Features from 2YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 20, 30 November 1928, Page 14

Features from 2YA

ON Tuesday evening several artists new to 2YA will be appearing, Mr. John Prouse, the favourite baritone, will be heard in four songs of different types. Mr. Roy Hill, tenor, has included among his items two. modern settings of BDlizabethan poems. Mrs. EX. Meban, soprano, will be heard in ‘"Amarella" and the very old favourite, "Il Bacio." The contralto songs to be sung by Miss Zoe Millar will include two by Mallinson and one by Quilter, "Now Sleeps the Crimson -Petal." The elocutionary items to be given by Mr. J. 8S. Webb will be Ingersoll’s dramatic poem, "The Tomb of Napoleon," and "The Moral Umbrella." HE instrumental portion of the programme on Tuesday will be specially interesting. The orchestra will open with. "The Rape in the Seraglio." The other numbers will be the "New World Symphony," and "Slavonic Rhapsody." There will also be. cornet and violin solos, with orchestral accompaniment, and piano solos will be played by Miss Helen Hart. ‘THE Petone Black and White Benefit Entertainers will be welcomed back to 2YA on Tuesday evening. The previous broadcasts by: these artists _ * will be-remembered with pleasure. On this occasion new performers will be included and the programme will be entirely new. Solos, duets, trios, choruses, comic songs, humorous sketches, novelty items and instrumental numbers will be featured. There will also be a boy soprano, Master Jack Harris. The vocalists of the party will be Misses Margaret . and Molly Keating, Messrs. R. Park,: L. Boyd and Hart. Mr. Les Andersen will contribute to the humour of the evening. Misses Jean Leadbetter and Kerry Rowe will stage a humorous sketch. Miss G. Smith and W. Rowe will put on a novelty turn, "Novelty Story Scena." the plot for which is original. Little. Miss Joan Craig will sing the juvenile song, "Barefoot Days." Another original humorous turn will be "A Bit of Blarney," to be performed by Msesrs. Rowe, Boyd and Hart, and Mr. Ted Adams will sing a comic song. Apart from the items by the Studio Orchestra, instrumental numbers will be given by members of the party, the Maori members of which will play "Maori Melodies." ‘THE City Silver Band, under the baton of Mr. Harry Baker, has been engaged for: Thursday even- , ing. One of the: band’s typical \ bright programmes will be present |’ ed. The vocalists for the evening’ will be the Lyrie Four. Their con-

oan a eeried numbers will include "Sally in Our Alley," "They Kissed" and "Calm is-the Sea." My. W. Binet Brown will sing "Tally Ho" and "Ho, Jolly Jenkin." "Drink to Me Only" will be sung as a duet by Messrs. C. Williams and W. Goudie. Humorous elocutionary numbers will ‘be given by Miss Rose Carte. pr Friday night there will be a cor *, cert relayed from Wangunui. SATURDAY evening's concert will be provided by the Melodie. Four, Mr W. J. MeKean (humorous recitations; in association with the Studie Orches tra. The Melodie Four will provid one of their best programmes. RTISTS engaged .for the after church concert on Sunday evening are Mr. and Mrs. George Millward, ‘tenor and soprano respectively. Saturday evening, December 1. will be the appearance of Mr. Wally © Perks, novelty instrumentalist from U.S.A. Myr. Perks has broadcasted from the principal stations on the Paci fic Coast in America, and also in the east. He is under special engagement with the Ambassadors, Melbourne, and this will be his only appearance in this country. Mr. Perks’ numbers will in. clude novelty items on the mandolin, banjo and other stringed instruments A SPECIAL attraction for 2YA on