Variety Magazine
| LIKE the way the NZBS does all in its power to compensate us girls for not being dated up on a Saturday night -by giving us Jack Davey, Clem Dawe, Tommy Handley, and the advantage of being able to wash our.-hair at the same time. For from the NZBS viewpoint Saturday truly is the last day of the week and provides listeners (and programme organisers too) with a rest from everything, including intellectual activity. The 2YA. Variety Magazine fits comfortably into the general scheme of things which do not need Hercule Poirot’s equipment for their appreciation, but has none of the ebullience of other Saturday night entertainments. Remaining faithful to its declared formula "A Song, a Laugh, and a Story," it confines us to one of each, including the laugh. The song is the tuneful and catchy "Cruising Down the River," the story an inconclusive essay on the Titahi Bay cat, heartwarming only té a fanatical feliphile or a painstaking compiler of the History of Broadcasting Stations in New Zealand, Best feature of the Magazine — the final Musical Quiz, helpfully conducted by a headmasterly type who is anxious for all his boys.and girls to do well.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 10
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198Variety Magazine New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 417, 20 June 1947, Page 10
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