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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 11, 25 September 1931, Page 19

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Notes from 1YA pur 1YA Salon Orchestra, under the direction of Harold Baxter, will supply the instrumental portion of the evening’s programme, playing many popular numbers, including "A Southern Wedding," "In a Persian Market," "War unui Moon," and ‘Popular Songs." The vocalists will be Leslie Belcher (tenor) and .Thelma Dnuffin, mezzo-soprano, who is: contributing a group of ballads by English composers. Items from 2vA MPHE 2YA Orchestrina, ‘under Signor A. P. Truda, will play the overture "Zampa,’ "Geisha," the waltz "Wine, Women and Song,’ and the fantasia. "Faust Frivolities." Claude C. Moss, popular baritone, will sing two Mexiean love songs by Woodforde-Finden. and two Maori songs. The new novelty instrumental and vocal duo-Collinson and Lees-will be heard in a number of up-to-date songs and melodies.

Christchurch ‘Topies R. Dz. EB, PARTON, late, telegraph engineer, will talk on "Pioneers of Radio." A studio concert by the ‘Christchurch Club will be br oadeast. during the ‘concert. session, Some. very popular chorases will be sung and there will be quartets by the male voice combination, the Beckenham Four. ‘There will be banjo and trombone solos, and ‘‘piopular airs will be played by a trio of steel guitars and ukulele. AYA Programme

DIVERSIFIED programme will ve presented to-night. Xylophone, banjo, clarinet solos, humorous items. tenor, contralto, and soprano solos, all of an exceptional quality, will figure on this evening’s entertainment. The clatinet artist, T. Curreri, is a very fine player, and Mrs. W: Carson, a brilliant contralto, is a new radio singer. Alex Snell (baritone), who has not been he. fore the microphone for some considerable time, makes his reappearance with two Scottish ballads, "Bonnie Mary of Argyle" and "Standard on'‘the Braes of Mar," and in the delightful swinging ballad, "Lackaday." Mr. W. N. Satterthwaite, one of the principal soloists of the Dunedin Returned Soldiers: Choir, will be heard in three numbers. Mrs H. Stokes: will delight listeners with banjo solos. including "Souvenir" (by Drdla). Angus Gorrie --will present humorous items, one of them being Max Adeler’s "Mr. Barker’s Picture," every line of which has a laugh in it.