RADIO IN THE HOME

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23029, 5 May 1938, Page 6

RADIO IN THE HOME

PROGBAMME FEATURES SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYS ADVANCE IN TELEVISION BY ALL-WAVE The Royal Auckland Choir, conducted by Mr. H. Woolley, with Sybil Phillips, soprano, James Leigliton, bass, Alan Pow, pianist, and Vincent Aspey, violinist, as assisting artists, will broadcast from IYA between eight and nine o'clock this evening. To-morrow's concert session, which opens with readings from Thackeray s "Yellowplush Papers," will include, at 8.42, a contribution bv Lenora Owsley, pianist. 13cethoven\s "Variations in C Elinor, and, at 9.32, a recital by Rena Edwards, isoprano. A talk by Lady Galway on the "Plunkct Society's Appeal" will bo given at 9.5 p.m. on Saturday at the conclusion of recitals by Aileen Warren,- pianist, and Leo Foster, baritone. Two plays are to be presented on Monday. The first of these, "The Reed in the Wood," will be produced by Maisio Carte-Lloyd, whilo the other will be a recording, "Last Call for Husbands." Owing to the broadcasting of municipal election results, there wdl be no chamber music hour on Wednesday. The Victoria College University students are to present "Songs from Past Extravaganzas" from 2YA at 8.15 this evening. The same programme will include, at 9.5, a piano, Hammond organ, and trombone recital by tho Musical Ensemble, with Eric Williams as soloist, and, at 9.50, a series of Sopular serenades played by J. Rodgers, ute, Olga Burton, violin, and Mrs. C. Mac Donald, pianist. The Port Nicholson Silver Band and H. Hamilton, baritone, will provide tho second portion of Friday's concert session from Wellington. Gounod's "Faust" will be featured from 2YA at 8.30 on Sunday, when the Chri§tchurch transmitter will broadcast recitals by Nancy Estall, 'cellist, and Ernest Jenner, pianist, ancl the Dunedin station will give "H.M.S. Pinafore." "The .Whirligig of Time," from 2YA on Monday at 7.30 p.m., Mill consist of a talk by Dr. Guy Scholefield on tho "Russian Upheaval," and at 9.20 the sarao night tho 3YA Chamber Music Players will render Bach's Sonata in E Flat Major for Jlutc and piano. Several years ago the Australian Broadcasting Commission set about a regular schedule for tho broadcasting of Shakespearean plays, and it would seem that the National Broadcasting Servico is steadily moving on much the same plan. .It is now announced that during the Easter holidays the Wellington station undertook, with tho assistance of a group of artists gathered from various parts of the Dominion, a recorded version of "The Merchant of Venice." While the full script requires about three hours, tho service utilised a revised version, which, it is said, does justice to tho play, but reduces the time required for presentation to littlo over an hour. This is in line with the customary practice of the British Broadcasting Corporation. While it Wellington the same cast made recorded versions of \ Galsworthy's "Strife" and Edmund Barclay's "Mingled Yarn" and "Shanghai," a radio serial of the China Seas. Coincident with announcements that colour television is now possible come Announcements that Dr. V. K. Zworvkin, of the Radio Corporation of America, has developed a stereoscopic system to give the received images third' dimensional depth. More important still, for picture-goers are qnite content to view films lacking the above refinements, is advice that new tubes have been perfected to give absolutely flickerless black and white pictures instead of the dark green and~ white images of a few months back. The new cathode ray tubes give a much larger moving picture, 7in. by 10in., almost double that of tho superseded pattern. These' technical developments are impressive, but it cannot be ignored that little progress has been made in solving tho problems of a financial structure to support the art and tho provision of talent. So rapid is the progress on tho technical side that receiver manufacture is virtually impossible, except for experimental purposes. The British Broadcasting Corporation research