RADIO PROGRAMMES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20103, 9 May 1935, Page 2

RADIO PROGRAMMES

THURSDAY, MAY 9. 3YA, Christchurch. 12: Lunch music. 2: Recordings. 2.30: Talk, prepared by the Home Science Extension Service of Otago University. 3: Classical music. 4: Light musical programme. 5: Children. 6: Dinner music. 7: News. 8: Presentation of 8.8. C. recorded programme, “Debate on the League of Nations,” by Sir Norman Angell and Sir Charles Petrie. 8.36: International Novelty Quartette, “Eton Boating Song.” 8.40: “Chief Ingle-Babble-Hoodah.” a further episode in the lives of a Japanese houseboy and his employer. 8.54: Cedric Sharpe Sextet, “Old English Medley.” 9.5: Talk. 9.2011: Dance music. 2YA, Wellington. 12: Lunch music. 2: Educational session. 3: Sports results. 3.30: Weather forecast. 4: Sports results. 4.30: Weather forecast. 5: Children. 6: Dinner music. 7: News. 8: His Majesty’s Theatre Orchestra, -Conversation Piece.” 8.10: Malcolm Mc-Eachern (bass), “I Am Chu Chin Chow,” -Olive Oil.” 8.14: Recital by New Zealand cornetist, John Robertson, “Mountain Lovers,” “Banks of Allan Water,” “I’ll Sing Thee Songs of Araby,” “Stars in a Velvety Sky.” 8.26: Light Opera Company, vocal gems from “The Geisha.” 8.34: Fred Hartley and his orchestra, “Mr Whittington.” 8.40: 8.8. C. recorded programme, “The English Character,” a talk by the Right Hon. Stanley Baldwin. 9.5: Recital by Cyril Scott (pianist), “Lotus Land,” “Souvenir De Vienne,” “Lento,” “Allegro.” “Rainbow Trout,” “Danse Negre.” 9.33: Recital of unaccompanied old English songs by the St. George’s Singers. "Sing We and Chant It,” “Rest, Sweet Nymphs,” “The Silver Swan,” “Fair Phyllis,” “As Vesta was Descending,” “Summer is I-Cumen in.” 9.33: Recital by the Dolmetsch family of old English instrumental and vocal numbers, “Divisions on a Ground,” Cecile Dolmetsch (soprano), with instrumental accompaniment, “Awake, Sweet Love” Rudolph Dolmetsch, “The King’s Hunt.” 9.41: Recital by English organist. Reginald Gcss-Custard. “Solemn Melody,” “The Question.” “The Answer,” “Chelsea Fayre.” 10-11: Music, mirth and melody. IYA. Auckland. 8: Choral Society and Bohemian Orchestra, “God Save the King,” “Prayer of Tliangsgiving.” “Spin, Spin,” “Come, Let Us Join the Roundelay,” “Strike the Lyre.” 8..5: “Land of Hope and Glory.” 8.13: Bohemian Orchestra, “Di Ballo.” 8.23: Royal Auckland Choir. “Prayer of Thanksgiving,” “Soin Spin.” 8.32: Bohemian Orchestra. “Land of the Mountain and the Flood.” 8.46: Choral Society and Bohemian Orchestra. “Empire and King.” 8.54: Irene Scharrer (pianiste), “Toccata Prelude from Suite Harpsichord.” “Sarabande from Suite No. 2 for Harpsichord,” “Minuet from Suites Nos. 1 and 8, for Harpsichord.” 9.5: Talk, Mrs B. F. Richards, “Queen Mary and Her Work.” 9.30: Bohemian Orchestra. “Welsh Rhapsody.” 9.40: Choir. “Come, Let Us Join the Roundelay,” “Strike the Lyre.” 9.47: Beatrice Harrison (’celliste I *, “Caorice.” 9.50: Choral Society and the Bohemian Orchestra. “Te Deum.” 10.5-11.5: Dance music.

AMUSEMENTS

MAJESTIC THEATRE “THE MIGHTY BARNUM” “The Mighty Barnum,” a magnificent screen version of the life of the world’s greatest showman, opened at the Majestic yesterday. One receives vibrations of enthusiasm for the great showman in this splendidly alive picture. This remarkable recreation of the life of Barnum shows that this rough, uncultured man had all the instincts of a natural showman. He senses, even while keeping a dingy store in New York, that the public has an insatiable appetite for Nature’s freaks and oddities. With the aid of Bailey Walsh, an educated tippler, he floats into a world of dollars with a 109-year-old woman, reputed to be Washington’s nurse, who was with him when he cut down the cherry tree. Positive affluence comes with the arrival of General Tom Thumb and his charming little Lavinia. The “bearded lady,” “the fattest woman on earth,” “the tallest man in the universe,” all help to found a great fortune. Then, in the picture Barnum sends Walsh to England to buy Jumbo, “the biggest elephant in five continents,” but instead Walsh brings back Jenny Lind,” “the Swedish Nightingale.” This is a charming interlude. REGENT THEATRE -FATHER BROWN, DETECTIVE” “Father Brown, Detective,” which is now showing at the Regent, has in it a criminal, the theft of half a dozen priceless diamonds, squads of police, and the chasing incidental to the pursuit of the nolice after criminals, but it is not a thriller. It is the story written years ago by G. K. Chesterton brought to the screen with the greatest success. It has made a picture well out of the run of ordinary talkies, and for that reason a 1 one it would be a splendid piece of entertainment. However, “Father Brown, Detective” has very much more to it than mere novelty. It has for one thing great acting from a team of performers whose work is always unimpeachable, and, above all. it has running through it the priceless humour of Chesterton. The story is based on a crime, but it is the philosophy that the story contains that makes “Father Brown” so attractive. The dialogue has preserved exactly the whimsicality of the original, and in this there is a strong appeal. Paul Lukas, as might be expected, is the super criminal. It is a part that made great demands on the actor, but it is a part in which he does not for an instant falter. Lukas is good, but the film is made by the superb acting of Walter Connolly as Father Brown.

BOYS’ HIGH SCHOOL CONCERT The Boys’ High School will hold a concert in the School Gymnasium tonight at 8 o’clock. The concerted singing by the whole school will be heard to better advantage than is the case in a larger hall. The School Drama Club will produce the farce, “Old Moore’s Almanac,” by John Pearmain. The School Band, which is particularly strong this year, will play a .selection and a march. There will be instrumental, elocutionary, and vocal items and one of the main features of the programme will be the final of the championship treble and alto competition, the winner of which takes the Little cud. The test solo is “The Last Rose of Summer.” Patrons will be rewarded by a concert well up to the standard of previous ones. Arrangements have been made for heating the building.