WEDNESDAY

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 39, 11 April 1930, Page 14

WEDNESDAY

The Orphans’ Club Orchestra From 1YA. At 7.40 this evening a further talk by Madame Mabel Milne on "Health and Diet" will be given. Something out of the way is pro- | mised listeners at the concert session when the programme is to be given by the Orphans Club Orchestra, under the conductorship of Orphan Harold Baxter. .1YA is extremely fortunate in being able to present this fine combination of 40 instruments to listeners. Vocal solos, with orchestral accompaniment, will be given by Orphans Stan Pritchard and Bernard Carter; a violin solo, entitled "Czardas," by Orphan Frank Hoffey, and humour will: be presented by Orphan Rex Yates. Listeners are assured of an excellent evening’s entertainment, 2YA Silent Day. From 3YA. Miss GLADYS BROOKS, soprano, who made her radio debut at 8YA recently on the evening when Mr. W. H. Dixon gave his lecture recital "Stories and Songs from Operas," will be singing this evening. Her items will be "Bend Low Thine Ear," "A _ Blackbird’s Song" and "Alleluia" (an Haster hymn). Mrs. Rhys Morgan (known to Christchurch musicians as Miss Hileen Papprill) will be singing for the first time in radio. Her songs will be "Salaam," "Far Across the Desert Sands" and "The Cloths of Heaven." Mr. Harold Prescott (tenor) will sing "E Lucevan Ie Stella" (from "Tosea’"’), Tostis "Serenata" (a song not often

heard), and "A Song of Thanksgiv- .. ing," another fine song to which Mr. ‘@rescott’s splendid voice should do tice... Humorous elocutionary umbers will be given by Mr. Richard J. rs The inelemental musie of the programme ibe provided by Mr. Harold Beck (’cellist) and the Broadcasting Trio. From 4YA. "SOME suggestions for children’s parties" will be the subject for a talk to ladies this afternoon by the Home Science Extension Department of Otago University, under the auspices of 4YA Primary Productions Committee. In the evening there will: be a talk to farmers on "Tuberculosis in Farm Animals" by Mr. C. Weighton, M.R.C.V.S, A feature of the evening’s programme will. be a talk by Mr. BH. Norman Torry,/ author, on "How to Write Fiction." The evening’s concert programme will be light and varied. There will be three saxophone duets by Messrs. J. McCaw and‘ T. Law, with Mr. Moore-Wilson at the piano. Piano Meee,

novelties will also be contributed by Mr. Moore-Wilson. . Soprano solos will be sung by Miss Muriel Eager, while Mr. Norman Scurr will contribute light vocal numbers. —

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