SATURDAY

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 51, 4 July 1930, Page 25

SATURDAY

‘Relay from 1YA. ROM the Town Hall, a concert to be given by the Municipal Band under the conductorship of Mr. Christopher Smith will be relayed. This will be followed by a programme of dance music until 11 p.m. Nigger Minstrels 2YA Notes. The station will be on the air at midday in order that the results of the third day of the Wellington Racing Club’s winter meeting may be broadeast. The W.E.A. lecturette will be in the capable hands of Professor B.

E. Murphy, Professor of Economics, Victoria University College.. He will speak on "The Economics of Fashion." The concert session will be devoted to an "Old-Time Nigger Minstrel Show" with songs (plantation and darkey type), negro dialogue, banjos, bones and burnt-cork complete. There will be two corner men with an interlocutor to give the real "minstrel" atmosphere to the proceedings. The orchestral music by the Salon Orchestra will be in keeping with the programme. The dance programme. will commence at 10 p.m. and at 11 p.m. the usual sporting summary will be given. Christchurch Item. R. DAVID McGILL, one of Christchurch’s most popular tenor singers will be welcomed back to 3YA after a long absence from the city. Another singer on the evening’s programme will be Mr. Leslie Fleming singing "La Paloma," "The Dream Tryst" and "Funiculi, Funicula." The Joyous Pair will contribute popular vocal duets at the piano and sketches will be enacted by the Mascots. Violin solos will be played by Miss Irene Morris, and a programme of instrumental music will be provided by the Broadcasting Trio. This programme will be relayed to 4YA.