1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 44, 17 May 1929, Page 14

1YA Features

THERE will be a relay of the service conducted in the West Street Church of Christ by Pastor Campbell on Sunday evening. An excellent studio concert will follow, the contributing local artists being Miss Cecilia Duncan, Mr. Roy Dormer, and Mr. Hric Mannell. Madame Cora Melvin and Mr. Norman Day, the Tauranga artists who occasionally perform at 1YA, will be singing there again on Monday evening, May 21, appearing in both duet and solo items. Mr. Day’s numbers will include "Mandalay." Miss Phyllis Hazeli will sing three operatic numbers, one of which will be "Hanabera," from "Carmen." Operatic solos will also be sung by Mr. George Barnes. There will be fecitations by Miss Maisie Carte-Lloyd, the talented elocutioniste. Instrumental music for the evening will be provided by Miss Molly ‘Wright, the Studio Trio, and by relays from the Majestic Theatre, where the orchestra is under the baton of Mr. J. Whiteford Waugh. ON Wednesday evening the Auckland Comedy Players, under Mr. J. F. Montague, will present "Dover Road," a three-act play by A. A. Milne. An interesting debate figures on Thursday evening’s programme, when Messrs. Vernon Drew and F. W. Barker

will discuss the pros and eons of "That Sport is Playing Too Great a Part in Modern Life." This subject should give the debaters full scope to display their elocutionary and: humorous powers, and will no doubt be looked forward to by all listeners. On the musical side of the programme, Miss Norma Calder, mezzo, is making AED CHET

her initial appearance before the microphone, and will sing, among other items, "Willow Song" (Sullivan), and "J Am Longing for the Spring" (Morris). Mr. Walter Brough’s baritone voice will be heard in "A Son of the Desert" (Phillips), and "The Great Awakening" (Kramer). Popular orchestral selections will be played by the studio orchestra, and the programme will conclude with dance music at 11 p.m. THAT popular yoeal combination, "The Olympians," will contribute a classical programme of quartets and solos on Friday evening, including "Swansea Town" (Holst), "Roundelay" (Gideon), "Smuggler’s Song" (Kernochan), "Gloriana" (Mallinson), and "Edward Grey" (Sullivan). The Studio Trio will play instrumental selections, while Mr. Eric Waters will give a piano solo, "Rustling Woods" (Liszt). Mrs. Daisy Basham, with Mr. William Gemmell, will continue her scenes of short lecture-recit-als on "Half Hours With the Great Composers," her subject for this evening being "Offenbach." A SPLENDID variety programme will be presented on Saturday evening. Several-new artists’ will make their official bow to Radioland: Mr. Dan McKivett, humorist; Mr. Raymond Harding; ukulele player and vocalist; and Mr. Clarence Paine, elocutionist. Mr. Paine will be remembered by his clever work from 4YA, Dunedin, and his transfer to Auckland will be an acquisition to 1YA’s list of

\ artists, Also appearing on this programme will be Miss Edna Langmuir, whose versatility will be displayed in vocal, elocutionary and piang items, while Mr. ¥. T. Nash will ‘perform solos on his musical saw." Orchestral: selections will be broadcast by the Studio Orchestra, and the evening will conclude with dance music at 11 p.m.