1YA Features

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 31, 14 February 1930, Page 10

1YA Features

ON Sunday evening the service from the Strand Methodist Mission will be: relayed, the preacher being Rey. Cc. G. Serimgeour and the song leader Mr. T, T. Garland. After the service there will be a relay from the Albert Park of the concert to be given by the Auckland. Municipal Band, conducted by Mr. Christopher Smith. ON Tuesday evening, at 7.15, Mr. Geo. Campbell will continue his talks on "Motoring." During Tuesday evening’s broadcast of an operatice programme there will again be relays of selected items from the talking pictures at the Majestic Theatre. The vocalists for the studio concert will -be three of Auckliand’s finest soloists, Miss Phyllis Hazel (contralto); Mys. Laetitia Parry (mezzosoprano) and Mr. Frank Sutherland (Bass-baritone). Mr. Sutherland will sing "The Colleen Bawn" (from "Lily of Killarney"), "In Happy Moments" (from "Maritana"’) and "The Cobbler’s Song" (from "Chu Chin Chow"): The records will include some splendid chorus work. One of the numbers will be the famous sextette from "Lucia di Lammermoor" and the "Soldiers’ Chorus" from "Faust." Instrumental items on the programme will be provided by the members of the Studio Trio. The usual weekly "Topical Talk’ will be given by Mr. A. B. Chappell. ON Wednesday evening, at 7.40, Madame Mabel Milne will give a talk on "Health and Diet." Quartettes by Madame Mary Towsey’s party on Wednesday evening will be "Silent Night" and "Fair Shines the Moon." Madame will sing "When the Dew is Falling" and "Mattinata." Miss Aimee Clapham will sing "Soul of Mine" and "Fairy Pipers." "She is far from the Land" will be sung by Mr. J. MeDougall and Mr. John Bree’s baritone solos will be "By the Light of the Moon" and "Lo

Mary." The two male voices will be heard in a duet, "Army and Navy." Hlocutionary items by Mr. J. F. Montague will include Masefield’s dramatic "Gallipoli: The Sth of August," a theme of great interest to New Zealand Gallipoli veterans. UNDER the auspices of the League of Nations’ Union, Mr. John Cook will speak on Thursday evening at 7.40 on "Women and Children and War." Making her debut as a soloist on Thursday evening will be Miss Chrissie Foster, soprano. She is a member of the 1¥YA Broadcasting Choir. Her items will be "I Love the Moon," ‘"Comin’ Through the Rye" and "Pale Moon." The Orchestral. Octet, under Mr. Eric Waters, will present an_ interesting programme which will include the "Faust Suite’ (by Lazzari). The ever-popular Asquiths will give another of their twenty-minute drawingroom entertainments, and the Waikiki Duo will be heard in Hawaiian airs, A dance music programme will follow, from 9.30 till 11 p.m. "GQCHUBERT" will be the subject of a lecture-recital by Mrs. Daisy Basham, assisted by Miss Millicent O’Grady and Mr. Len Barnes, on Friday evening. This will be a treat to all lovers of this great composer. One of the instrumental numbers to be played by. the Studio Trio will have a dulcitone accompaniment. Popper’s "Harlequin" will be played by Miss Molly Wright, ‘cellist. On the same programme will be a lecture-recital by Mr. Karl Atkinson, "Chamber Music Without Yawns." MISss EDNA PEACE (contralto) and Mr. Roger Errington (tenor) will be the vocalists on Saturday evening. The former will sing "A Dream Garden" and two of Morgan’s. Indian songs, "An Indian Squaw’s Song" and "An Indian Lullaby." Three very popular numbers will be sung by Mr. Brrington, "Annie Laurie," "Mother Machree" and "laa Donna e Mobile." The popular Snappy Three will be heard in vocal trios and piano jazz numbers. The Or-

a chestral Octet, under Mr. Eric Waters, will present a very entertaining prosramine, and there will be humour from Mr. T. T. Garland. The records will include a vocal quartet, "I’se Gwine Back to Dixie," a duo by the "Happiness Boys," Venie Clements in a dialogue, comedy by Frank Leo and party, and "The Whistling Bowery Boy," for which Albert Whelan is the siffleur. Altogether it is an excellent Saturday evening entertainment.