2YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 42, 3 May 1929, Page 14

2YA Features

ON Sunday evening the church service to be broadcast will be from St. Thomas’s Anglican Church, Newtown, and at the conclusion of the service a concert by the Wellington Municipal Tramways Band will be relayed from His Majesty’s Theatre. ON Tuesday evening a popular light programme will be given, the contributing artists being Mr. EB. W. Robbins (tenor), Miss Maude Farrant (light vocal) and the Two Boiled Owls. Mr. Robbins will sing Silesu’s popular ballad, "Just a Little Love, a Little Kiss," and Hrie Coates’s "A Song Remembered," together with May Brahe’s "Messengers." Miss Maude Farrant

will be heard in some excerpts from light musical comedies, namely, "Nerves" by Rubens, "A Little Piece of String" (from "The Circus Girl’), and "A Ride in the Puff-Puff," from *"Monckton’s "The Toreador." The Two Boiled Owls will make a welcome reappearance with two humorous numbers, "Station O.H.E.K.," a radio skit, and "Egbert on Saturday’s Football Match." They will also give a novelty piano number and a popular votal item. yy, ON Thursday evening the Wellington Municipal Tramways Band will, with the Melodie Four and Mrs. R. 8. Allwright, provide an interesting and popular programme, Mrs. Mark Tonks* will provide the humour of the even.ing, her items being "A Natural Question," "Marks and Distinction" and "Nothing and Everything." The outstanding band items will be the "Overture Giovanni D’Arco" by Verdi, a cornet duet "Sandy and Jock," by Mr. T. Goodall and Bandsman Kay, and two selections, "Tschaikowsky" (arranged by Rimmer), and "Ivanhoe" (by Sullivan). Other band items will include a fox-trot, a waltz, "Willow_derie," and two marches. "THE Melodie Four will sing as quartet numbers "Simple Simon," "The Hymns of the Old Church Choir" and

. the popular chorus: from: "The, Vagabond King," "The Song of the Vagabonds." Mr. Sam Duncan = (tenor) will sing an old favourite in "My Pretty Jane," and this popular singer will also be heard in a duet with Mrs. Allwright, "A Night in Venice." Mr. W. W. Marshall (bass) has chosen for his item "A Bachélor’s Love Song," and Mr. Frank Bryant (tenor) Landon Ronald’s beautiful sone -"O Lovely Night." HE composition of a New Zealand composer, Mr. Martin Cheek, of Blenheim, "Uhe War Song of Biorn, the Scandinavian," will be sung by Mv. R. S. Allwright as a baritone solo, and this song should prove very suitable to this artist's powerful and resonant veice. Mr. Allwright will also be heard fx a duet with Mrs. Allwright, entitled "he Garden of My Heart." Mrs. Allwright, apart from singing two duets with members ot the Melodie Four, will sing a soprano solo by Sanderson entitled "Shepherds Gay." HE Etude Quartet will, on Friday evening, present a varied programme of vocal gems from musical comedies and comic operas. The exeerpts will be taken from "The Rebel Maid," "The Maid of the Mountains," "Tom Jones," "Floradora," and "San Toy." Miss Patrician Clayton, a promising young student from Mr. Gordon Short's studio, will play as a pianoforte solo Cervantes’s wellknown "Cuban Dances." The elocutionary items of the evening will be in the capable hands of Mr. Barton Ginger, whose items will be "Not Understood" and "Old Letters," by . Bracken, the New Zealand poet, and a further humorous item from the "Grindle" series by Thomas-‘The Wife Deserter." it) A CONTRALTO solo from "The Rebel Maid," "lL Want My Mau to be a Landlord,’ will be sung by Mrs. Ray Kemp. Two popular solos from "The Maid of the Mountains’the soprano: solo, "Love Will Find a Way" and the tenor solo, "My Life is Love’-will be sung oy Miss Gretta Stark and Mr. Will Hancock respectively. The baritone soloist, Mr. Ray Kemp, will sing "On a January Morning" from "To Jones" and "Love Has Come From Lotus Land" from ‘San Toy." Mr. Kemp will also be associated with Mrs. Kemp in the duet, "Galloping" from "Floradora" and with Mr, Will Hancock in the duet. "Qui Vive." ON Saturday evening a ‘bright and f interesting programme will be presented, the Lyric Quartet and Miss May Ormrod being the" vocalists. Novelty instrumental solos will be

played by Mr. Lad Haywood and the humour will be provided by Mr. Jack Wilkinson. The quartet items will include Mendelssohn’s "Land of Beauty," Edmonds’s "Down in Alabama," "The Meeting of the Waters" (a traditional air arranged by one of the members of the quartet), and two sea chanties, "A Roving’ and "What Shall We Do With a Drunken Sailor." Mr. Chas. Williams (tenor) will sing two numbers by the popular song writer, Herman Lohr, "The Blue Rumanian Mountains" and "A Rumanian Nigbt Song." Mr. Will Goudie (baritone) will be heard in "Nobody Knows de Trouble," a Negro spiritual by Bur. leigh, and "Up in the Saddle," the latiér being one of "The Freebooter’s Songs" by Wallace. Mr. W. Binet Grown has chosen for his item the bass solo, "Blow hou Winter Wind" by Ketelby. Miss Ormrod’s items will be Trotere’s "Within Your Heart," "The Star and the Flower" (by D‘Hardelot) and Metealfe’s popular. ballad "Absent."