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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 6, 18 August 1933, Page 18

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Looking F orward 1YA Aug. 19: B.B.0.° Programme, "Songs from the Shows." Aug. 27: B.B.O. Programme, "Hllan Vannin," Sept. 1: B.B.C. Programme, "World's Away." 2YA Aug. 21: Relay of final match-Inter-Collegiate Tours rent. Sept. 7: Relay of .' Singers’ Concert, featuring Desert." 3YA Aug. 23: B.B.C. Programme, "Worid's Away." Sept. 10: B.B.0. Programme, "Elian Vannin." Sept. 16: B.B.0. Vaudeville Programme, 4VYA Aug. 23: B.B.C. Programme, "Etlan * Vannin." Sept. 10: B.B.C, Programme, "World’s Away." Sept. 16: B.B.¢. Programme, "Songs from the Shows." Sept. 30: ‘B.B.C. Vaudeville Programme. [NCLUDED in the programmes for the week are five relays of really first grade entertainments, and, in addition, there will be periodical relays from the Wellington Competitions Society’s Festival. Generally speaking. the programmes are of good standard and contain attractive entertainment for practically every type of listener. Se HE four programmes for Monday evening are all of a miscellaneous nature, none of them calling for special mention. No wrestling is scheduled from 1YA. * e 2 "THE outstanding concert for Tuesday evening will be 3YA’s broadcast of the concert by the Christchurch Orchestral Society. The programme includes some of the finest orchestral music ever composed and a special feature will be the presentation of the first movement of Tschaikowsky’s "Pianoforte Concerto Op. 23," the soio pianist being Miss Alice Hewlett, Dunedin, on the same evening, will be relaying the concert by the Dunedin Orphans’ Club-the annual ladies’ night. No details are available of the -programme, but it is sure to be one of outstanding merit. For those whose tastes run to the lighter type of entertainment, 2Y.A can be confidently recommended, where a One-hour Old Time Minstrel Show will.be presented by some of New Zealand’s: most popular radio entertainérs. This is scheduled for 9.2 p.m., the first half of the programme of items by Frank Crowther’s Novelty Orchestra and the

Melodie Five. 1YA’s programme on this evening will consist of selected recordings. oS 3 x ()NE of the best of the B.B.C. recorded programmes :; set down for presentation on Wednesday evening from 3YA-"Worlds Away’’-described as "a family chronicle from the year 1812 to the year 1933." 4YA_ also schedules a B.B.C. recorded programme -‘Ellan Vannin Through the Ages’a Manx National programme, featuring Manx national melodies. 2YA will be presenting recordings and periodical relays from the Wellington Competi-

L : | tions. Listeners to 1YA will hear the Auckland Watersiders’ Silver Band in an attractive programme, with George Lawson (tenor) as assisting artist. & YA offers the big concert of the night on Thursday, when the Rayal Auckland Choir’s Concert from the Town Hall will be relayed. At the time of writing no details are available of the concert but. without doubt, it will be of a very high standard. 2YA will be relaying the Hutt Valley Liedertafel’s concert and those who appreciate part-singing at its best can tune in to this station with the certainty that they will be. entertained with an outstanding concert. From 4YA_ the Troubadours will be heard in songs and part-songs, including two cameos‘Devonshire Days" and "The Magic -of Erin." Nothing in 8YA’s programme of recordings calls for special attention, I * LL four stations offer bright and attractive studio concerts on FPriday evening. The 1YA orchestra and Mr. Duncan Black (bass) will be

hear’ ‘rom Auckland; recordings and relax. of the Wellington Competitions from 2YA; a studio programme includ ing items by the Melody Instrumental Trio, Mrs. Rita Jamieson (mezz0-con-tralto) and Claude O’Hagan (baritone), from 3YA; and from 4YA, the de Rose Octet and Hansel and Gretel. x xt s . [t is purely a matter of personal taste as to which of Saturday's programmes will make the greatest appeal to listeners. 1YA will be relaying from the Town Hall the concert by the Municipal Band. 4YA and 3YA feature a. complete programme by the Puketeraki Maori Party, and 2YA schedules the Concert Orchestra, Mrs. Humfrey Gordon (contralto), and relays from the Town Hall of the Wellington Competitions. @ 8 8 "THE Manx National Programme"Willan Vannin Through the Ages" -will be broadcast by 1YA at 9.20 p.m. on Sunday. From 2YA listeners will be entertained by the Wellington Chamber Music Players, and selected record-ings-a very attractive programme. The 3YA Concert Orchestra, Miss Cicely Audibert (soprano), and Mr J. i. Tennent (bass) will be heard from Christchurch, and, at 9.22 pm., the station will present a One-Act Recorded Radio Drama, "All’s Well." 4YA will be relaying from 8YA. . eB gS g IVE of the talks scheduled for Monday are mainly of an informative nature, but the sixth, from 3YA-‘Re-citers Who Bore Us’-would appear, on paper, to contain more of entertainment than instruction. x bad 2 . HE Tuesday evening talks cover a wide range of topics. From 32 purely entertainment viewpoint the talk of the evening will undoubtedly be Margaret Macpherson’s broadcast from 2YA at SAO--"Lhe Moon in Science,

