RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22004, 10 January 1935, Page 14

RADIO IN THE HOME

FORTHCOMING FEATURES

EMPIRE BROADCAST DETAILS

SHORT-WAVE 'PROGRAMMES

BY ALL-WAVB

A distinguished New Zealand pianist and professor at the Sydney Conservatorium, Frank Hutchens, is to be heard in a lecture recital from 2YA, Wellington, on Monday, commencing at 9.4 p.m. The items will include Leadoff's " Barcarolle," Chopin's "Etude in F Major" and "Barcarolle in F Sharp Major." Listeners will appreciate learning that for his concluding numbers Mr. Hutchens will play items of his own composition, "At the Bathing Pool," "The Island" and "Sea Music." On Thursday, January 17, over IYA, the Bijou Players will present the one-act comedy-sketch, " There Goes the Bride," followed at 8.30 p.m. by a further humorous episode of the "Eb and Zeb" series. Another 8.8.C. recorded programme will be available from IYA at 9.20 p.m. on Friday, January 18. The descriptive title of this recording is "A Chantey Party from Gravesend Pilots."

So that listeners may receive advance details of the Empire short-wave broadcast programmes the officials of the 8.8.C. have arranged for the printing and publication of the bulletins well in advance. Further, the programmes will be posted each week to any listener who forwards his name and address to the 8.8.C., London, along with a sufficient sum to cover postage. Of next week's programmes the main items are: —Sunday, 9 p.m., "A Service of Unity" relayed from St. Martin's, Birmingham. Monday, 9.15 p.m., the 8.8.C. Empire Orchestra. Tuesday, 9.30 p.m., "Boxing the Compass." Wednesday, 9.15 p.m., "Living Dangerously," an account of the ascent on Mount Everest. Thursday, 9.10 p.m., talk on "India" by Lady Lay ton. Friday, 8.30 p.m., "The Koadside Fire," a programme of open air music by the 8.8.C. Empire Orchestra. Saturday, 9 p.m., 8.8.C. Dance Orchestra; 9.45 p.m., organ recital.

The German DJ stations (DJB on 19.74 metres and DJN on 31.45 metres) have embarked on a regular schedule of broadcast transmissions each evening, commencing at 8.45 p.m. and continuing until 12.15 a.m. Much of the news and announcing is in English and the signing off notices are given in both English and German.

Mr. Gordon Hutter, sports announcer of IYA, is a man of many parts in the sporting world. He is an amateur wrestler of some note, a fair footballer, and for some time he sped about the harbour and the Hauraki Gulf in a 30 miles per hour outboard racing boat. He has served much more than an apprenticeship as a yachtsman, and it may be because of this latter sporting proclivity that he named his racehorse Sea Fox. Anyway the horse had been "all at sea" for some time, and performing indifferently, so that listeners will have appreciated the obvious excitement of Mr. Hutter when he was describing the dash of Sea Fox at Ellerslie. Mr. Hutter ascribes his undoubted ability to quickly recognise racehorses to his many visits to the track, and his practice of getting on to the course at daybreak on each day of the meeting.

There is still a lot of work to be completed before the new IYA-IYX premises are out of the hands of the contractors. The large studio has still to be finished, and it will be very interesting to listen to the first orchestra and choir presentation from this hall, the acoustic properties and the construction of which are said to have been especially designed for such broadcasts.

Many motor-boat enthusiasts and holiday campers using old-type battery receivers experienced trouble with their sets. The breakdowns and poor receptions were attributable to the fact that the receivers were not built for the service to which they were put, the humid and often damp conditions obtaining afloat or at seaside camps causing the delicate windings on the transformers to break down.

A report by the United States ViceConsul at Auckland, Mr. W. W. Hoffman, made public by the United States Department of Commerce, says that American short-wave and all-wave receivers have captured the enthusiasm of New Zealand listeners, so much so that on occasions New Zealand dealers have been without adequate stocks. One month's imports of sets were valued at 445,000 dollars, or about £89,000 at par, an increase or over 20 per cent over the figures for the corresponding period of 1933.

