News from Across the Tasman

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 33, 28 February 1930, Page 11

News from Across the Tasman

N February 27 the A.B.C. Players, under the direction of Mr. Laurence Halbert, will present from 2FC the life-after-death drama, "Outward Bound," by Sutton Veno. The ‘initial production of this play in London in 1923 created a furore among dramatic erities because of its original .plot. There is one scene only for the three acts, the lounge and smoke room of a small ocean liner. The success of the play depends on the reading of the lines and the characterisations, as there is very little action throughout the three acts. | TALK will be given by Mr. George Cowley on February 28 from 3LO on the life work of England’s famous statesman, Benjamin Disraeli, Harl of Beaconsfield. Disraeli first came into prominence with the publication of "Vivian Gray,’ which was so audaciously clever that it at once placed him in the limelight of public attention. He became a prominent and picturesque figure in Parliament, and ultimately became one of the chief leaders of the Tory Party. In 1868 he was made Premier. QTATION 8L0 will again celebrate the national day of the patron saint of Wales by broadcasting a Welsh programme on Mareh 1. The Cambrian Glee Party will again provide a programme of Welsh music, but the members of the party are hopeful on this occasion they will sing under better circumstances. Like all good Welsh people, the Glee Party attended the St. David’s Day celebration picnic last year, and on the return trip from Queenscliff, the Weeroona experienced particularly bad weather. On arrival at Melbourne, with less than an hour to spare before they were to face the microphone, most of the party were violently seasick, and it was a wan and weary party that sang the songs of Wales that night. As usual, the programme is being arranged by Mr. R. H. Owen, and the soloists will. be Messrs. Eric Jones and Owen Griffith, and Misses Mia Morgan and Iris Turner, with Mrs. Stuart Cowan at the piano. Boe STROTHER and William Everard will sing some of the most popular coon numbers from 2BL on February 28. Mr. Strother was one of the original "White Coons" and has appeared at Buckingham Palace, He is the composer of the popular music roll, "Moonlight Goblins." Mr. Everard has a good tenor voice, well suited to broadcasting. Impressions of Dugene Stratton singing "The Lily of Ilaguna" and "Walking Home with Angeline" will be included in their forthcoming programme. BOUT three years ago the Maoriland Trio left New Zealand shores for Australia with the Aotea-roa Maori performers, and listeners may possibly remember their initial broadeast from.2FC. They are Bud and Ruahine Thompson, and Riwa Hodge, and the presentation of Maori numbers from 2BL on February 28 should hold a special appeal for New’ Zealand listeners. "Maori Love Ditties’ and "Waealae Medley" will be included in their programme, ‘

R SCOTT ALEXANDER, whose plays have been a popular feature of 2FC’s. programmes for some time, will broadcast on March 1 from 2FO for the last time before leaving for Engiand, His final appearance will be in a radio play "The Smiler," by Codrington Ball, a sketch similar to the brief dramas he has been presenting weekly for some months past. R. CHRISTIAN HELLEMAN will broadcast an organ recital through 2BL on February 28. "The Chant Heroique" of Caesar Franck and Borowski’s "Hlegie’ should make a pleasing contrast. "Minuet" (Moszkowski), "In Springtime" (Hollins), "Scherzo" (Helleman), Mendelssohn’s "Spring Song’ and the "March Militaire" (Schubert) make up a programme which should appeal to all lovers of organ music. A SERIES of national programmes dealing with the various countries of the world will be broadcast shortly through 2BL at regular intervals. The first of the series will be heard over the air on Thursday, February 27, when M. Marcel Bourguin, DeputyConsul for France, will give a description of the capital city, outstanding pleasure resorts, and pastimes of his country. The address will be in French, followed by the Wnglish translation. N MARCH 1 thé "Who-Is-It" Revue Company will broadcast a medley of entertaining novelties from 2BL. Miss Stella Lamond’s song, "I Am a Woman Who Knows," and the clever chorus "Watson’s Walnut Wattean What-not," by Frank Hastie, the celebrated English comedian, are two numbers which are sure to _ please, while sketches by D. B. O’Connor and Miss Daphne George are amusing in the extreme. MiSs VIOLET COLLINSON, soprano, will appear in "The Contrasts Revue Company," to broadcast from 2FC on February 28. During the past two years she has given numerous recitals in the Sydney Town Hall, and was a soloist at the Eucharistic Congress Concert in 1928. Included in her next broadcast programme will be the well-known song, "Still as the Night."