SATURDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 18, 14 November 1930, Page 19

SATURDAY

Auckland Programme HE station will go on the air at approximately 11.45 to broadcast the results of the Otahuhu Trotting Club’s summer meeting.- Gardening enthusiasts will be interested in the series of talks that 1YA has arranged for Saturday evenings-this evening’s talk being given by Mr. A. 2. McMahon ‘on "Chrysanthemums." Mister Ree has, firmly established himself as an entertainer. No one ever tires of the magician’s art, and this performer has the happy knack of obtaining excellent results over the air. His performance this evening will be of the same high standard as previously. Madame Dorothy Cronin, one of Auckland’s leading sopranos, who recently appeared with great success for the Auckland Choral Society, will give listeners the opportunity of again hearing her cultured singing. A good singer of rollicking songs, Mr. Arthur Wright, bass-baritone, has chosen for this evening, three old favourites. Mr. T. T. Garland will again give some of his ‘inimitable humour and orchestral selections will be played by the 1YA String Octet. Items from 2YA "THE Wellington Harmonic Society’s final concert of the 1930 season will be relayed. An excellent programme of part songs, choral and solo items has been arranged, A feature of the programme will be Gaines’s arrangement of Rubinstein’s ‘"Seraphie Song" for choir, with violin (Continued on page 29.)

Programme Features (Continued from page 17.) obligato and piano and organ accompaniment, the part song "Unto Us a Son is Given," written for piano and organ accompaniment, and a choral fantasia of the opera "Faust." The choir will perform under the baton of Mr. H. Temple White. The supporting artists will be Mr. Leon de Mauny (violinist) and Miss Myra Sawyer (vocalist). Mr. de Mauny, who is one of the finest violinists in the Dominion, will play a sonata by Handel and Rimsky- -Korsakoff’s "Hymn to the Sun." 8YA’s Programme HE Optimists’ Club will provide the which will be of a vaudeville type. The Optimists have on a previous occasion entertained listeners when they presented an excellent programme, which will Le excelled on this occasion. Some very popular choruses, such as "Pack up your Troubles," "Roses and Radishes," "My Old Kentucky Home," "The Stockrider’s Song," "There ‘is a Tavern in the Town," "Little Brown Jug," "My Bonny," and-"The Soldiers’ Chorus" (from "Faust’’), will be sung. But the entertainment will by no means be confined to choruses; some _ excellent quartet and duet and solo numbers have been arranged. A banjo and banjolene trio, consisting of Misses 9H. Churchill and M. and L. Straw, will contribute items. Mr. Mark Richards, a very capable elocutionist, is also on the programme, which will also include a number of specially-selected records.