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ABC weekly / Australian Broadcasting Commission

Call Number
N 059.44 AUS
Created/Published
Sydney : ABC, 1939-1959
Issue
Vol. 4 No. 8 (21 February 1942)
Images
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Contents

THE ABC WEEKLY 1
Advertising 2
Jap Drive Against White Races Not New 2
Partitions Of Timor 2
Use for Bomb Craters 2
To Japan the Poppy is the Symbol of Devilment Debauchery 3 , 4
Advertising 4
Defence of the People By the People 5
War Work For Wait 5
Evacuees from Malaya Face New Life in Australia Bravely 6
Memory 6
A SCOTSMAN WHO Fought with Canadians—Produces for Australians 6
The Wargaits Prepare for War 7
CLANCY OUARTPOT Couldn't Take It 8
MILADY Skin Deep 8
DAGS A CO. Fan Dance 8
Mr. TUTT Help! 8
How People in Singapore Took Blitz 9
THE ABC WEEKLY 10
A Hope for Verse – Plays 10
Radio Misconceptions 10
Australoddities Believe Bill Beatty 10
Cardus's Cricked Talk WHO WAS THE FASTEST BOWLER SINCE 1900? 11
Radio More Popular 11
Advertising 12
Housemaids of the Sea 13
How Our Diggers Bee Themselves 14
No title 14
Music Ball Memories 14
Trip Cancelled 14
Was Leichhardt an Impostor? 15
When Victory is Won-What Chance Has the Atlantic Charter? 16
Advertising 16
The Fate of We of the Never Never 17
Stitch in Time 17
Advertising 17
Two Play Competitions, Three Series Of Plays 18
Advertising 18
ALL The PROGRAMMES 19
Coming on the Air 20
A.B.C. Overseas Service 20
ABG PROGRAMMES — SUNDAY, FEB. 22 21
ABC PROGRAMMES – MONDAY, FEB. 23 22
A.I.F.-Red Army Week 22
ABC PROGRAMMES – TUESDAY, FEB. 24 23
ABC PROGRAMMES – WEDNESDAY, FEB. 25 24
ABC PROGRAMMES — THURSDAY, FEB. 26 25
English Music 25
Rare Works 25
ABC PROGRAMMES — FRIDAY, FEB. 27 26
ABC PROGRAMMES — SATURDAY, FEB. 28 27
Mozart's Horn-playing Cheesemonger 27
COMMERCIAL PROGRAMMES 28
COMMERCIAL PROGRAMMES 29
COMMERCIAL PROGRAMMES 30
Commercial Programmes 31
Plays of the Air: Modern Poet Precedes Shakespeare 31
Round the Clock with the Short-wave Receiver 32
CANTEEN CAPERS 33
STRAIGHT FROM THE FRONT 33
HAL PERCY ON PARADE Weekly Letter FROM THE OLD A.I.F. TO THE NEW 34
THE PICTURE 34
FRIDAY NIGHT PHILOSOPHY 34
Complete Short Story OLD SMITH 35 , 36
Advertising 36
THE Mad Hatter 37
And You Came 37
A.B.C. Fashions 38
Other People’s Letters Musical Eleven 39
Money and Credit 39
Profit Motive 39
Weekly Crośword. No. 25 39
Advertising 40

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THE  

ABC  

WEEKLY  

STRAIGHT FROM THE FRONT-PAGE 33  

Volume 4, No, 8.  

21st February, 1942  

Registered in Australia  

jar transmission by  

past as newspaper.  

Price Threepence  

A.B.C. Highlights  

Richard of Bordeaux: Famous  

modern play about 14th Century  

Intrigue. Sunday Night Play,  

February 22.  

WHAT TO EAT  

The Kitchen Front discusses the!  

day’s diet every day at 8.55  

E.S.T., week-days; and on Sun-  

days (Alternative) at a.m.,  

 

SPIVAKOVSKY and  

MONCRIEFF  

Jascha Spivakovsky’s Russian  

recital on Tuesday, February 24,  

is followed by Gladys Moncrieff  

with Orchestra and Wireless  

Chorus.  

UNUSUAL MUSIC  

Mozart Flute Quartet and  

first performance of string trio  

by Roussel. Thursday, February  

26.  

POETS’ PLAYS  

Gruach, by Gordon Bottomley, be-  

gins new play-series, Friday,  

February 27 (see page 31).  

HORN CONCERTO  

Another Horn Concerto in Sym-  

phony-Concerto hour. Saturday,  

February 28.  

Journal of the Australian Broadcasting Commission  

OFFICIAL PROGRAMMES, FEBRUARY 22-28  

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