3YA Features.

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 10, 21 September 1928, Page 15

3YA Features.

HO knows "The Sweetest Story Ever Told?" It is a song unknown to the present generation. It is a very old song which enjoyed great popularity some generations ago, and is now about to enjoy another vogue. It is at present all the rage in America. This song will be one of those sung by Mr. John Worgan at 3YA on Monday. Other vocalists on that occasion will be Misses Frances Hamerton and Belle Renaut. Uarry Lauder songs will be sung by Mr. Jock lLochhart. The band engaged for the evening is the Christchurch Municipal Band under Mr. A. J. Schnack. HE vocal music of "The Maid of the Mountains," by Fraser Simson, will be presented on Wednesday evening by the Radiolian Quartet. This production should be as enjoyable as have been previous musical plays staged at 3YA by the Radiolians. There are many excellent solos and choruses in "The Maid of the Mountains." Selections from the opera will be played by the Black Diamond’s Band (electrically reproduced). Supporting "The Maid of the Mountains," a miscellaneous concert will be presented, the artists performing being the Studio Trio, Miss Warren, and Mr. Hiram Dun- | ford. Two of Mr. Dunford’s items will be from the works of Mr. Will Lawson, the New Zealand writer, and will be philosophical as well as humorous. "In a Persian Garden" is to be presented by Madame Gower Burns and her quartet on Thursday evening. This will be the second time that this faimous song cycle will have been heard from 8YA, and such a wonderful production was it on the previous occasion, no one who heard it then will miss hearing it again. When Madame produced it last, very high praise was showered on her party. Since then the personnel of her quartet has changed, Mrs. Ann Harper and Mr. Clive Hindle having taken the places of Miss Jessie King and Mr. Bernard Rennell, who were previously associated with Madame Gower Burns and Mr. Harold Prescott. ‘The presentation of "In a Persian Garden" will again be an artistic treat. A MISCELLANEOUS programme will follow "In a Persian Garden." The vocalists of the quartette will contribute, also Messrs. R. Ohlson and A. Benson (cornetists) and Mr. R. R. Wills (elocutionist). Mr. Wills will give Newbolt’s "The Guides at Kabul" ang Kipling’s "The Ballad of the BoliVi ap There will also be two flute solos by John Amadio (electrically reproduced). "AN entertainment of the popular type -a miscellaneous programme followed by a dance session. is scheduled for Friday evening... The vocalists. will be Miss Hileen Irwin, who has a splen-

did contralto voice, Mr. Russell Sumner and Mr. T. D. Williams. One of Miss Irwin’s songs will be "By the Waters of Minnetonka." Mr. Russell Stmner is singing two songs by Schumann. Duets by the Yeoman Duo include "Soldiers'and Sailors" and the "Crucifix, a ({ONSIDERABLE interest will attach to one of Mr. T. D. Williams’s songs, "The Raft," a very thrilling song descriptive of being adrift on the ocean. Among the recitations to be given by Miss Winifred Smith will be found a specimen of the works of Mrs. Hemans, Bret Harte and Hastings. The dance musie for Friday evening will be supplied by the Willyams Dance Band will continue till 11 o’clock. Introduced into the- programme will be some sramophone musie (electrically reproduced.) R. CHAS. LAWRENCE will contribute largely to the radio vaudeville on Saturday evening. As a soloist he will sing "The Bandolero," and can be relied upon to treat the song in his picturesque way. Mr. Lawrence will also lead the Peerless Entertainers, who will delight listeners with two fifteen minute entertainments. The Peerless combination has appeared at 8YA before, so listeners will look forward to Saturday, September 29, with pleasurable anticipation. Another soloist on Saturday evening will be Mrs. Moana Lawrence, soprano. On Saturday night the Studio Orchestra, under Mr. Harold Beck, will appear again in a well-sclected programme, and Mr. Les Grummitt, pianist, will coax and chase the ivories for some minutes. Mr. Grummitt is brilliant in improvising. ONTRALTO solos, which will be electrically reproduced, are by Miss Ethel Hook, a sister of Dame Clara Butt. Other gramophone records will comprise novelty turns.