IN BRIEF

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1937, Page 28

IN BRIEF

NOTES FROM NEAR AND FAR

Mr. W. Graeme Holder, the prizewinner in the radio play contest conducted last year by the National Broadcasting authorities, is now attached to the staff of 2YA as a special continuity and script writer.

The Christchurch Orpheus Choir, under the conductorship of Mr. F. C. Penfold, will present an. attractive programme of choral music from 3YA on Sunday at 9.5 p.m.

The principal feature from 4YA on Sunday evening will be a complete recorded presentation of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera "Yeomen of the Guard."

Listeners to 4YA on Monday evening will have an opportunity of hearing one of the finest radio plays yet presented in the Dominion —"Youth at the Helm" —a comedy in three acts, adapted from the German of Paul Vulpiu.

Josef Kaartinen, a .visiting Finnish saxophonist, is scheduled to broadcast from 2YA on Wednesday at 8.11 p.m. and on Friday at 8.40 p.m.

Edmund Barclay^ the Australian play-writer, has made an exceptionally fine radio adaption of Charles Dickens's

"Tale of Two Cities." This is to be presented from 2YA on Wednesday at 9.5 p.m.

Yorkshire, the county of broad acres, will be featured in a special programme from 4YA on Wednesday at 9.5 p.m. The author of the script is Mr. Karl Atkinson, president of the, Yorkshire Society of New Zealand.

Followers of Rugby should make a note of the fact that all the National stations will rebroadcast at 4.45 p.m. on Saturday week a running commentary on the first Rugby Test match, Australia versus South Africa, relayed from Sydney.

Will Bishop and his company of revue players, whose last broadcast from 2YA created somewhat of a sensation in radio circles, will present a further "grown-up children's hour" from 2YA on Saturday week, June 26.

Mr. Leo dv Chateau is supervising the production by the staff of the National Broadcasting Service of a recorded serial play based on the adventures of the *'Three Musketeers."

Mr. O. N. Gillespie and Mr. Harison Cook have produced for the Railway Department a special recorded programme based on the history of New Zealand and its railways. This will be presented from all the National stations tomorrow evening.

The closing down of station 3ZM, Christchurch, which has been purchased by the Government, will remove from the air a station which made radio history in the early days of broadcasting in New Zealand. Founded in 1927 by Mr. L. E. Strachan, now of Wellington, 3ZC, as it then was, introduced many features new to New Zealand broadcasting, including a midday news service, special sessions for women, and the first sessions sponsored by advertisers. 3ZC was the first station in the Dominion to be granted a licence to broadcast programmes on the short-wave band and was the first New Zealand station to broadcast a programme heard in England.

Mr. Edmund Kurtz, the eminent 'cellist, who recently concluded a broadcasting tour of the Dominion, is loud in his praises of the young Christchurch pianist, Mr. Noel Newson. Mr. Kurtz considers Mr. Newson to be a musician of great promise. He was desirous of taking Mr. Newson with him to Australia, to act as his accompanist on his tour of the Commonwealth, but this was found to be impracticable, as the Australian Broadcasting Commission had already engaged a pianist for Mr. Kurtz's tour.