1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 29, 1 February 1929, Page 14

1YA Features

iPHE beautiful "Wedding March" (from "Lohengrin") will be sung on Tuesday evening by Miss Alma MeGruer and the Lyric Quartet. This will be one of numerous operatic pieces to be presented that evening. Other excerpts will be from "La Boheme," "Country Girl," and "French Maid." Orchestral selections will be from "Monsieur Beaucaire’ and "Lilac Time." Humorous numbers will be given by Mr. Alan McElwain. SoLos and duets by Miss Phyllis Hazell and Mr. Frank Sutherland, elocutionary items by Mr. A. McSkimming, organ selections by Mr. A. B. Wilson with vocal refrain by Miss Doreen Logan, and items by the Auckland Concertina Band, will go to form the popular concert programme on Wednesday evening. The duets will be "Come Sing to Me" and "Won’t You Buy?" Miss Hazell’s solos will comprise "Wondering Why,". "What a Wonderful World it Would Be." Mr. Sutherland will sing "The Dreams of London" and "Joggin’ Along the Highway." Mr. Arthur BH. Wilson will inelude much variety. The solos which are to be sung by Miss Logan to organ accompaniment will be "O Divine Redeemer" and "Give Thanks and Sing." ONTRIBUTING to the vocal programme for Thursday evening will be the popular St. Andrew’s Quartet. Concerted numbers will be "Strange Adventure," "The Man Who Would Woo a Maid," and "Pussy’s in the Well." Miss Adelaide Taylor will sing "The Dancing Lesson," and "O, Love, from Thy Power" will be sung by Miss Phyllis Gribben. The old favourite, "Father O’F lynn," will be sung by Mr. A. Colledge, and Mr. Stanley Raymond will sing "O Flower Divine." The two gentlemen will also sing Handel’s "Go, Baffled Coward." On the same programme will appear the "Snappy Three," whose vocal and piano novelties are always popular. Miss Ina Bosworth (violin), Mr. Eric Maxwell (piano), and the Auckland Trio will provide instrumental music, The announcer will give a talk on Robert Louis Stevenson. PAE vocal portion of the musical programme on Friday evening will be provided by Madame Mary Towsey’s Quartet, the members of which will sing solos, duets, and quartets. Under the last-named heading will be Stanford’s "Quick, We Have But a Second," and "The Last Rose of Summer." Duets will be "O, Wert Thou in the Cauld, Cauld Blast," and "When the Lilac Bloom Uncloses." Madame will sing "For a Dream’s Sake," and Miss Edna Peace will sing ‘When Childer Plays." Baritone solos by Mr. John Bree will be "Morning" and "Less Than the Dust." Mr. John McDougall will sing "To Mary." Elocutionary numbers by Mr. J. F. Montague on Friday evening will be "Death of a Little Child," "Three Kisses," and "Henry V at Agincourt."

The Studio Orchestra will present an interesting programme on Friday evening. The items will include Weber’s "Oberon," a suite by Chaminade, a selection from Bach, Moszkowski’s "Dance of the Elves," and an excerpt from "The Belle of New York." ULL of variety will be Saturday evening’s programme. The contributing artists will be the Asquiths (in a 30-minutes’ drawing room entertainment), the Bohemian Duo (in Hawaiian melodies), the Auckland Trio, Miss Molly Wright (’cello), Mr. T. T. Garland (humour), and some special records.