Keen Interest in 1YA Mystery Night

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 7, 31 August 1928, Unnumbered Page

Keen Interest in 1YA Mystery

Night

PPub night in itself is one of the first fruits of the committee system inauguraicd by the Company. Immediately on the formation of the Musical and Dramatic Committee in association with 1YA the idea of such a mystery night was brought forward and, after full discussion, recommended to the company for adoption. The committee has produced a number of other ideas for the brighten-

[UNQUESTIONABLY _ the "Mystery Night" of August 29 will be a redletter programme for station LYA. Listeners throughout the whole Dominion as well as the full strength of the local crystal force will be tuned in, and it is by no means impossible that the winner of the handsome £50 gramophone will come from a distant corner of the Dominion. That is one of the marvels of radio-that on such an occasion as this, distance, practically speaking, plays no part and the most distant is on a parity with those close at hand.

ing of programmes and the provision ef that elusive -quality of "variety" which is so muchin demand. These other novelties will be produced in due course. rPHE task of judging the entries for the "Mystery Night"? will be undertaken by the Musical and Dramatic Committee itself, so that it will have the closest possible contact with the outcome of its own suggestion. The personnel of the Committee is illustrated below. To their work on behalf of programme variety broadcasting is likely to owe much,