WEDNESDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 11, 26 September 1930, Page 10

WEDNESDAY

‘From 1YA. Miss BRIAR GARDNER will give the second of the series of talks on "Pottery" at 7.40 p.m. From 8 to 9 p.m. a relay from the Auckland Town Hall of a,sing-song conducted by the Auckland Community Singing Committee will be broadcatt. During the winter relays of the coimunity sings at the Town Hall have been conducted every Wednesday, and the committee has received literally hundreds of letters assuring them of listeners’ appreciation of these broadeasts. The second half of the programme will commence with the debate by the Forums and Aginums on the subject: "That Capital Punishment Should be Abolished." The programme will include a gramophone lecture-re-cital by Mr. Karl Atkinson entitled "Songs and Their Stories." Broadcast from 3YA. OWING to the departure of Miss Belle Renaut for Wellington, her Place in the Melodious Four at 3YA has been taken by Miss Millicent Jen‘nings, contralto. The members of the quartet now are: Miss Frances Hamer

ton, Miss Millicent Jennings, Mr. Russell Sumner, and Mr. T. D. Williams. The programme to be presented this evening will be mainly operatice, excerpts being taken from grand and light opera. A number of miscellan. eous vocal items are also included in the programme. The numbers by ‘the Studio Octet comprise the "Widelio’ overture, three of Cadman’s Americar Indian songs, a selection from "The ~Country Girl,’ "Three Dale Dances" (Wood), and Bucalossi’s "Grasshopper’s Dance." Blocutionary items wil be contributed by Miss Winifred Smith. 8 Notes from Dunedin. "SPRING CLEANING" will be the afternoon talk at 4YA by the Home Science Exhibition Department of Otago University. At 7.15 Mr. H. D. Kerr will speak to farmers on "Manufacture of Superphosphate." Both talks will be under the auspices of the 4YA Primary Productions Committee. A new artist on 4YA’s programme will be a boy soprano, Master Eric Johnson. He has a keen appreciation of rhythm, and possesses a wonderfully clear voice, An exceptionally amusing sketch dealing with radio will be given by Miss Maiona Juriss. The instrumental portion is in thte capable hands of the Novelty Syncopaters, whose versatility is exemplified to no,small extent in this programme, when they will present, in addition to concerted numers, saxophone solos and duets, piano } and "catchy" vocal choruses. The vocal section is also strong.