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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 42, 26 April 1935, Page 40

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SUNDAY, APRIL 28. 9.15: .A. national programme: A: chamber music recital by .the: Conservatorium String Quartet. Personnel: Gerald Walenn, violinist, Lloyd Davies, violinist, William Krasnik, viola, Gladstone Dell, ’cellist; associate artist, Molly de Gunst, soprano. Quartet, String Quartet in G@ Minor (Haydn), Molly de Gunst, "Vinci. d’Arte" from "La Tosca" (Puccini); "Hindu Song" ' (Sudko) (Rimsky Korsakov); "Spring’s Belief’; "Death and_ the Maiden"; "The Trout". (Schubert). Quartet: "Menuet" (Bocchorini) ; "Sally in Our Alley"; "Old French Gavotte" (arr, Pochon). 10.16: "The Merry Widow," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture. Director: Ernst Lwubitsch; producer: Irving Thalberg. Musical adaptation: Herbert Stothart. Lyrics. by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; additional lyrics by Gus Khan. Books and lyrics by Victor Leon and Leo Stkin; musie by Franz Lehar. Symphony Orchestra of 150 Pieces under-the direction of Herbert Stothart; male chorus of 120; a villager’s chorus; a female chorus. Cast: Danilo (Maurice Chevalier); Sonia (Jeannette MacDonald); Ambassador (Edward LHiverett Horton); Queen (Una Merkel); King (George Barbier); Marcelle (Minna Gombell); Lulu (Ruth Channing) ; Orderly (Sterling Holloway) ; Valet (Donald Meek) ; Zizipoff (Herman Bing). Song numbers, "The Merry Widow" Waltz (sung by Maurice Chevalier and Jeannette MacDonald) ; "Vilia" (sung by Jeannette MacDonald); "I’m Going to Maxim’s" (sung by Maurice Chevalier and chorus) ; "Reprise" (sung -by Jeannette MacDonald); "Melody of Laughter" (sung by Jeannette MacDonald and chorus); "Widows are Gay" (sung by Jeanette MacDonald and chorus); "Girls, Girls, Girls" (sung by Maurice Chevalier and chorus) ; "We'll Go to Cafe de Paris" (sung by male chorus). MONDAY, APRIL 29. 9.30; A national programme. The Diggers’ Choir, conducted by Stefan de Polotynski. Choir (unaccompanied), "Hymn" (Bortnianski); "Melody in ~ F" (Rubinstein); "Australian War Songs" (arr. de Polotynski). . Tom Ryan, basso, "In Questa Tomba Oscura" (Beethoven), Choir: "Drink to Me Only With Thine Byes" (Old Bnglish); "Digger’s March" Tntermezzo (arr. de Polotynski). M, J. Chant, tenor, "My Heart is Like a Red Rose"

(Burns). Choir (unaccompanied), "Lullaby" (Brahms); "The Hvening Bell" (Traditional) ; "Polish Cavalry Ditties" (de Polotynski). 10.15: Istvan Lengyel’s Tziganes, Hungarian Gipsy Orchestra. Tziganes: "Long, Long Ago". (Vocal Refrain) "Dark Byes" (Traditional). Piano, "The Puszta Gipsy Rhapsody" (Longvel). Tziganes, ‘"Resspaszoll" Gipsy Folk Song; "I'wo Guitars" (Traditional). Soprano, "Song to the. Star" (Traditional). Tziganes, "Oy-no-hody" Ukrainian Fantasia with vocal refrain ; "Gipsy Dances and Revel" (Traditional. ; 10.55: Interlude: "The Hangman’s Knot" a tale told by "The Sphinx." 11.0: A musical mosaic, by The Southerners. Opening Chorus: vocal, "Daneing on the Green." Saxophone: "Finger Frolics." Vocal: "Little Old Garden." Ensemble: "The Volga Boatman." Piano: "Kute and Kunini." Vocal: "Love, I Give You My All." Violin: "Toy Soldiers’ March." Instrumental Trio: "Russian Pony Rag." Voeal; "The Fairy Laundry." Trumpet: "Trilly Bits." Vocal duet: "Wagon Wheels"; "She’s Coming Round the Mountain." Vocal: "Mariette." Hnsemble: "Santa Lucia." Violin: Scotch songs. Vocal: "Smilin’ Thru." Ensemble: Finale. . TUESDAY, APRIL 30. 7.45: Dinner music. 9.30: A national programme, Two short thrilling dramas, by Edgar Allan Poe. Produced by Lawrence H. Cecil. (a) _ "The Tell-Tale Heart’; (b) "The Fall of the House of Usher. ‘» These weird, dramatic and sensational dramas are produced because of their high literary merit and undoubted entertainment value, but we request parents of young children with susceptible minds, to prevent them listening. Hdgar Allen Poe, that moody and erratic genius, whose life was a tragedy of misspent effort, was the master of the horrific short story. Such was ‘his superb ¢raftsmanship that he could invent the most tragic circumstances with what was almost the dramatic grandeur of the ancient Greek poets. In the two short stories presented to-night, "The Tell-Tale Heart" and "The Fall of the ‘House of Usher," the locale of the plays is the same, but the plot and treatment are widely different, 10.45: A programme of French music presented by the A.B.C. (Sydney) | Chamber Orchestra, condueted by E. J. Roberts, WEDNESDAY, MAY 1. 7.45: Dinner music.. 9.30: A national programme, "The Rose of Araby"-~A musical: play in three -acts. The play and lyrics by Harold Simpson (from a story by Henry

