The Guest of Honour
ALMosT everyone likes a party, but the party 1ZB turned on in the Radio Theatre on Sunday, March 10, was a’ very sad one; and a dull one, too. It was given by one whose name sounded something like "Signor Greasepardon." He was reputed to be a musician of sorts, but spoke like a rather poor imitation of an offsider of the Marx brothers. He was entertaining his guests -a naive crowd-with suitably sentimental music, while they awaited the guest of honour, This mysterious per-
sonage was apparently not one for punctuality and as, impatient of waiting, the other guests champed away at the horsd’oeuvres, still to the accompaniment of soft music, they gazed at the vacant chair, and speculated on the identity of its absent occupant. Well, to cut a long story short, it turned out after all, that no one else was coming, no one corporeal anyway. The party was in honour of old Signor What’s-his-Name’s dead daughter whose spirit had apparently been along with them right from the beginning, enjoying her favourite music and generally joining in the festivity in her quiet spiritly way. This all goes to show that someone in broadcasting still believes the average mental age of listeners to be about twelve.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 353, 29 March 1946, Page 13
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212The Guest of Honour New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 353, 29 March 1946, Page 13
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