SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 17, 20 October 1939, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

PPB PPP IPP DPDP PPA NCE upon a time, when jazz was very young, it used to be possible to distinguish between such different members of the profession as composers, arrangers, instrumentalists, and leaders.Leonard G. Feather, in the " Radio Times." * * * GERMAN dance bands have been particularly told that it is "unworthy" to sing the words of foreign dance music in a foreign language---From an article, "German Music Under The Censor,’ by A. A. Gulliland. * * * ]* Columbus found a new world, Dickens created one-and peopled it with men and women.Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. * * * "THERE is no incidental music to the dramas of real life-Sax Rohmer. % * * A§ is to be expected, the idea of music is more popular to women, since they as a sex tend to sing more at their work than men do.-B. W. Gussman, in a talk on music in factories. * % % W/ HERE a lead glass eye would last an ordinary person for, say, six months or a year, a sodaglass eye would last perhaps several years.-From a talk on glass eye making. * * * OCNce a funny little chap of about fourteen worked for me. It was his first job and he’d never seen a telephone. On his first day I was in the garden when the ’phone rang. I heard the most awful banging and then silence. I rushed in. The telephone was smashed. The child was sobbing with terror. He said that the thing on the wall had screamed, so he’d picked up his knobkerrie and hit it as hard as he could till he’d killed it.-Kathleen Hewitt, speaking on native servants in South Africa. : * * * AM often asked to say what is the average life of a dog ... there is evidence to show that exceptional dogs have lived as long as 25 years, and a number must have reached 20.-A. Croxton Smith in "The Field." * * * EMOCRACY, a derivative of Christian fellowship, must now be extended beyond the political into the economic realm. The Church, solicitous for human welfare, is inevitably involved in this con-troversy.-Alfred W. Swan in the " Churchman."