SATURDAY

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 33, 26 February 1932, Page 15

SATURDAY

Notes from Auckland DESCRIPTIONS of events in the Auckland amateur athletic championship meeting to be held on the Auckland Domain will be relayed. A vaudeville programme will be presented for the evening. items being given by Don ‘Tasker and Johnnie Madden, Tom Moffitt, Eric Waters and Ray Jury, Mati Trio and the Asquiths. Another new artist will appear, B. J. Watson. humorist and tap-dancer with IFinglish vaudeville experience,

From 2YA HE reizys from the second test will be contiinued. 2YA’s week-end concert will feature the Melodie Five in two’ twenty-minute sessions, during which they will provide popular programmes of concerted and solo vocal numbers tand novelty piano items. The balance of the evening’s programme will be contributed by the Salon Orchestra (under Mr. M. I. Dixon), recordings and Mr. B. 8. Merlin, late Major-Genleral in the Czar’s Army, who will speak on "Secret Service During the Great War." Christchurch Topics

IGHT vaudeville entertainment will be provided. The Salon Orchestra will present Strauss’s "A Night in Venice’ and **In a Clock Store" by Orth, also the ‘4Gabrielle Suite" and "Mignon Gavotte." A singer for the first time on the air at 3YA will be Charles L. James, thasso cantante, well known throughout New Zealand as a professional singer. He has for some years resided at Oamaru, where in local pro(uctions he has filled leading roles, both in @pera and in oratorios. -'Tonight he will sing a popular ballad and two sea songs. A special vaudeville artist engaged for the evening will be Phil Smith. well known as a comedian and attached to the J. C. Williamson’s companies for many years. Lottie ColVille wilk be heard in soprano songs, and there: will he numerous recordings, mainiy of'a novelty nature. The programme will be relayed to 4YA. At intervals during the afternoon 4YA will, broadcast descriptions of the Vauxhall! Regatta.’