OVER THE AERIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 145, 21 June 1935, Page 14

OVER THE AERIAL.

RADIO NOTES. FROM FAR AND NEAR. (By TUXE-IN.) On Monday evening from IYA the Gloucester Players are to present a oneact eighteenth century comedy, "B.\s Grace By Proxy.' , This has been written by Isabel M. Cluett, of Auckland, who will produce and direct it in the studio. The financial year of the 8.8.C. shows a surplus of £220,000. This amount will be used (1) for building a powerful short-wave station; (2) for enlarging the London broadcasting house; and (3) for the erection of new broadcasting stations in North Wales, as well as in the West, South, and East of Kngland.

It is estimated that the new Wellington transmitting station will be on the air about this time next year. Tenders will be called next month for the transmitter building. Unofficial suggestions are that it will be built at Titahi Bay or near Peiicarrow Lighthouse. The only official news is that it will be about 20 miles from Wellington. The new YA is to have an aerial power of l>o kilowatts.

One of the brightest or entertainments on the air recentlj' was the radio parade from the Friendly Road station IZB at the end of last week. Over 25 artists who have broadcast from IZB during the past year or so gave Heme, all being of a high standard. During the "parade" a special recording of a talk made in Sydney by "Uncle Scrim," who is over there, was broadeast.

To-monow night IYA will relay from His Majesty <■> Theatre the complete performance of "A Runaway Girl," Sir Seymour Hicks' well known musical comedy, by the Auckland Amateur Operatic Society. A special feature of this musical comedy is the fascinating musical score, the work of Ivan Caryll. Apart from the fine cast of vocalists in the chief roles, this production, probably the best ever offered by the Auckland Society, is rich in humour and the comedy team is an. excellent one. Listeners should derive much enjoyment to-morrow night.

Since lie has been in Sydney inaugurating the Friendly Road in Australia, the Rev. C. G. Scrimgeour, director of IZB, lias been inundated with correspondence. As a result of this and other work to be done, lie had to cable over last week ~to instruct Mr. Harry Bell, of the Friendly Koad station, IZB, to go to Sydney to act as his private secretary. Mr. Bell, who hns been attached to the local station for a long time, sailed laet Friday by the Marlposa. According to advices received in Auckland last week the establishment of the Friendly Road in Australia is assured.

The rebroadcast from Daventry of a running commentary on the international senior tourist trophy race for motor cycles in the Isle of Man, scheduled to be given from IYA tomorrow at 4 p.m., will not now take place owing to both IYX and IYA being fully engaged. IYA is to broadcast the events run at the Auckland Trotting Club's winter meeting, while IYX will be fully employed relaying the football from' Eden Park. As the only stations to take the rebroadcast are the auxiliary stations 2YC, 3YL, and 4YO, in the "South, Auckland listeners will have to depend on direct reception.

At a reception by the' Lord Mayor to the Australian Newspapers' Conference delegates at Brisbane on May 29, Mr. A. C. C. Holtz declared that he was not a bit afraid of radio as far as the newspapers were concerned. Radio's chief function was entertainment, and it would develop on those lines. Newspapers had a definite place in the community-, and they appealed to a definite audience. "You cannot defy the Press, because you cannot choose your (Nidienee. ,, continued Mr. Holtz. "You might think you are addressing thousands, but they might be on another utation or listening in boredom and waiting for the mter.tairtmen.t to follow. The Press Is infinitely more powerful than radio."

Cricket enthusiasts received a welcome surprise on Tuesday last at 5.30 p.m. when IYX rebroadeast a splendid running commentary by Captain Wakelam, from the Daventry short-wave station, of play in the first Test match butweeu England and South Africa, which ended the following day in a draw. On Wednesday IYA was ready to repeat the performance at 4 p.m., when the English commentator announced that owing to rain which was falling at Nottingham on the third and final day the- match would be abandoned. So IYA resumed its ordinary schedule. Lit! tcners must have been am used at the mouth organ solo which was played before Daventry commenced the broadcast, on Tuesday afternoon. If that's the type of music Daventry gives, then Xew Zealand programmes are not so bad after all!

FROM IYA NEXT WEEK. Sunday—ll.O a.m., relay of service rrom St. Mark's Anglican Church; 1.0 to 4.30 p.m., selected recording's; 7.0, relay of service from itaptist Tabernacle; B.no p.m., operatic recordings, with a recorded presentation or Leoncavallo's "11 l'agllaecl," by the principals, orchestra and chorus of the British National Opera Company. Monday—7.3o p.m., agricultural talk ]>y Mr. C. S. Daigltesli, " Winter Stock Foods —Quality and Quantity"; 8.0, concert programme featuring ttie Gloucester players in the origins) one-net play, " His Urace by Proxy," written and directed Ijy Isabel Cluett; 0.6, continuity programme; 10.0 to 11.0, music, mirtli and melody. ■ Tuesday—l.s() p.m., educational session, relayed from Touchers' Training College, Kpsofll; 8.0, concert programme, featuring John Hobertson, champion New Zealand COrnetlSt in a recital; 0.5, talk by the Rev. T II Hoseveare, " Some Aspects or Lire in FIJI"; '.'--'O to 11.0, dance music. Wednesday—From 11.30 a.m., relay or descriptions or Auckland Trotting- Club's winter meeting at Epsom; 1.2.30, relay or community singing from Town Hall; SO, chamber music programme, introducing Miss Hlta Miller, Australian coloratura soprano; 0.5. talk by Hev. A. B. Chuppell, MA "The Maori— Taking the Hat's Nest"; recordings until 10.0. and until 11.0. music, mirth and melody. Thursday—B.o p.m., concert programme, "An Hour With the Tenors"; 9.5, talk by Miss Briar Gardner, " Spinners and Weavers of Modern Times"; 0.20, band programme, featuring- recital by John Koliertson, cornetist; 10.0 to 11.0, dance music. Friday—B 0 p.m?, concert programme of recordings, and at 8.33, ft studio recital by Hlta Miller, soprano; 9.20. another of the dramatic ; episodes, "We Await Your Verdict": 10.0 to 11.0. music, mirth ana melody. Saturday—3.o p.m., relay of Rugby footl>oll from Eden Park; 7.30, talk bv the gardening expert; 8.0, concert programme, featuring John Rubcrtson, cornetist and recorded feature, " Abroad With the Lockharts"; 10.10 to 11.15, modern dance music.