OVER THE AIR

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22431, 18 June 1938, Page 10

OVER THE AIR

SPELLING DUEL PROPOSED - ' ST IBy LISTENER.] Before getting on with the business of the week it is seemly to express a hope that enthusiastic 1 followers of cricket have recovered by now from the exhaustion of their nocturnal listening to the ball-by-ball broadcasts from Trent. Bridge, I know one person, an ardent Anglophile, who kept the long watch each night from 9.30 until 5 the following morning. He was in good nick for the first two sessions,, but after that he showed some sign of oervous weakening. Somehow I think that Messrs McCabe and Bradman should be debited on his account with a little tonic. , They certainly enfeebled him greatly. ■ . , Still, I must own to haying kept the night watch twice myself, and not in the convivial circumstances visioned by one of the announcers at Nottingham, Barnett (the English one) Had completed his century, this announcer said he was sure everybody would wish to drink Mr Barnett’s health. No doubt he had in mind when he said that the cheery little listening-in parties which must have been settled down in thousands all Oyer Australia, Possibly my estimate' is all wrong* but I wonder how many true Sydneysiders would have been saying: “Well, here’s a health to good old Barney,” as they quaffed their ale on the eventful; first day of the match. All that need be added while on this subject is that the National Broadcasting Service has made the same excellent arrangements for broadcasting the second test match, beginning on June 24, as it did for the first encounter. Cabinet v. Press

Now from cricket let us pass to another kind of sporting bout. In a recent number of the “Observer,’ London, it was recorded in Miss Grenfell’s radio column that the British . Broadcasting Corporation had hfeld* its fifth successful spelling bee.‘- I think there should be room, on the New Zealand national programmes for something of that kind. The idea is worth consideration by the- YA stations. > Anyway, there is a villainous suggestion I would like to submit for a diverting contest. In the last few weeks we have been hearing rather , much concerning Government- views- of -the., press, Some members of the Cabinet have been making unflattering remarks about newspaper editors. Well, there have been times when I’ve felt a bit like that myself. But let that pass. One Minister went so far as to say : thht-editors, like, members of Parliament, should be elected every three years. It may be assumed, for political purposes at least, that Labour Cabinet Ministers do not like editors. Now then, there’s nothing like clean sport to clear the air. Let’s have a spelling bee combat: Editors versus Cabinet Ministers. It is not priggishly extravagant to hint .that a Cabinet Minister should be able to spell, and editors must find fairly correct spelling a quite useful part of their stock-in-trade. What a radio audience there would be for an .epic bout like that! 1 know Cabinet Ministers are busy ineh who have to work long hours and travel great- distances on the country’s business, but a selected team could spare half an hour of their leisure to entertain the listeners upon whose goodwill they depend so much. Further, it is not likely that any Ministerial or editorial contestant would be able to excel the performance •of the Cambridge rowing blue who once succeeded in spelling the word “wife” without getting one letter right. His version was “yph.” My affection for this proposal is largely based upon its entertainment possibilities, but at the . same time the test would.be a just one. If editors should be elected. Cabinet Ministers should be able to spell efficiently. . Just to make:the /contest not too-easy for Mr Semple it would be necessary- to bar a ‘ few picturesque words which would not find a place in: “A Young; Student’s Guide to Parliamentary Rhetoric.” There’s my, suggestion; .it will be approved by • thousands of listeners, but I don’t suppose there is much chance of its being adopted. r - There are times of exaltation when I almost feel like agreeing with the generous friend of. mine who told me I was wasting my talent. .

