"BOHEMIAN GIRL" AT 1YA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 32, 24 February 1928, Page 5

"BOHEMIAN GIRL" AT 1YA

The Madame Irene Ainsley puartet will next Tuesday take *‘The Bohemian Girl" for theix weekly presentation of opera. ‘This is now a. recognised feature of Tuesday entertainments, and is eagerly looked forward to, A number of the well-known airs of Balfe’s exceptionally popular work will be sung. ‘The cast will be:Arline coijesccepecseceeeecesee cere eMrs. Parry Gipsy Queen ......Madame Irene Ainsley Thaddeus ......... Mr. Arthur Ripley The Count ........... Mr W, Brough Apatt from the scene and excerpts from ‘Ihe Bohemian Girl,’ an exceptional programme has been arranged. The vocalists of the Madame Irene Ainsley Quartet will be singing, the Bosworth-Hemus-Towsey Trio will contribute some of their most charming music, while Mr. Dan. Flood will pto- | vide humour. The weekly Wednesday band concert in Albert Park will be relayed by 1YA. Interspersing the selections by the Municipal Band will be items by the Hazell-Sutherland Duo. Miss Mina Caldow, Miss Lola Solomon, Mr. Barry Coney, and Mr. Birrell O'Malley are among the singers for the studio entertainment on Thursday. The programme will be of a very briglit description.’ ‘The Snappy Three have again new and fresh songs for the evening.

A talk on ‘Great Authors’’. will be given by Mr. Culford Bell on Thursday evening. Miss Myra Monk and Mr. M. Ballance will be heard in solos and duets at 1YA on Friday. One item to be sung by the duo will be the Church Scene from ‘Faust.’ Mr. J. F, Montague will again demonstrate his versatility as an elocutionist on Friday evening. His items will be ‘Shakespeare; A Tribute,’ an Irish sketch, and a musical recital entitled "That Old Swetheart.’’ Mr. Clyde Howley, well-known as the conductor of the Internationals at the Dixieland Cabaret, will, with his piano, be a radio entertainer on Friday. His items will include ‘‘Mother’s Rosary of Love,’’ a fox-trot medley, and a humorous monologue, The Bohemian Trio have some songs of a popular nature for Friday evening, Mr. Hal McLennan, the well-known Auckland flautist, will be playing at IVA on Friday. Mendelssohin’s beautiful "On, | Wings of Song’? will be sung as a quartet by the Lyric Four on Saturday evening. Another quartet will be ‘Fireside Melodies." There will also be a trio, taken from ‘Faust.’ sung by Miss A. McGruer and Messrs, Ripley and Thomas, "Cloze Props’ and ‘‘Drinking Song" are two solos to be rendered by Mr. Ernest Drake, bass.. Mr. Richards will sing "The Secret’ and §*Parted,"’ and Mr. Ripley "Molly Bawn." Soprano solos to be sung hy Miss McGruer will be "‘Carmena" and "Prince Charming." Mr. A. McElwain, the Saturday evening humorist of 1YA, will have two very diverting items for the next occasion, namely, "The 11.69 Express" and "The Hinglishman." ‘A sacred concert will follow the broadcast of the St. Andrew’s Church service on Sunday evening, the wellknown St. Andrew’s Quartet and the Bosworth-Hemus-Towsey Trio being the artists.