"Guesswork"

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 52, 8 July 1932, Page 20

"Guesswork"

AN amusing novelty was "put over" "™ by 2ZW last. Thursday evening. it was announced that a piano solo, Rachmaninoff’s Prelude in G Minor, would be played, and listeners were invited té telephone the station and say who was the pianist. In view of the fact that many musi cal people pride themselves on being able to distinguish every noted pianist by his touch, phrasing, etc., much in+ terest was taken in the item, and

SP Pad TP ee a TF ee Se 2 OEE eee eee dozens of telephone-rings resulted. The majority of guesses were for Mischa Levitzki; some were for Mark Hambourg; some for Cortot; some for a pianola. These last were correct, for the announcer subsequently stated that the item had been played by the station self-registering piano. Incidentally, the piano-roll wag one made in Sydney by Paul Vinogradoff, whose recent concert performances in Wellington aroused much favourable comment. FoLLowin G the station policy of broadcasting occasional reviews of those books that are; worth while reading, and which are ‘procurable in New Zealand in modérately cheap editions, the second of the/ seri¢s of book reviews will be broadcast on Wednesday evening at 7.30 pm. The books included for review are not necessarily the very latest or bizarre works of modern fiction, or biographies. The purposes of these reviews are to inform listeners, especially country listeners, of worth-while fiction, biographies, travel, literature, and historical works that are reasonably priced and are procurable throughout New Zealand. N Saturday, Lieutenant Mildenhall delivered the first of his series ofi talks on the work that has been done: by the Imperial War Graves Commission, in Gallipoli, France and Belgium and throughout the other war zones. Lieutenant Mildenhall was the New Zealand representative on the Imperial War Graves Commission, and, since his return to New Zealand, has made very few public statements as to the work that his Commission has carried on. There are a great many people in this country who are intimately interested in the War Commission’s work, for sentimental and emotional reasons, and for this reason these talks should have a strong appeal to the public. The talks have been scheduled for Saturday evening at approximately 7.30 p.m., for the reason that, on these evenings, the younger listeners are usually out at entertainments, leaving the elder members of the radio public at home. It is to these more mature listeners that Lieutennant Mildenhall’s talks will be most interesting.