STATIC

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 14, 29 September 1939, Page 4

STATIC

ONVICTS in an American gaol are allowed to stage their own radio programmes. The competition for Outside Broadcaster, we are told, is terrific! * * * a fact that a musician’s boots squeak doesn’t means that he has music in his sole. * * Ba poss explorers don’t like radio thrillers. These send cold shivers down their backs. * * * To those who like their reading plain and foursquare, James Joyce’s " Ulysses" was rather a nightmare; While the recently published " Finnegan’s Wake " Bears even closer resemblance to a literary earthquake. * * * ‘THs week’s crazy headline: "Croonette With Loveliest Ankles Marries."’ Perhaps she left the church under a line of arched insteps. Ee * x SOME people find farming talks depressing. They don’t like harrowing details. Pa * * A BANDLEADER recently got a fit of coughing in front of the microphone-but luckily the publicity boys were there to give him another pat on the back. * Ht * N some radio thrillers there are so many murders, we think the characters should be given in order of their disappearance. %* * x ; A COMPOSER had his latest compositions stolen +++ just a few snatches of song? * * % AN English seaside concert party comedian remarked that he’d had some decent audiences in spite of the bad weather--so friendly, in fact, that he finished up by calling one audience by his christian name. / * * * ANNOUNCERS go to school to learn their BBC? * * * RADIO actor was once a messenger-boy-that’s = why his delivery is so perfect. * * * AN American magazine last month coined the word "fuhrious." A reader's reply: "Adolf my hat to ‘fuhrious’; it gets in Mein Herr."