Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

tion, " Academy. Award," has apparently proved immediately popular with ZB listeners. The artists featured are Ona Munson, Gale Page, Elliott Lewis, Lurene Tuttle, Edmund Macdonald, and Nancy Leach, whose picture is printed on this page. The plays are all from original scripts, and titles which will be heard.soon include " Appointment at Eight," "For the Love of Pete," "The Castle of Santa Maria," "The Wrong Mr. Wright," and " Margo Meets a Ghost." The plays are a nice mixture of comedy and thrills. a + + LL HE big G. P. MacGregor producHE "Information Please" session, which is a variation of the usual form of quiz, has added to the National Savings accounts of a large number of contestants. "Information Please" is conducted over the four maih commercial stations, and at each session it is possible for the four contestants to win a total of 35/-, prizes being paid out in savings certificates, When an analysis of results was made recently, only one competitor, D. Butcher (3ZB, Christchurch) had managed to survive every round. At 1ZB, S. Targuse survived five rounds, before dropping out, while Mrs. D. Rudman and J. Fisher were still in with six rounds to their credit. There had been 11 contestants since the start of the session. At 2ZB, out of 11 contestants, -R. Pollard survived five rounds, while F. Johnson, a later entrant, was four rounds up. At 3ZB, the best performance was that of Mr. Butcher, but Miss M. Wilson had survived seven sessions. At 4ZB, Mrs. D. H, Purves and H. C. Beck.’ ingsale each had six rounds to their credit, There had been eight contestants, HIRLEY KIRKWOOD, the 4ZB "Bachelor Girl," whose picture appears on this page, is Dunedin born, and has lived there practically all her life. Like " Jessie" and " Andrina," who conduct other 4ZB sessions for women, she is interested in repertory work. She has taken leading parts in Repertory Society, Playbox, and Little Theatre productions, and has won awards at the Dunedin competitions, She is a keen sportswoman, her games being tennis and golf. — * * * EW ZEALAND trained announcers seem to land on their feet in Australian radio. Latest news of Peter Bathurst, a former 1ZB announcer, is that he is conducting a " digger-quiz " programme from 2GB entitled "Ask the Army." New Zealanders living in Sydney have been pleased to note that he welcomes with a Maori greeting every New Zealand soldier who comes to the microphone. Apparently he is no mean linguist, for when a Fijian soldier turned up to be "quizzed," he was greeted in Fijian. Peter is also branching out into newsreel commentary work, and his commentaries have been heard in this country for some months now,