ON THE AIR

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 8

ON THE AIR

New Zealand broadcasting stations transmit as follows: TO-DAY 4YA Auckland: 333 metres, 500 watts. Silent day. » * • 2YA Wellington: 420 metres, 5,000 watts. T! noon, relay of Marlborough Racing Club’s meeting at Trentham; 6 p.m., ,7 p.m., news: 7.40 p.m., lecturette, Mr. H. C. South, “Books: Orave and Ua*": S p.m., instrumental, Studio Trio, “Dance” (“Othello”); vocal, Ariel Singers, “Tell Me, Where Is Fancy I red” (“Merchant of Venice”); recital. Mr T Wat.'liman. The Merriment and Wisdom of the First Gravedigger” ef); vocal, Messrs. Hill and < 'aidwell, -It Was a Hover and His 1 ass”- reci’al Miss Vautler, “Portias Description of Her Suitors” (Merchant \. -ike”); mezzo-eoutralto, Miss Cosier, "The Willow Song” (“Othello”); dialogue Messrs. Brown and Ginger, • Quarrel Scene Between Brutus and Cassius” (“Julius Caesar”); Studio Trio, (a) “Children’s Intermezzo”; (b) “Military j March” (Othello”); lecture, Mr. Brown. “Shakespeare and St. George”; vocal cmartet, Ariel Singers, “Who Is Sylvia? (Two Gentlemen of Verona”); recital, Mr Tingey, "Mark Anthony’s Oration over the Dead Body of Caesar”; tenor, Air" Hill, (a) “Take, O Take Those Lips Away"; (b) “Heigh Ho, the Wind and the Rain”; recital, Mrs. Williams, •‘Queen Katherine’s Defence” (‘‘Henry VIII. ); vocal. Misses Briggs and X. Coster, • Orpheus With His Bute”; dialogue, Mrs. Burgess and Air. Brown, .Rosalind s Banter of Her Lover, Orlando” (“As You Like It”); bass, Mr. Caldwell, (a) “O, Mistress Mine” (“Twelfth Night”); (b) • Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind”; Studio Trio, (a) “Morris Dance”; (b) “Shepherd’s Dance”; (c) ’’Torch Dance (“E-lenry VIII.”) ; recital, Airs. Hills, ••Queen Margaret's Scorn of the Duke of York”; Ariel Singers, “How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps” (“Merchant of Venice”). ** • * 3YA Christchurch: 306 metres, 500 watts. 3 p.m., afternoon concert; 6 p.m., children’s session, Uncle Jack; 7.15 p.m., news- 8 p.m., vocal, Madame Gower--15 urn’s Grand Opera Quartet, “Under the Greenwood Tree” (“As You Hike It”); Shakespearean recital, Mr. J. I. Cannell, “King Henry the Fifth,’ Act 111., Scene 5; vocal quartet, “How Sweet the Moonlight Sleeps Upon This Bank t -Merchant of Venice”); address, Professor J. Shelley, “The Plays of Shakespeare”; soprano, Madame G«pwerBurns, ’’Bid Me Discourse”; baritone, Air. Rennell, “No Alore Dams I’ll Make for* Fish” (“The Tempest”); excerpts from "Much. Ado About Nothing,” Scenes 1 2 and 3; “Othello,” Act IV., Scene, 3, and Act V., Scene 2; “As You Like It, Act IV.. Scene 4, in the Forest of Arden- ‘’King Henry the Eighth, Act 11.. Scene 4, a hall in Blackfriars; and from • Taming of the Shrew,” Act 11., Scene 1, in Baptista’s House, Padua. * • * 4YA Dunedin: —- 463 metres, 250 watts. Silent day. TO-MORROW IYA Auckland: 333 metres, 600 watts. 3 p.m., afternoon session; 6 p.m., children’s hour, Uncle George; 7.15, news;8 p.m., Mr. C. Bell, “Introductory Talk on Shakespeare”; Miss Torpy, Lorenzos speech, “The Power of Music”; scene, Messrs Alontague, Steel, McElwain and Dakin, “Graveyard Scene” (“Hamlet ); solo, Air. Ripley, “Sigh No More Ladies ; scene. Air. J. Gordon and Miss Gordon, “Romeo and Juliet”; instrumental, Bos-worth-Hemus-Towsey Trio, “Three Dances’’ (“Henry VIII.”); vocal, Madame Ainsley’s Quartet, “Under the Greenwood Tree”; elocution, Air. Bell, “Mark Anthony’s Oration” (“Julius Caesar”); Miss Knight, “Letter