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ABC weekly / Australian Broadcasting Commission

Call Number
N 059.44 AUS
Created/Published
Sydney : ABC, 1939-1959
Issue
Vol. 3 No. 18 (3 May 1941)
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Contents

THE A B C WEEKLY 1
Advertising 2
Other People’s Letters Design handbook 2
Evening classics 2
Bouquets for Hill-Billies 2
Standardise speech 2
Hiatuses—hiati? 2
For Lindley Evans 2
Fun fan 54
Old lady 54
Voice in wilderness 54
Town and country hour 54
Howl for music 54
Richard II 54
Bad timing 54 , 55
Right out of the bag 55
For Austraiiana 55
Too close 55
Let's sing again 55
Opposition? 55
Radio drama 55
Examinations 55
FEATURES 2
Coming on the Air 3 , 4
Advertising 4
The Silence of Percy Code 5
This Craze They Call Jitterbugging 6 , 7
Advertising 8
Told Over The Radio 8
Fortunes Told to Order in Japan 9
THE ABC WEEKLY 10
Entertainment in Time of War 10
Misconceptions 10
Leaves from a Traveller’s Notebook 10
Art and the Child 11 , 12
Advertising 12
“Waltzing Matilda” —Her Story 12
Design for Sleeping 13
We Must Know America Better 14
BOOK RECEIVED 14
Advertising 14
Disaster Ship 15
World Wags 15
MR. TUTT Mounting fear 15
Dark Days for RMC Super Studios 16
China’s Life-line 17
You’re Never Too Old to be Fit 18
Advertising 18
All The PROGRAMMES 19
A.B.C. Returns to Sunday Night Plays 20
Three Australian Compositions tor Voice, and Orchestra 20 , 21
SUNDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A.B.C. PRGRAMMES 22 , 23
MONDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A.B.C. PRGRAMMES 24 , 25
TUESDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A.B.C. PRGRAMMES 26 , 27
WEDNESDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A.B.C. PRGRAMMES 28 , 29
THURSDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A.B.C. PRGRAMMES 30 , 31
FRIDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A.B.C. PRGRAMMES 32 , 33
SATURDAY DETAILS OF HIGHLIGHTS IN TO-DAY'S A.B.C. PRGRAMMES 34 , 35
COUNTRY HIGHLIGHTS FOR THE WEEK, MAY 4-10 36 , 37
Australian Short Wave 37
Round the Clock with the Short-wave Receiver 38 , 39
Highlights From Overseas Stations 39
Plays of the Air— Can Stage Plays be Radio Plays? 40
The Secret Vanguard 41 , 42 , 43 , 44
Advertising 42
Science in the News Wonder “Dope” for Flowers 44
Hailstorms 44
CANTEEN CAPERS 45
Advertising 45
Hal Percy on Parade FRIDAY-NIGHT PHILOSOPHY 46
Hot Air 46
Weekly Letter 46
Pages for Women A Day on the Dole 47
The Special Folk 47
KNITTING Cosy Cardigan for Cold Weather 48
A.B.C. Fashion PATTERNS 49
Sang for Diggers in Singapore 50
Ghosts of Japan’s Past 50
While the Kettle Boils 50
Sanity In Our Dress 51
Giants of the British Navy 52
This Week’s Music 53
Mediterranean’s Many Names 54
Our slang DIGGER 54
Advertising 55 , 56

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THE  

 

WEEKLY  

Australia’s Jitterbugs — see page  

Volume 3, No. 18  

3rd May, 1941  

SegbUrtd in Australia  

jar transmission by  

sast as « m*ts>*fuf*r.  

PRICE THREEPENCE  

HIGHWAYS  

TO HEALTH  

ALSO  

PLAY DAY  

Listeners’ Drama-Week Selections.  

See page 3.  

DESIGN IN DRESS  

Monday, May (Alternative pro-  

gramme), Edna Horton Lewis on  

Women’s Clothes, and Sir Raphael  

Cilento and Department-store  

Executive discuss Men’s Clothes.  

See page 51*  

AUSTRALIAN COMPOSERS  

Session on Tuesday, May 6.  

THE DOWN-HILLBILLIES  

Back in Out of the Bag, Wednes-  

day, May 7*  

HIGHWAYS  

TO HEALTH  

Each Wednesday the B.M.A.  

Spokesman gives the Doctors  

official viewpoint on medical sub-  

jects. On Wednesday, May 7, he  

discusses Meningitis: Revolution  

in Treatment.  

Journal of th • Australia* Broadcasting Commission  

OFFICIAL PBOGHAMMES, MAT 4-10  

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