Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

NEW feature playing at 8.0 on Saturday nights from all ZB Stations is Hollywood Spotlight, which replaces What I Should Like to Have Said. Hollywood Spotlight is an expertly produced musical revue starring, among other well known Hollywood artists, Bob Burns and Martha Raye. Also featured is Phil Harris, who used to be heard from KFI Los Angeles when that station was received clearly by New Zealand listeners, * * . A FORETASTE of "Cappicade," the annual extravaganza of Victoria University College, will be presented from Station 2ZB on Sunday, May 25, at 6.30 p.m. This will take the form of songs and choruses from the coming shows, and perhaps an echo or two of past successes. There are three shows this year, the usual Carrad musicale, "Gone With the Wind Up," "The Sky’s the Limit," an epic of social climbing, and "The Horse That Wooden," a rehash of the Troy story. Listeners will have further opportunties of hearing some of the musical numbers if they listen-in to 2ZB on Tuesday and Thursday, May 27 and 29, at 10.15 p.m. ON Sunday, May 18, the final episode of The Lost Empire, was broadcast from the four ZB Stations and 2ZA, but the following day at 2.15 p.m. the first episode was played over 1ZB and it starts again from the other main stations on succeeding Mondays. The decision to replay The Lost Empire is evidence not only of the public’s interest in the feature, but of the increasing importance placed by sponsors on daytime programmes. One of the stars in The Lost Empire, which is a story of an attempt to found a Russian colony on the west coast of America early in the 19th century, is Lurene Tuttle, whose picture appears on this page. She has been in several C. P. MacGregor productions, including The House of Peter MacGregor, Cavalcade of Drama (as the wife of Edgar Allen Poe), and Academy Award. Strangely enough she was introduced to radio through winning a Cali fornian beauty contest. E well known New Zealand horsemen, George Humphreys, Bert Ellis and Doug Watts, lined up at 3ZB’s microphone recently to take part in a session of Racing in Retrospect. Picking the winners of past trotting classics presented difficulties for Bert Ellis, but he picked up on the gallops and carried off the best dividend of the evening. A picture of the three jockeys and the judge "Jacko" appears on this page. At none of the ZB Stations is there any lack of contestants, and as the majority of those who come forward are keen followers of racing, and know their turf history, successes are frequent. Racing in Retrospect is broadcast from 1ZB on Fridays at 7.45 p.m.; from 2ZB at 6.30 p.m. on Wednesdays; from 3ZB 10.0 p.m. on Fridays; and from 4ZB at 8.45 p.m. on Wednesdays.