NEWS BROADCASTS 111\ T~~~~A I • I ~~¥$'J~k illl CBK DAILY WATROUS Trans·Canada Network: (Trans·Canad. Nelwork) 8:00,9:00 a.l11. 1:00.6:30, 540 KC8. 9:00 p.m. 12:00 p.m. PROGRAM CBC Dominion Nelwork: Prairie Region 10:00 p.m. CDC SCHEDULE Transmitter 300 Telephone Bldg., Winnipeg, Canada DATE OF ISSUE, FEBRUARY 27, 1948. PRAIRIE REGION Wuk of March 7th, 1948 $1.00 PER YEAR Metropolitan Offers Hollywood Visit CBC Commentator New Modern Opera Tries Radio Phone Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes To Marjorie Duff's Co'nversation From Be Last Broadcast Of Metropolitan Mobile Unit To eBe Office Recorded Air Series For Broadcast Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes" A two-way conversation between will be per!ol1ned by the Metropoli­ CBC commentator Marjorie Duff in tan ODer8 Company in New York on a mobile unit of the Manitoba Saturday, March 13, and will be Telephone System and Catherine broadcast for Canadians at 12:00 MacIver. talks producer in the noon, MST, on the CBe Trans­ CBC's Winnipeg office, was re­ Canada network. It will be the last corded last week for broadcast on Metropolitan broadcast for the cur­ one of Miss Duff's morning pro­ rent season. grams. Regarded by many as one of the Miss Duff made the call when she most beautiful and signlfir::nt operas was riding arowld the city with G. A. written in the present century.• Pet­ Muir, special service engineer for the er Grimes" is set in a small fishing Manitoba Telephone System, in one town on the cast coast of England of the System's new mobile radio about the year 1830. The opera deals telephone tu1its, to tryout the ar~ with two fundamental human prob­ rangement. When Miss MacIver lems; the conflict between an un­ lifted the receiver in the CBC office, usual man and the community, and the conversation went through the the conflict between man and na­ ture. First performed in 1945 at the lines in the studios main control Sadler Wells Theatre in Lanrlon, room where it was recorded for England, "Peter Grimes" had its broadcast. At the time the call was American premiere the follOWing being made, Winnipeg was in. the year, at the famous Berkshire Music midst of a bad blizzard but the Centre in Tanglewood. weather conditions had no effect on the mobile unit's FM system. Peter Grimes, a wlerd, austere and visionary fisherman, was overtaken Miss Dutr' explained that the tele­ by a series of misfortunes brought phone in the MTS station wagon was about by the !>Ower or the sea, which just the same as any other phone gradually drove him insane until he except when you put a call through, committed suicide by sinking his you push a button, give your call boat in calm weather. letters and the number you want, "It 15 the music of the sea-now then the operator gets the connec­ tranquil and cajoling, now threaten­ tion. When you want to get the The Canadian COlony in Honywood turned out in jorce to welcome CEC mobile unit on the phone, you dial ing and terrible-that is the main commentator Susan Fletcher when she made her latest trip to the film and glory of this opera," says the well­ long distance, ask for the mobile radio capital jar more on·the-s-pot news about the doings oj the people in operator and give the number. When known music critic Boris Goldovsky, show business_ Lejt to right are ART LINKLETI'ER. SUSAN FLETCHER. ALAN the connection is made. a little am­ adding that "In this work Benjamin YOUNG, and LoIS MAxWELL. Art, a jormer Moose Jaw radio man, i3 e:ncee oj ber light on the control unit in the Britten accomplished the funda­ the People are Funny program; Alan is comedian on the Tony !,,~rtm Show car holding the telephone goes on mental aim of great art, which is to (Wednesday, 8:30 p.m. MST, CSC Dominion network); and Lo1S 15 a !orrn:er and a bell rings until the phone is teach us something new about the Toronto singer now in U.S. radio. Other Canadians attending the party tn­ human heart and express it through elUded Walter Pidgeon, Glen Ford, and Johnny Coy. Susan Fletcher is heard picked up. The transmitter and re­ new and significant musical beauty." on CSC's Dominion network on Mondays at 6:45 p.m. MST. ceiver equipment is in the back ot the car with an aerial outside. for the first time, in the new series, I Poll Awards Top The two-way telephone unit was Timothy Stories it might be said that he enjoys the first used during the war but 15 now novelty of a wooden leg