3YA NOTES

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 45, 25 May 1928, Page 7

3YA NOTES

AMERICAN NIGHT FOR THURSDAY A miscellaneous programme in which will be found a number of little known songs as well as old favourites will be given by the Dulcet Quartet on Wednesday evening. Assisting artists will be the Studio Trio, Mr. Harold Beck (cello), and Mr. EH. N. Trenberth (flugel horn). There will also be two new performers not previously heard from 3YA. These will be Miss Marie Santoro, a young elocutioniste, and Mr. Mal. Brunette, an exponent of the clarinet. Mr. Donald Grant, M.A., well known as a lecturer at 3YA, will give a talk on Thursday evening under the auspices of the Canterbury Progress League. His subject will be "Games and Internationalism." The next national night to be given by the Madame GowerBurns’ Grand Opera Quartet will be American. French and Italian composers have previously been broadeast, and next Thursday the works of composers from across the Atlantie will be performed for the benefit of listeners, Included will be a number of popular songs, but many will be entirely new to listeners. The programme should provide a most enjoyable treat for all listeners. Co-operating with the Madame Gower-Burns Quartet on Thursday

evening will be the Studio Trio, Mr, W. Hay (flute), Messrs. Ohlson and Benson (cornet duet), and Miss Mavis Ritchie (elocutioniste). Yor years now Mr. H. G. Ell has almost literally been "ploughing 2 lonely furrow" along the hill-tops from Christchurch to Akaroa, With great foresight he pictured what a road, now known as the Summit Road, would mean to Christchurch, and with great determination he has stuck to his self-imposed and somewhat thankless task of endeavouring to have it formed. Thousands of people enjoy the result of his labours to date, but only a fraction of the work has been done, It is about this road that Mr. Ell will speak at 7.80 on Friday evening. "The Pagoda of Flowers,’ with in-+ strumental accompaniment by the Studio Trio, is the next feature which the Melodious Four will broadcast. "The Pagoda of Flowers" is a charming Burmese love story, told in song. This very pretty song cycle will be given during the first half of the programme. Following on the "Pagoda of Flowers" there will be a programme of miscellaneous items, solos, and concerted items by the Melodious Four (Misses Frances Hamerton and Belle Renaut, Messrs. R. Sumner and T. D. Williams), items by the Beresford Banjo Band, and Studio Trio, and Miss Aileen Warren, with humorous recitations by Mr. C. W. Collins.

8YA’s Radio Vaudeville for Safurday evening will be provided by Miss Mabel Thomas and Mr. Dave McGill (who will sing selections from operas), Mr. Herbert Smith (tin whistle, flute, and accordion), Mrs. D. W. Stallard, Mr. E. A. Dowell (popular baritone), Miss Elaine Moody’s Hawaiian Trio, the Studio 'i'ric, aud Mr. J. Birch (elocutionist). (Continued on Page 14.)

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Mr. J. Birch, who appears at 3Y¥YA on Saturday evening for the first time, is in the first flight of elocutionists. The church to be broadcast on Sunday evening will be the Sydenham Baptist, where the Rey. J. K. Archer, Mayor of Christchurch, is the preacher.