When the National Geographical Society's stratosphere balloon, after attaining a height of 60,000 ft., commenced to fall rapidly following on the tearing of the huge envelope, listeners in the United States received a first hand description of the troubles and anxieties of the occupants. The announcer, Major Kepner, stuck to the microphone of the short-wave transmitter and broadcast a thrilling account of the mishap. The balloon's short-wave transmitter functioned excellently for the whole of the trip, and it was not until the gondola was but 500 ft. from the ground that the announcer left his post and jumped off in his parachute. The National Broadcasting Company relayed excerpts of the transmission over the whole of the United States.

FROM IYA To-day (also to 1ZH): 8 p.m., concert programme. Marelle Octet, ''Chinese t estival" and "Carissima"; 8.6, Mrs BartleyBaxter presents Browning's "The Pied Piper of Hamolin," with incidental music by the Marelle Octet; 8.37, pctet "Serenade" (Widor); 9.2, Qilbert and Sullivan hour; 10.30 to 11. dance music. To-morrow (also to 1ZH): 8 P.m.. Studio Orchestra, "Slavonic Rhapsody"; 8.8. organ solos, "By a Waterfall" und "My Wishing Song"; 8.17. orchestra, "Three Dale Dances": 8.34, Olga Oleina (soprano), "Canton"; 8.37, H. Gerber (piano), "Crescenda"; 8.40, orchestra, "Hindoo Pictures." "Jollity" and "Donau Wellen": 9.2. talk Mr. E. G. Jones. "Sunspots"; 9.20, ballad programme; 9.23, Mrs. Owers (mezzo-soprano), "By the Wffters of Minnetonlca." "At Dawning" and "Charming Chloe" ; 9.40, orchestra, Hermann Lohr's Songs- 9.48. M. McEachern (bass). "The Bell Ringer." "Thf Roman Road" and "Time to Go": 9.57, orchestra. "In der Spinnstuben"; 10 to 11. miscellaneous popular music. Saturday: 8 p.m.. "Playing the Game," a 8.8.C. recorded programme of a musical extravaganza type; 9.2, reserve period; 9.20, orchestral number, "Dreaming Bells": 9.23, "Music Round the Campfire"; 9.38, Ferdy Kaufman and orchestra. "In the Teahouse with 100 Steps" and "Indian Temple Dance": 9.57, "Under the Stars" (orchestral)- 10.10 to 11.10. dance music. Sunday: 11 a.m.. relay service from Mount Eden Congregational Church; 2 p.m.., Boston Sympnony Orchestra. Tschaikowsky's "Symphony No. 6 in B Minor"; 3.30, talk. Professor G, Elliott Smith, "Man and Civilisation"'; 7 p.m., service from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church; 8.30 aymphonio concert programme. Studio Orchestra, " Symphonic Dances" (Grieg): 8.38, Alfred Piccavcr (tenor). "Requiem": 8.42, orchestra, "Pelleas and Melisande" suite: 9.2, recordings; 9.11. orchestra. Haydn's "Clock Symphony": 9.40, Sophie Braslau, "Romance" and "Eili Eili": 9.48-10. orchestra. "Suite Italiana" (Thurban). Monday (also to 1ZH): 8 p.m., theme programme. "A Musical Mayonnaise"; 9.2, talk, Professor Maxwell Walker. "The Art of Speech": 9.20. miscellaneous classical items; 9.32, English church choirs of 4000 voices': 9.44. Richard Tauber. "Famous German Love Songs"; 10.TO to 11, dance music. Tuesday (also to 1ZH): 8 p.m., programme of miscellaneous recordings- 9.2, talk. Mr. Alan Mulgan, "World Affairs": 9.20 Rhapsody for Orchestra and Saxophone: 9.33. Fritz Kriesler (violin). "Marguerite" and "Serenado"; 9.40. Theodor Chaliapin (bass), "When the King Went Forth to War"; 9.44, reserve period: 10 to 11. dance music. Wednesday: 8 p.m.. chamber music. Mendelssohn's "Trio in D Minor": 8.34 Robert Simmers (baritone). "Mv Resting Place. "Sweet Repose." "Linden Tree" nnd "Whither": 8 45, "Septet Op. 65" • 9.2 talk. Mr. D'Arcy Cresswell, "Shakespeare's Kings"; 9.20 to 11, dance music.