Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 144, 27 March 1942, Page 21

Items From The ZB's

NE of the most novel presents Mrs. Jane Ace will receive on her birthday this year will be an elaborgte album from her New Zealand listeners. It will contain pictures of typical New Zealand scenery and points of interest and will circulate round the ZB stations to enable Easy Aces fans to sign it. According to broadcasting journals just received here, the Aces are as popular as ever in the United States, An institution known as the Co-operative Analysis of Broadcasting (U.S.A.) has given Easy Aces the top place among thrice-weekly quarter-hour programmes, . + Ea LISTENING to the new serial Sally Lane, Reporter, which is now playing from all the ZB stations, sombre thoughts welled up in us about the American newspaper girl. For who has not seen her in the films and read about her in books? She is usually a slim slip of a gal, with wide, innocent blue eyes, but she makes good and holds her own against the toughest guys in the game, until she feels the tug of baby fingers at her heart strings, and turns down a job as foreign correspondent for the love of a good, simple garbage collector. There’s no garbage collector in Sally Lane’s life, but there are a number of milkmen, her adventures being ‘concerned with busting up a gang of racketeers who are muscling in (technical term), on the milk trade. * a + NEws from 2ZB: Lance-Corporal Norman Dawe, whose picture appeared in The Listener last week at the console of a Hammond organ on which he gave a recital for the Egyptian State Broadcasting Service, was formerly attached to 2ZB’s programme department, and was well known in the four main centres as a theatre organist. He wijl take part in regular programmes for the Imperial Forces in the Middle East. A recent innovation at 2ZB was an invitation extended to listeners to constitute themselves an "audition committee " to pass judgment on two young singers visiting Wellington. One was an 18-year-old Maori girl from Manaia, Kathleen Toroa, and the other was 16.-year-old June Hannett, from Wanganui. There were many telephone calls and letters of appreciation, and as a result, 2ZB is searching for further talent. * * * Two new features in the Children’s *" Session at 3ZB are the " Junior Guest Announcer" (Thursdays, at 5.0 p.m.), and "The Young Folk Present" (Wednesdays, 5.0 p.m.). The former is an adaptation of the well-known "guest announcer" idea, the children being invited to send in scripts using standard recorded items, and the winner is then required to, announce the session. Both scripts and studio items are supplied and broadcast by the children in "The Young Folk Present." Apparently a large number of 3ZB’s young listeners are " radig conscious," for the scripts sent in an extraordinary knowledge of produg tion ‘details, o