Items From The ZB's

New Zealand Listener, Volume 9, Issue 230, 19 November 1943, Page 9

Items From The ZB's

' AN DUNN, Secret Operative No. 48, broadcast by Station 1ZB, Auckland, at 6.30 p.m. on Thursdays and Saturdays, is a new programme directed by the man who. made The Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen. Taking leading roles in this presentation are Lou Marcell (heard in Fu. Manchu), as Dan Dunn, Myron Gary as Erwin Hicks, Lucille Meredith as Kay Fields, Jerry .Mohr as. the "Master Spy,’ and Hans Conreid as Captain Jalley. * * * HERE may be a shortage of some thiugs you used to buy for Christmas, but there are still alternatives, if you know where to look for them. Listeners will therefore find that 2ZB’s Guide‘for Christmas Shoppers is on the air at 1:30 every day, and offers hints for Christmas shopping. There are similar sessions at the other ZB stations. ; % * * a AT 7.0 p.m. this Friday (November 19), all ZB stations will broadcast a brief. commemoration programme for America’s : Gettysburg Address Day. Lincoln’s great words will be spoken by Charles Laughton who, it will be remembered, delivered the speech in the film Ruggles of Red Gap. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought on July 3 and 4 in 1863, and on the following November 19, President Lincoln addressed a vast gathering on the battlefield. That _ speech, brief and plain as all great speeches are, has taken its place among the great: pronouncements -on liberty and democracy.

LL EY * NEW serial will begin from 2ZB on Wednesday, November 24, at 7.30 p.m. It is called Out of the Darkness, and is the story of an experiment to bring a man back to life. As you might expect, an experiment of this natureespecially when it is successful-has some startling consequences, The story is set in Holland, but the howl of a Russian wolf-hound has a lot to do with the way the action develops. This is a _George Edwards production, and will be heard on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays at 7.30 p.m. from 2ZB, beginning at other stations on subsequent Wednesdays. : 7 * * "THANKSGIVING DAY in the United States, originated by the Pilgrim Fathers, is now traditionally observed on the last Thursday in November with religious services in the churches. On November 26 this year, all ZB stations will commemorate the day by broadcasting a short programme at 7.0 p.m., in which Ena Rapley, accompanied by the Royal New Zealand Air Force Band, will sing "America the Beautiful." % % Bd HE story of Helen Keller will be told from 3ZB on Friday, November 26, at 9.15 p.m. in the series "Women of Courage." Of all the women whose stories are told in this feature, Helen Keller makes perhaps the _ strongest appeal to our imagination. Stricken blind, deaf and dumb before she was two years old, she was, nevertheless, able to graduate from a university in her early twenties. Not only is she now a notable student and writer, but she is also a musician and a follower of the ballet.