Prize Poems and Plays

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 39, 12 April 1929, Page 9

Prize Poems and Plays

Broadcast Performances RIZE-WINNING efforts in connection with the recent 1YA one-act play and 2YA poetry competitions will be broadeast from the respective stations next week. At 1YA the performers will be Mr. J. F. Montague and the Auckland Comedy Players. In the one-act play competition, two entries tied for first place. One of these, "Devil’s Rock," written by Miss Betty Kerr, of Timaru, will be read by Mr. Montague. The other play. "The Old Bachelor," written by Mr. Frank H. Goodey, of Wanganui, will be performed by the Comedy Players. On Monday at 2YA Mr. Barton Ginger will recite the first prize humorous poem (from the pen of Mrs. Bert] Windsor, Westland), and the second prize dramatic poem (written by Mr. J. P. Black, of Wellington). At 2YA on Thursday the third prize dramatic poem and the second prize humorous poem will be recited by Mr. Norman Aitken, the well-known elocutionist. Mrs. V. M. Cottrell, of Napier, is the authoress of the first-mentioned poem, and the other was written by Mr. G. T. Palmer, of Dunedin. ~