Marie Bremner is Heard in "Lilac Time" Broadcast

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 2, 19 July 1935, Page 49

Marie Bremner is Heard in "Lilac Time" Broadcast

MAKING A "LiaAR" OF THE Lyre-Birp--"TRENT’s Last Case" From 3L0O

MARIE BREMNER, who has not presented herself for public approval for some time, was heard in a very special production of "Tilac Time,’ from 2FC and national stations on Sunday night. July 14, with Leo Darnton, leading tenor of the last Gilbert and Stillivan season, as the base friend. Also. the production was under the direction of Andrew McCunn, who always presides over J. C, Williamson’s Sydney Orchestras, conducting Gilbert and Sullivan and most of the other shows, without score (they say he collects books in his spare time, and has a profound knowledge of Spanish literature, which just goes for to show you); and as "Lilac Time" is one of Bremner’s most satisfactory backgrounds, and the music is inescapably Schubert, even if it is only watered Schubert, and the operetta or music-comedy is very well put together, and they seemed determined to give a really professional performance, we Suppose a great many people were listening to "Lilae Time" on Sunday right. T might be insulting to say that the Australian Broadcasting Commission would make a liar of the lyre-bird; but they have broadcast the lyre-bird at a time when he is usually asieepthat is, on Monday, July 15. That is, they have made a recording round about Menura, in the Sherbrooke Forest, Victoria, with comments by Mr. R, T. Littlejohns, of the Royal Australian Ornithologists’ Union, and this is what was broadcast. . K. CHESTERTON is never tired of tiring his readers with references to the genius of BD. C. Bentley as a writer of detective stories. Bentley, of course, is a friend of Chesterton’s, and author of those sauibs on great men which include: Mr. Bernard Sha, Was setting out to war, But found it was a dangerous trade, And demonstrably underpaid. Anyhow, "Trent’s Last Case," by this author, will be performed from 3LO and national stations on Friday, July 19. It is about how Silas Manderson was found dead, and Philip Trent discovered why. , AFTER Cardinal Richelieu had ruled France for many years under Louis XIII, there appeared on the political scene as his successor a. young churchman from Italy who had won the favour of the great Richelieu. This was Cardinal] Mazarin, who, during the oe 1

‘boyhood of Louis XIV, ruled Srance with a power that had never been allowed any rulet before. Whilst Richelien had spent much of his energy depriving the Huguenots of their privileges and rights, Mazarin proceeded to weaken the insolent nobility, so that by | the time Louis XIV came of age, the monarchy of France possesséd a supremacy it never had before. Of Mazarin it was said. that he lived and died a cheat, which may be why he proved so brilliant a suecess in statecraft-and politics. George Edwards and his Players tell the story of the rise and fall of the crafty Italian in "Mazarin, the Man Who Ruled. France," from 2GB on Tuesday this week. . O king in England before him ‘bore such proud and high-sounding titles as Edgar, the Boy King. But they were empty titles and the real ruler of England, even after Edgar. had grown up. was Dunstan the ruler of kings. When these two came into conflict it was. not over affairs of state, but over affairs of the heart, to’ which Hdgar was prone, He fell in love at one time with Wulfrith, a young girl being educated at a monastery TForseeing danger, Dunstan manoeuvred a marriage between Hdgar and a princess by name of Hlfrida, But whilst Edgar agreed to matry her, he soon proved faithless and deserted her for Wulfrith, Thereupon fhe all-powerful Dunstan let his wrath descend upon Edgar, and the erring king returned asking forgiveness and was ordered to do seven years’ penance. But seven years’ penance did not cure the king, and he continued all his life to put loye first of all things, even quarrelling with best friend, Ethelwold, for possession of his wife. The story of this romantic and passionate king is told frém 2GB on Thursday this week undér the title of "Hdgar, the Boy King," as a further episode in "he Birth of the British Nation."