engineers have produced a new type of microphone, which makes possible a new technique in presenting commentaries on sporting events. Tho instrument is known as a "lip" microphone. It is insensitive to sound coming from more than a few inches away and thus meets tho need for an instrument that will enable tho commentator to disregard extraneous sound when choosing his position, or in other words the device excludes background. The microphone is fitted with a guard which, when pressed against tho upper lip of the announcer, keeps the apparatus at the requisite two inches. This device, first used at the broadcast from the Lord Mayor's banquet, was employed also at the opening of the Glasgow Exhibition. In addition, the device provides a solution of the old problem in broadcast description—the fusion of the /descriptive skill of the experienced commentator with the unique knowledge of the expert. As a result of the demands of radio, the development of coaxial cables has proceeded apace. These cables consist of a flexible copper tube with a single wire drawn through it and held at its centre by thin disks of hard rubber. Using separate units for transmission in opposite directions such a cable will proi-ide channels for 240 simultaneous telephone conversations. Tho latest, coaxial cables are expected to be usable with a 2,000,000 cycle current, and if so, the single wire will provide for 480 telephone links, and also be able to take care of the very special requirements of the relay of television programmes, for which ordinary cables are quite useless. FROM IYA To-dayi 7.30 p.m..."The Whirligig of Time —Amusements in Ancient Greece,' a talk by Mr. E. M. Biaiklock; 8 p.m., concert by Royal Auckland Choir, with Sybil Phillip*, soprano, Vincent Aspey, violinist, James Leighton, bass, and Alan Pow. pianist, as assisting artists; 0.5, "Westward Ho"; 0.20, band programme; 0.30, "Dad and Davo from Snake Gully"; 0.43 to 30, band music with recorded interludes; TO to 11, dance music. To-morrow: 8 p.m., readings by D'Arcy Cresswell from Thackeray's "Yellowplush Papers"; I 8.42, Lenora Owsley, pianist, Beethoven's Variations in C Minor; 0.5, rcsorved period; 0.20, HandM's "Alcina" suite; 0.32, Renn Edwards, soprano, "Rose Softly Blooming," "Tho Almond Tree," "O, Fair and Sweet nnd Holy" and "The Lark"; 0.44. Rimsky Korgnkov's "Capriccio Espagnole'; J0 to 31, music and melody. Saturday: 8 p.m., Studio orchestra. "Tho Jester at the Wedding"; 8.12, Aileen Warren, pianist, Beethoven's Fragment from Violin Sonata in C. Kowalski's Caprice Mazurka, Chopin's Xorturno So. 12 and Grieg's Humoresques 3 nnd 4; 8.24, orchestra, with Ada Lynn, soprano, "The Chocolate Soldier"; 8.30, Leo tostor, baritone, "Wind from the South." "A Memory," "The Voice by the Cedar Tree" arid "Sons of the Sea"; 8.48, studio orchestra, "Gold and Silvor"; 0.5, talk, Her Excellency Lady Galway, "Plunkct Society's Appeal"; 0.10 to 1 1.30, old-timo-dance music from the Pirate Shippe, Mil ford. Sunday: Jl a.m., relay from P'psom Mclh6dist Church; 7 -p.m., relay from St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church; 8.30. "Der Freischutz" overture, 8.45, Jean Clarkson, 'cellist, "Praeludiuin," "Sicilienne" and Boccherini's Rondo; 0.5, Clara Hall. 15-year-old New Zealand pianist. "Colonial Song" and "Blue Danube"; 0.52. "Vardar" Bulgarian Rhapsody. Monday: 8 p.m., studio presentation by Maisic Carter Lloyd of "Tho Reed in tho Wood," by Edwin Lewis; 8.20, recorded play, "Last Call for Husbands ; 0.5, boxing relay; 10 to 11. music and melody, Tuesday: 8 p.m., recording, Rixner's "Pony"; 8.5, Japanese Houseboy: 8,18, Robert McKnight, English con certina, "The Last Rose of Rummer" and Schon Rosmarin"; 8.24, recordings, Jjeslie Sarony, comedian; 8.30 Eb and Zoh; 8.30, "Buccaneers of the Tirate Ship Vulture"; 8.52, Robert McKnight, "Ah! Che Assorta and "The Lion's Bride"; 0.5, talk, L. K, Munro, "World Affairs"; 0.20 to 11. dance musitf. Wednesday: 7.30. recordings between results of municipal elections; 9.5, "Coronets of England"; 0.35, further election results; 10 to 11, music and melody.