Team Travels

Radio Record, Volume X, Issue 7, 28 August 1936, Page 21

Team Travels

Scots Comedienne Sees Them Off eae Down to the wharf to see them off. And right-about turn we go. AYBE Dora Lindsay hasn't heard the old recruiting thyme, but she was certainly down at the wharf last Friday night when the Lyttelton steamer express took Thea Philips, Eileen Boyd, Senia Chostiakoff, Vincent Ryan, Dave Howard and Freddy Cholmondeley southward to con--: tinue their enagements with the N.B.S. After the Charity Concert in Wellington on the previous night honours were even, for every one of them enjoyed a great hand from the multitude. Wee Dora combined her comedy with a dash of song, and Thea Phillips and Eileen Boyd naturally went in for straight singing. The former, by the way, appealed to this observer at the concert as a soprano personality whose only broadcast rival in New Zealand has been Gladys Moncrieff. A Wellington musical man recently described Eileen Boyd as the finest contralto he had ever known to visit the country, so honours appear again even. The Australian contralto, incidentally, proposed to remain for an oratorio and concert tour after her broadcast engagement finishes on September 11, so the Dominion will not lose the contralto or the Russian tenor Chostiakoff too soon. The main drawback about the seeing-off business last week was the lack of light. So out of pure bigness of heart Dora waved to everybody .along the rail and hoped hard. E OE PS PTL en et en et SUC LL ee SC Ca it ETET TUE Te He i SETUP GE GD EEE UE TUE SP Ue ttt et SUP UE AED S00 fs