THINGS TO COME

New Zealand Listener, Volume 7, Issue 178, 20 November 1942, Page 2

THINGS TO COME

A Run Through The Programmes

HE editors of Time have just about convinced the Englishspeaking world that their magazine moves, in fact that it marches (f. F marcher, etym. dub), on. So much so that many people now seem to believe that the magazine’s namesake (the three-score-years-and-ten variety), also marches on, indeed that it runs on. How far away from the newsreel theatres did A, P. Harper have to go, we wonder, to find the place "Where Time Stood Still," about which he is going to talk from 2YH on 8 p.m. on November 25, From Cradle to Gravy Once there was an American whoin a restaurant-tasted an oyster patty for the first time. He called the waiter: "Say, bo, something’s died in my bun!"

There is, isn’t there, a faint flavour of mortality about the freshest oyster? Yet we are glad to see oysters on our tables. How do they yet there? Elizabeth Richardson is going to tell us something about this in the first of a series of "Biological Bits" talks in the Women’s Session at 2YA on Wednesday, December 2. Mrs. Richardson will recount, with scientific accuracy and human feeling, the life and story of the oyster, from cradle to dinner table. Christmas Carols As in former years, the grourttis of Homewood, the Sutherland residence in Karori, are to be thrown open to the Wellington public on Sunday afternoon, November 29, and once again the chief feature of the afternoon’s entertainment (arranged in aid of the Free Kindergarten Association), will be a Christmas Carol Cornmunity Sing, led by the Wellington Harmonic Society and the Apollo Singers. H. Temple White will conduct, and accompaniments will be provided by the band of the Wellington City Battalion Home Guard, But for the benefit of those who think Home is better than Homewood, the programme of carol singing will be broadcast from 2ZB at 3.0 p.m, The Cup That Cheers? Time was — mind you, we're going back a bit now-when we set out for a day at the races with confidence and our Indallible System. Later on, we went with our Infallible System. And now we just go along with our wife to watch the horses. But if anyone happens to mention Serenata or Happy Ending to uswell! It was only the week before Serenata’s win that we abandoned our System based on Music and adopted the one

based on Birds and Animals, And really that was most frightful bad luck, because our Little Robin ran third, and there was some trouble about weight, and our tickets didn’t count. So when Fred Thomas talks about "New Zealand Cup Mémories" from 3YA on November 27, we know we won't be able to resist him, but we know we’re in for a bad spell of nostalgia dividenditis. Nature’s Second Course Do you have difficulty in sinking into the arms of M. Orpheus? Are you continually dropping stitches in your nightly attempts to knit up the ravell’d sleeve of care? Do you, in short, suffer from sleeplessness? If you do-and who don’t, what with worrying about next year’s income-tax and all?-tune in to 1YA next Tuesday forenoon and listen to the Health in the Home talk on "Sleep for the Sleepless." As a topical tip, we might suggest that there is more scope in counting Italian prisoners than sheep (memo: must find out how the prisoner-counters keep awake on the job). If your sleeplessness is induced by the wakefulness of an infant, we suggest a noggin of brandy. But take it yourself. Don't give it to the baby. Going West "Happi Hill’ fans will look forward to a new series of "The Roving Canadian" (beginning 1ZB this Saturday, November 21, at 8 p.m.), in which Happi, himself a Canadian, tells of life way-out west, up-north and down-south as it is to-day. These stories of the Canadian Prairies apparently lack nothing in variety, if we may judge by the sub-titles "Cactus, Sage and Mosquito," "Hats of the West" (maybe there are fashions in sombreros too?), "Calamity Jane," and "Bodie, the Ghost-town."