Throp). The music by Merlin Morgan. Synopsis of scenery: Act One: Market Place in the Town of Palms, Algeria. Act Two: Scene 1: Interior of an old Arabian Mill in the Desert (six montlig. elapse).‘ Scene 2: Reception: Hall vf the Palazza Taglioni, Venice.. Priycipals, chorus ‘and orchestra, under the direction of William G. James:;° Production, Frank D. Clewlow. 11.16: Programme’: "by’’ Sydney "String Quartette. George ' White, ° (violin) ; ; Robert. Miller: (violin) ; Ernest ‘Llewellyn (viola) ; Cerdic Ashton, Ceello). THURSDAY, MAY 2. 7.45: Dinner musie.. 9.30: A national pfogramme; "The Pink Lady"-A musical comedy in~’ three Acts. (Story of the play from the French farce, "Lé Satyre," by Georges Berr ‘and Marcel Guillemand), Book and lyrics by C. M. S. McLellan. Music by Ivan Caryll. Act One: The Gardens of "Je Joli Coucou," a: Restaurg.nt in the forést of’ Compiegne, France. Act Two! Interior of an Antique Shop in the Rue St.. Honore, Paris," Act Three: The Restaurant of the ‘Satyrs, Paris, FRIDAY, MAY 3. 7.45: Dinner musie (r). 9.30: A national programme. Brass Band concert by Brunswick ‘City Band, conducted by Hugh Niven and "The Austral" Harmonists’ Male Quartet. Band: Selection, "The Lady ‘of ‘the Rose" (Gilbert). Quartet: "Song of _ the Moonbeams’": (Ross) ;" "When I Told the Village -Belle" ' (Revell). Band: March, "The Senator" (Bailey). Overture, "Ipheganieé in Aulis" (Gluck). Quartet: " "Tis Me, O Lord" (Klemm) ; ‘Nobody Knows De ‘Trouble I Seen" (Burleigh); "Shortin’ Bread" (Wolfe). Band: Intermezzo, "Malinda’s Fairy Bower" (Hume). Quartet: "A Medley of Sea Shanties" (An-' drews); "Old Man Noah" (Bartholoy mew). Band: Concert Valse,. "The Carnival" (Truscell). 10.24: Recital by Molly de Gunst, soprano: "Adieu Forets’ Jeanne d’Are (Tschaikowsky). Interlude (r.). "Du bist die Ruh"; "Gretchen am Spinrade" ; "Wiegenlied" (Schubert), 10.45: "R.U.R." (Rossum’s. .. Universal Robots). A play in three acts and an epilogue by Karel Capek. The:scene is set on a remote island in the future. Act I: Central office of the factory of * Rossum’s. Universal Robots, , Act II; Helena’s drawing-room. Act. IIT; Same as Act II. BHpilogue: One of the experimental laboratories in the factor: Production: Frank D,. Clewlow. 12.10: Dance music by the A.B.C. Dance Band, directed by Jim Davidson, . ~

SATURDAY, MAY 4. 7.40: Dinner music. 8.0: A national programme. From the Melbourne Town Hall: "Toc H." Festival guest night, Arrival of His Pxcel- . lency the Governor (Lord Huntingfield) (President of Toc. H. in Victoria) and Vice-Regal party. National anthem. Metropolitan Fire Brigade Band (conducted by F. ©. Johnston): March "Wellington" (Zehle); "Rhapsody No. 2" (Liszt). His Excellency the Governor (Lord Huntingfield). Victorian ~ Postal Institute Choir (conducted by George English): "King Arthur’; "Volga Boatman"; ‘"Pussy’s in the Well." Captain Frank Marriott, vicepresident of Toc, H. in Australia. Metropolitan Fire Brigade Band: Overture "1812" (Lschaikowsky); "Abide with. Me." Organ recital, Mr. William McKie, city organist. Procession of . ‘Toe, H. banners, lamps and rushlights, from throughout Australia. Ceremony of Grand Light. Rev. P. W. Baldwin, Association Padre, Toc. H. (Inc.). 12.20: Music, mirth, and melody (r.). ee