RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22995, 24 March 1938, Page 17

RADIO IN THE HOME

IitOGIUMME FEATURES SONQB BY LOCAL COMPOSER NEW MOBILE TELEVISION UNIT BY ALI.-WAYE "Woman in the Middle Ages," the third of the "Whirligig of Time" series, is to be Riven from IYA at 7..'50 this evening, the speaker being Mr. Maurice Flynn. The band programme to'be presented features Tschaikowaky's "1812" overt mo, and vocal interludes j) V r< L. o'l<eary. For the last hour of its Sunday programme tho Auckland national station will present, from recordings. Mascagni's "Cavalleria Jhisticaua." While no studio plnv is .schodtiled for Monday, the station will transmit a recorded drama, "The Case of the Nameless Corpse," and, at 8.12, a recital by Bavtley-Baxtor. Opening with a recorded rendition of Beethoven's quartet in I) major, Opus 19. the chamber music hour will include items by Dawn Harding, mezzosoprano, Handel's violin sonata No. (3, and Vivaldi's concerto grosso.

Commentary on the Grand National at Aintrco will be put on tho air by the Davenfry short-wave station and by 2YA at 9.5 p.m. on Saturday. The same evening at D.28 p.m., over ;IYA, Bessie Pollard's string ensemble will broadcast three New Zealand cameos, "Mann Hire," a Maori ] o ve song, "Twilight and the Mako Jlako," a. lioctumo, "Hamate," a haka, and "Hoki Hoki," a lament. For its after-church session on Sunday the Wellington station will present a complete rendition of "Tho, Pirates of Penzance," while UYA will broadcast a cello recital by Nancy Estall and, at 9.0, a radio play, "Congo Landing," written by Horton Giddy, and presented bv tho Avon Players. On the same evening IYA will present a programme of the operatic music of llospitfi, Donizejtti, Bellini and Verdi. Tuesday's programme from 2YA will include at 8,40 P.m. a tn 'k by the Very Rev. Father 0. F. Dudley, "Tho Ordeal of This Generation," and at 5>.5 a recital by Colin Horslcy. brilliant young Wanganui pianist.

Owen Jensen, official accompanist atJYA, and a frequent contributor of pianoforte solos, has shown considerable skill in musical arrangements and composition. A group of songs from his pen is to bo presented from IYA on Saturday at 8.2(5 p.m. by Miss Joan ,Moody, who possesses a pleasing radio voice" The songs are set to the words of poems by Milton, Shelley and Edmund Waller, a seventeenth century poet. Listeners will applaud the desire of the National Broadcasting Service as expressed in this and similar previous broadcasts to afford local composers an opportunity of presenting their compositions over the air.

Although the Empire stations now transmit the No. 1 programme between 7 and 9.15 p.m. each evening, thero has been 110 material alteration in the times of transmissions of the other five, several of which are receivable at modcrate volume. The German DJ stations, two on 31 metres, ono on 19 metres and one on 16 metres, now transmit daily from 5 p.m. until 4 a.m., and the American station W2XAF on 31 metres from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. daily and again from 11 a.m. to o p.m., zoned for South America. The French "Radio-Colonial" tntfimits from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on 25 metres, from 11 p.m. to 4 a.m. on 19 metres 6nd from 4.10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on 25 metres. With breaks wavelength changes, 2KO is on the air each day from 10 p.m. till 2 a.m.. using both 31 and 25-metre bunds. The Russian station RXE, on 25 metres, broadcasts at 11 p.m. on Sundays and Wednesdays, in addition to morning and midday transmissions" op Monday, Tuesday and Saturday.

