SATURDAY

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 44, 16 May 1930, Page 11

SATURDAY

From 1YA. OME very fine numbers will be given by the Orchestral Octet, (Continued on page 21.)

Programme Features

(Concluded from page 11.) ) ineluding two lighter numbers, "Maisie? and "Goblin Blue" (by Z

Monty Carlo, better known as Edith Harrhy). A new combination, Miller’s BanjoMandolin Quartet, will render numbers including "If I Had a Talking Picture of You," and "My Song of the Nile." Mr. G. OC. Tollerton, a very fine humorist, has been included on the proa

gramme, also Mrs. A. Rattray (soprano) who has made herself’ very popular with listeners. Mrs. Rattray will sing by request, "Ye Banks and Braes." From’ 2YA. Variety in Plenty T 740 Mr. A. H. Wilson, of the Tourist Department, will deliver a lecturette on "Tourist and Holiday Resorts." An excellent vaudeville programme has been arranged, the: Salon Orchestra playing "The Hntry of the Boyards" as an overture, two Haydn Wood eompositions, "The Village. Wedding" and "The Laughing Cavalier" (broadeast for the first time) and several of the latest dance numbers. Mr. W. Sneddon will play as a cornet solo with orchestral accompaniment "My Ships," and Mr. V. R. Brown, a piccolo solo "The Captive Bird." Reno and Arta, the well-known. xylophone duo, will feature several popular numbers and Mr. Will Bishop will'entertain at the piano. Vocal items will be rendered by the Melodie Four, and Miss Myrtle Chote, F.T.0.L., L.A.B., of Wanganui. A feature of the programme as arranged will be a relay of several items from the concert of Old Songs and Dances by the children of the Presbyterian Homes. The choir, which performs under the conductorship of Mr. D. L. Irwin, will be heard in songs of Bohemia and Norway. The evening’s programme will be interrupted at 9 o’clock by the inclusion of the relay from Napier of 2 ringside description of the LeckieDonovan boxing match. -- situinmanemenstion ----

_ From 3YA, 1" "THERD will be plenty of variety from 3YA. Mr, Frank Moran will discourse on the question "Do Married Men Make the Best Husbands?" and he will also present a sketch entitled "The Curate qnd the Congregation." "Four Boys and a Piano" will give what they call "A Minstrel Pot Pourri" (a negro entertainment) and "A Potted Revue." Miss Mary O’Connor (soprano) will sing two Irish folk songs, and the songs Mr. R. 8S. H. Buchanan (baritone soloist of the Cathedral Choir) will sing will prove very acceptable. One of the latter will be the old favourite, "Simon the Cellarer." Some of the very latest popular songs will be sung by the Joyous Pair, and two clarinet solos will be played by Mr. S. BE. Munday.