1YA Notes.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 10, 21 September 1928, Page 14

1YA Notes.

ENNY LIND, as the vivacious vivandiere (the camp cook), made Donizett’s opera, "The Daughter of the Regiment," very popular when it was first produced in London. It is a brilliant work. At 1YA on Tuesday it will be produced for radio under the direction of Madame Irene Ainsley. Miss Nancye Hanna will be Marie, and the roles of the other characters, Tonio and Sulpizio, will be taken by Mr. Robert Peter and: Mr. Walter Brough. N the supporting miscellaneous programme,.. Madame Irene Ainsley will sing "Break, Break, Break," and "Spinning." Interspersing the other vocal items will be gramophone records of instrumental selections, electrically reproduced. _ ; "rE Settlement of Auckland" "will be Mr. A. B. Chappell’s subject for Tuesday evening’s talk on "Old New Zealand."

rA-- LONG and interesting programme ~ has been arranged for Wednesday evening. In all, there will be 386 items, a number of them being specially selected gramophone records, vocal. as well as instrumental. The vocalists for the evening will be Madame Mary Towsey, Miss Ina Schollum, Mr. J. Simpson. and Mr. John Bree. Solos, duets and quartets will be sung. A feature of the entertainment will be the elocutionary items to be given by Mr. J. F. Montague. Ingall’s- Hawaiian Orchestra has also been engaged.

ON Thursday evening the "Minister Quartet" will be heard on the air, this being their first appearance before the microphone. Another new petformer will be Miss Sophie Vivian, who will present musical monologues. On the instrumental side of the programme will be the Auckland .'Trio, and Mr. L. McLachlan, who will render xylophone numbers, one of which will be "The Repaz Band" (Sweeley). NEW singer to 1YA is Mr. Lampert Harvey, who has recently arrived from England, where he had considerable experience in wireless with the British Broadcasting Company, having frequently sung with concert parties and in solo roles at 5NO. He is » member of Mr. Barry Coney’s Quartet, who will be the main contributors to Friday’s programme. They will be heard in a number of quartets, duets, and solos, including "The Prologue" from "Pagliacci," and "Tq Donna e mobile,’ from "Rigoletto."

(THE "Hebrew Two" will contribute to the humorous side of the programme, giving a short sketch, "Buying a Bungalow," while Messrs. T. Harris and J. Mackle will present a scene from "The Merchant of Venice’-"Shy-lock and Tubal" (Shakespeare). ON Saturday evening the principal contributors to the programme will be the Lyric Quartet, who will give a variety of concerted and solo items, and will include among the quartet numbers, "Kentucky Babe." Mr. Alan \(cElwain will contribute humour to

the programme, "The Dorg *Ospital" being one of his items. Dance music will be relayed from the Masonic Hall by the "Collegians," under Mr. Edgar Bendall.