Two specially constructed motortrucks hpuse America's first mobile television station, which was built by the .Radio Corporation for the National Broadcasting network. The first truck is arranged for the accommodation, on its roof, of one or more television cameras and the special lights and reflectors that are essential unless the subject is in good sunlight. Tho body of this truck houses the delicate scanning mechanism and an electric generating plant. The second truck has an antenna supported by a guyed mast built on the roof, the la-tick containing a transmitter and its subsidiary apparatus and jjeperating plant, It is intended to employ this mobile transmitter for. jfilay purposes, as it has a limited range, due to tho light characteristics of the very short waves employed,

Coincident with an announcement of extensiOU* jn television programmes, Mr. Gerald Cox, British Broadoaating Corporation director of television, said that the home was the place for television, because, in its -present stage, could not be designed for amy othgr purpose, It wa.i certainly impossible to suit bpth large thoatre screens ajul the small home screons simultaneously. He Jflrged that viewers should resist the temptation to compare television, programmes too closely with the films or the stage and pointed out that the excitement and charm of home television roated in its unique qualities of intimacy and immediacy. Ho added that the scope and consequent progross of the British Broadcasting Corporation service liinges upon continual technical improvements at what one might call the camera or studio end and that technically, television is now a really efficient medium. Financial considerations had retarded progress to. some extent and until recently there had been but one folly equipped television studio, a room 70it. by 30ft.

FROM IYA To-day: 7.30, "The Whirligig t>f Time— Woman in the. Middle Apes"; 8 J , - ir 1 1 ,;, r(v corded aerial, "Westward Ho!"; 8.15, camOtis Rivers—Causes"; 8,4"), Blue J a Jl' l .,° songs and stories; 0.5, talk, Mr 11 ,9. un; - fitlis. "Palestine—Yesterday and Id-nay; fl.'JO, hand music; 0.30, Lea. O'Lcnry, I ale Moon" and "By the Waters of Minnetonka. and at 0.47, "Somewhere a Voice i* Call' ing" and "Bless This House"; HI to dance music. Friday: K |t.ni-. readings, liy IVArcy Cresswell. from "Life of ( live"; 8.50, Schubert's Impromptu in F and Schumanns "Soaring"; o.'jo, Mary Murphy, soprano. All the Fond Thoughts" and "Why Should v\« Seek to Hide Our Passions," and at 0.30, "Morning" and "Serenade") 0.4!J, Linat s Symphonic Poem, "Les Preludes"; If to 11, music and melody. Saturdayi H p.m., Orpheus /Male Quartet, "Kollinff Down to Kio," "Passing By," "Simple Simon" awl "All Evening Lullaby"; 8.14, Marjorie Seel, pianist, "lo the Spring," "Rhapsody No, 0" and "J in* frain de Berveau"; B.'J(l, Joan Moody, soprano, in a group of songs by Owen Jen«n. "Fly, Envious Time," "Two Fragments from Shelley." "Music. When Soft Voices Die," "To the Moon" and "The Dancer' ; 8.38 to 10, light recordings; 10.10 to 11.15 (Janes music. Sunday: I) a.m., relay from Salvation Army Congress Hall; tf.tto p.m., The Firn Bird," suite by Stravinsky; 7 Pni., rislay from Congregational Church; B,'Wl t0 0, classical recordings; 0.5, recorded preKntation of Mascagni's "Cuvalleria Rnstlfana." Monday: s p.m., recorded presentation, Scott of Scotland Yard: The Case of the Waniele** Corpse"; 8. l*j, Zoe Bartfey-Baxter, Jecitaliatj 0,5, ringside commentary on pro< lessional boxing matches; 10 to 11, music "nd melody. Tuesday: 8 p.m., "Manhattan Moonlight"; B.r>, Japanese House-boy; 8.2-1 1 Arnold BriHhart, saxophonist: 8.30, Eb and oH 0 ' melody by Buccaneers of Pirate onip Vulture- talk, L. I\. Munro, "World ABairs"; to ti, dance music. Wednesdayi * P.m., recordings, Budapest String Quartet, itethoven's Quartet in D Major, Opus 18; Dawn Harding, mezzo-soprano, "Clo Jfrcni Thy Window, Go," "As Ever I Saw," The Hearts Worship" and "Hills"; 8.38, "adders Sonata No. 0 in E Major; 8.50, Vivaldi's Concert Grosso, Xo. 0; 0.5, recorded V. rp " r,, " n nct« of F.nirland —Queen F.li/.anli ;,t () jo jirecordings; 10 to *«< Hlll*ic and melody.