Items From The ZBs

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 82, 17 January 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZBs

4 PROFESSOR SPEEDEE will shortly be conducting a new and novel session over the ZB’s, an adaptation of the American radio idea "Information Please." In America the focal point of the programme is a "board" of experts on various subjects, who are harried with questions by a small audience selected from the general public. As the programme will be presented in New Zealand, "Professor Speedee" will cross-examine a class of four people, selected from contestants in the Professor Speedee general knowledge ‘sessions who have demonstrated that they have a good radio manner and a high standard of general knowledge. Marks will be awarded and the member of the class who gets lowest marks will be replaced at the next session. Questions will be submitted by the public as before. An experimental broadcast of "Information Please" was conducted from 3ZB on Thursday, January 16. on * e " "T HE Voice of Health" who has returned from a visit to the U.S. has resumed his 1ZB programme on the prevention of disease. " The Voice," as he is generally known, was born in New Zealand, educated in America and Europe, and although he is still a young man, has lectured from the platform to many big American audiences. When he was in America recently he conducted health broadcasts twice a day over Hollywood stations, substituting for the late Dr. Frank McCoy, of the well known McCoy Clinics in California. * * * HE feature "Doctor Mac" which was heard some time ago from the main ZB stations, is being played from 2ZA. "Doctor Mac," a _ kind-hearted Scottish doctor, is played by Lou Vernon, who proves a fine character actor. New Zealanders have seen him on the stage in such shows as " Rose Marie," in which he played Rose Marie’s brother, and "The Student Prince" revival, in which he played that lovable old character Dr. Engel. " Doctor Mac" is heard from 2ZA on Sunday, Monday and Wednesday evenings. Not at all the least important members of the staff and a radio station are the technicians, and in recognition of this 2ZB gave them a session all to themselves on Sunday, January 12. The session was a continuation of the series -" Announcers’ Own Request Session," and the technicians were given the choice of a lengthy programme. * * * WITHIN a few hours of the news of the death of the pianist Mischa Levitzki being received, 2ZB’s_ programme department had prepared a special programme dedicated to him. It was presented by Lane Patterson on Sunday night, recordings of Chopin’s "Waltz in G Flat Major," Schubert’s "Marche Militaire," and the popular | "La Campanella" being included.