SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 10, 1 September 1939, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

HERE is only one way of judging a play. First let it swamp you, then examine the wrinkles in the sand left after the tide has gone out.Desmond McCarthy, dramatic critic, in a broadcast talk. * * * Poetry . . . takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity.-Woodsworth. * a Ba FROM now on we can have a lot of people singing the same tune in our round the world broadcasts and they will all be in key.-Dr. J. Alexander, delegate to the International Conference for the Standardisation of Concert Pitch. * * % HE skins (for making leather gloves) are finally nourished with the yolk of eggs. In the bad old days, it is said, some of the eggs went into omelettes for the men.-W. E. Palmer, broadcasting in England. * eS * PEOPLE leave the country because the countryside is impoverished economically and socially in comparison with material standards of to-day.-F. G. Thomas, broadcasting on the urban drift. * * * To optimum degree of health is very rare indeed. The background of all desirable human energy and vitality and usefulness and happiness is a well nourished body.-Dr. Elizabeth Bryson. % a ue AMERICA has been responsible for raising the standard of housing and living comfort the world over.-An Architect talking to Everyman. a bd a NASH (inventor of the steam hammer) believed that industrial strikes were in one way beneficial. They stimulated inventions to take the place of man.-A centenary broadcast. * * * |* you give children plenty of purposeful work inviting self-responsibility, alertness, thought, and adaptability, you need never bother your head about discipline--H. T. Ford, in a BBC discussion. * * ES PrRANCE is almost exclusively an agricultural country. The French are a nation of peasants.E. M. Stephan.