WEEK-END PROGRAMMES

Evening Star, Issue 22252, 1 February 1936, Page 4

WEEK-END PROGRAMMES

Tfl-HIGHT 4YA, Dunedin.—4.4s; Sports results. 5; Children’s session, conducted by Aunt Anita. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 8: Chimes. The Concert Orchestra, conducted by James Dixon. 8.10: Mrs Evelyn Davies (soprano). 8.22: The orchestra. 8.36: J. E Davies (tenor) and duets with Mrs Evelyn Davies. 8.48; The orchestra. 9: Weather and station notices. 9.5: Dance music. 10: Sports summary. 10.10: Dance music. 11.15: Close down. 4YO Dunedin.—s: Selected recordings. 6 : Close down. 7 : After-dinner music. 8: Variety and vaudeville programme, 9: Band programme, with dramatic and humorous sketch interludes. 10: Close down, 3YA. Christchurch. —5: Children’s session. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 7.30:. Time signal from the Dominion Observatory. 8; Chimes. Recordings, Light Symphony Orchestra. 8.8: Peter Dawson (bass-baritone). 8.14 Orchestra Mascotte. 8.20 Norman Long (entertainer). 8.26; H. Lennington Skewed (Theremin with organ and piano). ‘8.32: J. Turner, W. Booth. S. Robertson. G. Baker, with chorus. 8.40: 3YA Orchestra, conductor Harold Beck. 8.51: Thomas E. West (tenor). 8.57: Recording: Rene Dupont (saxophone). 9: Weather and station notices 9.5: 3YA Orchestra. 9.11: Recording: Bernice Claire and Henry M. Shope, with orchestra and chorus. 9.19 3YA Orchestra. 9.26: Thomas E. West (tenor). 9.33; 3YA Orchestra. 9.40: Recordings, Norman Long (entertainer). 9.46: Men About Town, with Zora Laymann (vocal). 9.54: 3YA Orchestra. 10: Sports summary. 10.10; Dance music. 11.15: Close down.

2YA, Wellington.—s: Children’s session, conducted by Uncle Jasper. 6: Dinner music. 7; News and reports. 7.30: Time signals from the Dominion Observatory. 8: Chimes. Recording, Casani Club Orchestra. 8.8: Recording, Grade Fields, with organ accompaniment. 8.12: Recording, Renara (piano). 8.18:' Fifteen minutes of humour, George Edwards and Neil Sterling. 8.23: Recording, Mantevani and his Tipica Orchestra. 8.36: Recording, the Hill Billies (light vocal, with novelty accompaniment). 8.39: Recording, Harry Breuer (marimba, with violin, ’cello, and guitar). 8.42: ‘ Abroad with the Lockharts.’ an American business man and his wife on tour. 8.56: Recording, Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra, with chorus. 9: Weather and station notices. 9.5: Modern dance music. 10: Sports summary. 10.10: Another interlude with the Cocoanut Grove Ambassadors. 10.25: Continuation of modern dance music. 11.15: Close down. _ IYA, Auckland.—s: Children’s session. 6: Dinner music. 7: News and reports. 7.30: Gardening talk. 8: Recordings, W. H. Squire (’cello). 8.15: Clem. Q. Williams (baritone). 8.30: Mr Gordon Short (piano) ‘ Study in D Flat’ (Liszt). 8.45: Miss RussellFergusson. (soprano). 9: ’Weather. Station notices. 9.5: Modern ’dance music (recorded). 10: Sports summary. 10.10: Dance music (continued). 11.30: Close down. Daventry.—B p.m.: Big Ben. The 8.8. C. Dance Orchestra. 8.20: Talk. ‘Under Big Ben.’ 8.35: The 8.8. C. Dance Orchestra. 8.45: Two plays. 9.25: Violin recital. 9.45; The news. 10; Close down. TO-MORROW 4YA, Dunedin.—9: Selected recordings. 10: Relay of matins from St. Paul’s Anglican Cathedral. Preacher, the Very Rev. G. C. Cruicksliank, M.A.; organist, Mr E. H. Heywood, F.R.C.O. 12.15 (approx.): Close down. 1: Lunch music. 2: Selected recordings. 2.15: Recorded talk by Mr Walter Ripman, M.A. 2.30; Arthur Schnabel, piano. 2.46:- Selected recordings. 4.30: Close down. 5.30: Children’s song service, conducted by Big Brother Bill. 0.15: Selected recordings. 6.4s:‘Relay of service from the Salvation Army Citadel, Dowling street. Preacher, Adjutant Mahaffio; conductor, Mr A. Millard. 8.15: Selected recordings. 8.30: Chimes. The Royal Albert Hall Orchestra, conducted by Sir Landon Ronald. 8.42: Madame Winnie Fraser, soprano. 8.54: The orchestra. 9.2: Weather Station notices. 9.7: Rees M'Connchy, violin. 9.22: Tlie orchestra, 10.2; Close down. 4YO, Dunedin.—6: Selected recordings. 8.30: Band programme, with spoken and dramatic interludes. 10: Close down.

