Gladys Moncrieff's National Tour

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 43, 3 May 1935, Page 13

Gladys Moncrieff's National Tour

Outstanding Musical Comedy Star Engaged For Main New Zealand Stations — Inspiration For Bright.Numbers From 2YC-Jubilee "git attts Sipe Feature-R. E. Money-Kyrle’s Talk. ,

HE Broadcasting Board is certainly doing its best to give listeners the epportunity of hearing brighter and better artists from the national sta-

tions, Of late famous names such as Lionello Cecil, Walter Kingsley, Vincent Aspey and John Robertson, have all. appeared on the programmes and

now the authorities have arranged for Gladys Moncrieff to tour New Zealand. This star is very well known as a musical comedy actress and is, perhaps, the most talented of her kind this ‘side of the Line, Miss Moncrieff, who will receive excéptionally high fees while under contract to the board, will probably commence her tour early in July. She has recently completed numerous musical comedy engagements in Australia, and doubtless local fans will eagerly await her appearance in New Zealand, N Tuesday, April 23, a most popular programme, "Favourites of the Past, Present and Probably of Posterity," was broadcast from 2Y0, As the title indicates, the section commenced with old favourites and worked through right up to the present day hits. The whole programme was excellently arrdnged, and a further similar presentation would be warmly welcomed, ROM 2YA the same evening came a pianoforte recital by Madame Betts-Vincent, incorporating remarks to music lovers on the intelligent use of a wireless set, The recital was excellent, and the. advice on the use of a set was sound, Madame Vincent stressed the point of not running a

radio set cotinuously from the brcakfast session to 11 o’clock at night. To appreciate their sets listeners should study the programmes and seit items which they knew they would enjoy. Also greater care should be taken when tuning in the set to see that the characteristics of different instruments were faithfully reproduced, by the correct usage of the volume control, URING jubilee week on Saturday evening, May 11, a first-rate British vaudeville programme comes from 2VYA, This number will feature such well-known artists as Ambrose and his Orchestra, Frank Titterton, Billy Reid and his Accordion Band, Florence Desmond, George Panton, Blsie and Doris Waters, Al Bowely, Ivor Moreton and Dave Kaye, and Howard Jacobs. With such a string of famous artists a bright programme is assured, and listeners are advised to "tune in" at 8 p.m, "THE fourth of the series of talks on "™ "Phe Causes of War," delivered by Roger Hrnle Money-Kyrle, M.A., Ph.D., was introduced to Auckland and Wellington listeners on Monday and Tuesday respectively this week. In about two -weeks this talk will be broadcast from 38YA and the following week from 4YA. It is particularly interesting in view of its presentation of a point of view on war which has sel- . dom been exploited in New Zealand. Mr. Money-Kyrle has in the last few years written several absorbing psychological books, with an academic cutlook, which have caused more interest and discussion in England than in this Dominion. His approach to the subject of this recorded talk is therefore a new one to us, The speaker was born at Broxbourne in 1898, He was educated at Eton and Cambridge, carrying on his particular studies of psychology and anthropology in Vienna and London, He saw service for three years in the Great War. Mr. Money-Kyrle is a member of the Royal Anthropological Institute, the British Psychological Society and the: British Psycho-Analytical Society. The best known of his published works are: "The Meaning of Sacrifice," "The Development of the Sexual Impulses," and "Aspasia, or The Future of Amorality."