 Great Days in Sport 6.45 Sports Results 7.0 Please Pay for Me 7.30 Empress of Destiny 7.45 Romance of Famous Jewels: Napoleon and Orloff Diamond 8. 0 The Challenge of the Cities 8.30 What’s New in Records 8. The Pace That Kills 9. 0 Doctor Mac 9.15 Hits of the Day 10..0 nal Quiz 10.15 Serenade in Rhythm 10.30 Famous Dance Bands: Harry Roy 11. 0 Dance Little Lady 11 Dance Music Mid12. ee Close down

27B WELLINGTON 1180: ke. 265 m. 6. 0 a.m. Breakfast Session 8.15 Late Sports News 8.45 Drive Safely 9.45 Andrews Sisters 10. 0 Gardening Session 10.15 Housewives’ Session (Marjorie) 10.30 ies Recordings 11. os Chet diet Belles: Dinah Sho 11 "Speris Sessions, cancellations, and postponements Sports Results throughout the afternoon include races at New Plymouth, Awapuni, and Wingatui, trots at Westport, Winton, and Epsom. Local cricket and softball 12.30 p.m. Cancellations and Postponements 1.45 Say it With Music 2. 0 The Jesters 2.15 Sports Summary 2.30 Pinky Tomlin and Primo Scala’s Accordion Band a 3. 0 The Orchestras of Tex Beneke and Roy Fox ‘ 3.45 Second Sports Summary 4.30 Joe Reichman (piano) 5. 0 Dick Todd 5.16 News from the Zoo EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Reserved 6.15 Fairy Tales: Beauty and Beast 6.30 Tunes of the Times 6.45 Sports Results (George Edwards) Please Play for Me 7.30 Empress of Destiny 7.45 The Romance of Famous Jewels: The Jonker Diamond 8. 0 Challenge of the Cities 8.30 What’s New in Records 8.45 Masters of Song 9. 1 Doctor Mac 9.15 Paul Fenoulthet’s Orchestra 9.30 Vera Lynn and Tony Martin , 9.45 Ivor Moreton and Dave K aye 40. 0 Music That Will Live 40.30 There Ain’t No Fairies 41. 0 Cabaret of the Air 12. 0 Close down

3ZB CHRISTCHURCH 1430 ke. 210 m. 6. 0 am. Break o’ Day Music 7. 0 Shower Serenades 8. 0 Breakfast Club 8.15 Late Sports News 8.45 Drive Safely 9. C Bachelor Girl Session (Paula) 9.45 Nitwit Network 10. 0 Bevy of British Dance Bands s 10.15 Movie Magazine 10.30 Striking a New Note 10.45 Music at Their Finger Tips: Frankie Carle 11..0 Oscar Natzke 11.15 Kings of Corn: The West End Players 11.30 For the Week-end Gardener 12. 0 Lunchtime Fare 12.15 p.m. Vegetable Growing Screen Snapshots Family Favourites Wanderers of the Hills At Your Service Let the Bands Play Shepherds Pie Fred Feibel Children’s Garden Circje Children’s Session Kiddies Concert EVENING PROGRAMME Reserved Fairy Tales: Three Little CBS oohouse 1 1 1 2 2 3 4 4 4 5 — 2aoO 2 a a Let’s Get Together Final Sports Results ‘Please Play for Me Empress of Destiny Mrs. Parkington Challenge of the Cities What’s New In Records Orchestral Interlude Doctor Mac Armchair Corner Thanks for the Song Evergreens of 1939 Famous Dance Bands Beryl Davis Sings Dancing Time Close down SAALOOVPBONANNAD PH ooo°8’ BY oRSORS R8a0°* = = lo} = N fo} Trade names appearing in Com mercial Division programmes are published by arrangement

4ZB DUNEDIN 1310 k.c. 229 m 6. Oa.m. London News 6. 5 Start ihe Day Right 6.30 Morning Meditation : PR Breakfast Parade 7.35 Morning Star 8. 0 Bright and Early 8.45 Drive Safely 9.45 Steffanni and Silver gongsters 10. © Music at the Console 10.30 Sol Hoopii and his Novelty Hawaiian Orchestra 11. 0 Rotorua Maori 2nd N.Z.E.F. Band 11.30 Songs of the Sea 12. 0 Mid-day Melody Menu Choir and 1. Op.m. Of Interest to Men 1.15 Eileen Joyce (piano) 1.30 Sing a Song of the Weather 2.0 Tango Time with Marek Weber 2.15 Sports Summary 2.30 30 Minutes of Film Fav‘ourites ee Popular Melodies with Debroy Somers 3.15 Sports Summary 3.30 South Sea Serenades 4.0 Lauritz Melchior, Jack Hylton’s Orchestra and the Mills Brothers 4.40 Sports Summary 5. 0 The Voice of Youth 515 4ZB Radio Players 5.45 Gil Dech EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Reserved 6.15 Fairy Tales 6.30 Mr. Meredith Walks Out 6.45 Sports Results of the Day (Bernie McConnell) 7. 0 Please Play for Me 7.30 Empress of Destiny 8. 0 Challenge of the Cities 8.30 What’s New in Records 8.45 Out of the Night 9. 0 Doctor Mac 9.15 Celebrity Spotlight: Kirsten 9.30 ; Flagstad (soprano) Music of the Movies 10. 0 Band Wagon 10.30 and 11.15 Town Hall Dance 11.45 At Close of Day 12. 0 Close down

A a imei Local Weather Forecast from ZB’s: 7.32 am. 1.0 p.m., 9.30 p.m. 27, PALMERSTON N' t 1400 ke. 214 mm 7. Oa.m. Breakfast Session 7.15 Dominion Weather Forecas§ 8. 0 Saturday Specials 8.15 Sports Preview 8.30 Drive Safely Talk 8. 0 Good Morning Request Sese 9 45 Dinah Shore 10. 0 Workers’ Playtime 10.30 Tenor Time 11. 0 Marek Weber’s Orchestra 11.15 The Jesters 11.30 Sports Cancellations 411.35 Strictly Instrumental 11.45 Laugh with Cicely Courte neidge 12.15 p.m. Sports Summarle@ Every. Half-hour 12.30 Dominion Weather Foreces$ Gardening Session 2.-@ On Parade 2.16, Song Spinners 2.45 Gil Dech 3. 0 In Reminiscent Mood 3.30 Stars in the Arvernoons _ Danny Malane and doan mond 3.45 Music of Our Time 4.0 Orchestral Miscellany 4.30 Complete Sports Summary 4.45 Sunset Round-up 5. © Fombombo, the Last of the Dragons 5.15 Spotlight 5.30 Long, Lang Ago: The Softe hearted Tree : 5.45 Variety Parade EVENING PROGRAMME 6. 0 Saturday Serenade 6.15 Aid for Britain 6.30 Two Band Jamboree: Eddl@ Duchin, Ronnie Munro 6.45. Sports Results 7. 0» Twilight Time 7.15 if You Please, Mr. Parkig@ 7.45 Record Roundabout 8. 0 Challenge of the Cities 8.30 Harvest of Stars 8.45 Great Days in Sport (final broadcast) ‘ 9. 0 Doctor Mac 9.15 The Old Songs 9.32 Restful Music 9.45 Our Feature Band 10. 0 Close down

At 11 o’clock this morning 3ZB turns the spotlight on Oscar Natzke in a fifteenminute session.