3YA, Christchurch.—9: Selected recordings. 11: Relay of service from Church of Christ, Moorhouse Avenue.' Preacher, Pastor Stuart Stevens; organist, Mrs Pugh; choirmaster, Mr H. E. Ames. 12.15 (approx.): Close down. 1: Dinner music. 2: Selected recordings. 3: Recording, Jacques Thibaud, violin, and Pablo Casals, ’cello, and the Pablo Casals Orchestra. 3.33: Selected recordings. 4: Time signals from the Dominion Observatory. 4.30: Closedown. 5.30: Children’s song service, conducted by the children from the Congregational Sunday School. 6.15: Selected recordings. 7: Relay of service from Trinity Congregational Church. Preacher, Mr J. J. Flewellan; organist, Mr Len Boot; choirmaster, Mr F. H. Christian. 8.15: Selected recordings. 8.30: Presentation of complete recorded opera, ‘ Don Pasquale ’ (Donizetti). Principal characters and soloists—Don Pasquale, baritone, Ernesto Badini; Dr Malatesta, baritone, Afro Poli; Ernesto, tenor; Tito Schipa; Norina, soprano, Adelaide Saraoeni. Chorus of s rvants, chambermaids, etc., members of the chorus and orchestra of La Scala, Milan; conductor, Maestro Carlo Sabajno; chorus master, Vittore Veneziani. 10.40 (approx.); Close down.

2YA, Wellington.—9: Chimes. Selected recordings. 11: Relay of service from tlie Trinity Methodist Church, Wellington South. Preacher, Rev. G. C. Cook; organist, Miss Lilian Thawlejv L.R.S.M.; choirmaster, Mr W. M’Clellan. 12.15 (approx.): Close down. 1: Dinner music (recordings). 2: Recordings, Beatrice Harrison, ’cello, and Harold Craxton, piano. 2.16: Selected recordings. 4: Time signals from the Dominion Observatory. 4.30; Close down. 6: Children’s song service, conducted by Uncle William and assisted by the children’s choir from St. John’s Presbyterian Sunday School. 7: Relay of the evening service from the Vivian street Baptist Church; Preacher, Rev. L. J. Boulton Smith; organist, Mr Chas. Collins; choirmaster, Mr H. E. Wilson. S.lo (approx.): Selected recordings. 8.30: Recordings, Archie Camden, with orchestra, oonducted_ by Sir Hamilton Harty. 8.25: Miss Hinemoa Rosieur. New Zealand soprano. 8.57: Recordings, Archie Camden (bassoon), with orchestra conducted by Sir Hamilton Harty. 9.1: Weather. Station notices. 9.6: Recordings, Paul Whiteman and his orchestra. 9.31; Miss Hinemoa Rosieur. 9.37: Recordings, New Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Goossens. 9.53: Recording, Robert Radford, bass. 9.56: Recording, Gustav Holst conducting the London Symphony Orchestra. 10: Close down.

IYA. Auckland. —9: Selected recordings. 11: Service, relayed from St. Luke’s Presbyterian Church. Preacher, Rev. J. A. Thomson; organist, Mr S. Yallop.- 12.15: Close down. 1: Dinner music (recorded). 2: Selected recordings. 3.30: New York Symphony . Orchestra. 4.15: Selected recordings. 4.30: Close down. 6: Children’s song service. ,7: Service, relayed from St. Mary’s Anglican Cathedral. Preacher, Canon William Fancourt; organist, Mr Edgar Randall. 5.30: The Auckland Municipal Band, relayed from Albert Park. Messrs P. Bowes and R. Farrington, cornet duet, with band accompaniment. Rowland Jackson, saxophone solo, with band accompaniment. 10: Close down.

