ITEMS FROM THE ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 483, 24 September 1948, Page 13

ITEMS FROM THE ZB's

OBERT INGLIS, who- became a dance band leader, was born in Elgin, Scotland, but when he turned into an exponent of the South American dance idiom, he changed his name to Robert Inglez, which no doubt was good for business. All the’ members of his band are from north of the border, but whether they, too, changed their names, dance music history does not tell. At any rate, the orchestra, while touring Portugal, got away with an arrangement of The Keel Row in "samba" time, capturing the fancy of. the patrons of many of Lisbon’s dance floors. Station 3ZB will feature a programme by the Robert Inglez orchestra at 8.30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 29. x * * HE serial Beloved Rogue which ends at 3ZB on Tuesday, September 28, will be followed by The Hunchback of Ben Ali, the tale of a curse and its dire consequences. To a cottage near Stinling, in Scotland, come Sibylla Hyde and her father. There they meet Captain Angus Rothesay, who invites them to dine at Rothesay Castle, but on the way to the castle they hear a cry echoing through the mists and later find a man lying injured beneath a cliff. The man is horrified when he hears that they are on their way to Rothesay Castle and warns them to keep well away from the place. It is not till Sibyila has fallen in love with the captain and accepted his proposal of marriage that she learns of the mysterious curse and of the queer little hunchback. Nell Stirling plays a dual role in The Hunchback of Ben Ali, which will open on Thursday, September 30, at 8.45 p.m. and be heard thereafter on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the same time. Ee i * A SERIAL feature now being heard from 2ZB (it is broadcast every Friday at 6.30 p.m.) is a radio version of the E. Phillips Oppenheim story The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss. It concerns a wealthy young man who be-

comes so fed up with life that he goes to a doctor to find out what is wrong. The doctor says that he should get a job and work for his own living for a change. Being a man of some spirit in spite of his pampered upbringing, the young millionaire bets the doctor ‘that he can walk out of the room with only five pounds in his pocket and another identity, and make his own way in the world entirely on his own merits. From that point his amazing adventures start and continue throughout several episodes of excitement and romance. The predictable happy @nding is not achieved without’ a great deal of struggle and various entanglements.