3YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 23, 21 December 1928, Page 15

3YA Features

oh Christmas Eve, 3YA will broad- ~ east four hours of entertainment. . It is the usual band night, when Derry’s Military Band will occupy the studio, and the instrumentalists will provide a programme of wide and pleasing variety. The opening number will be "Dance of the Clowns," a fine march. Christmas music will be heard in "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing" and "Adeste Fideles." Other numbers will be a waltz, a fox-trot, a march, also "Ramona" and "Auld Seotia." Further instrumental items will be contributed by the Studio Trio. (THE vocal programme for this evening will make a very strong appeal. Mrs. D. W. Stallard, always a very popular radio artist, is singing. Her numbers will be "My Old Kentucky Home," "My Ain Folk" and "The Old Folks at Home." Mr. Charles Lawrence has been engaged for the eyening and his ability to entertain is well known, Mr. L, T. J. Ryan will also be welcomed. He will give "My Friend Brown" and also the burlesque speech "Bertram on Babies." Of Mr, Jock Lochart, with his Harry Lauder songs, and his original and topical patter, no listener has had enough. His items _/ this evening will be "It’s a fine thing \to Sing" and "When I was Twentyone." HAvIN G provided-the foregoing two " hours’ solid enjoyment 38YA_ will switch over to 2YA to rebroadcast the final items of the programme there. After a brief interval the rebroadcast will resume at 10.45 when a Christmas programme of carols will be presented by the Orpheus Quartet. At midnight there will be a relay of the service in St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Church. On Christmas Day there will be a special session at 9 a.m. for the children. | At 7 p.m. the evening service in Christchureh Anglican Cathedral will be relayed. Dr. J. C. Bradshaw is the organist and choirmaster. The service will be full evensong, With Christmas Carols, Following the church service on Christmas evening there will be a studio concert till 9.30. The vocalists will be Miss Nellie Lowe and Mr. A. G. Thompson, who will sing duets as well as. solos. .

N Wednesday 3YA will observe a late night. Much dance music will be played that evening by the Bailey-Matston Orchestra. The remainder of the programme will also be ig; keeping with the jolly nature of Boxing Day. The vocal numbers will ype provided by the Mélodious Four. .. 4 who will sing solos, duets and choruses. Many of these melodies wlil-.be from | popular light operas. Featured on the programme will be Mr. E. J. Peek and Mr. Franklyn Brown. The former will give two sketches and the latter will sing songs at the piano.

A MISCELLANEOUS programme, including numerous classical but all well-known and popular songs, will be preseneted on Thursday evening. The vocalists will be Madame Gower Burns, Miss A. Innes (mezzo-soprano), Miss Harvey (contralto), Miss N. Bogrdman (contralto), and Mr. Hrnest Rogers. Among the songs which are to be sung are "Annie Laurie," "Coming Thro’ the Rye," "The Last March," "7 Hear You Calling Me," "Oh Vision Entrancing," "Il Bacio,’ and "The Last Rose of Summer." Instrumental numbers will be rendered by the Studio Trio. There will be two fine elocutionary numbers on Thursday evening to be given by Mr. R. R. Wills. These will be extracts from Browning’s famous "Pied Piper of Hamelyn" and Lord Curzon’s "Captain Seott and His Comrades." On Friday evening a trio of the popular Radiolians will appear. The songs to be sung comprise a number of old favourites, and the evening’s entertainment will conclude with 4 New Year carol. The members of the party will be Mrs. Claris Shaw, Miss Mildred Russell and Mr. W. J. Rogers.. On this programme will also be Mr. George Titchener, whose humour will be purveyed in two items, ‘Different Languages" and the "Yorkshire Idiot." On Saturday evening 3YA will rebroadeast 2YA. In a studio after-church concert on Sunday evening items will be given by Mr. H. Blakeley and Mr. B. J. Johnson. .