Daventry, —8 p.m.: Big Ben. Light music. 8.45: Prose reading. 9: Beethoven symphony. 9.10: Weekly newsletter and sports summary. 9.30: A religious service, relayed from Croydon Parish Church (Church of England). 10.15: Close down. PAID £2O A MINUTE The highest paid radio star in the world is Arthur Tracy, “ The Street Singer,” according to the ‘NewsChronicle,’ London. When he broadcasts in America he is paid at the rate of £2O a minute. In the last four years he has nevfer earned less than £BOO a week. His “Street Singer” title was not adopted because it sounds attractive. In his early days he did sing for pennies in the streets of Philadelphia. It was a boyish trick to get money to stage shows in the back streets of the city and to buy records. Tracy sang his way to the university, studied architecture, blit he was lured back to music, and has been singing ever since. And in many tongues—tor he speaks 10 languages. American radio reporters are to he seen daily in the environs of Addis Ababa. Each carries a sandwich board bearing tbe words: “Radio reporter. Do not shoot.”

STRAY SPARKS The N.B.C. (U.S.A.) will shortly open new studios in Chicago and Holly- ■ wood. The N.B.C. will then dispose of 78 of its New York studios. * * » * The N.B.C. and the C. 8.5., the two great radio chains of America, have arranged an exchange of news commentaries with England and Paris respectively. . • * * • During a, recent transmission from the Frankfurt transmitter, riddles were proposed to the sagacity of listeners, and no fewer than 14,000 answers received; • « • • A Melbourne man has issued a challenge to the Australian radio • authorities by asking if they are “ game ”to , shut off the A class stations for a full week, and see if any listeners notice the omission. far the challenge h as not been accepted. » ■» « * The 8.8. C. reports that a naturalised American, who left Whitby, Yorkshire, 50 years ago for the United States, came back the other day as a result, he said, of hearing a broadcast talk about Whitby and its harbour, which was included in the Empire programmes. » « * * At 6.15 o’clock every _ morning the latest marketing information is brought to listeners by Mr W. Hardy from 2UW. Mr Hardy gives listeners the benefit of .practical experience in fruitgrowing, market gardening, and ,poultry farming, together with the marketing of these products. « * * # The C.B.S. recently set out to find out which composer was most appreciated by Americans. Amongst dead composers, Beethoven came first with 1,878 votes, then Brahams 904, Wagner 788, and Tschaikowsky 648. Contemporary composers gathered the following votes: Sibelius 1,888, Ravel 910, Strauss 616. and Stravinsky 418. • * „ « « The 8.8. C. is growing rapidly, hot only in London, hut .in the provinces. Some of the departments at headquarters have recently been moved to a new building, the ground floor of which is occupied by an eminent firm of fireworks manufacturers. Some of the more unkind radio critics have already stated that the 8.8. C. should now go with a bang! * * * * On his return from Australia, Uncle Scrim, of IZB, Auckland, brought back from Australia a number of feature programmes of special recordings. Each record runs for 15 minutes, and they include opera, musical _ comedy, and plays of various descriptions. The new features will be heard during the coming week from the Friendly Rottd station. »** * ■ Post office engineers have been seeking, without success, the origin of a 120-cycle hum on the Australian and South African beam telephone services. An evening journal suggested recently .that the hum was caused through the draining of the world’s oil supplies, causing wearing of the bearing of the earth’s axis. • * . ■ *• ♦ In Switzerland, a cojnmittee hat been founded, under direction of President Kurt Sohenker, director of Bern \ radio station, with a view to equipping the smallest villages right up in the heart of Swiss mountains with radio. Winter lasts six months in Switzerland, during which the villagers hear nothing of the events of the world. The receivers will have to be installed in the local school or vicarage. When Big Ben struck 11 on Armistice Day a listener in Broadcasting House, London, could hear first the stroke relayed direct .from the bell chamber to the loud" speaker on the roof of Broadcasting House, then the same stroke over the radio picked up by the B B.C. microphones in Whitehall., then, far off across the silence of London, the stroke itself coming direct from Westminster, to the ear. Thua each of the 11 strokes was heard thro* distinct times. ' * * * • ■ / It is always amusing (to a simple mind) to come across familiar ideas m a foreign form. In the pages of ‘ Radiodiffusion,’ the half-yearly magazine of the International Broadcasting Union, one makes the acquaintance of the term “ doser,” which is apparently the French equivalent for “ mix.” “Deux microphones opportunement doses ’ ’ means, one gathers, “ two microphones artfully mixed.” This is one of the rare instances where .English is preferred.