“Why*” he said, “you would be .worth _£ 1000 a year to the National Broadcasting Service as a suggestionbox.; ; The. fertility -of s ybur ideas amazes me.” “Ah!” L /retorted mysteriously. “How do you know I don’t receive an unbelievable amount of’ money for writing this weekly column?” 'Mr Malone and Others In the last week there has been some fine male singing from national stations. At the time of writing I have heard Mr Danny Malone, the Irish tenor, but once. From his records T had expected a rather thin sweet voice, but I was surprised to find when he - broadcast that he has quite robust-tonal quality. He will be popular because he sings-simple lilting Irish songs* but the fact that he is certain of popularity does not diminish his stature as an artist. Mr Malone, I should think, will be worth hearing any number of times. Then there is Mr Frederick Collier, an Australian bass-baritone. He has given several recitals already and I have heard him twice. He, too, is a fine, artist and his voice has remarkable range. At 3YA on Wednesday he was heard in a song cycle based oh Tennyson’s “Maud.” It was an exceedingly, pleasant piece of, work, but I preferred his recital of somewhat heavier . numbers. .

The coming week will be the best for male singing that the National Broadcasting Service has so far provided. Mr Malone and Mr Collier will both be oh the air, Mr Malone, performing at. Dunedin on Monday and Wednesday, arid from 3YA on Friday. On Saturday Alexander Kipnis, the famous Russian basso, who. has done a; tour for the Australian Broadcasting Commission, will give his first, public concert in Wellington. It, will be broadcast from 2YA. Mr Collier will, be. on the air from TYA-.on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday. It is unfortunate that Ke arid ’Mr Malorie are both singing, at 8.45 on that evening, Surely conflicts of this kind could be ’avoided. -

While: on the-subject of music, passing reference can be, made: to. Mile, : Renee Nizan,. a French organist of outstanding ability, who will give a recital from Dunedin on

3YL, CHRISTCHURCH (1200 Kilocycles)

IYA, AUCKLAND (630 Kilocycles)

2YA, WELLINGTON (570 Kilocycles)

4YA, DUNEDIN (790 Kilocycles)

4YO, DUNEDIN (1140 Kilocycles)

PROGRAMMES AND COMMENT

BROADCASTING TO-DAY’S PROGRAMMES 3TA, CHRISTCHURCH (720 Kilocycles) 7.0 a.m.: Breakfast session. 10.0: Recordings. 10.30: Devotional service. 10.45: Recordings. 12 noon; Lunch music. 1.0 p.m. Week-end weather report. 2.0: Recordings. 2.45 (approx.): Commentary on women’s hockey match, England versus Canterbury, at Lancaster Park. 4.30; Sports results. 5.0: Children's hour (Mr Riddleman); with, at 5.45 p.m., recorded serial, "Paradise Plumes and HeadHunters, episode 16. 6,0 1 Dinner music. 7.0: Government and overseas news (from 2YA). 7.10 (approx.): News. 8.0: Chimes. (R) Orchestra of La Scala Theatre. 8.9: (R) Richard Tauber (tenor). 8.15: The Fourth at St. Percy’s,” episode 8. 8.27; (R) Mayfair Symphony Orchestra. 8.35: "Coronets of England: Queen Elizabeth, episode 8. 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.0: Relay from the King Edward Barracks of a commentary on Boxing including the match—Dominic Ganzon v. Gunn. 10.15 (approx.): Relay from Winter Garden of Bailey-Marston Dance Orchestra.

2.30 p.m. (approx.): Commentary on Rugby match —Athletic v. Varsity relayed from Rugby Park. 5.0: Recordings. 7.0: After-dinner music. 8.0: Symphonic programme. 9.0 to 10.15: Modem dance programme played by Bailey-Marston dance orchestra (relayed from Winter Garden). 10.15: Favourite entertainers.

3.0 p.m.: Running commentary on Rugby football match at Eden Park, Waikato v. Auckland. 3.15-4.30; Sports results. 5.0: Children's hour. 6.0; Dinner music. 7.0: Government and overseas news (from 2YA). 7.10 (approx.): News. 8.0; Concert programme. (R) Boston Promenade Orchestra. -8.5: National Four (vocal quartet). 8.17: Frank Piper (piano). 8.29: Ann Dickson (soprano). 8.41: (R) Albert Sandler Trio. 8.47: (R) Nelson Eddy (baritone). 8.53: (R) Boston Promenade Orchestra: 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5; (R) Light Opera Company. 9.9: The Twa Macs in ‘ A Singing Lesson.” 9.24: Tau Hapurona (guitar). 9.30: (R) Tino Rossi (light vocal), 9.36: (R) Jay Wilbur (piano). 9.42; Tau Hapurona (guitar). 9.48: (R) Napoli Mandolin Orchestra. 9.54: (R) Light Opera Company. 10.0: Sports summary. 10.10: Dance music by Lauri Paddi and Band at Peter Pan Cabaret.

