Monday, April 23

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 40, 20 April 1928, Page 8

Monday, April 23

1¥4 AUCKLAND (333 METRES)-MONDAY, APRIL 23, SILENT DAY. 2XYA WELLINGTON (420 METRES)-MONDAY, APRIL 23, 12 noon: Relay of Marlborough Racing Club’s meeting at Trentham (by permission of the club). 6 p.m.: Children’s hour. 7.0: News session, market reports, and sports results. 7.40: Lecturette-Mr. H. C. South, "Books: Grave and Gay." 8.0: Chimes of the General Post Office clock, Wellington. A Shakespearean evening of song, music, and recital, arranged by Mr, Byron Brown, 8.1: Instrumental trio-Studio Trio, "Dance" from incidental music to "Othello" (Coleridge-Taylor).

&5: Vocal quartet-Ariel Singers, "Tell Me Where is Fancy Bred’ from "Merchant of Venice" (Leslie). 8.10; Recital-Mr. J. Watchman, "The Merriment and Wisdom of the First Gravedigger" from "Hamlet." . 8,16: Vocal duet-Messrs. Roy Hill and J. M. Caldwell, "It Was a Lover and His Lass" (Morley). 8.20: Recitai-Miss Dorothea Vautier, "Portia’s Description of Her Suitors" from "Merchant of Venice." 8.23: Mezzo-contralto solo-Miss Ngaire Coster, "The Willow Song" from "Othello." §.28: Dialoguc-Messrs. Byron Brown and Barton Ginger, "Quarrel Scene between Brutus and Cassius" from "Julius Caesar." 8.34: Instrumental trio-Studio Trio, (a) "Children’s Intermezzo"; (b) "Military March" from music incidental to "Othello" (Coleridge-Taylor). 8.44: Lecture-Mr. Byron Brown, "Shakespeare and St. George." 8.59: Weather rcport and forecast. 9.1: Vocal quartet-Ariel Singers, "Who is Sylvia?" from "Two Gentlemen of Verona" (German). 9.6: Recital-Mr. S. Tingey, "Mark Anthony’s Oration over the Dead, Body of Caesar" from "Julius Caesar." 9.10: Tenor solos-Mr. Roy Hill, (a) "Take, O Take Those Lips Away" (Quliter); (b) "Heigdi Ho, the Wind and the Rain" (Quilter), 9.17: Recital-Mrs, Martyn Williams, "Queen Katherine’s Defence" from "Henry VIII." 9,22: Vocal duet-Misses Jeanette Briggs and Ngaire Coster, "Orpheus With His Lute" (Wood). 9.27: Dialogue-Mrs. Burgess and Mr.-Byron Brown, "Rosalind’s Banter of her Lover, Orlando," from "As You Like It." 9.33: Bass solos-Mr. J. M. Caldwell, (a) "O. Mistress Mine," from "Twelfth Night" (Yates); (b) "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" (Quilter). 9.40: Instrumental trios-Studio Trio, (a) "Mroris Dance"; (b) "Shepherd’s . Dance"; (c) "Torch Dance" from "Henry VIII Dances," by Edward German, , 9.50: Recital-Mrs. Theo. Hills, "Queen Margaret’s Scorn of the Duke of York." , 955: Vocal quartet-Ariel Singers, "How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps" from "Merchant of Venice" (Bartholomew). . ° 10.0: God Save the King. 3YA CHRISTCHURCH (306 METRES)-MONDAY, APRIL 23. 3 p.m.: Afternoon concert session-Selected studio items. 6.0: Children’s session-Uncle Jack. 7.15: News session. 8.0: Chimes and overture. Miss Lucy Cowan and members of her Dramatic Society, in conjunction with the Madame Gower-Burns Grand Opera Quartet and the Christchurch Broadcasting Quartet, will broadcast a Shakespearean programme. Professor J. Shelley, of Canterbury College, will speak on. "The Plays of Shakespeare." Vocal quartet-Madame Gower-Burns’s Grand. Opera Quartet, "Under the Greenwood Tree" from "As You Like It." Shakespearean recital-Mr. J. F. Cannell, "King Henry the : Fifth," Act III, Scene 5. 