Overseas Artists

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 39, 11 April 1930, Page 7

Overseas Artists

Mr. Harris and Miss Smith N June New Zealand listeners will hear Mr. Barend Harris, a wellknown Australian broadcasting artist. While on a visit to New Zealand, he will fulfil engagements with the Broadcasting Company. Mr. Harris has an exceptionally fine ' bass voice of great range and excellent quality, and is one of the most popular radio artists in. Sydney and Melbourne. He sings folk songs in Russian, Hebrew and Yiddish, besides singing in Italian and Bnglish, He "bas a vast repertoire. ISTHENERS-IN to 4YA have recently had the pleasure of hearing a visiting Melbourne artiste, Miss Jessie Shmith, contralto. Miss Shmith arrived in-Dunedin last month and will spend a few months in New Zealand before extending her tour to America. She is a very versatile artiste. She does not confine herself to one type of ballad, but is able to render operatic or oratorio excerpts, or a lilting foxtrot, with equal facility, thus making her an ideal artist for a country tour. Though she is remarkably successful in all her numbers, she naturally shows to great advantage in songs of her own composition, which have enjoyed a great popularity both in -Australia and overseas. Miss Shmith has been broadcast since the early days of radio, and is a very popular performer not only in Australia, but to those New Zealand listeners who tune in to the overseas stations.