Rugby Inquest

New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 534, 16 September 1949, Page 21

Rugby Inquest

[-OR one reason or another Monday is not, to a good many people, the pleasantest day of the week. And lately, to keen followers of the All Blacks’ tour in South Africa, it has been little short of disastrous, for what New Zealander could start the week well with so joyless a conversational topic? Just why the news from South Africa has not been happier, listeners to the four ZB stations and 2ZA may hear this Sunday, September: 18, at 6.0 p.m., when Mark Nicholls and Ian Harvey will hold an inquest on the tour. Rugby followers do not need to be told who ‘Mark Nicholls is, but for the less informed, he was vice-captain of the New Zealand team which toured South Africa in 1928, and he represented New Zealand on 51 occasions between 1921 and 1930. Through accurate kicking and general good play, he became known in his day as the "brains of the All Blacks." Ian Harvey, too, has an impressive football record. He was lock forward for Wairarapa and represented New Zealand in 1924 in England, in 1926 in Australia, and in 1928 in South Africa, * * * UNS and Beethoven were first given affinity in time and place by Myra Hess who, in the early days of the war, thought up a plan for lunch-time concerts. The first recitals were held in the dome of-London’s National Gallery, but when the blitz started, the airraid shelter became the concert hall. A shilling was the price of admission, and by October, 1940, more than £4,000 had been distributed among the performers, many of whom were in very poor financial circumstances through the war. Audiences munched while great artists performed, aiding the digestion and improving the mind, Listeners to 3ZB on Monday, September 26, at 3.45 p.m., will hear recordings of Myra Hess at the piano. Eg * 2 STATION 3ZB has a new show which it calls Musiquiz, designed to recall to listeners songs that were popular some years ago. It will start on Tuesday, September 27, at 7.45 p.m., and will be compéred by B. H. Salkeld and S. Devore, with the latter supplying the musical illustrations. | * %* * HEN Dr. Dale Trendall, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Sydney, visited Dunedin recently, he spent some time cataloguing the collection of Greek vases at the Otago Museum so that they could be included in the Australian-New Zealand volume of the Corpus Vasorium. During his stay he was interviewed for 4ZB by Jessie McLennan. The talk was recorded and broadcast later in the Women’s Hour session.