BROADCASTING SERVICE FORECASTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 128, 2 June 1938, Page 28

BROADCASTING SERVICE FORECASTS

Engaged by the N.B.S. for a six week's tour of New.Zealand, Danny Malone, Irish tenor of international fame, will arrive in Wellington by the Wanganella on June 8. Many of his fine recordings are frequently heard from the national stations. This is his second journey to the Dominion, as. when a youth he was one of a party of Irish emigrants to this country. After a period of farm work, he and a pianist friend went to London,,where they secured a theatrical audition. A representative of - the 8.8.C. heard them, with the result that within 48 hours Danny Malone-had made his first broadcast. He worked 32 a year for three years with the 8.8.C. and then went tp America tp do iour shows a week for the N.B.C. He has recently completed an engagement for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. He will give: his first studio performance for the N.B.S. on: Friday, June 10, from 2YA.. : A visitor ,to frew Zealand who has just completed a tour with the Frank Neil Revue Co. is the American pianoaccordion wizard, Arnie Hartmari. Upon his release,from his vaudeville contract the N.B.S. seized the opportunity of presenting this. outstanding artist to New Zealand, and he will be heard from 2YA ori June 8, 9,., and 11. His amazing technique and complete command of his instrument are unique, and, listeners should on no : account miss his performances. ; , * . ' ' FROM THE NATIONALS. For the week commencing June 5" several notable features will ; be broadcast from the national stations.. At 8 p.m. on June 6, the Hon. Adam Hamilton; Leader, of the Opposition, will give an address from the Theatre Royal, Hamilton,' rebroadcast to all stations by 2YA. At 1.45 p;m.,on June Ha commentary on the hockey match, English Women v.. Auckland Women, will be heard from IZM. The main Auckland station features a further episode of the N.B.S. production "The Strange Adventures of Mr. Penny" on June 9. This popular item is also presented from 3YA at 8 p.m. on June 7. Lovers of operatic music are catered for' by 3YA on. June 5 when at 8.30 p.m. a complete recorded presentation of opera "Marriage of Figaro" will be given. From 4YA on June 10 comes a group of songs by the eminent bass-baritone Frederic Collier, who is fulfilling a N.B.S. contract. Dr. V. E. Galway, Dunedin City Organist, and lecturer in music at Otago University, will' continue his bi-weekly series of' "Masterpieces of Music" with thematic illustrations and comments at 4YA on June 9. A feature of 2YA's evening programme on June S will be a fifteenminute broadcast of Cathedral music by the Schola Cantortim,' directed by Stanley Oliver. To procure the exact Cathedral effect, their items will be sung fn the Maori Hall of the Dominion Museum, and relayed from there by 2YA. , On June 9 2YA listeners will hear a programme by the iiutt Valley Liedertafel, relayed from the St. James' Hall, Lower Hutt. Associated with this group of * t\yerity-two male voices, is Master Warwick Keen/ a young W,anganui , singer at present studying in .Wellington, . and the possessor of an outstanding voice. N.B.S. PRODUCTION. Written, by Edmund Barclay, the prolific Australian radio playwright, and entirely produced in the studios of the N. 8.5., ."Shanghai", is described as an original radio play of the China Seas. The first thirty-minute episode of this dramatic serial will be given at 2YA on June 8 at 9.17 p.m. and on each Wednesday evening for twelve succeeding weeks the station will broadcast further instalments.

COMING TALKS What is behind the expropriation of British and American oil interests in Mexico, which has led to strained diplomatic relations between Mexico, Britain, and the United States? At IYA this evening ' the Rev. A.' M. Richards, who has been in Mexico, will attempt to answer the question, under the title, "The Red Man's Revenge." Mr # Richards's theory is that present developments in Mexico are part iof a movement to supplant Spanish culture by native Indian culture. Today is the birthday of Edward Elgar, the famous English composer, and there will, be an Elgar flavour about the programme at 2YA this evening.- The music will include choral and string items'by Elgar, and Mr. Clement Howe will give a talk on "Elgar the Man." One of the oldest democratic countries in" the world is one that'we hear little about—lceland. When the Dowager Lady Swathling was here some months ago she made a'recording of a talk on Iceland, which shchad visited. • This talk, on a community where the average level of culture is exceptionally high/will be heard from 3YA this evening. '■

The recent changes in the position of the famous theatrical of J. C. Williamson Limited gives point to a talk that Mr. Harcus Plimmer is to deliver at 2YA"tomorrow evening on J. C. Williamson, the founder of the firm, and the most conspicuous figure in: the- history of entertainment in Australia and New Zealand. • Another famous Australian will be the subject of a talk.at IYA tomorrow evening. This is lon Idriess, whose career has been full of adventure. He served in the war, has an explorer in Australia, and during the last few years has become bopular as an author. The speaker will be. Mrs. Ethel Wilson. ■ ■»

What a Jew thinks of the position in Palestine, which is still disturbed, may be learnt by listening 4o 4YA tomorrow evening, when a recorded talk by Mrs. Ida Bension will be broadcast. Mrs./Bension, who visited New Zealand some little time ago, is prominent in the Zionist movement. ' The fourth century of the A Open Bible in England is being celebrated this year. Under the auspices of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the National Broadcasting Service is broadcasting, at 2YA on successive Sunday afternoons, four talks that were given in , England recently through the 8.8.C. The first of these talks to be given on Sunday . afternoon, at 3 o'clock, is "The Bible in England," by Viscount Sankey. The talk will be read by the Rev. Herbert Newell. The other talk will be "The Bible in the World," by the British Minister of Labour, the Rt. Hon. Ernest Brown, M.P., which will be read by the Rev. J. R. Blanchard; "The Bible in Personal Life," by;the Rt. Hon. Isaac Foot, of the Methodist Church in Eng/and, read by. the Rev. Percy Paris, president of the Methodist Church of New Zealand; and "How lo Know the Bible," <A>y the Archbishop of York, read by the Rev. Herbert Newell. .The Electoral Department is now (hard at work preparing rolls for the. Parliamentary election at the end of I the year. The Chief Electoral Officer, Mr. G. G. Hodgkins, has recorded a talk.. explaining to voters what is required and asking'for their co-opera-tion. This talk will be he'ard shortly from all stations in turn.

Many New Zealanders must be puzzled to know what are the rules of American football. They' will have an opportunity to find out next week from the talk at 4YA on Tuesday next by Mr. W. C. McClymont, who has [seen the game played.