Notes from 1YA

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 12, 4 October 1929, Page 14

Notes from 1YA

HB service in St. Mary’s Cathedral will be broadcast on Sunday evening. Canon William Fancourt will be the preacher. A studio concert will follow at 8.80. The local singers will be Mrs. J. Le Pettit (singing "Husheen," "Four by the Clock" and "The Arrow and the Song’), Mr. Clinton Williams, baritone (singing "Open the Gates of the Temple," "Give Me Youth and a Day," and "Her Rose"), and Miss Ina Bosworth, whose violin solos will be "Romance" and "Menuet Berenice." Recordings will comprise orchestral and band selections, a pianoforte solo by Friedman, a tenor solo by Charles Hackett, and an organ selection by G. I. Pattman. T 7 pm. on Tuesday evening Mr. George Campbell will continue his motoring hints. At 7.40 another talk in the W.I.A. series will be given by Mr. F. N. Bamford, who will talk on ‘Designing a Small House." A programme of popular operatic numbers will be presented on Tuesday evening. The vocalists, the Olympian Quartet, will be associated in gems from various operas, including "Cavalleria Rusticana," "Carmen," "The Bohemian Girl,’ and "The Lily of Killarney," while orchestral renderings from Wagner’s "Parsifal" will also be heard. The Studio Trio will render some very fine numbers including "Cradle Song" (by Winge) and "Peasant Dance" (by Hartmann), and Miss Mollie Wright will play the ’cello solo by Lalo, "Chanson Villageoise." Mr. A. B. Chappell, M.A., will give another of his interesting "Topical Talks." and the Auckland Comedy Players will present a sketch "Complaints Department." Mr. J. F. Montague will recite "The Book with the Yellow Pages." N Wednesday, at 7.40 p.m., Mr. Norman Kerr will continue his talks on Physical Culture, a series which is greatly appreciated by listeners.

The Auckland Artillery Band will supply the instrumental portion of the programme on Wednesday evening. This combination is much appreciated by listeners, and an excellently varied programme has been arranged. Miss Kay Christie, the popular young contralto, will sing some ballads, and Mr. T. T. Garland will again diffuse his inimitable humour. A new singer to 1YA will be heard, Mr. J. B. McLean, a tenor with extensive concert and theatrical experience in England and South Africa. To conclude the programme, "A Commentator" will give a

half-hour review of latest recordings. This is the second of a regular fortnightly series. Once again the ever-popular Radio Seamps will appear on Thursday evening in "Still More Scampers with the

Radio Scamps." This is a programme of mirth and melody. The Wsperanto series will be continued on Friday at 7.40 pm. the speaker being Mr. W. G, E: Wheeler. On Friday evening there will be a relay from Cambridge of the Competitions Demonstration Concert. OF great interest to amateur gardeners will be a talk on Saturday at 7.40 pm. by Mr. A. E. McMahon on "Dahlias." Well varied will be Saturday’s programme. Songs by Mr. Frank Sutherland will be "Mendin’ Roadways,"

"TListenin’," and "Cavalier." There will be monologues by Miss Nina Scott, elocutioniste. The Bohemian Duo and Ingall’s Hawaiians will combine in some splendid light instrnmental numbers. Cadman’s "Four American Indian Songs" will be played hy the Studio Orchestra.