2YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 24, 27 December 1929, Page 14

2YA Features

HB evening service of St. Gerard’s Redemptorist Church will be broadcast on Sunday.- The choir will be under the conductorship of Mr. J. F. Oakes, and Mr. Henry Mount will be at the organ. From the studio, at the conclusion of the church service, a concert will be given by the Wellington Municipal Tramways Band, assisted by the following artists :-Miss Hileen Higgins (mezzo-soprano), Miss Nora Greene (contralto), and Mr. John Prouse (baritone). An item of outstanding interest. will be the first appearance at 2YA of Miss Marjorie Skill, of Sydney. Miss Skill is a leading lyric soprano in Sydney, and her numbers will be certain to create great interest amongst listeners, Signor A. P. Truda will play the flute obligato to Miss Skill’s solo, "Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, N Monday afternoon the _ studio programme will be interspersed with summaries of the cricket match, Wellington vy. Canterbury. This match, which is: being played at the Basin Reserve, will be described by Mr. A. Varney. Listeners still have pleasant recollections of the last relay from Otaki, and they will no doubt be interested to learn that another entertainment will be given on Monday avening, Arrangements are being made to make this ‘concert better, if

i i i i i i i i i ih i il ily bi i i li i ian s possible, than the last. The concert is in aid of a scheme to raise funds for tennis courts for the young Maori people of Otaki. . ; N the afternoon of New "Year's Eve, further summarised’ descriptions of the Wellington v. Canterbury cricket match will be given by Mr. A. Varney. For the concert session on Tuesday evening a ‘special pro--gramme has been arranged, the assisting artists being Mrs. Violet Lochoré (soprano), Mr. Lad Haywood (mandolinist), Mr. Peter Connell (baritone), Miss Evelyn Robinson (contralto), Mr. Harry Phipps (tenor), and.Mr. Billy Hart, who will be heard in popular songs at the piario. Mr. Jack Wilkinson will provide the humour of. the programme with several comic songs. The 2YA Salon Orchestra, under the conductorship of Mr. M. Dixon, will also contribute to the evening’s entertainment. At 10 p.m. a dance programme will be presented, terminating at 11 -p.m., when a relay of Watch Night service from the Taranaki Street Methodist Church will be carried out. | THE fine? day’s play in the Wellington v. Canterbury match wfll be described on Wednesday afternoonby Mr. A. Varney. The concert sessio in the evening will consist of a special holiday programme, featuring Allan’s Dance Orchestra in some of the latest dance numbers. The orchestra will be assisted by Mr. Val Jones (baritone), Miss Phyllis Liddell | (soprano), Mr. Frank Amoore (tenor),. Mr. Frank Moran (comedian), and Miss Lily Charles, who will sing several popular song numbers. The programme will continue until 11 p.m., instead of 10 p.m., this being a departure from the usual practice on account of the holiday. ON Thursday evening a new combination of entertainers, the Radiolites Concert Party, will provide a novelty programme of a bright and happy nature. The items comprise choruses, vocal solos, humorgys sketches and novelty numbers, bod vocal’ and instrumental, in keeping with the holiday season. In the news session, Hare Hongi will give his first of a further series ‘of talks on "Maori Pronunciation." A PROGRAMME of operatic num7 .bers will be presented on Friday evening by the 2YA Orchestra, under Signor Truda and Misses Jeanette Briggs .and Ngaire Coster (soprano and contralto respectively), Mr. J. M. Caldwell (bass) and Mr. Will Haneock (tenor). The orchestrina will play the overture "Italians in Algeria" (by Rosini), a selection from the opera "La Traviata," two musical .- comedy numbers, "Veronique" and ft "The Gypsy Princess," and a concert’ waltz by Waldteufel, "Waltz Militaire." An item of outstanding interest will be a talk by Mr. B..Norman Torry, the well-known author and. lecturer, on "How to Write Fiction." This will not be a dull, uninteresting

we eture, but a bright, witty dissertaten on "matters literary." Mr. Torry hgs lectured on numerous occasions beth on the public platform and to clubs, societies and other organisations, and that his talk will ‘prove of more than passing interest to listeners there can be no doubt. , A PROGRAMME somewhat off the ""heaten track" will be presented on Saturday evening, when a relay description of the whole of the evering performance of Messrs, Wirth Brothers’ Circus will be given. This programme should prove of more than passing interest not only to those in town, but also to the Jess fortunate in the country and in hospitals. Prior to passing to the’relay the Salon Orchestra, under the conductorship of MréA-M. Dixon, will play as an overture Binding’s "Life on the Ocean Wave." The usual dance programme will be presented at approximately 10 pm. : *