SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

HE Hollywood rumour has not yet been confirmed that Sonja Henie has been cast as Eliza, to cross the ice on figure skates with a ballet of bloodhounds behind.-ZJoronto Daily Star. P % 1% JN Carlyle’s phrase, we are dreadfully off for demi-gods.-Candidus in the "Daily Sketch,’ London, * * * We. Australians are a British nation and we live and die with Britain-Mr. Menzies. * * * t; GARLIC in a salad can either make or break a home.-Dorothy Dix, am * * SUPPOSE girls get into uniform because the ugly ones think they look as good as the pretty ones. The pretty ones don’t notice that they look as bad as the ugly ones.-Gracie Fields, * * * E average age of the Administration which has undertaken the task of winning this war for us is more than seven years older than the average age of the men who won the last war for us.-Peter, Howard. Ec * * ; Government is not serious in this matter of paper shortage. If it were, it would invite Sir Hugh Walpole to. supply a list of authors who should be suppressed during wartime.-James Agate. * * .% REVITY is not only the soul of wit; it is also a patriotic duty during the paper shortage "Truth," London. 4 * ms * HAT would I do if a parachutist came down in my garden? Take a garden syringe to him, of course, We’re a sea-going nation, aren’t we?-Actress Edith Evans, who lives alone in the country. . % * * MERICA has no real policy towards Europe — only a conflict of violently conflicting emotions, -New York Herald Tribune. r Pe * ES NY nation which employs hatred is eventually torn to pieces by the hatred within itself--~ President Roosevelt. ; * * * S war cannot be won by sitting back, getting hit, and then talking about our efforts and sacrifices.-A writer in the " sere" Mirror." % * ¢ EOPLE complain of the black-out. For ‘more active persons it is quite fun trying to find their way in the dark.-Mr. Registrar Owen-White. ~