SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 15, 6 October 1939, Page 5

SHORTWAVES

ORWEGIANS are not talkers; they are men of few words, literally so. The Norwegian dictionary is only about one-fifth the size of ours. The consequence is that the poor things have to say exactly what they mean all the time.-Com-mander W. Ibett. * Bo * ‘TAKE note that in the old days no man was accepted as an artist who was not also a skilled craftsman.-Frank Kelly, talking about the old armourers in England. * * * It has taken the authorities twenty years to coax the grizzly bears from the woods. A ranger always stands on guard in the food lorry in case of emergency. One old lady asked anxiously if the gun was to shoot the bears if they bothered the people, "No," he replied, "it’s to shoot the people if they bother the bears."--From a broadcast by E. Burdon Sanderson, about Yellowstone Park. * % * HE newness of these countries (particularly South Africa and New Zealand), and their cule tural mediocrity, drive an artist into isolation and revolt, and the need to assert himself and to find sympathetic friends may turn him into a refugee.A London book reviewer, discussing d’Arcy Cresse well’s " Present Without Leave." * * * GINGERS of part songs, except when seated, are best heard and not seen. Standing, they drop into such apologetic attitudes. — "The Listener" (London). ok % ok M°2St of us manage to behave fairly decently during any kind of crisis. It is keeping up to the anti-climax that counts--Margaret Barnes in the "Windsor" magazine. * * * FPeRCE and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.-Thomas Hobbes, " Leviathan." a Eg * WHATEVER anybody tells me about boats I believe at once. If you told.me a coracle was a form of church music, I would accept the informas tion without batting an eyelid.-A. A. Thomson in a@ " Strolling Commentary." *K * *e WE know that Northern Scandinavia is being pushed up vertically out of the sea at the rate of about one yard a century, and Holland is slowly sinking under the sea at about a quarter-of-a-yard a century.-Dr. V. J. Chapman, ile ek a