Verse, and Story." 'The subject is sufficently comprehensive to provide material for a score, or more, of talks, but . a brilliant journalist, such as Margaret Macpherson is, can be relied on to tell a fascinating story in the 20 minutes at her disposal, z = * R: GUY H, SCHOLEFIELD, O.B.E., who has been on holidays, will resume ‘his weekly talks on Wednesday from 2YA, on "World Affairs," and this appears to be the most entertaining of the four talks scheduled for the evening under review.

Alt the Thursday evening talksthere are five of them-are of more than passing interest, and two of them should on no account be missed by those who take an active interest in the romance of real life. The two talks referred to are those from 2YA at 8.40, and 8YA at 9.2, Captain H. M. Talbot-Lehmann, who will be heard from 2YA at 8.40, has had a remarkably adventurous career, both during the war and since, and the narratiog of some of his exciting experiences as aeronautical advisor to the late Marshal Chang Tso Lin, in the Chinese Civil War, should prove as exciting as a tale by "Sapper." The other talk which should not be missed on Thursday evening will be Miss Marjorie Bassett’s "All the World’s a Stage’-from 3YA, at 9.2. Miss Bassett’s stage career is described on another page in this issue. After reading her career readers will realise why I have singled out this talk for special mention. eS a SEVEN talks are scheduled for Friday evening, and of.these the most entertaining will almost certainly be the further experiences of Captain TalbotLehmann, referred to above. "Cairo," by Mr, L. W. Delph, from 1YA at 9.2, and the trial of Ronald True, to be narrated at 9.2, from 4YA, by Mr, W. H. Carson, promise some interesting matter, J] i R. J. R. ELLIOTT, M.A, lecturer in classics at Victoria University College, will speak from 2YA at 7.30 on Saturday, on "Trade, Transport, and War," and at 8.40 from the same station Mr. F. Kilby will tell listeners why he considers Rugby the best sport and why he plays it. The only other talk scheduled for this evening is the weekly horticultural telk from IYA, at ie bd & AN important decision was recently given in the Chancery Court by Mr. Justice Maugham to the effect that loudspeaker reproductions in public places of broadcast matter constituted new performances, entitling the copyright owners to royalties. The test action was brought by the Performing Rights Society, who asked for an injunction restraining Hammond’s Bradford Brewery Company from using a radio set in one of the company’s hotels as a means of entertaining guests, and for damages for alleged infringement of copyright by the unauthorised reproduction of three musical numbers broadcast by the B.B.C. His Lordship decided in favour of the plaintiffs, and ruled that an unauthorised public performance of a copyright musical work by means of a wireless receiving set is no less an infringement of copyright than a public performance by any other means, such as a gramophone, and that the person authorising the set to be used for such purpose is responsible for the infringement. e e es O new principle is involved in this pronouncement, nor is there any occasion to regard it as a startling or epoch-making event, There have been decisions to the same effect in several other countries-in France as long ago as 1925, in America in 1931, and more recently in several Continental countries. As far as the Performing Righis Society is concerned-and its sister orFor fascinating home entertainment see. page 43.

ganisation, the Australasian Performing Rights Association-both these organisations have always maintained that their license is necessary for any public performance of works in their repertoire irrespective of the means employed, and the judgment now delivered confirms this view in so far as wireless loud speakers are concerned, just as it has been confirmed in the past by legal decisions in regard to performances by vocalists, instrumentalists, and gramophones, . 3 & Bg TN New Zealand, and also in Australia, no action of this kind has been necessary, as the rights of the Australasian Performing Rights Association have been admitted by practically every hotel, or restaurant, using a radio

set for purposes of entertainment, and licenses have been obtained from the association, When Mr. Justice Maugham’s decision was published there was some consternation in the radio trade, as it was considered that the effect of the judgment was thai public performances by means of.-loud-speakers would be prohibited alto. gether, The Performing Rights So city, however, subsequently stated thai it did not contemplate any departure from its policy of making no ¢laim in respect of the performance of musi: by dealers, in the course of their business on their business premises, by wireless sets or musical instruments, provided such performance is confined solely to the department dealing ‘in such articles, Te Pal @ 5