Broadcasting from Radio Exhibition

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 53, 19 July 1929, Page 6

Broadcasting from Radio Exhibition

2YA Prepares Interesting Special Programmes NE great attraction at the Radio Dxhibition which will appeal to visitors will be the actual performance of programmes for broadcasting. This will be done in fuli view of the public, so that visitors to the exhibition who have never before witnessed the "staging" of a radio programme,will be able to see how it is done. They will also have the opportunity of seeing many artists who have so far been known to them only over the air. ‘ The full programmes will not be broadcast from the_Town Hall, only sections, thus | giving time for visitors carefully to inspect the exhibits. THE OPENING NIGHT. "THE official opening of the exhibition will take place on Thursday evening, the ceremony to be performed by the Postmaster-General, the Hon. J. B. Donald. The Wellington Municipal Tramways Band will supply the instrumental items of the evening’s entertainment, the vocal portion of the programme being provided by the Welsh Choir (who provided listeners with some very fine choral numbers on St. David’s Day), and the following artists: Miss Nora Gray (soprano), Mr. Ernest Short (baritone), Miss Hilda Chudley (contralto), and Mr. G. Austin Blackie (tenor). The popular entertainer at the piano, Mr. E. A. Sargent, will be heard in several numbers. It is the intention of the station. to give half-an-hour’s programme from the exhibition and then switch back to the studio for approximately twenty minutes to give the visitors a chance to look at the various exhibits. The programme during the Radio Exhibition will commence at 8 p.m. and conclude at 10.30 p.m. . FRIDAY’S PROGRAMME. ON Friday evening a further relay from the Radio Bxhibition will be carried out, the programme on this occasion being furnished by the Wellington Harmonic Society and the 2YA Orchestra, assisted by Mr. Will McKeon, who -will recite two humorous numbers. The Harmonic Society, which performs under the baton of Mr. H. Temple White, will present a varied programme of part songs and vocal solos, the soloists being Miss P.Liddell (soprano), Mrs. W. J. Coventry (contralto), Mr. BE. W. Robbins (tenor), and Mr, BE. McLellan (bass). SATURDAY’S RADIO VAUDEVILLE. FOR Saturday night, which will be the closing night of the Radio Dxhing ranged. The artists contributing to the proghamme will be the Melodie Four, Mrs. Winifred Birch-Johnson, Mr. Len Ashton, Mrs. G. Reeves, and Mr. James Connell. The Melodie Four will sing as concerted . numbers Holloway’s "Cornfields Medley," "Mosquitoes" and the ever-popular "Drifting and Dreaming." Mr. Sam Duncan (tenor) will sing Purcell’s "Passing By," and baritone solos by Mr. James Connell will be "Like Stars Above," and "The Gay Highway." Mr. Frank Bryant (tenor) will sing "The Joy. Bird," and Mr. W. W. Marshall, "Stonecracker John." + Mr. Len. Ashton will render (by request) "Nelly Bly’ and "Our Village Concert," a well-known Mel. B. Spurr number. A further item of interest to be given by this artist will be "Like the Big Pots Do," a number from the pen of Tommy Handley, the well-known B.B.C. comedian, Mrs. H. G. Reeves’s banjo items will be "Footlight Favourites" and a "Popular Song Medley" arranged by ‘herself. "2 The’ items by 2YA Orchestra will include Friedman's "Slavonic Rhapsody," a selection from tlie musical comedy "Sunny," a novelty number, "In a Bird Store"? a flute and clarinet duet by Messrs. Brown and Langtry (members of the orchestra), Winter’s arrangement of marches known as "Martial Moments," and several dance novelties. A feature of the: pro-. gramme will be Mrs. Winifred Birch-Johnson’s whistling solos and comie Songs, Mrs. Birch-Johnson’s items are always bright and entertaining, tion at the Town Hall, a special vaudeville programme has been a3 =a