2YA'S FEATURES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 9, 16 September 1927, Page 7

2YA'S FEATURES

Artists from Wanganui will provide the concert at 2YA on Monday evening. It is doubtful if a more brilliant combination could be got together on any concert platform. All have won Dominion-wide honours in competitions and should broadcast well. Madame ‘Lillian Spillane, who heads the Wanganni talent, is a very successful teacher of singing. She and her husband are vocalists of outstanding merit, and both take part in any amateur theatrical ‘enterprise (dramatic,

comedy, or musical opera), They are leading entertainers in New Zealand’s fifth city. A further instalment of Mr. Gordon Burt’s story of the British Arctic Kxpedition, 1125, will be given at 2YA on Tuesday. The ladies are being well catered for in the afternoon sessions. ‘Lalks on electricity in the home, gas cooking, and fashions are now current, and a series on gardening will shortly be added. Miss Joan Lowry, who is to sing at 2YA on ‘Tuesday, comes from Otaki. She is a very sweet singer. At Christchurch she won a championship as soprano vocalist. Miss Mavis Castle, a member of the well-known family of singers, will also be hieard on Tuesday, She has a

niezz0-soprano voice of very pleasing quality. Also singing on Tuesday is Mr. Geo. Wilkinson, a mewcomer_ to radio. He has a good baritone voice. Miss Lilla Hill, ’cellist, is making her second appearance. She is associated with the city’s leading orchestral or-' ganisatiuns. Mr. Arthur Coe, tenor, is soloist for the Commercial Travellers’ Choir, Harmonic Society, and Orpheus Society, as well as being a member of the talented Aeolian Male Quartet. "The Acolian Male Voice Quartet, comprising Mr. B. Mayall (first tenor), Mr. A. Coe (second tenor), Mr. W.

Church (first bass), and Mr. D. Hall (second bass) is a combination well known to Wellington audiences. ‘They have appeared with marked success on concert platforms, notably in association with the Commercial ‘Travellers’ | Choir, and are recognised as one of the leading qitartets in Wellington, On Thursday the band of the Ist Battalion, Wellington Regiment, will provide the bulk of the programme. Amongst individual performers, Mr. Wilbur Davies, baritone, is new to radio. On audition he proved himself a very pleasing singer. Miss Ethel Wells, contralto, is the possessor of a well modulated voice of good range. Miss Mavis Castle, mezzo-soprano, is a well-known Wellington vocalist, deservedly popular with concert audiences, Lieut, B. J. Shardlow, conductor of the band of the Ist Wellington

Regiment, is a cornetist of .champion rank, and his artistry is familiar to listeners-in. "The Cuckoo’? will be the sub: ject of Mr. Johannes Andersen's talks on Thursday. Many listeners are very interested in this series on _ eur native birds, } Mr. Johannes Andersen is libarian of the ‘Turnbull Library, and is an acknowledged authority on bird life, and, indeed, natural history generally, For the past five vears he has contributed the "Natural History" section of the School Journal. He is the editor of ‘rhe Transactions of the New Zealand Institute,’"? and, with Mr. Elsdon Best, editor.of "The Polynesian Journal.’" Singers on Friday include Madam Lola Maries, soprano, who is an experienced concert -rtist. Miss Madge McKenzie, a sweet singer with a delightful voice, is making her firs! appearance ‘‘on the air.’ M1. and Mrs. Porter, exponents of the steel guitar and ukulele, will entertain with solos and duets, and for their first appearance in radio they have chosen numbers illustrative of tlic traditional melodies of Hawaii. Little Miss Phyllis Andrews, only 8 years of age, daughter of that talented entertainer at the piano, Mr. Prank Andrews, will make her fitst appearance at 2YA on Saturday night. She has appeared with marked success at various concerts in and around Wellingon. Another Saturday dance night, with the music provided by Allan’s Orchestra, has been arranged for 2¥A next week-end. Some very en: teitaiaing items will infersperse the dances.