IYX, AUCKLAND (880 Kilocycles) 5.0 p.m:: Light music. 7.0: After-din-ner music. 8.0: Band programme. 8.30: “Hotel Revue.” 8.42; Musical comedy. 9.30: Old-time dance music, humorous interludes. 10.0: Variety.

6.50 a.m.: Weather report lor aviators. 7.0: Breakfast session. 10.0: Weather report for aviators. Devotional service. 10.28 to 10.30: Time signals. 10.45: Talk to women (Margaret). 12 noon: Lunch music. 1.0 p.m.: Weather report for aviators. Week-end weather report and frost forecast for Canterbury and Otago, 2.45: Running commentary on Rugby football match at Athletic Park. 4.30 (approx.); Recordings. 5.0; Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Government and overseas news. 7.10 (approx.): News. 7.28 to 7.30; Time signals. 8.0: Chimes. Concert programme. Masked Masqueraders and Jesters In sketches, songs, and Jokes. 8.30: ‘'Ports of Call: Visit to Poland.” 9.0: Weather report and station notices. '9.5; Dance programme. 10.0: Sports summary. 10.10: Dance programme (continued). 10.28 to 10.30: Time signals.

2YC, WELLINGTON (840 Kilocycles) 5.0 p.m.: Light music. 7.0: After-din-ner music. 8.0: Programme of choral Items. Sieber Choir; with Instrumental interludes. 9.0: Melody and humour. 10.0: “In Merry Mood.”

2.45 p.m,: Running commentary on Rugby'. football match at Carlsbrook. 4.45 (approx.); Sports results. 5.0: Children’s hour. 6.0: Dinner music. 7.0: Government and overseas news (from 2YA). 7.10 (approx.): News. 8.0: Chimes. Light orchestral and ballad concert. 4YA Orchestra conducted by Jas. Dixon. 8,10: (B) Olive Groves (soprano). 8.22; 4YA Orchestra. 8.34: Danny Malone (famous Irish tenor). 8.48; 4YA Orchestra. 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Dance music. 10.0; Sports summary. 10.10: Dance music.

5.0 p.m.: Recordings. 7.0; After-dinner music. 8.0: “Fifty Years of Operetta.” B.&e Hulbert Brothers In “Modern Colour Poems” (sketch). 8.15: “Organ Reveries." 8.30: Vaudeville and variety. 9.0: “Leaves From Diary of a Film Fan.” 9.30: Band programme. Instrumental and humorous interludes. i DAVENTRY, ENGLAND GSG. 16.86 metres; GSO, 19.76 metres; GSB. 31.55 metres: GSD, 25.53 metres. 4.30 p.m.: Big Ben “At the Black Dog.” Mr Wilkes at home in his own bar-par-lour. 5.0: David Buchan, in pianoforte improvisations. 5.10: “George Edwardes Memories”—l: "The Old Gaiety.” 6.10: "London Log.” 6.20: The news and announcements. 6.45: Close down.

SUNDAY 3YA, CHRISTCHURCH 9.0 a.m.: (R) Cricket, Australia v. Lancashire (see 2YA). 9.15: Recordings. 11.0: Morning meeting at Salvation Army Citadel. 1.0 p.m.: Dinner music. 2.0: Recordings. 3.0: Chopin Polonaise: No. 2 in £ Flat Minor; No. 3 in A Major; No, 4 in C Minor, played by Arthur Rubinstein. 3.15: Recordings. 5.30; Children’s song service (Rev. Farquhar Gunn and Children of Knox Sunday school). 6.15: Recordings. 6.30: Evening service from Knox Presbyterian Church, Preacher:

