3YA NOTES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 33, 2 March 1928, Page 5

3YA NOTES

The instrumentalists for Monday} evening at 3YA will be the band of the First Canterbury Regiment.. A good programme has been arranged. | A feature of the programme on Monday evening will be a new male voice combination. Solos and duets by Messrs. Charles and Maurice Lawrence aud Mr, Alfred Lovett Mr, Charles Lawrence possesses a fine baritone voice, Mr. Alfred Lovett being a tenor, while Mr. Maurice Lawrence sings songs at the piano as well as sharing in duets. Miss Marjory Miller, A.T.C.L., will sing the soprano solos "Until," "Down Here," and "She is far from the Land." Gilbert’s famous ‘Yarn of the Nancy Rell" will be one of the humorous items to be recited by Mr. Hiram Dunford on Monday evening. And there will be "The Groom’s Story" (the tale of a horse and a motor-car). Songs by Lohr will form the vocal portion of the musical programine for‘ 3YA on Wednesday, when the Singers will be Miss Nellie Lowe, Miss Mary Shaw, L.R.A.M., and Mr. A. G. Thompson (the other member of the Duicet Quartet, Mr. T. G. Rogers, being away on a holiday). Lohr’s works include some of our prettiest songs. Mr. J. R. Lester, the well-known teacher of elocution, has two items which will amuse listeners on Wednesday evening. Instrumental music of contrasting types will be played on Wednesday evening by the Broadcasting Trio, Miss Irene Morris (violin), and Mr. Arthur Hedgson (banjolin). Songs of the sea will be sung by the Melodious Four on Friday evening. Nautical ditties are very popular at the present time, and the miscellaneous collection which will be presented on Friday will provide a most entertaining evening. The choruses should be distinctly good, while splendid singing may be expected of the solos by Miss Trances, Miss Belle Renaut, Mr. Russell Sumner and Mr. T. D. Williams. ‘‘Hints to Poultry Keepers" may sound like the title of a lecture to devotees of the feathered game, but as it is to come from Mr James Lawrenson the chances are that it is meant to be more entertaining than instructive. Another of Mr. Lawrenson’s humorous efforts will be Lawson’s ‘‘Ovhara, J.P.,’? a story of country life in Australia. A new minstrel combination will appear at 3YA on Saturday evening, included in their repertoire being some negro melodies. The members of the party. which will be known as the Avonian, Minstrels, are Messrs. Fi. Rogers, J. Filer, F. Olds, and D. Clapperton. Thev will submit a varied kind of pro: gramme, including musical mono: logues from Mr. Olds. Mr. P. Cole will be another artist for Saturday evening, He is a mouthorgan exponent and will play popular melodies. Other contributors to the programme on Saturday evening will be Mrs. P. S. Lawrence (singer of popular songs), Mr. Svdney Comfort (humour), and Miss Elaine Moody’s Hawaiian Trio, The Rev. Lionel Fletcher, of the Beresford Street Congregational Church, Auckland, who claims the honour of being the first minister to broadcast in New Zealand, is to be ‘fon the air’ in Christchurch on March 11. In Auckland the Rev. Fletcher is Uncle Leo,

in to 1LYA. A studio concert will follow the church service on Sunday when an excellent programme has been arranged. Mr. Ad, R. ‘Thompson (tenor), who will sing "Comfort Ye, my People," "My Task," and "Star of Bethlehem," was an artist who toured with J. C. Williamson Companies, but who is now a resident in Christchurch. Another’new artist to radio will be Mr. A. G. Brown: {baritone!. Other artists will be Miss Bila Skurr (suprano), Miss Maud K. Stout (pianoforte), and Mr. Fred Fox (cornetist). beloved of all the children wlio listen