1YA NOTES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 28, 27 January 1928, Page 7

1YA NOTES

With piano and banjo, the Morton Duo will entertain at 1YA on Tuesday. A jazz medley and popular selections will be played. Singing with Madame Ainsley aud Miss Marjorie Fair next ‘tuesday will be Mr. Robert Peter and Mr. M. Ballance. Some favourite old songs will be sung, and there will also be a scene from ‘aust.’ On Wednesday the Hazell-Sutherland Duo will make its first appearance at 1VYA. Miss Hazell isan Australian of note, and Mr. rank Sutherland is one of the most popular baritones in Auckland. The duo’s items on Wednesday evening will intersperse the items given by the Municipal Band at its concert in Albert Park, Besides duets, solos will be sung. The Waitakere Ranges, to which Auckland looks with thirsty and longing eyes when the dry, hot summers are in full swing, will be the subject of a talk by Mr. Headlam Greenhow on Thursday. Auckland derives its water supply from the Waitakere Ranges, and the locality, being of high altitude and close to the city, is a popular resort. Mr. Curzon Rich, a fine entertainer at the piano, will give a sketch, ‘Songs aud Singers," with a monologue, "Baby’s Asleep." These two turns at 1YA on Thursday are sure to please listeners. There are a Jot of good songs to be sung at LYA on Thursday by Miss Mina Caldow, Miss Ormiston, Mr. Clinton Williams, and Mr. Birrell O'Malley They comprise popular and favourite songs. Commencing their prograyime with "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny," the Waiata Quartet sings its way through a Jong and varied entertainment on Friday evening. The personnel of the quartet is: Mrs. C. ‘Towsey, Miss lL. Solomon, Mr. James Simpson and Mr. D. Wrathall. Duets and solos will be sung as well as quartets. Two specially fine items on Friday should he solos by Mrs. ‘owsey, for whom Miss Lalla Hemus will — play violin obligatos. These solos will be "Tilegie’? (Massenet) and ‘When All Was Young" (‘‘Tatst’’), Mr. J, F. Montague is staging very attractive radio turns at 1YA. Next Friday one of his items will be a one-act play, a ‘‘Change of Mind," in which his associate will be the talented Miss Lynda Mur: phy. Mr. Moztague will also give "The Soldier’s Cards," and that fine piece, ‘"‘Not Understood," by the New Zealand poet, Tom Bracken. Miss Murphy will also be heard in "Musical Sketches." Saturday’s concert will be a regular "Saturday Nighter," provided by the Lyric ‘Trio and Miss Alma McGruer, Ingall’s Hawaiians, and Mr. Claude Howley’s dance orchestra, ‘The Internationals." Following on the broadcast of the service at St. Matthew’s Cathedral, where the Rey. Canon Grant Cowen will be the preacher, the St. Andrew’s Quartet will give a special studio concert, assisted Ly the Bosworth-Hemus-Towsey ‘I'rio.