Tuesday and one at Auckland on Saturday next. Promising Offerings

Other items for the coming week which might be mentioned are a talk on “Some Modern Poets” by Mr D’Arcy Cresswell from 2YA on Thursday, and a presentation of Noel Coward’s “Hay Fever” from IYA on Monday. On Friday Professor T. D. Adams -will devote his reading session from 4YA to Book I .of .Homer’s “Iliad,” That will be an interesting experiment, and, of course, there’s no cppyright difficulty about Homer. Hi's literary agents have no claims to make. The Radio Palace

It appears from a statement by the Acting-Minister for Broadcasting that a start is to be made with that radio palace in Wellington. The threat about the short-wave station is also’to be fulfilled; television is to, be provided for, and we are going’ to have the beginnings of the conservatbrium of music and the spoken arts. Once again this pointedly relevant question must be asked: Who is going to pay for the architectural and cultural debauch? If radio licence fees are to be used for, the establishment and maintenance of the conservatorium, there should be a roar, of protest from one end of New Zealand to the other. Listeners pay their fees for programmes and necessary radio services, not to help train musicians and dramatic artists. Anyway, by the time a building of several storeys has been erected the National Broadcasting Service reserves will probably have gone the way of frost in the sun. The listeners of the Dominion have a right to know about the financial arrangements for these costly -fenterprises;. ■ Already the totalitarian touch has gone a shade too far.

Rev. T. W. Armour. Organlste: Miss V, Butler. Choirmaster: Mr A. G. Thompson. 8.0: Recordings. 8.30: Complete recording of Gilbert, and Sullivan opera, ‘‘Patience.’’

3YL, CHRISTCHURCH 3.0 p.m.: Service in commemoration of four-hundredth anniversary of Open Bible at Anglican Cathedral. Preacher: Ven. Archdeacon Warren. 6.0; Recordings. 8.30: Miniature Suite (Eric Coates). 8.39: Vocal duets. 8.45: Erica Morini (violinist). 8.58: Gems from ‘‘A Lover in Damascus.” 9.6: ‘‘Fluttering Spirits” Waltz. 9.10: Lilly Dymont at piano. 9.15: Elena Daniell (soprano). 9.21: Four characteristic waltzes. 9.33: Westminster singers. 9.39: Zither duo. 9.45: Herbert Ernst Groh (tenor). 9.52; Weber’s immortal melodies. IYA, AUCKLAND 2.0 p.m.: Recordings. 3.30; “Songs of the Sea” (Stanford), Peter Dawson. 3.42: Recordings. 6.0: Children’s song service. 7.0: Evening service from Baptist Tabernacle. 8.15: Recordings. 8.30; Concert by Auckland Municipal Band, conducted by Mr T. J. O’Connell, at Concert Chamber, Town Hgll. Thomas Maguire (baritone). 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Inter-’Varsity debate, Auckland University College versus Victoria University College. Subject: ‘‘That the Existing Gambling Laws are Unsuitable and Inequitable, and Should be Revised.” IYX, AUCKLAND 2.45 p.m.: Commemoration of four-hun-dredth anniversary of the Open Bible (at Town Hall). 6.0: Recordings. 8.30: Concert programme. 8.54: Dora Labette and Leeds Festival Choir, with London Philharmonic Orchestra. 9.0: G. D. Cunningham (organ). 9.10: Yehudi Menuhin and Paris Symphony Orchestra. 9.44: Elsie Suddaby (soprano). 9.50: Edwin Fischer

(piano). 2YA, WELLINGTON 9.0 a.m.; (R) Eye-witness account of cricket match, Australia v. Lancashire, played at Old Trafford. 9.15: Recordings. 10.0: Weather report for aviators. 11.0: Morning service from St. Thomas’s Anglican Church. Wellington South. 1.0 p.m.: Weather report for aviators. Dinner session. 2.0: Symphonies by Johannes Brahms. 2.32: Recordings. 3.0: 8.8. C. series: "The Fourth Centenary of the Open Bible.” "The Bible in Personal Life,” by the Rt. Hon. Isaac Foot. Read by Rev. Percy Paris. 3.28: Time signals. 6.0: Children's song service. 7.0: Evening service from Cambridge Terrace Congregational Church. 8.15 (approx.): Recordings. 8.30: Beethoven Cameo. (R) Felix Weingartner conducting Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. 8.54: Kirsten Flagstad (soprano). 8.57; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Inter-’Varsity Debate, Auckland College versus Victoria College (see IYA).

