Features from 2YA

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 21, 7 December 1928, Page 14

Features from 2YA

N Monday evening the singing circle o£ the Pioneer Club will present a special programme. Some splendid glees and choruses will be sung and the soloists will comprise a number of artists who will be heard in radio for the first time. Among these may be mentioned Mrs. Ramsay, Miss Penny, . Mrs. Mitchell and Mrs. P. J. Townley. Miss Nora Gray is another vocalist well known at 2YA. Miss Lena Van Staveren will be heard in monologues. The Studio Orchestra will this evening present a splendid programme, while Mrs. Vickery and Mr. George Ellwood will play pianoforte and "cello items respectively, ONDAY evening’s programme will be interrupted at 9

o’clock to permif of a broadcast of the Macalister v. Taylor boxing match. (TUESDAY afternoon’s programme will be out of the ordinary. This has been arranged by Messrs. F. J. Pinny, Limited, who have engaged Miss Gretta Stark (soprano), Mr. H. BE. Wilson (baritone) and Mr, 8. Barrett (clarinet), who will be accompanied on the Meltona Recording Expression Player. SOME months ago, when 2YA broadcast on relay from the Lower Hutt a concert given by the Hutt Valley Choral Society, correspondents

from one end of New Zealand to the other proclaimed that it was the most enjoyable concert programme they had listened to. This broadeast was therefore evidently one of the radio events of the year. On Tuesday, there is to be another such broadcast. The concert will take place in the King George Theatre, Lower Hutt. The conductor of the society is Mr. Douglas E. Taylor, F.R.C.0., A.R.C.M. ‘The society will be assisted by 2YA Orchestra. QNCE again the Fellows who have added much to the enjoyment of many a Thursday evening will be associated with the Band of the First Battalion Wellington Regiment, under Conductor Lieutenant B. J. Shardlow. They will be heard individually and collectively in many diverse ‘items, grave and gay. Elocutionary numbers will be given by Mr. Peter Dorrian.

*SNHE Greek Slave," a musical comedy of the highest order, will be presented in radio form on Friday evening. This will »be. a particularly enjoyable portior of the programme.’ The _ vocalists will be the Orpheus Quartet, who have not been heard for. some time. Also appearing this evening will be Mr. and Mrs. Albert Russell, whose three contributions are entitled "On Your Honeymon," "The Croony Melody" and "Impressions of Vaudeville,’ concert and grand opera. AGAIN a popular programme will be broadeast on Saturday evening, the vocalists being the Melodie Four, and a very bright programme will be played by the Studio Orchestra. Two sketches will be acted by Miss Gwen Shepherd and Mr. Wynne Watkins"Cross Calling’ -and "Light and Shade."