TUESDAY

Radio Record, Volume IV, Issue 19, 21 November 1930, Page 16

TUESDAY

Notes from Auckland © REAT interest is already being taken in the forthcoming visit of Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, and the Girl Guides and Boy Scouts are getting ready for the great occasion. Miss A. M. Burgin, at 7.40 o’clock this evening,

will give a talk on the Girl Guides and the forthcoming rally. One of the most enjoyable sections of the programmes which are. -broadcast from 1YA is the series of talks given by Mrs. Daisy Basham on the lives and works of great composers. On this occasion she has chosen the composer Donizetti for her discourse, and she will be assisted by Mr. H. Barry Coney, who will sing several numbers from this composer’s operas. Miss Joan Laird, a young soprano with extensive Hnglish

experience, who since her return to New Zealand a few months ago has wou recognition for her artistic singing, wilt sing three operatic numbers. There are probably few singers with such a long and successful concert experience as Mr. Arthur Ripley, one of Auckland’s leading tenors, who will sing this evening. The String Octet will provide many interesting items from yarious light and grand operas. Wellington Topics TO-NIGHT there will be a miscellaneous concert. A popular programme will be provided by the Salon Orchestra, Mr. J. Blackwood will contribute piano-accordion items, there will be humour from Mr. Will McKeon, and the latest popular songs from Mr. W. EH. Biliott. Mrs. Jeanne Potts and Mr. H. W. Dowling will be heard in soprano and baritone respectively. 4YA Features R. R. W. COUPLAND, who has sueceeded Mr. R. W. Marshall in charge of the Tourist Office in Dunedin, will speak on "Tourist Resorts of New Zealand." The success, "Edinburgh Night," won such approbation that a repetition of this type of programme is warranted, and this evening 4YA will present an entertainment fh Scottish music. & Selections will be played by the Dunedin Highland Pipe Band, under the direction of Pipe-Major MacMillan. This is one of the finest pipe bands in New Zealand, and on this occasion items will be new to New Zealand listeners. Such items as "Robin Adair,’ "The Rowen Tree,’ "We'd Better Bide a Wee." "Tinker’s Weddin’," "Rory O’More," "Seots Wha Hae." "Seotland Yet," "Scottish Bluebell," and "Annie Laurie" are a few of the items to be performed by assisting artists,