Licenses Pass 650,000 Mark

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 19, 16 November 1934, Page 11

Licenses Pass 650,000 Mark

Commonwealth Figures Continue to Mount-Spivakovsky-Kurtz Trio For National Tour-Will Lawson From 2BL.

HE latest figures show that the radio licenses in force in Australia number approximately 650,000. -New South Wales has 251,967, Victoris 220,290, Queensland 59,074, South Australia . 69,888, Western Australia 35,279, Tasmania 18,400. "HATE AND TWENTY CENTS" is the title of one of the famous "Red Book Stories" being. broadcas: through 2UW every Saturday night. at 8.15. The story is written by George F¥, Worts, who has toured the world many times in the role of wireless operator.

AKING advantage of the presence on the teaching staff of the Mei bourne University Conservatori:m of the famous Spivakovsky-Kurtz Trio the Australian Broadcasting Commis sion has completed arrangement: whereby these three celebrities will be gin, in Brisbane on December 2, a broadcasting tour of the Common: wealth of about 17 weeks, during whic’) they will be heard regularly through all national stations. ‘ HB year is drawing to a close ant his successor will ‘soon be usherer in. 2UW has taken "Time" by the forelock and is arranging in honour of 1935 a wonderful "Dance-Sing" bali to be held at the Sydney Town Hal on New Year’s Eve from 8 p.m. till 2 am. This is to be a huge affair, or. ganised in a brilliant.manner. A bi2 band is to be.engaged and Charlie Lawrence will act as pageant ditector The programme, with descriptinus. of the people and. incidents of onmout

and interest, will be broadcast: at intervals through 2UW. ON of the Prime Minister of Grea: Britain, Mr. Malcolm MacDonald is one of tle most distinguished of the younger generation of Britisi. statesmen. As an eminent ‘Cenrenars visitor and one of the official represen tatives of the United Kingdom branc? of the Empire Parliamentary Associa tion, he broadcast an address with the stability of the Nmpire as its theme in the national programme of. 810 01 November 8, during the interval iu _ the broadcast. gala performance at His’ Majesty’s Theatre, Melbourne, ILL LAWSON, well-known in New Zealand as a journalist and pul licity man, is at present in Australia and is giving a series of talks on his experiences with the railway system. of various countries. The first talk was entitled "The Luck of Jonah" and

was given from 2BL. Sydney,'on Fri-: day, November 2. In America Mt., Lawson wrote and published sketches: about his experiences on the 5000-mil? journey by train from San Franclscy. to New Orleans. (CLASSICAL rhythm aud colour are the features .of the remarkable ultra-modern "Hot Sonata" to be per-. formed for the first, time in Australia in the national programme’ of 38LO, from 10.30 p.m. (New Zealand summer. time),-on ‘November 18, by those cultured artists, Henri Penn, pianist, and: Tim White, expert both at the clarinet: and saxophone. In this sonata, which: _is a serious attempt, by’ the German: composer, Schulhoff,, to exploit — the’ musical possibilities ‘of the suxophone, und raise it above the level of the or din-» ‘ary orchestral snortings and rumblings. : an alto instrument will be played by: White. . . : H