3YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 39, 12 April 1929, Page 15

3YA Features

THE religious service to be broadcast on Sunday evening will be relayed from the Oxford Terrace Baptist Church. The preacher will be the Rev. J. Robertson, M.A., the choirmaster, Mr. Victor C, Peters, and the organ: ist Mr. Melville Lawry. A sacred concert will follow from the studio. The local artists will be Miss Thelma Ayres (soprano), Miss M. Lewes (coutralto), and Mr, Robert Allison (baritone). There will also be a_ programme of specially selected records. Mr. BE. J. Bell, public librarian at Christchurch, will give another of his interesting book reviews on Monday evening. "THE studio concert on Monday evening will be contributed by the Woolston Band, assisted by 3YA artists. Mr, R. J. Estall has arranged one of his excellent programmes for his band. Among the items will be "The Thin Red Line" and "The Mad Major" (both by Alford). There will be a song medley, "The Song of the Volga , Boatmen," and a selection from "Mignon," a fox-trot, "Chiquita," a Russian

dance, and "Bells at Sunset." A cornet polka, "Red Cap," will be played by Bandmaster Ohlson, with band accompaniment. An interesting programme will be played by the Studio Trio. "THE vocalists will be headed by Mr. Harold Prescott, whose tenor solos will be the old favourites, "Sally in our Alley" and "My Ain Folk." A new and very promising singer for radio will be Miss Myra . ollard, one of whose numbers will be "The Lass with the Delicate Air." A popular baritone who has not been heard from 3YA for some time, in the person of Mr. W. J. Salkeld, will sing two songs by Jude, "King of the Mist" und "’Neath the Rolling Tice." On Wednesday evening the first instalment of the grand opera, "Rigoletto," will be presented. Mr. W. H. Dixon, Professor of Singing, being the narrator. WEDNESDAY will also be notable for the appearance in radio of Mr. Sydney Francis Hoben, pianist. The yocal portion of the evening’s programme will be entrusted to the Salon Quartet, Miss Lilian Hanam, Miss Dulcie Mitchell, Mr. H. Blakeley, and Mr. J. Graham Young, whose items will include popular, classical and operatic solos, duets, and quartets, as well as popular ballads. There will be instrumental items by the Bohemian Quintet. N view of the lively recollection which the people of Canterbury still have of the Arthur’s Pass earthquake, special interest will attach to a lecture to be given on Thursday evening by Mr. H. F, Skey, Director of the Christchurch Magnetic Observatory. He will speak on "Earthquakes, their causes and effects, with special reference to the recent disturbance." RULY operatic will be the programme on Thursday evening. All the vocal numbers will be selected from well-known operas. The singers will be Madame Gower Burns, Miss Dorothy Spiller, Mr. Ernest Rogers, and Mr. J. Filer. There will be instrumental numbers by Miss Irene Morris (violinist), and the Studio Trio. . XCERPTS from "The Quaker Girl’ in choruses and solos will comprise the vocal portion of Friday evening’s concert. The Radiolians will be the singers. In association with Mr. George Titchener (humorist) and the Bailey-Marston Dance Orchestra they will provide an excellent programme. Saturday evening’s programme will be another vaudeville entertainment provided by the Revellers’ Concert Party.