Auckland Notes

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 33, 28 February 1930, Page 15

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Miss DOROTHY YOUDKE, a popular 1YA artist, will sing from that station for the last time on Tuesday, February 25, as she is’ being married on March 4. Her fiance is Mr. D. H. Wrathall, of 4YA, and formerly programme organiser at 1YA. Another 1YA artist who is to marry shortly is Miss ‘Ivy Phillips, of the IYA Choir. After the choir rehearsal last Monday evening (February 17) she was presented with a coffee set by Mr. Len Barnes, on behalf of her fellow choir members and the _ station staff. Miss Phillips intends to continue singing in the choir, which is now rehearsing ‘"‘The Rebel Maid," by Montagu Philips. A NUMBER of listeners who complain that the same old songs are put over by 1YA artists with monotonous regularity will be pleased to learn that the 1YA Musical and Dramatic Committee and the station staff are doing their utmost to encourage artists to render new songs and numbers.. In fact, the programme organiser has been instructed to engage only those artists who will learn new numbers. WIitHour a doubt the outstanding artists in last week’s programmes were Hilton Black and Alice Bennetto, whose half-dozen items on Thursday night were particularly fine to listen to. With all due respect to our gifted amateurs there is no denying that there is something in the touch of the professional which makes a special appeal, The professional knows all "the tricks of the trade." Another professional artist who is to be featured on 1YA programmes is Mr. Lew James, 2 member of the original touring caste of "Potash and Perlmutter." Mr. James, who has broadcast most successfully in Sydney, has his own company of artists and is to present the farce "Give and Take" to listeners on April 9, while on April 12 the com-

pany will give a full vaudeville programme. "THE radio presentation of Sutton Vane’s "Outward Bound" was such a success last year that the Auckland Little Theatre Society, under the direction of Mr. Kenneth Brampton, are to produce the play for listeners again on March 25. This play has proved particularly suitable for broadcasting and 2FC, Sydney, are giving it this month. (TALKS in series are in favour with *" YA. A series under the auspices of the League of Nations Union is now nearing its close; a series by members of the Auckland Zoological Society begins on February 25, and a series on art, arranged by Dr. HE. B. Gunson, president of the Auckland Society of Arts, is to follow. Three talks relative to the cancer campaign are also to be given shortly. ‘THE suggestion that the heavy mineral deposits in the Coromandel Range interferes with reception of 1¥A in the south-eastern part of the Auckland province is discredited by a listener at Patetonga. He lives within three miles of the Range, and has operated a commercial battery set for some time and also an_ electricallyequipped Superheterodyne of the same make for the past two months, and on both sets has had splendid reception of all New Zealand stations, especially of 1YA. The ease which I quoted recently of a tested eightvalve set which failed to get 1YA satisfactorily in Morrinsville (further from the mineral deposits than Mr. Newdick's sets) wus very likely due to some interference in the immediate locality, although it is strange that other New Zealand stations should have come in so well. Can any other Morrinsville reader make a suggestion as to the course of the interference?