Have 'oo Got Your Gas Mask, Mr Grant?

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 37, 24 February 1939, Page 4

Have 'oo Got Your Gas Mask, Mr Grant?

| Features FOUR 2Y¥ A Studios QGOME interesting presentations will be heard from the studios of 2YA during the week beginning February 26. At 9.5 p.m. on Sunday, part six of the "Victoriana" series, "The Dream,’ is to be broadeast. This dramatic mosaic commemorating the life and reign of Queen Victoria, is constructed and produced by the NBS. Julie Werry, New Zealand so-

prano, gives a recital of classical songs the following evening at 8.10. This will be Miss .v-erry’s final recital prior to returning to Australia. On Tuesday, a programme of American music, featuring compositions by George Gershwin, will be broadcast. Listeners will hear "Memories of the Ballet," the fourth of a series of imaginary broadcasts re-creating the atmosphere of the theatre during the season of the ballet. Gershwin’s "Rhapsody in Blue" will be played. Relayed from James Smith’s tearooms, a St. David’s Day concert by the Wellington Welsh Society, will be presented from 2YA on March 1. Later in the evening the Australian vocalists, Raymond Beatty and Heather Kinnaird present further songs. These two artists will also be heard on the following evening in classical solos and duets.

Stranger Won | The Contest ROFESSOR SPEEDEE (Elliott Lloyd) of 3ZB, now looks as well as speaks the part, for he appears in the studio complete with gown and mortar-board. "The "Prof." has the "manner perfect" and is the acme of erudition, for radio purposes. And hereby hangs a tale. A visitor turned up in 32B’s lounge the other night just to see how this contest was worked, and to take a look round geuerally. He was a "don’t mind if I do® young man, and stepped into the breach when a worried announcer, seeking a substitute for a missing contestant, approached him. What’s more, the stranger walked off with the prize!