Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 101, 30 May 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

NEW character will make her first appearance from 2ZB in the June 4 episode of Easy Aces. She, too, is named Jane, and she is a daffy telephone attendant, or switch-board girl, as they are known in America. Easy Aces, incidentally, is one of the two programmes which have been on the air continually since the Commercial Broadcasting Service started. The other is Fred and Maggie Everybody. . * «© N appropriate item in a_ recent broadcast of Rod Talbot’s session Turning Back the Pages, was the playing of old tunes on a _ 35-year-old Edison Bell cylinder gramophone. The cylinders were scarcely worn, in spite of their age, and the music came over the air quite clearly. Bill Illingworth, 1ZB’s chief technician, gave a talk on early methods of reproducing sound, and described the mechanism of the old gramophone. The following Tuesday, Rod) Talbot broadcast a selection of once popular recordings, which must have brought back pleasant memories to many listeners. They included Jack Smith, the "Whispering Baritone," singing "Rosy, Cheeks," Billy Williams singing "Let’s Have Another One Together," and "Thanks for the Buggy Ride," and "The Birth of the Blues." * * * O American prison drama is Behind Those Walls, the new 2ZB feature, but a series of homely stories about the adventure, pathos, tragedy and comedy that is to be found behind the walls of the homes in any street, in any town. The old axiom that one half of the world never knows how the other half lives is the theme, and around it have been built some intriguing tales. Behind’ Those Walls is heard from 2ZB every Tuesday at 9.45 p.m. * * CHILDREN’S party game depending on the adroit use of alliteration, has been made into amusing radio entertainment by Station 2ZA, Palmerston North. Repetition Jackpots the programme is called, and in the first section each of six competitors is asked to name. a certain number of articles beginning with a specified letter. Should a com. petitor fail to give a satisfactory answe1 within five seconds, the prize money is "jackpotted" up. The second section is described as "window shopping," and here the first competitor starts by announcing that he went shopping and bought, to borrow an example used, "a bicycle for Bill." The next competitor repeats the alliteration and adds a similar one of his own. When a competitor fails to remember the previous phrases, he retires, and the one who lasts the longest, wins a small prize. * * cd RAIG Crawford’s Dance Band from Prince’s Restaurant, Sydney, now broadcasts at 10.0 p.m. on Fridays (instead of Saturdays), over Stations 1ZB. 2ZB and 4ZB, and at 10.15 p.m. on Fridays over Station 3ZB. Recordings by. the band are broadcast as usual every Sunday morning.