1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 46, 31 May 1929, Page 14

1YA Features

Meck new talent will appear at 1YA next week. Among the artists making their radio debut will be Madame G. Anderton (soprano), the Auckland University Students Literary Society (presenting two short sketches), Miss:Mary Carlton, and Miss Nancy O’Connor. Mrs. Culford Bell and Mr. Dan Flood will appear as a duo and should be very successful in their humorous sketches. The Sunday evening Anglican service conducted in St. Mary’s Cathedral will be broadcast. A studio concert will follow. A. eomedy sketch, "On a Motorbus" will be given by Mrs. Culford . Bell and Mr. Dan Flood on Tues‘day evening. Mrs. Bell will also be heard in another recitation, "Echo and the Ferry." THE vocalists for Tuesday evening ‘ will be Madame G. Anderton (soprano), Miss Madge Clague (contralto) and Mr. Ernest Snell (baritone). Instrumental numbers by the trio will be a waltz from the opera "Hugene Onegin" and selections from "Aida." Mr. Eric Waters, pianist, will play "The Kitten on the Keys." There will be relays of orchestral music from the Majestic Theatre, On Wednesday, the first of the series of community sing-songs will be broadcast on relay from the Town Hall. Two sketches, which should prove very acceptable to listeners, appear on Wednesday evening’s programme. The performers will be members of the Auckland University Literary Society. The sketches will be "The Stepmother" and "The Grand Chem’s Diamond." Other elocutionary numbers will be > given by Mr. Alan McSkimming. These items will comprise "Wolsey on His © Fall," "Open. Spaces," and a humorous | number. The versatile Miss Hdna | Langmuir will be associated with Miss | Daphne Higham in a series of vocal,

piano and violin numbers. These will comprise "Hindoo Song," "Czardas," "Dance Bizarre," and "Songs My Mother Taught Me." Messrs. R. Davies and Salthouse will be contributing cornet duets. "THE orchestral numbers on Thursday’s programme will include "Le Blanche Dame" (Boieldieu), selections from "Chu Chin Chow," two waltzes, a violin solo by Miss Ina Bosworth with orchestral accompaniment, and "In a Monastry Garden." The vocalists on the programme will be Miss Beryl Smith and Mr. Len Kernot. The Asquiths will also be appearing in one of their popular thirty-minute drawingroom entertainments. {RIDAY evening’s programme will eonsist chiefly of Russian music. The vocalists will be Madame Mary Towsey’s Quartet. Their opening number will be "The Volga Boat Song." Then will follow works, both vocal and instrumental, from the best known Rus sian composers. Among the items will be: Miss Mary Carlton singing Gretchaninoff’s "Over the Steppe," Tschaikowsky’s "Don Juan’s Serenade": by ‘Mr. John Bree, Rimsky-Korsakoff’s "Song of India," as sung by Mrs. Percy Thode, and further Tschaikowsky, ' Rachmaninoff and Arrensky vocal numbers sung by Miss Edna Peace, Miss Nancy O’Connor and Madame Mary Towsey. The Auckland Comedy Players under the direction of Mr. J. F. Montague will perform a one-act play entitled "Afternoon." This is a particularly intriguing play and the clever dialogue works up to an unusual climax. A short sketch will also be presented, entitled "The Weaker Sex." _ THE vaudeville for Saturday. evening will include a number of Maori and. Hawaiian items-a special programme for the entertainment of friends in the Cook Islands. ‘The performers will be the Bohemian Duo and Ingall’s Hawaiian Orchestra. Also singing. will be Miss Alma McGruer

(soprano) and Mr. 8S. Pritchard. Mr. Dan Flood will provide mirth.