which he Spot To "Album" being used in the United States and Now Dramatized also in Toronto and Montreal. BUsi­ Ican remove and play as a fiute. He For the second consecutive year, cec Children's Series About A Little ness flrms especially find them valu­ Irish Fairy likes to travel, and his escapades The Album of Familiar Music has been judged the best musical variety able-firms that have travellers out with all sorts of fun-loving people, A new series of stories for children program on the air. in a recent poll in the city, trucking companies and about "Timothy O'Brien," little Irish animals and insects form the basis of music and radio editors in Can­ so on. fairy or leprechaun of radio broad. of the weekly dramas about him. ada and the United States, conduct­ Miss Duff's commentary is heard cast popularity, are now to be heard Timothy is played by Warren Wil­ ed by Musical America magazine. from Winnipeg over the CBC Trans­ Thursdays at 5:45 p.m. MST, on the son, freckle-faced to-year-old drama The program is produced by Frank Canada network Monday to Friday CBC Trans-Canada network. Hummert, who has directed its week­ at 8:35 a.m. MST. In a previous program series for student at the Academy of Radio Arts, Toronto. Radio work for him ly broadcasts since it began in 1931. young listelJ:ers caUed "Timothy and The Album is heard on the What Bothers Mr. Fisher.-That's the Rabbits," the exploits or this has thus far included roles in the cac CBC's "Alan and Me" and 'In Trans-Canada network every Sunday what bothers me, as one Canadian­ little fairy-tale character were re­ that we do not talk enough about Search of Ourselves" series, and in at 7:30 p.m. MST. Four soloists are counted in straight story-form. Now, featured with an orchestl'B. under the Canadian show. We do not pay however, in his new group of pro­ Ontario School Broadcasts. Narrator Gustave Haenschen-Jean Dickenson enough attention to the spiritual, the grams the adventures of Timothy are of the new Timothy series remains and Margaret Daum, 6Opranos; to be semi-dramatic in character. lyrical, the lighter, symbolical side the same as before: Allan McFee, a Evelyn MacGregor, contralto, and of Canadian unity.-John Fisher, on For those who may meet Timothy CBC announcer. Donald Dame, tenor. CDC, January 4. Page 2 ene PROGRAM SCHEDULE Pmirie Region E. V. Young ·IDLL-I_SU_N_DA_Y_,M_ar_ch_7t_h,1_94_8-----l...IIW· IThe Prairie Gardener I STATION CBK, WATROUS ALAN MILLS (11 :00 a.m. MST) Summary of Broadcast of February (MST) Folk songs for children by Alan 29, 1948. 8:55 WEATHER FORECAST Mills, baritone. From Montreal. The Soil-The Gardener's Bank Account 9:00 CBC NEWS Birds' Courting Song, a lively old 9:02 NEIGHBOURLY NEWS folk song in which the blarkoird, 1. Four important natural relation­ 9:15 PRAIRIE GARDENER the woodpecker, the owl, the bat, ships in the growth of plants: 9:30 RECITAL etc., tell about their unhappy txperi­ (a) Sunlight-that furnishes the 10:00 BBC NEWS ences in courting the feathery co­ 10:15 LAYING THE STEEL energy for food. manufacture in 10:30 HARMONY HARBOUR quettes of the forest; The Keys of green leaves. 10:59 DOMINION TIME SIGNAL Canterbury, another courtltlg song; (b) Water-the great carrier of 11:00 ALAN MILLS Sweet Ferns, a lamentation fUf a de­ raw and manufactured food within part~ love; The T!l,e~ Drum..'l1ers, 11: 15 JUST MARY the plant. 11 :30 THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT an old French folk. tale frequently 12:00 CBC NEWS heard as a marching song. (e) Air-that furnishes oxygen for 12:03 CAPITAL REPORT respiration and carbon dioxide as a 12 :30 RELIGIOUS PERIOD source of carbon in food manufac­ 1:00 N.Y. PHILHARMONIC THE WAY OF THE SPIRIT ture. 2:30 CHURCH OF THE AIR (11 :30 a.m. MST) (d) Soil-that provides anchorage 3:00 SINGING STARS OF Biblical drama written by Canon TOMORROW for the plant and is the source of J. E. Ward. From Montreal. Today's 3:30 CBC NEWS mineral nutriment and nitrogen. 3 :33 JOHN FiSHER dramatized story, based upon the Ninth Chapter of the Gospel of St. 2. Soil is the only one 01 the lour 3:45 WEEK END REVIEW factors subject to the extensive con· 4:00 ALAN AND ME John, tells what Jesus meant when E. V. YOUNG, Vancouver actor, who is he called himselI The Light of the t.roIs by the gardener. Knowledge of 4:30 WEATHER FORECAST heard in readings on two west coast soil increases the gardener's chances 4:35 MUSICAL PROGRAM World.