Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 222, 24 September 1943, Page 14

Items From The ZB's

appears on our cover this issue, ‘and who is featured in Command Performance from 2ZB, Wellington, on Sunday, October 3, at 9.0 p.m., recently scored first on three counts in the 1943 annual "Star of Stars" poll for radio listeners in the U.S.A. He won the title of "Star of Stars;" was voted the HOPE, whose photograph

best comedian; and his sponsored session headed the list of favourite programmes. x % * T 6.30 p.m. on Friday, October 1, Station 4ZB will introduce the series Voices of Yesterday, which features the actual voices of world-famous personalities as reproduced from some of the earliest available recordings. The voice of Admiral Robert E. Peary, relating his experiences at the North Pole, will be the first to be heard in the series from 4ZB. ES * ES N the "Health and Beauty" session on Tuesdays and Thursdays from all ZB. stations women listeners will hear answers to some of their problems, for Stella Unger, described as "the female Walter Winchell of American radio," is beggnning a series of programmes entitled "Let's Take a Look in Your Mirror," in which she deals with colourconsciousness, suitable styles in clothes and home furnishings, keeping fit, correct make-up, the optimistic outlook, and related subjects. % % * ANY actual events in the war are incorporated in the serial Passport to Danger. These include the march on -Warsaw, Hitler’s speeches in the Reichstag, and British bombing raids. It will start at Station 2ZA, Palmerston North, on Saturday, October 2, at 8.15 p.m.