MEMORABLE "MIKE" MOMENTS (2)
Aunt Daisy More questions to announcers regarding hectic, hilarious or heroic but unscheduled moments’ before’ the "mike" led us to a couple more stories that will interest you. First, Aunt Daisy: Y most disconcerting Microphone moment occurred at the close of my television broadcast in London. I was, of course, tremendously thrilled at getting a television engagement, and was bent on carrying it through in a way that should do credit to New Zealand. The very delightful announcer of Alexandra Palace, Jasmine Bligh, who was conducting this series of short interviews with overseas visitors, was seated at one side of a small table in a prettily furnished studio; and we were shown in one after the other, and announced, very impressively, by a small and exceedingly plump page boy, in a very tightly fitting green suit of buttons, complete with little round cap, set rakishly sideways on his head. He had enlivened my en-
trance for me by announcing " MISS AUNT DAISY, from Wellington, New Zealand," so that the smile with which I greeted the gracious announcer was quite a spontaneous one. At the appointed second, the ‘announcer closed the interview, and we shook hands with great cordiality. Then I turned away with what I intended for easy grace and made for the door by which I had entered. This was the disconcerting moment, for I ought to have made my exit by an opposite door; in which case I should not have bumped into the diminutive " Buttons" in a way that almost "winded" him, and thus spoilt his impressive announcement of the next visitor--an American youth, whose _ self-confidence was quite equal to the occasion as he walked unconcernedly around us, beaming at the announcer and saying, " Well, I’m cer-. tainly very glad to meet you Miss," I patted the page boy on the ‘head and assured him I wasn’t hurt. The " make-up" girls. who were standing at the side convulsed with laughter, afterwards told me that the little boy was teally a dwarf, and about 27 years old!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 18, 27 October 1939, Page 52
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343MEMORABLE "MIKE" MOMENTS (2) New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 18, 27 October 1939, Page 52
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