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Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 46, 24 May 1935, Page 40

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SUNDAY, MAY 26. §.30: From Concerd Baptist Church: Divine service, Preacher: Rev. J. Butler, 10.5: Pianoforte recital by Roy Agnew: "Whither"; Prelude in EH) flat .Minor, from Three Preludes; "Sonata Poem" ; "Rabbit Hill" (Agnew); "In the Forest"; "Des Pas Sur La Neige" (Scott) ; "La Cathedrale Hngloutie’ (Debussy). 10.25: Programme by the Mastersingers Quartet, with G, Vern Barnett at the organ. Quartet: Song Cycle, "Beaux and Belles"; "In Vanity Fair’: "Somebody’s Ball Dress’; "Blue Ribbons"; "The Country Dance’ (Brahe, arr. Antill). 10.35: Organist: Prelude and Fugue in © Minor (Bach); "Evening Song" (Bairstow). 10.50: Quartet: "Four Songs of Beauty." "The March Wind"; "Venetian Serenade"; "I Trust in Thee’; "At Night" (Meyer, Helmund, arr. Antill). 41.0: Famous crimes in retrospect, the Arran murder, MONDAY,. MAY 27. 9.30: Eivery Monday night: "Khyber." Written by Edmund Barclay. Production: Lawrence H. Cecil. ‘Third episode, "Hand to Hand." Down from the path comes the news uf the Hillsmens’ outbreak, and the Khyber Mounted Rifles are rushed to the rescue. Characters: Captain Michael Garvey, K.M.R.; Colonel Dalrymple, D.S.O., 0.0., K.M.LR.; Lt. Conyers, junior subaltern, K.M.R.; Subadar Pragtrewarri, an Indian officer, K.M.R.; Nobby Clark, Captain Garvey’s orderly; Ali Khan, a Pathan chieftain, 10.0: "Australia Looks on the World." talk by Professor A. H, Charteris. 106.20: Programme by Metropolitan Band, Lilian Quinn (soprano) and Dave Howard (saxophonist comedian). TUESDAY, MAY 28. 9.30: Complete recorded performance of "The Pirates of Penzance" or "Slave of Duty," comic opera in two acts. Libretto: W. S. Gilbert. "Music : Arthur Sullivan. 11.10: "Man Through the Ages," episode 21: "Diocletian Establishes a Despotic Monarehy and Organises Persecution o£ the Christians." Diocletian was the first:Roman ruler to surround himself completely with the pomp and ceremony essential to the assumption of divine monarchy. The persecution of the Christians by this ruler: was the crowning struggle of the old idea of a god-emperor against an already: powerful organisation that denied his

divinity. Diocletian decreed that all Christian churebes should be demolished and attendance at secret assemblies for the purpose of religious worship be punishable by death. WEDNESDAY, MAY 29. 10.30: "Dead Men Return,’ 2 drama written for radio by Maude Clarke. A lighthouse is the scene of this tense drama, in which fate plays many strange tricks. The lighthousekeeper and his wife have sought this lonely outpost as an escape from threatened vengeance, but washed up by the storm comes a castaway who demands "an eye for an eye." 11.0: Programme by the Viennese Ensemble; Wilson liwart, bass-baritone. Instrumental: Melodies from "Der Lachende Whemann" (Wysler-Uhl). Bass-baritone: "The Merry-Go-Round" (Tate); "Drat "Hm" (Tulloch), Instrumental: "The Wmerald Isle’ (Langey); selection. of popular Irish melodies with vocal refrain. Bassbaritone: "The Top o’ the Mornin’ " (Manna-Zucea); "The Pride of Tipperary" (Lockhead). Instrumental: "Memories of Kalman" (¥ischer). THURSDAY, MAY 30, 9.30: From the Rockdale Town Hall, community singing concert (arranged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission). Associate artists — Dave Howard, saxophonist-comedian: "Old Kentucky Home," vocal and saxophone; Negro Spiritual, "Deep River" (arr. Burleigh); Coon Song, ‘The Dandy Coloured Coon" (Le Brun); "Old Folks at Home" (Tradt.), saxophone; "Down South" (Myddleton), saxophone. Blue and Gold Instrumental Jinsemble: Banjos, "Kentucky Babe" (uiscombe) ; Guitars, "Kanniki" March (Smith); Banjos, "Wagon Wheels" (De Rose); Hawaiian, "Drifting Down the Shalimar’; "Old Spinning " Wheel" (Hill); Banjos, "Merry Imps" (Read). Ethel Walker, soprano, FRIDAY, MAY 31. 9.30: Light orchestral and choral programme by A.B.C. (Sydney) Concert Orchestra (conducted by BE. J. Roberts), A.B.C. (Sydney) Wireless Chorus (conducted by Joseph Post). Orchestra: "Earl and the Girl" Selection (Caryll). Chorus: "Clear and Cool" (Hulbert) ; "Sir Eglamore" (arr, Gardiner). ‘Orchestra: "Mister Cinders" (Wllis-Myers).. Chorus: Two unaccompanied part songs, "Shepherd’s Sabbath Day": (Hatton); "Nature’s Praise’ (Smart). Orchestra: "Victor Herbert Favourites" (Fisher). Chorus: "Weltic Lament" (arr. Foulds) ; "Forge Song" (Wempter),.

10.30: "1934 Tour in Retrospect," talk by W. A. Oldfield. 10.50: Orchestra: "H.M.S. Pinafore" (special, arr. by Welz MJutchinson). Chorus: "Vagabonds" (Fanning), Orchestra: "A Day in Naples" (Byng). | Chorus: Selection of Plantation Songs for Baritone Solo and Chorus (arr. Robertson). Orchestra: "Yeoman: of the Guard’ (Special, arr. by Hela Hut_chinson). Chorus: "Come Sweet Morn‘jing’ (arr, A.L.); "Venetian Song" (Tosti) ; "Robin Hood" (West). Orchestra: "Virginia Southern Rhapsody" (Haydn Wood), SATURDAY, JUNE 1. 9,30: From the Sydney Town Hall, oldtime Cinderella dance, with A.B.C. OldTime Dance Orchestra, conducted by Cec. Morrison. 1.30: "Auld Lang Syne."