1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 9, 13 September 1929, Page 14

1YA Features

tHE church service on Sunday evenwill be relayed from the Church of Christ, the preacher being Pastor Campbell. Following the church service a studio concert will be presented, including soprano solos by Miss R. McOCullay, who will sing "Believe Me if all those Hndearing "Young Charms" and "Oft in the Stilly Night," baritone solos by Mr. Clinton Williams, who will sing "Like as the Hart Desireth," by Allitson, and contralto solos by Miss Nellie Lingard, who will include Handel’s "Verdi Prati" in her items. At 7.40 p.m. on Tuesday, Madame Edith Baird will continue a series of talks on "Artistic Physical Development," and the studio programme will feature the presentation by the Olympians Quartet of the song cycle "In a Persian Garden." Messrs. Lambert Harvey and Barrie Coney will combine in the singing of the well-known operatic duet, "In This’ Solemn Hour" from Verdi’s opera, and the concluding portion of the evening ‘will be given over to a gramophone lecture recital by Mr. Karl Atkinson, who has taken as his subject, "Iairies in Music." The recital is of a most unusual type, and promises to be of considerable interest. Mr, A. B. Chappell, M.A., will present a topical talk at 9.19, and pianoforte. solos will be given by Miss Theo Halpin, who will include in her items AIbeniz’s "Seguidillas."

HDNESDAY’S news session will see a further» talk by Madame Mabel Milne on "Health. and Diet," and the evening programme will be contributed to in the main by the ‘Auckland Artillery Band and assisting artists. The band items will include the overture "Light Cavalry," by Suppe, and the novelty selection "Pop Goes the ‘Weasel!’ Selections from "The Maid of the Mountains" will also be included, and further items will be given by the

band, "In a Persian Market," by Ketelbey and "Kighting Mae," arranged by Rimmer. A new combination of sketch artists, Mrs. Betty Bell and Mr. Dan Flood, will present the sketch, "The Pact," and a humorous item "Where Were You Last Night?" Mr. John Bree, the well-known Auckland baritone, will ‘sing Slater’s "From Oberon in Fairyland" and "For You Alone," by Gheel. A cornet duet by Bandsmen

K. Smith and L, Mackay, "Besses 0’ th’ Barn," will also be rendered, and Mrs. N. V. Le Petit will contribute soprano solos. T 7.40 p.m. on Thursday, Mr. N. M. Richmond, B.A., will continue the W.2.A. series of talks with the subject, "The Modern Age as the Modern Woman Sees It." The Auckland Comedy Players will provide a very interest-

ing play in the concert session with Conan Doyle’s "Waterloo," which was presented at 4XYA some months ago by Major Lampen with outstanding success. The story of "Waterloo" centres round the character of one of Wellington’s old soldiers, Corporal Brewster, whose reminiscences of the’ various battles and events of Waterloo’s day prove most amusing. At the same time the play, generally speaking, is serious

in character, and, handled by the Auckland Comedy Players, should be an exceptionally fine offering to listeners. Mr. J. F. Montague on the same programme, will recite "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," the popular dramatic recital by Robert Service . The Studio Orchestra will include in their items selections by, Bendel, "By the Lake of Geneva," a descriptive suite. They will also play three old songs, "Sally in Our Alley," "Long, Long, Ago" and "Turkey in the Straw" and at the conclusion of the programme selections from "The Mikado" will be presented. Dance music will be continued until 11 p.m. A SERIDS of talks on Rugby football will be continued by Mr. Prank Sutherland at 7 p.m. on Friday and at 7.40 Mr. W. G. B. Wheeler will speak on "Hsperanto." At 8 o’clock a concert will be relayed from Messrs. Lewis Hady’s Hall, which will continue until 8.30, when the long promised Waitomo Caves Concert will’ commence, The contributing artists to the Caves Concert will be Miss Millicent O’Grady (soprano), Miss Nina Scott (elocutioniste), Mr. Owen Pritchard (humorist), Mr. Len Barnes (baritone) and Mr. Cyril Towsey, the studio pianist. The evening relay from this wellknown tourist resort will doubtless create great interest with listeners, as apart from the excellence of the concert arranged, much interest will cen-

tre in the acoustic properties of the caves. PROGRAMME of a light nature has been arranged for Saturday, when follawing the -Rugby football relay from Hden Park at 3 p.m. selections of the latest popular vocal hits by the Snappy Three and popular ballads by Sergeant W. H. Hallahan will be presented. Contralto solos will be given by Miss Phyllis Hazel, who will sing, ."Smilin’ Through" by Penn and "A Summer Night" by Goring Thom Humorous items by Mr. Dan Flood an light instrumental numbers by the orchestra will contribute to what should prove a popular week-end entertainment.