2YC, WELLINGTON 6.0 to 8.30 p.m.: Recordings. 8.30: Light recital programme. 9.0: "Sousa, Rimmer, and Alford,” band music by these composers; vocal and Instrumental interudes. 4YA, DUNEDIN 2.0 p.m.; Recordings. 2.30; Ballade for piano, with orchestral accompaniment. 2.46: Recordings. 5.30: Children’s song service. 6.15: Recordings. 6.30: Evening service from “Central Methodist Mission. 7 45; Recordings. 8.30: Leopold Stokowski and Philadelphia Orchestra. 9.0: Weather report and station notices. 9.5: Complete recording of "Dido and Aeneas, opera in three acts by Henry Purcell. , 4YO, DUNEDIN 6.0 p.m.: Recordings. 8.30: “Cavalcade of Famous Artists.” 8.46; Victor Silvester and Ballroom Orchestra. 9.0: Lives of Famous Women —The Story of Cleopatra.” 9.15: “Hhapsodlana. 9.23. Hildegarde sings. 9.33: "The Living Death (dramatic sketch). 9.41: Jules Ruben Trio. 9.50: "The White Horse Inn Selection. '

DAVENTRY, ENGLAND GSG. 16.86 metres; GSO, 19.76 metres; GSB, 31.55 metres; GSD, 25.53 metres.

4.30 p.m.; Big Ben. Bells, and an Empire Service, from St. Paul s Cathedral, London. Address by the Rev. J. K. Mosley, D.D.. Canon and Chancellor of St. Paul’s Cathedral. 5.20; Programme of songs and duets. Phyllis Scott and John Rorke. 5.0: "Gibraltar.” A dramatised historical survey by “Taffrail” (Captain Tapprell Dorling, D.S.O.* R.N,). 6.15. Weekly newsletter and sports summary. 6.45: Close down. OVERSEAS RECEPTION NOTES

(Supplied by the New Zealand DX Radio Association.)

The following Victorian amateurs in Australia may be heard as follows this month:—3BY, Caulfield, 1095 kilocycles; *3RI, Melbourne, 1260 kilocycles; 3GY, Yarraville. 1290 kilocycles: 3FL, Camberwell, 1350 kilocycles; 3CV, Australia, has increased power to 200 watts. New stations; —7ZR, Hobart, 1160 kilocycles; SAtI, Port Augusta, 1400 kilocycles. The Australian Broadcasting Commission advises that regional stations are under construction at Canberra and Dalby, Queensland, and a second national transmitter at Perth. 2PK, Parkes, 1400 kilocycles, may possibly increase power in the near future to 200 watts. 2KM, Kempsey, 980 kilocycles, 100 watts, is another station which may increase power, as its present equipment is capable of 600 watts. It has recently completed two new concert studios, and is one of the “Age” chain of stations with broadcasting and recording facilities in Melbourne, 7BU, Burnie, 660 kilocycles, . 100 .watts, appreciates reports as is shown by the following letter received by the association, “Dear Sir, —We have pleasure in advising that we. propose broadcasting a special session each Saturday night from 10.30 to 11 (12 to 12.30 a.m., New Zealand time (on Sunday) as long as we continue to receive reports .from New Zealand. We therefore would be pleased if you would make this known, as we are also printing a special card which we will send to every dxer and listener who writes to us. Of course, we do not expect that conditions will always be suitable for reception, but

we are anxious as Tasmanians to make it known not only to New Zealand that we wish well, but also to any other people who can pick us up,” MELHUISH and CO. Readjust your Radio in your own home, 3s 6d; Lyttelton, 5s 6d. Use 'Phone 41-508. 6541