Scene” (“Macbeth”); baritone. Air. Snell, (a) “Mistress, Mine,” (b) “And Let Ale the Canakm Glink”; recitations, Mr. J. F. Montague, (a) “On Sleep” ("Henry IV.’’), (b) “Agincourt Speech” (“Henry V.”); Aliss Day and Miss Harvey, “Twelfth Night,” Act 1, scene 5; violin, Aliss Bosworth, “The Admiral’s Gailliard”: contralto, Madame Ainsley, “Orpheus With His Lute”; Air. Steel, Miss Andrews, Air. McElwain, • Twelfth Night,” Act 2, scene 4; duet. Madame Ainsley and Miss Rogers, “I Know a Bank Where the Wild Thyme Blows”; Air. AlcElwain, Air. Dakin, Air. Bell, Mr. Bankman, Air. Helier, “Comedy Scene’’ from “Aluch Ado About Nothing”; instrumental trio, incidental music to ‘As You Like It”; baritone, Air. Snell, The Pedlar’s Song” (“A Winter’s Tale”); Air. Bell, All. Montague, “Tower Scene” (“Henry VI.”); excerpts from "Romeo and Juliet” (Gounod). • • • 2YA Wellington: 420 metres, 5,000 watts. 3 p.m., gramophone items; 6 p.m., children’s session, Uncle Jasper; 7 p.m., news; 7.40, lecturette, “For the Man on the Land”; 8 p.m., overture, “Washington Greys’ Alarch”; vocal, Orpheus Quartet, “Long Ago”; Italian mandoline, Mr. Haywood, (a) “Valse de la Reine,” (b) "Gavotte”; contralto, Miss Alaokie, "Evening Boat Song”; Symons-Ellwood-Short Trio, "First Movement In E Minor Trio” (Parry); elocution, Air. Warwick, • Gariy English History”; cello, Air. FllAvood. “Largo”; vocal, Airs. Harris and Air. Coe. “Night Hymn at Sea”; piano, Misses Mackay and Alacdonald, “Don Juan Fantasie”; baritone, Air. Kemp, (a) "Old Barty,” (b) "Old English Love Song”; clarionet, Mr. Wright, “Come, Sing to Ale”; organ. Air. White, (a) "Hero’s Song,” (b) “The Death of Ase,” (c> “Land of Hope and Glory”; soprano, Airs. Harris, “One Fine Day” (“Madame Butterfly”); studio trio, (a) “Andante,” (b) "Flower Waltz”; vocal quartet, “The Lark Now Leaves His Watery Nest”; cello, Air. Ellwood, ’’Allegro Apassionata”; tenor, Air. Coe, "Farewell to summer”; clarionet, Air. Wright, “Air Varie”; elocution, ATr. Warwick, “Cheese”; English mandola, Air. Haywood. (a) ‘Lazy Honolulu,” (b) “Love Will Find a Way”; Orpheus Quartet, “It Was a Lover and His Lass.” 3Y A Christchurch: 306 metres, 500 watts. Silent day. 4YA Dunedin: 463 metres. 250 watts. -i p.m.. gramophone recital, 4 p.m., address on “The Domestic Uses of Elec-* tricity,” Air. Butcher, of Turnbull and Jones, Ltd.; 6 p.m., children’s hour, Big Brother Bill: 7.15, news; 7.30, address by ATr. R. W. Marshall, of Government Tourist Department; 8 p.m., concert by the St. Kilda Band. ACROSS THF. TASMAN TO-DAY Australian broadcasting stations transmit as follow: 2BL Sydney: 7.15 p.m., children's session; S p.m., country session and news service; 9.30. concert programme, including items by Rroadcasters’ Topical Chorus, studio concert and dance music. 2FC Sydney: 442 metres, 5,000 watts. 7.15 p.m., children’s session. Hello Man; 8 p.m., dinner music; 8.30, news; 9.30, studio concert and dance music. • * * 3LO Melbourne: 371 metres, 5,000 watts. 7.30 p.m., children’s session; 8.30 p.m.. news; talks on “School Bife and Sport” <:<», "Asiatic Problems” (9.15), and “Athletics” (9.30); studio presentation of opera, “II Trovatore,” by the University • 'horal Choir; 11, excerpts from Shake-* speare by Air. Aloore (tenor). Air. Ross, and Miss Nugent (soprano); dance music. NOTES Shakespearean recitals and music form itn- larger part of the programmes broadis- from New Zealand and Australian sia ions this evening. IYA will broadcast a similar programme arranged by Mr. J. F. .Montague to-morrow night.