HER 400th SESSION
For Anne Stewart There’s No End To Home Decorating
OUR HUNDRED radio sessions, spread over just two and a-half years, is a lot of broadcasting, but that is the record of Anne Stewart, whose talks on home decorating are heard regularly from all the ZB stations. And not only does she do all the talking, but she writes every script herself, and in between times answers an interminable succession of inquiries about interior decorating. Anne Stewart celebrated her 400th broadcast just recently. The 500th will be coming up some time next April, all going well, and after that, well, the renovation and decorating of homes is something that is never finished. Miss Stewart first became interested in her subject when she was a pupil at the Canterbury College Art School. She was there eight years, studying under such well-known artists as Archibald Nicol and C. F. Kelly. Next she took up
architecture, and wa’ thé first: woman in New Zealand to win a New Zealand Institute of Architects’ Scholarship. From art to architecture to interior decoration was a natural sequence, and soon she was in Wellington designing furniture for a big store and advising on decorating problems. Then came her venture into radio. New Zealand is not the easiest country in which to conduct the service Miss Stewart gives, as the typical New Zealand bungalow home embodies problems of decoration not found anywhere else in the world. Overseas textbooks, accordingly, are of little assistance. The advice which Miss Stewart gives is apparently comprehensive, as there
have beén occasions on which country listeners, building a new home in localities possibly far removed from big stores, have forwarded plans to her and given her a free hand with the interior decoration. In the course of a year, thousands of inquiries come to Miss Stewart’s desk. Quaintest so far have been three requests for information on how to renovate tombstones, In private life Anne Stewart is Mrs, Mackay, her husband being Ian Mackay, production supervisor at station 2ZB, "Mac" also conducts a regular session, and on a recent Saturday they were on the air within a few minutes of each other.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 76, 6 December 1940, Page 49
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361HER 400th SESSION New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 76, 6 December 1940, Page 49
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