1 Harfleur owes its most stirring memory in the minds of jthe people to Shakespeare’s description of the termination of a:six. weeks’: siege in a burst of martial enthusiasm from King Henry the Fifth, wherein he rouses his sick and dispirited army to herculean effort, resulting in the possession of the fortress, September 22, 1415. The King urges them into action in the name of England and. St. George! In the Wars of the Crusades, St. George is said to have appeared at the head of a large army, carrying a banner, with a red cross engraved upon it, and in a vision Richard Coeur de Lion was bidden to take for his battle-cry, "Saint George for England." In the year 1222 the Festival of Saint George-assumed a national character, and in the reign of Edward the Third he was definitely recognised as the nation’s patron saint. The Union Jack, the National Flag of Great Britain and Ireland, consists of a combination of. the three crosses of St. George, St. Andrew, and St. Patrick, denoting the Union of England, Scotland, and Ireland. Vocal quartet-Grand Opera Quartet, "How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon this Bank" from "Merchant of Venice" (Calcott). Address-Professor J. Shelley, "The Plays of Shakespeare." Soprano solo-Madame Gower-Burns, "Bid Me Discourse" (Bishop). Baritone solo-Mr. Bernard Rennell, "No More Dams I’ll Make for Fish" (Caliban’s song from "The Tempest"), (Smith), Excerpts from "Much Ado About Nothing;"’ Scenes 1, 2, and 3, Tenor solo-Mr. Harold Prescott (Balthazar), "Sigh No More, Ladies." Cast of Characters: Don Pedro, Prince of Arragon-Mr. Ronald Foster. Leonata, Governor of Messina-Mr. Dick Wills. Claudio, a young Lord of Florence-Mr, Charles Clayton. Hero, daughter to Leonato-Miss Ivy Fowler. Benedick, a young Lord of Florence-Mr. Bert Goodland. Balthazar, servant to Don Pedro-Mr. Harold Prescott, Beatrice, niece to Leonato-Miss Gladys O’Connell. Margaret, waiting-gentlewoman. to Hero-Miss Ida Cooper. Ursula, waiting-gentlewoman to Hero-Mrs. Hugh McLeod. (The members of the household of Leonato, Governor of Messina, conceive a plot whereby the opposing wits, Beatrice and Benedick, are brought into a mutual regard for each other.) . Violin solo-Miss Irene Morris, "La Berceuse" (Couperin-Kreisler). Vocal quartet-Grand Opera Quartet, "Ye Spotted Snakes" from "Midsummer Night’s Dream" (Mendelssohn). Contralto solo-Mrs. Anne Harper, "When Daisies Pied" from "Love's Labour Lost" (Arne). Instrumental quintet (Miss Irene Morris and Mr. J. L. Beck, violins ; Mr. Joseph Mercer, viola; Mr. Harold Beck, ’celio; and Miss Aileen Warren, piano)-‘"Henry VIII Dances" (German). Weather report and forecast. Scene from "King Henry the Eighth." Act IT, Scene 4, a hall in Blackfriars, Cast: Crier-Mr. J. F. Cannell. Queen Katherine, wife to Henry the Eighth-Miss Lucy Cowan. Cardinal Wolsey, Archbishop of Canterbury-Mr. Frank Foster. Griffith, gentleman usher to Queen Katherine-Mr. Bert Goodland. (Queen Katherine, first wife to Henry the Eighth, makes a vain appeal to retain her position, but, failing, denounces Cardinal Wolsey.) Soprano solo-Madame Gower-Burns, "Orpheus With His Lute" (Sullivan). Soprano solo and quartet--Madame Gower-Burns (soloist), Mrs. Anne Harper, Messrs. Harold Prescott, and Bernard Rennell, "It Was a Lover and His Lass" (arr. W. Davies). Excerpt from "As You Like It," Act IV, Scene 4, in the Forest of Arden, Cast; Orlando, son of the late Sir Rowland de Boys-Mr. Dick Wills. Rosalind, daughter of the banished Duke-Miss Maiona Juriss.

