2YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 7, 30 August 1929, Page 14

2YA Features

HE service in Trinity Methodist . Church, Newtown, will be broadeast on Sunday evening. The preacher will be the Rev. T. W. Vealie. The concert programme for the after-church broadcast will be provided by the Port Nicholson Silver Band, whose recital in the Grand Opera House will be relayed. (MONDAY evening’s ‘programme will be of outstanding merit. The vocalists will be Mrs. Edris Spackman, of Napier (soprano), Mr. John Prouse (baritone), Miss Hilda Chudley (contralto), and Mr. Chas. Edwards (tenor). Also to be presented is the remarkable radio play, "Danger," Mrs. Edris Spackman is not unknown to listeners, having performed from the station on a previous occasion very successfully. Her items on this occasion will be "Damon,".by Max Strange, "Solvieg’s Song," from Greig’s "Peer Gynt Suite," and Schubert’s "Rosebud on the Hillside." Mr. John Prouse is making a welcome reappearance before. the microphone on this programme. He has chosen for his items two gems from oratorio in "Honour. and Arms" and "How Willing My Paternal Love," also two ballad numbers; "Gipsy John’ and "Here’s a Health." A negro spiritual, "Nobody Knows De Trouble I’ve Seen," and two classical songs, will be Miss

Hilda Chudley’s contribution to the programme, Mr. Chas. Edwards will sing "King Duncan’s Daughters," and the well-known tenor aria from Handel’s . oratorio, . "Samson," "Total Eclipse." The orchestral items will be the overture to "Orpheus in the Underworld," parts one and two of Luigini’s "Ballet Russe," Liszt’s "Liebestraum," Rachmaninoff’s "In the Silence of the Night," and a Fantasia of "William Tell. "? (TUESDAY evening’s programme Vis one that will cater for many tastes. The items comprise solos from musical comedies, sung by Mr. and Mrs. Ray Kemp, light songs at the piano by Mr. B. A. Sargent, and jazz piano and vocal numbers by Messrs. Claude Hoare and Edwin Silver. The. orchestral items will comprise such old. favourites as the "Crown Diamonds" overture, Ketelby’s suite, "In a Fairy Realm," Godowsky’s "Alt Wien," and "Reconciliation," from Drigo’s "Les Millions DArlequin.": "THE Wellington City Silver Band, assisted by Mrs. Edris Spackman (soprano), Mr, 8S. BE. Rodger (baritone), Mr. BR. W. Robbins (tenor), Miss Evelyn Robinson (contralto), and Miss Maisie Carte-Lloyd, of Auckland (elocutioniste), will give another of their: popular and entertaining studio concerts on Thursday evening. The band items will comprise such popular numbers. as the "Poet and Peasant Overture," two numbers from WoodfordFinden’s "Indian Love Lyrics" Suite, the selection, "Gems of the Old Days," Wilenberg’s "March of the Mountain Gnomes," and several marches ané@ waltzes. me Miss Maisie Carte-Lloyd is a wellknown Auckland elocutionist, who is often heard on the air from 1YA, and she is taking the opportunity while on 2 Visit to Wellington, of entertaining Wellington listeners with items from her extensive repertoire. ON Saturday evening -a_ high-class vaudeville programme will be’ presented, the vocalists being the Melodie Four and Mrs.- Winifred Birch-John-ston, who will also contribute one of her inimitable whistling solos. The concerted items will be "In the 8! ows," "?’Cos I’d Nothing Hlse to & and Tosti’s "While I Love You." ue Sam Duncan will sing Blumenthal’s "Hyening Song," and Mr. R. S. All-

ames wright "Mleurette’ and "The Star." Mr. W. W. Marshall will be heard in ‘The Courier of Moscow," and Mr. Frank Bryant’s solo will be "Duna." Mr. Len Ashton, a popular entertainer at 2YA, will be heard in two humorous request numbers, "Please, Could You Oblige Me With a Stamp," and Misery Farm." Mrs. Wildred Kenny’s Mandolin Band will add novelty to the programme. Orchestral items will be in keeping with the programme, and at 10 p.m. the usual dance programme will be broadcast. ME. W. Roy Hill, who was a victim of a serious motor-car accident some months ago, will be welcomed back to radio circles on Friday even"ing when the Aeriel Singers will. be supplying the vocal portion of the muSical programme. Mr. Hill will sing twefsolos, settings by Quilter and Lidgey, of two BDlizabethan poems. The other soloists will be Miss Jeanette Briggs, Miss Ngaire Coster, and Mr. J. M. Caldwell. As a quartette, the Ariel Singers will contribute "Isle of Beauty." Mr. J. F. Montague will give a humorous item, and there will be selections by the Studio Orchestra. This concert programme will occupy the second half of the evening’s session, following on "Galapagos," and the talk by the Hon. T. M. Wilford on "The Skyways as Highways." ON Friday evening the dramatic. radio play, "Galapagos," will ve presented by Mr. J. F. Montague and * company. Mr. Montague is already well known to listenes of 1YA as a producer of plays of no mean order, and his production of "Galapagos" will we looked forward with keen interest by listeners generally. This play when produced at 1YA some time ago was enthusiastically received, and ao effort-is being spared to make the 2YA production the equal of the 1YA effort. The vocal portion of the programme will also be of a high order, the vocalists being the Ariel Singers, who will provide interesting fare. Two dramatic numbers are Henschel’s "Young Dietrich’ ‘ and "Lorraine, Lorraine, Lorree,’ by the modern composer, Charles Gilbert Spross. Others whose works will be heard are Mallinson Quilter, Lidgey and Coleridge Taylor. ATURDAY evening’s talk from 2YA promises to be of great interest to listeners on account of the recent vyanquishing of the world-famous Cunard liner Mauretania, which held the Blue Riband of ‘the Atlantie -for twenty-two years, by the Bremen. The talk. is being presented by Mr. V. Hut¢hinson, who is a well-known figure in trans-Atlantic shipping circles in New Zealand, and is thus a competent authority to deal with the subject. . Mr. Hutchinson is also giving two further talks which will be of widéspread interest, "Travelling Home Across Canada" and "Travelling Home by the United States." ‘To the intending traveller’ these should pro-. vide valuable information as to which route to travel by, the attractions of each being manifold. .