Literary Competitions

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 7, 26 August 1932, Page 2

Literary Competitions

Final Section Next Week

"= third and final section of the "Radio Record’s" Literary Competitions will be broadcast from the four YA stations next week, as follows :- Monday, 4YA, 7.30 p.m. Tuesday, 1YA, 7.30 p.m. Wednesday, 2YA, 7.30 p.m. Thursday, 3YA, 7.30 p.m. ‘The selected passages which listeners will be required to locate in this section of the competition have been taken from the best-known works of. authors, poets, and playwrights of the present century, including some of the follow-. siIbanez Doyie Chesterton Alfred Noyes Quillex Dreiser Masefield Couch Hichens Brooke Barrie Huxley Binyon Galsworthy' Jacobs Kipling ynd » Jerome Milne _ Machen Lucas Gibbs Pett Ridge Thompson Shaw Sabatini Morley Wells Sheppard Bennett ‘Lewis Nicholls Zangwill Leacock Mary Webb Haggard Conrad Burke For the benefit of listeners who may ‘pot have had time to make-notes of the extracts quoted by 2YA,and 3YA in the " gecond section of , the competition, broadcast last week, we publish herewith the opening and closing phrases ef ‘the various passages read from the ¢wo respective stations :- From 2YA ~ Wednesday, August 17. -"‘When I look upon the ombs of the Great"... "... we shall all of us be contemporaries and make eur appearance together." . Extract 2-‘You must observe, my friend."... "... the waterworks were aver." et Extract 3.-"What would I have you dot?’ ... "... Whose property is only to offend" Extract 4.-"I have of late." ... ®.. . You seem to say so," Extract 5.--"I would do what tf pieased," ... "... there is an end of it." | Extract 6-"Even as he spoke a mighty" ... "... hoping Death’s toils to slip." 7 . Extract 7.~-‘But let my dire feet never fail"... "... with thee will I ehoose to live." Extract 8-"Compared with this, how poor"... "... with grace divine. preside." From 3YA Thursday, Augusf 18. Extract 1.-"There cannot be a greater judgment"... "... destroys even @ommon sense." Extract 2.~"Now -therein of all @eiences ..." ". .. than at their mouth." Extract 3.- ‘I am not content"... ® . .. do these things go out with life?" Extract 4.-"Now, my young guest" poo... have one play but one thing." Extract 5.-"The moon has set"... ®. ., On my weary couch.I lie." _ Extract 6-‘They told me, HeracQius"..."... but them he cannot Extract 7.-"‘What passion cannot _gusic"...".,. mistaking Warth for Bleaven." , . Extract 8-‘Sublime tobacco!" . . . Boo. Give me a cigar)"

Clues to Second Section FOLLOWING are the opening and closing phrases of the passages quoted in the second section of the Competition, from 4YA and 1YA respectively :-- : From 4YA Monday, August 22. . Extract 1-"It was in a hollow way" ~eo "oye Until the last stragglers disappeared," Extract 2.-"When I had exhausted , re

the-garden"... "%... he said ‘Same to you’." Extract 3.-"At night he closed his shutters"... "... hidden by countless days of weaving." Extract 4.-" Almost everybody in our land". ». 2 es doings of our English Admirals," he 5-- "They played Beethoven’s"... "°.. «in an entirely fresh light." Extract 6. "AR Ha!" said the Englishman" ..3 "se galloped back to Paris." Extract %.-*I passed some time in — '

Poet’s Corner’... "... and golden veins of language." Extract 8.-"Come up "hither" eee s . there is more sea." 3--*0 thou down-stricken day"... "... crimson blaring of thy shawms." From 1YA Tuesday, August 23. Extract: 1- ‘The Night had closed in"... "...a hundred and five days." Extract 2.-"They buried him in the Cathedral" . .. ". . . a better Christian." Extract 3.-" (It) was hewn in a wild workshop" .:.. "... close to the giant’s foot." Extract 4.-"There was a level space of sward.... ‘... he sank from Sight. us * Extvaet 5.-"Whoever has dipped into journalism" ..."... high ideals of work ‘disappear. " Extract 6-‘"Fourscore and _ seven years ago"... "... shall not perish from the earth." Extract 7.-"Having decided to knock off" .. ."... no further use for them at present." " Extract 8.-"Never stoops the soaring vulture’... "... Till the air is dark with anguish. " Extract 9. op ne fountains symingle with the river? ...",...if thou kiss not me." The opening and closing phrases from the extracts quoted from 2YA and 8YA will be published in next week’s issue, also similar clues to the third section of the competition from 4YA and 1YA. .