SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 31, 26 January 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

HE moon is still front-page news every night. As soon as a poet ceases to be excited by the first daffodil, love, God, flowers, the world in general, what Kipling called "the whole glooming welter," he stops being a poet by the grace of God, -Joseph Auslander. * * * E never gets rowdy in the home. I sure wish I had his poise and calm.-Mrs. Joe Louis, on her husband. * * * UBBISH! — Augustus John’s opinion of his daughter Vivien’s landscapes. * * * Y room was so small, when anyone opened the door, the doorknob got in bed with meJack Haley, American comedian. Ea * * Y room was so small the mice were hump-backed.-F red Allen, musing ditto. * * * PERHAPS after all Chamberlain was responsible for the Munich bomb outrage; the explosion was 15 minutes late--David Lloyd George. # W OMEN's clubs are boloney.-Theodore Dreiser. * » 4% You could close every university in the U.S. and it wouldn’t make any difference. You can get a degree to-day on the most asinine subjects you ever heard of. Most of the youngsters are sneaking and cheating their way through school. — Theodore Dreiser. % % * 5% HE London policemen in Hyde Park have learned that the surest method of exposing incompetent charlatanism is to give the charlatan a protected forum.-President Charles Seymour, of Yale University. * * * OFFICIALS in charge of Epstein’s "Adam" at Bjackpool discovered five small holes chiselled into the right leg. The marks were put down to a desire for souvenirs.-News Chronicle. % bd % I BELIEVE in remaining mediocre. — George Robey. * * * Getty years ago I would have revolutionised the whole world, I would like to do it now; but it is a long job, — Ben Tillett, 79-year-old Trades Unionist. ie