Programme Jottings

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 9, 11 September 1931, Page 2

Programme Jottings

"py DAFFYD" (Mr. D. HB. Parton, chairman of the 3YA Children’s Sessions Advisory Committee) was present during the Children’s Hour recently and put a poser to Aunt Pat. He gave the name of a Welsh town and asked her to spell it. The name! was "J Janfairwqupwellgogoerygogoch." Aunt Pat said her typewriter did all her spelling! ARIORIE ALEXANDER, 2 bDrilliant young Christchurch plauiste, again distinguished herself at the recent Ashburton Competitions, when for the third year in succession she won the coveted Tucker Trophy, which now becomes hers outright. Miss Alexander proposes shortly to tour New Zealand with a concert party» one of whom will be Kathleen Bond, another 8YA artist. Afterward she

will take advantage of the scholarship awarded her by the Koyal Academy of Music, London. Miss Alexander will be playing at 3YA on November i1.

HAT teller of sea stories, "Lee Fore Brace," is a very popular performer at 1YA. Many listeners will echo the sentiments expressed by the writer of this letter from Wairoa to the station manager at 1YA: "Being a follower of the sea it is with keen interest that I listen to these romances of the deep, . One can almost feel the salt spray flying as he tells of these thrilling episodes. It would do your heart good, and his too, if you were to see a group of the lands from the village clustered round the loudsveaker on the night he is at the ‘mike.’ These youngsters, keen for adventure. sit and devour every word of his stories, just the sama as young Drake would have done years ago had wireless heen in vogue in those days, and I don*t mind telling you that the parents are just as interested as the boys." — Pe Pe PRT SS Ee