OVER THE AERIAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 263, 5 November 1937, Page 16

OVER THE AERIAL.

RADIO NOTES. FROM FAR- AND NEAR. i (By TUNE -IN.) Not content with 12 short-wave transmitters at Zeesen. near Berlin. Herr Hitler i« having ID more erected there. Miss Alma McGruer, the Auckland soprano, who is in London, is to jrive a non» recital on the Empire broadcast from Daventry this evening at S.~>. Miss McfJruer will he announced under the name of Judith Silver. Only one national station will broadcast a full description of the race for the New Zealand Cup to be run at Riccarton to-morrow, 3YA Christchurch. IYA and 2YA, however, will announce the result almost as soon as the horses flar>h past- the post. In order to popularise radio, Turkey proposes to admit the importation duty free of foreign receivers until the home industry is in a position to supply the demand. Turkey iis very backward in wireless and the Government is keen to remedy this state of affairs as rapidly as possible. An interesting series of talks waft begun last night from IYA when the Rev. (I. E. Moreton, prison chaplain to the Auckland fraol. who recently visited England. sj*>ke on "The Early History of Our Prison System." In this talk he dealt fully with prison systems l>oth in New Zealand and in England. His second talk. "A Visit to Scotland Yard," is to be civen from the «ame station next Thursday at 9.5 p.m. Under the new programme schedule in Sydney, 2BL is to broadcast the "National No. 1" programme, and 2FC is to become the auxiliary with much curtailed hours. It will not commence transmission until noon, and will off each evening at 10.30. Similar arrangements have been made in MelIxiurne. 3AR becoming the main station and 3LO being reduced to the same status and hours as 2FC. Pleasing and popular have been the programmes broadcast from IYA by Dan Foley, the Irish tenor, who hails from Wellington and who recently returned to his home town after spending two years in Australia. In Australia he appeared in vaudeville, radio and on the concert platform, and made a tour with Leo Chernjavsky. Accompanying him most ably at the piano is Miss Kathleen Dunne, the Queensland pianist. As stated in this column last week, the National Broadcasting Service has engaged Sascha Berliner's Continental Ensemble to tour the national stations. Gipsy music will.be introduced into YA programmes early in December when the combination starts its Dominion tour. The band is composed of nine players, and specialises in gipsy programmes of Hungarian, Russian and Rumanian origin, also Viennese music, and for the I last eighteen months it has been delighting Australian listeners with its entertaining broadcasts. This is the first musical ensemble of its type to visit New Zealand, and it is to open at 2YA on December 14. The seasonal vagaries of short-wave propagation now permit of the broadcast of Daventry's No. 1 transmission at a more reasonable time, from 7 p.m. to 9.15 p.m. for reception in New Zealand. The transmissions continue to be over the same four stations—GSG, GSO, GSD and (JSB—one on each of the well-defined broadcasting bands, but there have been changes in optimum directions. The highest frequency. GSG. is directed northeast. WSO soirth-west. and both GSD and CSB east and west. On Sundays this chain of stations broadcast at 7 p.m. a 25-mimite commentary on the big football matches. The 8.8.0. again emphases in its overseas bulletin that while it welcomes reports on reception, it does not under any circumstances make the verifications beloved of DX enthusiasts.

Arnvinjj from Australia on Monday by the Xiajrara after completing a four months' enjrajrement with the Australian Broad.-a«tin<r Commission. Paul Schramm, tlie Viennese pianist. pave his first recital from IYA on Wednesday nijrlit. Statmp that he left Europe and* decided to settle in the Dutch East Indies because he did not like Europe's possibilities Mr. Schramm added that havinsr lived yi Batavia since 19.14. he is not anxious to leave this "paradise." There he has his own symphony orchestra of ' I l '"vers. By his first recital on Wednesday he demonstrated a fine interpretation of Beethoven and also of Bach, both full of sentiment, fire and impulse. To-nijrht he is to give his second recital when he will play Bach'* "Sonata Xo. 2 and R eethoven's "Sonata in E. Hat Major.' after which h« leaves tor ins southern tour.

FROM IYA NEXT WEEK.

a.m.. recording's; 11.0 of service from St. Andrew's Prpshv' terian Church; 1.0 to 2 0 pm. dinner nuisic: 2.0 to 4.:i0. selected recordings rcHtu.-inr, art 3 30. four numbers arran&d servir» rfJ - n'' er ' 50, songservice. , .o, relay or service from st Marys Anjrlican Cathedral; 5.30, reaturintr Dan fole>-, Irish tenor, with' Kathleen \i'ickla,nri 'm** and a concert by the Park '' Pa ' Ban(1 ' rp,;lvert from Monday—T..To. BBTlrultural talk bv Mr H. imml.vear-.vmrth: s.o. a studio' nresentatmn by Mr. J. M. Clark and plavers of Ambrose Applejohn's Adventure."' bv iiind mellldy elt ' 10 '° l ° f, °' mu^c ' Tuesday—2.o p.m.. educational session I re!a.\ed irom the Teachens' Training: Col-1 7 :, °- talk by the (rardeninjr c<>n, ' m Programme, reaturingDan Foley, Irish teiior; 9.:, talk om • World AtTaiirs" by Mr. L. K. Munro; 9.20 to 11.0, music. Wednesday—*.3o p.m.. book reviewS.o. concern programme, featuring Phvllis Blov and Kvelj-n Prime, piano duo; Viola Morris and Victoria Anderson, F.ngf'sh singvis, in solos and duets, w P Harris baritone, and the studio orchestra: 95' talk by Mrs. Isabel Cluett. "Svdnev n'eviSLted (2). A People Out or Do'ors"; 10 0 to 11.0, music, mirth and melody. Thursday—7.3o p.m., »alk by Professor A. B. Fitt (6) "How the Mind Works"8.0. concert programme, featuring a prethe f tudk) b >' Ul « Auckland Choral Society of excerpts from the oratorio "Elijah." with recorded interludes by the composer, Mendelssohn: 9.5, talk by the Rev. G. E. Moreton. chaplain to H.M. Prisons, "A Visit to Scotland Yard"; 9.20 to 10.0, band recordings, with vocal interludes by Hilda RelTell, soprano- 10 01 to 11.0, an hour with Harry Roy and his 1 orchestra. • I Friday—7.3o p.m.. sports talk by Gordon Flutter; 8.0. an hour of reading of prose and verse by D'Arcy Cresswell, with appropriate music; 9.5 to 10.0, recordings, also a recital by Mary Owers, mezzo soprano; 10.0 to 11.0, music, mirth and melody. Saturday—7.{o p.m., talk by Dr. W H I Entwistle, "International Players at 1 \\ imbledon"; 8.0, concert programme featuring Thelma Willoughbv. pianistMadame Veta Cornwall, soprano- Isobei Langlands, violinist: Walter Brough. baritone; the Comedy Harmonist*; 10.10 to 11.15. dance music.