Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 116, 12 September 1941, Page 25

Items From The ZB's

(full title "The Sunbeams Club in the Little Theatre of the Air"), has been broadcasting for over a year now. It is on the air from 5.0 to 5.30 p.m. every Friday, and the performers include the cream of the talent heard in the 4ZB children’s sessions. The young artists receive a Sunbeam certificate following their broadcast, and later a "Sunbeam badge. "Peter," who supervises the club, conducts a school of junior announcers, from which each week are selected commentators and announcers who handle the whole production. The sponsor of the club takes a practical interest in it, is invariably in the studio during broadcasts, and also arranges outings for members. Recently, over 200 members went to see a film as the guest of the sponsor, and as summer approaches picnics will probably be held. *k * * LISTENERS to 2ZA are becoming accustomed to having their legs gently pulled every now and then in Puzzle Pie, the novel programme broadcast every Thursday at 7.30 p.m. Recently, the Puzzle Pie professor asked his listener students whether it was possible for a man to drink 30 pints of beer in seven days, drinking an odd number of pints every day. Station 2ZA reports that students set to work both theoretically and practically on the problem, the practical students, as a man, giving it as their opinion that it couldn’t be done, but the experiment was well worth while. The theoreticians had little more success, returning a general verdict that it couldn’t be done unless the man drinking the beer was crossing the international . date line. Of the 600 listeners who sent in entries, not one got the correct answer, which is that the man started just after noon on Saturday with one pint, drank five on Sunday, five on Monday, five on Tuesday, three on Wednesday, five on Thursday, five on Friday, and finished just before noon on Saturday with one pint. * * * NEW session from 2ZB every Saturday morning at 10.15 is In Classical Mood, which presents items by a wide variety of great artists, including such names as Gigli, Tauber, Backhaus, Crooks, Kreisler, Galli-Curci, Lily Pons, and Eileen Joyce. It is a programme specially designed to interest all lovers of music, .ranging from lowbrow through middlebrow to highbrow. * bo * HIGHLIGHT of a recent Of Interest to Men session conducted every Saturday from 4ZB by Bernie McConnell, was a vivid description of a sports meeting in Egypt at which some well known Otago sportsmen competed. The information was sent out by Lieutenant Alex. McDowell, who was formerly on 4ZB’s announcing staff, and is now serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary. Force. 4ZB’s Sunbeams Club