Broadcasts Past, Present and Future

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 22, 9 December 1932, Page 9

Broadcasts Past, Present and Future

Racing Broadcasts FROM the Christmas racing carnival to be held in Auckland, 1YA will broadcast a running commentary. Christmas Pantomime ON Christmas Eve Will Bishop will present a bright pantomime from 2YA. All those who know Will Bishop's bright and original numbers will look forward to this innovation, details of which will be published in a later issue. Plunket Shield Games RRANGEMENTS are well in hand to cater for the cricket enthusiasts in the many games over the holidays. The Plunket Shield cricket results will be broadcast from all stations during the Christmas and New Year holidays. Christmas Eve Broadcasts AS has been the custom in past years, the Midnight Mass from St. Gerrard’s watch night service will be broadcast from 2YA, and from 3YA the Smart Set Entertainers will be heard in a

novelty programme, to be followed by Dickens’s "Christmas Carol," which 2YA will also broadcast during Christmas week. The peals of the bells of the Canterbury Cathedral will be broadeast at midnight on Christmas Eve. Ernest McKinley to Tour YAs ARLY in the New Year, Ernest McKinley will tour the four YA stations. A New Zealander by birth, McKinley spent some time in England and on the Continent, He has appeared by Royal command at two Buckingham Palace garden parties, and has recorded extensively for Columbia. "Song of the Locust" is, perhaps, his best number, and his fine sense of interpretation will be seen at its best in it. The dates of his tour are: 4YA, January 8; 3YA,, January 15; 2YA, January 22; and 1YA, January 28, Dominion Bowling Championships AN ‘unusual broadeast will take place from 1YA on December 30 or 31, and from 2YA upon approximately January 21, when the finals of the local rink championships will be broadcast. In Auckland the bowling championships extend from December 26 onward, and it is expected the finals will be staged on either of the dates mentioned. A commentary of the Dominion championships in Wellington will also be broadeast. Relay of Smith Family Gathering "THE all-vaudeville programme scheduled for 2YA on Wednesday,. De-

cember 7, has been deferred till ness) Wednesday, December 14. On Wednesday, December 7, 2YA wilt broadcast. from Méssrs. Kirkealdie and. Stains’s. tearoonis. the first annuak Christmas gathering of the N.Z. Smith family Joyspreaders (Inc.). This organisation, which has: com~ pleted just one year’s existence, is one of the most virile relief organisations in the Dominion, and has carried oug§ great work during the past year. i The Mayor of Wellington, Mr. T. Cy A. Hislop, will preside, and Mrs. B, B. Wood will act as official hostess, His Excellency the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, and the Lady Bledis~ loe; the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon, G. W. Forbes; the Rt. Hon, J. G. Joates, Mr. H. Holland, Leader of, the Opposition, and many of the ieading citizens of Wellington will be present: and will give brief addresses. The proceedings between 8 p.m. ané 9 p.m. will take the form of a musicat programme with brief addresses ine terspersed. A feature of this portion of the programme will be the broad« easting of the recorded speech made by His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales in the Royal Albert Hall, London, on January 27, 1932, when His Royal Highness addressed a meeting of the Council of National Social Sexv vice. His Excellency the Governore General, Lord Bledisloe, will briefiy address the meeting following the broadcasting of the speech by the Prince of Wales, and will endorse the appeal by His Royal Highness for all sections of the community to unite ix rendering assistance to those in dige tress during the present economi¢ crisis. Musical items will be contributed by' Mrs. B. B. Wood, Mr. W. J. Trewer# and Frank Crowther’s Orchestra. A similar function is being held by the Smith Family in Sydney on the same evening and will be hroaccast by station 2BhL. A special message to the New Zeas land Smiths will be broadcast from. 2BL between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. (Australian time), and a similar message to the Australian Smiths will be broadeast by the New Zealand Smiths at approximately 10.15 (N.Z. time). 2YA Accompanist on Holiday, ORDON SHORT, the impressive accompanist at 2YA, has’ de parted for a few week’s holiday in Australia, where he laid the solid foundations for his distinguished musical career. Every wireless listener in the Dominion will trust that his vacation is as joyous as Australia’s sunshine, and hope when he returns to the country of his adoption, whick he so greatly admires, that his appreciation of New Zealand will remain unimpaired. His radio duties have been delegated to capable hands in the person of Mr. M. T, Dixon, whose musical education was gained at: the Royal Academy, and whose first introduction to New Zealand theatregoers was made under the direction of Messrs. J. and N. Tait when he toured the Dominion as solo planist and accompanist in 1920. Mr, Dixon has had many flattering criticisms upon his accompanying, and the late Mr. Lund, the Christchurch critic, wrote yery favourably of his playing. Mr. Dixon has conducted theatre orchestras under the auspices of Messrs, J. ©. Williamson and Fuller-Hayward,- and is well known to 2YA listeners as thea eonductor of 2YA’s Salon Orchestra.