MONDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 24, 24 December 1931, Page 18

MONDAY

| JOLUNES trom 1A | }YROM noon the station will relay the | results of the first day of the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting at Alexandra Park. The usual daily sessions will be conducted, including the children’s hour and the dinner hour. The evening programme will see the first appearance in Auckland of Reno and Arta, the famous xylophone duettists, an instrumental turn that has entertained in many countries. Doris Moore, contralto, and Leslie Belcher, tenor, will be heard in several ballads and humorous items will be given by Trevor Binns, The Salon r

Orehestra, under the direction of Harold Baxter, will supply. the main portion of the programme, 2YA Selections A NEW artiste, Cledagh Russell, + will be heard to-night. Miss Russell is the only representative in New Zealand of Marjorie Gullan, whose work in poetry-speaking is well known and widely appreciated in England, and whose unique Versespeaking Choir toured the British Ysles with conspicuous success. Miss Russell will be heard in two groups of ballads, the first medieval and the second modern. The "Musical Portrait" of the evening will be of Chopin, and will be presented by Alice Law, L.R.A.M., an Auckland pianist. The vocal portion of the programme will be in the hands of Mrs. Wilfred Andrews and Amy Woodward, who will sing duets and solos. he orchestrina will accompany some of the vocal items, and also , ‘cello solo by Claude Tanner, besid playing some fine selections. Christchurch Topics HH Woolston Brass Band will be heard this evening in half-a-dozen selections and the Christchurch Broadcasting Trio is playing works by Hummel, Gyril Scott, Chaminade, Elgar, Boccherini and Grieg, besides providing accompaniments to some of the numbers to be sung by Eveline Hill (soprano), Anita Ledsham (contralto) and J, K. Burtt (baritone). AYA Features "PAE usual international programme will be featured by 4YA this evening, the talk at nine o’clock being on J the topical subject of "The Situation in India," by Mr. J. T. Paul, editor of the "Otago Witness."