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Celia, daughter of the usurping Duke-Miss Olive Braisher. (Rosalind and her cousin, Celia, respectively daughters of the Duke Serior and the usurping Duke, having left the Court in search of Rosalind’s father, meet with the youth Orlando, whose eldest brother had banished him from the home of his late father, Sir Rowland de Boys. Rosalind, who, for protection both on account of herself and her cousin, Celia, is attired in boy’s clothes, and answers to the name of Ganymede, recognises in Orlando the plucky winner of a wrestling contest with Charles the.Wrestler at a former Court function, and on which occasion they had fallen in love with each other. Orlando, though attracted by a likeness to his adorable Rosalind, does not recognise her, but talks incessantly of his love for the presumably absent lady. Rosalind allows him to mimic making love to her.) Violin solo-Miss Irene Morris, "Waltz" (Brahms). Vocal quartet-Grand Opera Quartet, "Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind" (Stevens). Instrumental quintet--‘‘Merchant of Venice" (Rosse). Baritone solo-Mr. Bernard Rennell, "Let Me the Caniken Clink" from "Othello" (Loomis), Excerpts from "Othello," Act IV, Scene 3, and Act V, Scene 2, Cast: Emilia, wife to Iago-Miss Lucy Cowan. Desdemona, wife to Othello-Miss Phair Thompson, (In the castle at Cyprus, residence of Othello, General in the Venetian ~ State. Through the villainy of Iago‘ who desires to supplant Othello’s Lieutenant, Cassio, Desdemona is wrongly accused by Othello of infidelity, Emilia philosophises over worldly possessions. Desdemona retires. Othello enters, and, in a frenzy of unfounded jealousy,: murders her.) . The following song, "The Willow Song" is supposedly sung by Desdemona :- , Contralto solo-Mrs. Anne Harper, "The Willow Song" (ColeridgeTaylor). . Operatic trio-Madame Gower-Burns (Desdemona), Mrs. Anne Harper (Emilia), and Mr. Harold Prescott (Othello), "Emilia’s Denouncement of Othello" (from Boito’s "Libretto"), (Verdi). Viauoforte solo-Miss Aileen Warren, "Children’s Intermezzo" from "Othello" (Coleridge-Taylor). Venor solo-Mr. Harold Prescott, "O, Mistress, Mine," from "Twelfth Night" (Coleridge-Taylor), ‘ Scene from "Taming of the Shrew," Act II, Scene 1, in Baptista’s house, Padua. Cast : Petruchio, gentleman, of Verona-Mr. J. F. Cannell, Katherina, daughter to Baptista-Miss Lucy Cowan. Petruchio, a gentleman of Verona, is humorously fascinated by tales of the vixenish temper of Katherina, who treats everybody with the disdain she bears them, especially the men. Petruchio vows he will marry her, tames her by drastic methods. His astounding impudence results in doing so. The scene now presented deals with his first declaration in that direction). Extract from the opera, "Romeo and Juliet" (Gounod). Operatic Group Cast: (tinder the direction of Madame Gower-Burns)-Juliet--Madame Gower-Burns. Roameo-Mr. Harold Prescott. Mercutio-Mr. Bernard Rennell. (Shakespeare’s noble romance, "Romeo and Juliet.’ Mercutio rallies ‘Romeo upon his pensive mood. In the "Waltz Song," as composed by Gounod, Juliet enters into the spirit of the revels in her father’s house. The duet describes the attraction between Romeo and Juliet.) Baritone solo-Mercutio, "Queen Mab." Soprano solo-Juliet, "Song, Jest, Perfume, and Dance." Soprano and tenor duet-Romeo and Juliet, "O, Shrine of Beauty." Vocal quartet--Grand Opera Quartet, "Good Night" (Steele). (sod Save the King. 4A DUNEDIN (463 METRES)-MONDAY, APRIL 23. , SILENT DAY.