1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 43, 10 May 1929, Page 14

1YA Features

HE Rey. Ivor Bertram will be the preacher at St. David’s Presbyterian Church on Sunday evening when the service will be broadcast. The artists contributing to the afterehurch concert will be Mrs. A. E. Schade, Mrs. L. Hdwards and Sergeant Hallahan. It will be a programme of an ¢ :cellent type. AN excellent vocal programme will be presented on Wednesday evening by Madame Mary Towsey’s Quartet. The concerted numbers will be "An Old Love Song" and "Oft in the Stilly Night." Ther will be a duet by Madame Mary Towsey and Mr. Richards: "Tn the Garden of Your Heart." Madame will also e heard in two soprano solos: "I Love Thee’ and "The Princess." A contralto solo, "Like to the Damask Rose" will be sung by Miss Edna Peace. Mr. John McDougall’s tenor solos will be "Who is Sylvia?" and "ihe Gentle Maiden." "The Wandersr’’ and‘ "Nelson’s Gone a‘Sailing" will be sung by Mr. Reg. . Richards. The Asquiths will give: one of their popular drawing room entertainments, using all "request" numbers in response to many applications. oO" Thursday evening the Auckland Radio Society will hold the microphone. The society will present a complete programme and there will be an address by Mr. G. T. Jones, vice-presi-dent of the Auckland Radio Society, on the objects of the society. The evening’s programme will comprise vocal and instrumental items. There will be a dramatic recital by Miss Leila Armitage, "The Speech of Joan of Arc before her Execution," also a dramatic recital by Miss Madge Horn, "Cardinal Wolsey Meditates at Hampton Court." Misses Doris Messer and Gladys Grayson will give a humorous sketch and further humour will be provided by Mr. D. McKivett in "The Begg" and "Because I was a Boy." The instrumental items will comprise saxophone solos by Mr. G. Camp, banjo solos by Mr. A. J. Foster, and cornet solos by Mr. R. Davies. RIDAY evening will see the first appearance of Madame Humphrey Steward’s Octet, which will open the programme with a concerted number,

"My Soul." Members of the octet will also sing solos and in addition Miss Mavis Grevatt, well-known harpist, will play "Believe me if All Those Hndearing Young Charms." Also appearing on the same programme will be Mr, Arthur BH. Wilson, organist, who will contribute two brief organ recitals in which he will be associated with Mr. Clinton Williams (baritone). ON Saturday evening there will be the usual variety entertainmenf, in which will figure the Bohemian Duo and Ingall’s Hawaiian Orchestra. Mr. Dan Flood will provide humorous interludes, Mr. Fred Baker, the populax baritone, singing "Drake Goes West," "Young Tom 0’ Devon" and "Tommy Lad."