BROADCASTING SERVICE FORECASTS OUTSTANDING BROADCASTS COMING TALKS CHRISTMAS GREETINGS TALKS BY H. G. WELLS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 150, 22 December 1938, Page 30 (Supplement)

BROADCASTING SERVICE FORECASTS

OUTSTANDING BROADCASTS

COMING TALKS

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS

TALKS BY H. G. WELLS

Two English singers, Viola Morris (soprano) and Victoria Anderson (con tralto), who have revived the fashion for duet singing, are touring New Zealand under engagement to the N.B.S.

Students of the ' eminent teacher Plunket Greene, they followed his suggestion and made two-part singing their specialty. They spent hours in the London Museum studying and copying old manuscripts, and these songs are a feature of their programmes. Besides doing a great deal of broadcasting, these talented ar,tists have given recitals at the Queen's and Albert Halls, and have toured many European countries and the United States of America. Their visit to the Dominion will provide welcome variety, since it is not usual for touring artists to concentrate sd extensively upon duet singing, and listeners will hear many new and familiar songs arranged in this fashion. A CHRISTMAS PLAY, "Four Looked Down One Christinas Morn" is the title of a special Christmas play to be broadcast from 2YA, /Wellington, on Sunday, 25th, at U.lsj p.m. Written by the New Zealand j author W. Graeme-Holder, and produced by , the National Broadcasting Service, the play contains much that is of special interest to New Zealand listeners. In it is told the story of a New Zealand family as it is seen through the eyes of Youth, Old Age, the Mystic, and the Poet. Many of the scenes create an atmosphere characteristic of this coiintr"y, and at the same time there is a marked originality which emphasises the nature of the story. The production, not -an easy one, has been done with considerable skill and'ability so that listeners can look forward to hearing a play that will be both entertaining and oi moment. "

Oh Monday next, IYA, Auckland, presents an hour of drama that should meet the demands of the most ardent entertainment seeker on the evening of a holiday. At 8 p.m. will be heard the eighth episode of "The Exploits of the Black Moth," entitled "Grief Comes to Mr. Granby.". This will be followed by another of those \entertaining dramas in the series "The Old-time The-Ayter." This is /entitled "The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter" or "Caught in the Fog." Finally, at 8.45 p.m., will be heard episode six of the dramatisation of; Mrs. Craik's great novel, "John Halifax, Gentleman."

Following this, from 2YA, Wellington, will be "heard at 9.5 p.m., an entertaining comedy entitled "The Mutiny of a Hero." There is comedy both in the situation and dialogue of this humorous play which is produced by the National Broadcasting Service.

; On Tuesday next at 9.17 p.m. from 4YA, Dunedin, is to be broadcast also another comedy produced by the N.B.S. This is "A Marriage Has Been Disarranged," which shows that it can be just as difficult to extricate oneself from a matrimonial entanglement as it is to be caught in it.

On Wednesday night from 2YA, Wellington, will be heard another episode in the serial romance of the Middle Ages, "Into the Light." Episode 12, which is entitled "Mona Lisa," is to be broadcast at 9.5 p.m. and this will be followed at 9.32 p.m. by another episode in the modern serial, "Sol; dier of Fortune."

December 25. —Handel's Oratorio, "The Messiah"; Act 3 of "Parsifal," by Wagner; Viola Morris and Victoria Anderson (voc*alists)> IYA. Paul Schramm, pianist; Clement Q. Williams, baritone; "Four Looked Down One Christmas Morn," radio play, 2YA.

December 26. —"Mutiny of a Hero"; "radio comedy, N.B.S. production, 2YA.

December 27. —Viola Morris and Victoria Anderson (vocalists), IYA. Clem-, ent Q. Williams (baritone), 2YA. Julie Werry (soprano), 2YA.

December 28. —Dan Foley (tenor), 2YA.■■; Readings by O. L. Simmance, with music, 3YA.

December 29.—Talk by H. G. Wells, rebroadcast from Australia, all stations. Clement Q. Williams (baritone), Julie Werry (soprano), 2YA.

December 30. —Scenes from the Sporting Past: "The Melbourne Cup, 1890," IYA. Julio Werry (soprano), 2YA. Muriel Lee Petty, vocal comedienne, 8.8.C. artist, 3YA.

December 31.—"Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," recorded pantomime, IYA. Dan Foley, tenor, 2YA. Viola Morris and Victoria Anderson, vocalists, 3YA. 8.8.C. recorded programme, "Who's Hooper?" featuring W. H. Berry, 4YA.

There will be two Christmas talks tomorrow evening. At 3YA Miss Nelle Scanlan's recorded talk on Christmas in England will be repeated at 10 o'clock. At 4YA a recorded talk by the editor of the Law Journal entitled "The Law, the Lawyer, and the Festive Season," will be broadcast. Professor T. D. Adams's readings from 4YA tomorrow evening will have a strong Christmas flavour. He will read from Dickens's "Christmas Carol," and the illustrating music will include "The Pastoral Symphony" from "The Messiah." .

Christmas messages will be broadcast at 10.15 p.m. on Saturday, Christmas Eve, by the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, Prime Minister; the Hon. A. Hamilton, Leader of the Opposition; and the president of the Returned Soldiers' Association, the Hon. W. Perry, M.L.C. These will be national broadcasts. At 5 o'clock 'on Saturday afternoon in the children's hour, her Excellency Viscountess Galway will broadcast a Christmas message, and this will be followed by greetings by two crippled children. These also will be national broadcasts.

The N.B.S. have made arrangements with the Australian Broadcasting Commission to rebroadcast four talks by Mr. H. G. Wells, the world-famous writer, who is paying a short visit to Australia. The first of these talks, which will be rebroadcast by all the N.B.S. main stations, will be given at 9.40 p.m. on Thursday, December 29, under the title of "Fiction About the Future." The other talks are:—January 8, 11.15 p.m., "The World As I See It"; January 19, 9.40 p.m., "Utopias"; January 22, 11 p.m., "The World As I See It (Part 2): The Way to World Unity."