3YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 16, 2 November 1928, Page 15

3YA Features

yienax evening’s concert will, as MoNDe be contributed mainly by a brass band, this time the Christchurch Municipal. A bright-and varied programme has been arranged "by the conductor. Mr. Charles Lawrence, always a radio attraction, has been engaged for the evening, His items will be songs at the piano, to his own accompani ment. Miss Kathleen Chapple, soprano, will sing, and will also give a recitation to piano accompaniment, "That Cat." Three mezzo-soprano songs will be sung by Miss Nellie Billcliff, Mr. Ad. R. Thompson (tenor):and Mr. Syd. Armstrong (baritone) are two other vocalists for the evening. (TUESDAY (usually the silent day for 38YA) will have one of the best programmes of the week. The artists engaged for the evening include Miss Anita ‘Graham (mezzo-soprano), Miss Olga Wacked (contralto), Mr. W. J. Trewern (tenor), Mr. W. J. Spratt (bass), and Mr. Allan Brown (humour)..Mr. Spratt is a very well known oratorio and concert platform singer. Mr. Brown is one of the best comedians in Christchurch. He made a great hit in the recent. production of "The Arcadians." "T0- -NIGHT’S the Night," and a’ boxing match are the main features of Wednesday evening’s prograimme.. The vocal portion _ will be handled by the Radiclian 4 Quartet, who can be relied upon to give one of their usual excellent interpretations of Rubens’ play. The participants in the boxing contest will be the redoubtable Johnnie Leekie and Norman Radford. This latter broadcast will commence at 9 o’clock. HE first half-hour of Thursday evening’s concert will be occupied by Lane: Wilson’s "Flora’s Holiday," a song cyéle of charming old Englis’. melodies. Some of the songs on the supplementary programme include Chaminade’s "T’Hte," to be sung by Madame Gower Burns, "Mandalay" by Mr. Clive Hindle, "Winkin’, Blinkin’," by Mrs. Ann Harper, and "Where’er You Walk’ by Mrs. Harold Prescott. Miss Dorothy Jenkin will be reciting that evening, one of her items being "A New Lease of Life." A PROGRAMME of popular items, concluding with a dance music session, is scheduled for Friday evening. The vocalists will be the Dulcet Quartet. Solos as well as concerted numbers will.be sung. Miss Hilda Hutt has two charming numbers by Novello and Sanderson. Miss Nellie Lowe. will sing "Tad o’ Mine," "Red Rose of Eng: land," and "Gretna Green" (all by G. iver). Mr. T. G. Rogers will sing Atianis’s "Roses" and "Good Cdompany." Mr. A. G. Thompson will sing the spritely "From Rushy Beds of Silver Nile" and "Harlequin." The Will- ‘ yams Dance Band will supply the latest in dance-music. Saturday, being the eve of Armistice Day, and an excellent wartime concert having been arranged at 2YA, the whole programme Will:be rebroadcast by 3¥A.