1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 6, 23 August 1929, Page 14

1YA Features

HE Sunday evening church service will be relayed from the Auckland Town Hall, where the anniversary service in connection with the .Baptist Tabernacle Sunday School is to be celebrated. The preacher will be the Rev. Joseph Kemp, the: organist and choirmaster Mr. Arthur EK. Wilson.. The ensuing programme from the studio will be. given by the Minster Quartet in quartets and solos, interspersed. by spe-cially-selected gramophone records. T 7.40 p.m. on Tuesday evening, continuing the W.H.A. series of talks, the Rev.: W. 'G. Monckton, M.A., will speak on "New Zealand and the League of Nations." The main performers in the concerted session will be the New Zealand. Four in quartettes, duets, and solos, including "Down South," "Four Jolly Sailormen," "The Little Green Balcony," "There’s a Brand New Hero," and "It Was a Dream." Contralto solos will be performed by Miss Phyllis Gribbin. who is making a welcome reappearance at 1YA after a long absence from Auckland. Her items will include "Amour viens aider" (Saint-Saens) and-"My Dearest Heart" (Sullivan). The Studio Trio include, among other numbers, selections from the musical comedy "Maytime" (Romberg), while Miss Mollie Wright will play a ’cello solo, "Chanson Louis XIII et Pavane." An outstanding item on Tuesday’s programme will be the initial appearance of a new combination of dramatic players in the persons of Mrs. Betty Bell, Miss Laurier McGregor, and Myr. Zante Wood. Their first radio presentation will be J. M. Barrie’s one-act play "The Twelve Pound Look." Another item of interest. will be the presentation of ’ the. first instalment of Verdi's great opera, "Lat Traviata," by Mr. R. W. Strong, secretary of the Auckiand Choral Society.

A SPECIAL "Nigger Minstrel" programme has been arranged for Thursday evening, and will be. presented by the "Coon-Cans from Alabama." This will be produced replete with interloeutor and endmen and the usual bones, tamborines, cross-talk, and choruses. A feature will be the singing of the old plantation songs and spirituals by the Alabama Coon Quartet. , QGUSUDSSQUPARERARNERDDSDRRUURQEGR REE EEQGEEEEEEOTELENG

NH of the main items on Friday evening’s programme will be the lecture-recital by Mrs. Daisy Basham on "Great Composers," her subject being "Mendelssohn." Mrs. Basham will have the able assistance of Mr. H. Barry Coney for this recital, and his rendering of "I Am a Roamer" will be awaited with interest. A NEW performer from IYA, in the person of Miss ©. Mulqueen, will

make her bow to listeners on Friday evening, her items including "A Barearolle ‘at Dawn" and "A Virginian Love Song" (Harrhy). The gifted monologist, Miss Nina Scott, will make a welcome reappearance, and will include among her numbers a dramatic recital, "The Gift of Tritemeous" and "J Want to go to Daddy." The Studio Trio will contribute Selections, while PEN EAMAEEUSOUAMSOAUGEONGUMUEEOLEALEOUSORELEDELOGGS

Miss Ina Bosworth (violiniste) will play "Sonata in A Major" (Handel). ATURDAY evening’s programme will include items by Miss Gwenyth vans, mezzo, and Mr. Fred, Baker, baritone: Miss Evans’ items "include "T Live for You" (Thompson) and "In My Garden" (Liddle), and Mr. Baker’s "Pagan" (Lohr) and "A Dinder Courtship" (Coates). An original novelty sketch. will be presented by the Four Originals, this being the sequel to "Oh! Millie!" which was performed some weeks ago. Orchestral selections will be played by the Studio Orchestra, while a numberof selected gramophone items will be introduced.