COMING TALKS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 23

COMING TALKS

Listeners to 2YA will have an opportunity this evening of hearing one of the leading broadcasters in Australia, Mr. J. A. MacCallum, who speaks regularly in Sydney on World Affairs for the Australian Broadcasting Commission. When he visited Wellington this week, Mr. MacCallum made a recording for the National Broadcasting Service of a talk, "Will the United States of America Abandon Isolation?" The monthly * talk "Round the Law Courts in the Past Month" by the editor of the "Law Journal," which was to have been given this evening, has been postponed. When Miss Valeric Corliss was in England a few years ago she met a number of well-known musicians and composers. In a talk at 2YA tomorrow, Friday evening, Miss Corliss is to give recollections of four players —two pianists, Harriet Cohen and Myra Hess, and two violinists. Yelli D'Aranyi and Jacques Thibaud. The work of these musicians will be illustrated during the talk. An unconventional talk on the difficulties of life in New Guinea will be given at 3YA this evening by Mr. Burton Collins, who recently spent some time in that unhealthy country. According .to Mr. Collins the danger is not from wild animals, but from heat and disease. He will also have something interesting to say about sharks. Sir Thomas Wilford, who was heard this week in recollections of Sir James Carroll, will begin a series at 2YA next Tuesday on personalities he has met. When he was High Commissioner in England, Sir Thomas met many leading men in all walks of life, including European statesmen, and in this series he is to describe some of these. ■ •. •-.-.». The tenth Autralian and New Zealand Cancer Conference is to open in Wellington next week under the auspices of the Australian and New Zealand Governments. This will be attended by a body of prominent doctors from Australia, including Dr. Cumpston. Director-General of Health for the Commonwealth. There will be a free popular lecture at the Town Hall on Wednesday evening where Dr. F. A. McQuire, a leading surgeon, of Sydney, will give an address -on cancer. This will be broadcast from I 2YA. t