2YA Notes

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 3, 2 August 1929, Page 18

2YA Notes

()N Sunday afternoon a broadcast of more than passing interest will be a relay of the: Toc H memorial and thanksgiving service held in. honour of

the late Captain Dillon Bell. On this occasion the service will be held in the Taranaki Street Methodist Church, all the members of the Wellington branch of Toe H being present. A brief description of the service will be given from the studio. T.7 p.m. on Sunday evening the service of St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Church will be broadcast, and at the conclusion of the service the -recital of the Port Nicholson Silver Band will be relayed from the Grand Opera House. MoNDAyY evening’s programme will be of an interesting and varied nature, the contributing artists being Mrs. Edris Spackman, of Napier (soprano), Mr. Asshton Harbord (baritone), Mr. Eric. Rishworth (tenor), and Miss Nora Green (contralto). A feature of the programme will be the two piano duets played by Misses. Nora Gray and Lalla Vondersloot, their items being "Croon" (by Harris) and

, a ae Cambrier’s "Spanish Rhapsody." Mr. Horace Cottrell, of Napier, will give a talk on "The Gannets at .Cape Kidnappers." The orchestral -items will be "Hungarian Lustspiel," "Kol Nidrei," "Two Norwegian Dances" (by Grieg), and a suite of two Paderewski numbers, "Wiegenlied" and "Liebeslied." There will also be a brief organ recital by Mr. H. Temple White. UESDAY evening’s programme wilt open with a march medley by the orchestra entitled "Martial Moments" Miss Greta Stark, the soprano for the evening, will feature excerpts . from musical comedy, and a new combination, Ajax and Bejax, will entertain listeners with two Hebrew sketches ntitled "Cohen Buys a Wireless Set" und "Cohen Broadcasts." . Messrs, Olaude Hoare and Edward Silver, specialists in jazz. piano and vocal numbers, will render several of the ‘atest hits in their usual inimitable ityle, and Mr. G. Austin Blackie, the popular tenor, will also be heard in several numbers from his repertoire. Messrs. W. Sneddon and Harold Oakes, two members of the Studio Orchestra, will provide an instrumental novelty in the form of. a‘ cornet and trombone duet arrangement of "Watchman! What of the Night?" At 9.30 the usual dance-programme of selected records will be presented. )

N Thursday evening the programme will consist of the "Radio Pageant of the Maori Race." ON Friday evening the Etude Quartet will be featured in a programme of vocal gems from musical comedies, and with the assistance of the orchestra an enjoyable programme is anticipated. The elocutionary portion of the programme will be provided by Mr. M. Hawken, 2 well-known young elocutionist from the Wairarapa. The vocal items will comprise numbers from such popular musical comedies as "The Mikado," "Our Miss Gibbs," "Gypsy Love," "Southern Maid" and "Tolanthe," being sung as: solos, duets and quartets. T the conclusion of the studio programe on Friday evening Act 2 of the opera "Carmen" wil] be pre sented by means of gramophone re¢ords. ei GATURDAY’S programme will be of a high-class vaudeville nature, a feature of the programme being, the vocal items rendered by the Melodie Four. Their numbers are all . "Request Items" and comprise: songs and concerted items, both grave and gay. The novelty instrumental’.side of: the

MY. «Dick: Richards (bagpipe solos) and Mrs, H. G. Reeves, who will be heitrd in several banjo solos. Another feature of the programmeé, Will be Mrs. ‘Winifred Birch-Johnson’s items, ~ viz., a comic song, "The Bird on Nelly’s Hat," and a whistling solo, "O Sole Mio." Myr. Frank Moran, the popular comedian, will provide the humour on the programme, will be contributed to by