Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 97, 2 May 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

HERE was a time when golf was a game for the privileged few and when it vied with polo and squash for the title of aristocrat of sports. In the last ten years or so, however, it has become the sport of the people. Auckland possesses more first-class links than any other city in New Zealand, and it is a tribute to the number of Aucklanders who play golf that Station 1ZB is ‘providing a session for golfers every Tuesday at 6.45 p.m. during which advice and useful golfing hints are given by leading professional players. At present a series of talks is being broadcast by the New Zealand professional champion Alex Murray, who is one of the Dominion’s most competent coaches. His talks are preceded by a " best golf ing story competition," in which there is a prize of a guinea to be won, with consolation prizes of theatre tickets. * * * CHARLIE CHAN, the imperturbable 3 Chinese detective of radio and screen, continues on his crime-checking career every Monday and’ Thursday at 4ZB Picturegoers, of course, have seen ‘two Charlie Chans, the late Warner Oland and Sydney Toler; making due allow ance for the absence of visual excite ment, the radio version is every bit as exciting, and the characterisations just as clear-cut. Discussing Mr. Chan and his creator, Earl Derr Biggers, an American critic wrote: "It is astonishing how orie can love or despise a character of fiction, and the real test o1 story telling lies in. the affection or disapproval we feel for the characters after the story itself- begins to fade from the mind. I doubt that any other character of fiction has been graphically etched on so many minds during the last. 20 years as Charlie Chan." ; * ~ * ET another dramatic production has arrived in New Zealand from the C. P. McGregor studios of Hollywood. producers of Academy Award, Caval. cade of Drama, Lost Empire and many other ZB features. This new programme is entitled Dramas of Life, and it will start from 1ZB on May 9, other ZB stations following at weekly intervals It will play at 10.30 am. every day from Monday to Friday, and it replaces The Silver King. Dramas of. Life, consists of a series of homely 15-minute plays, each complete in itself. Judging by the titles of earlier episodes, the emphasis is on comedy. = * * ‘THE BBC’s Radio Times printed letter the other day from the commanding officer of one of H.M. ships on active service in which, discussing preference in radio fare, he remarked "I don’t know whether we’ve gone all childish, but the children’s hour has become very popular with us, especially fairy stories." This may help to explain why so many New Zealand adults listen in with their children to the dramatised fairy stories playing over the ZB’s. Unfortunately the series is a limited one and will soon be running out. On Friday, May 9, at 5.30 p.m., Station 4ZB will f present the story of Cinderella.