RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31110, 13 July 1966, Page 28

RANDOM REMINDER

NEWS

Long before communications satellites had people in Britain watching events taking place in the United States, there was much to wonder at in the astonishing developments in media for the transmission of news and views. Today, you have to withdraw to the mountains and hide there if you want to Get Away From It AU. Even then, they might get at you, with sky writing. Throughout the day and the night, it is difficult to escape keeping up with the news. Perhaps word of

mouth remains one of the most energetically pursued methods of passing on the facts, and the mouths and jaws of millions work overtime on this project The radio has news very regularly, and with the little transistors people carry about with them, the service is of 24 hours. Television does its share. There are organised addresses, books and magazines, and of course the greatest of them all, the newspapers, which day and night keep everyone informed of almost everything.

The keeper of a radio shop in Christchurch was therefore somewhat surprised at an inquiry he received a couple of weeks or so ago. There was in his window a placard advertising the production of “Saint Joan” by the Canterbury Repertory Theatre. A woman passing by noticed it, retraced her steps, read it again and came into the shop. "Can you tell me” she said “when Mr Shaw will be in town?”