Birthday Party
TATION 4ZB had a tenth birthday recently. It has always seemed a little ludicrous to me that radio stations should ‘celebrate such occasions with solemn back-patting and the reading aloud of congratulatory messages from people in authority; one imagines other Government departments doing the same, and sees a mental picture of the Railways, Post Office, and so on, cutting the birthday cake each decade, However, there was. a bright spot amid the sedate ceremony from 4ZB, a playlet in which the local staff let down their hair and revelled. It was a parody of all radio plays, with suitable interjections from a ribald commentator, hilarious "noises off,’ and’ suitably unrestrained acting. It rivalled in intent those "fruity melodramas" to which I am pleasantly addicted; was written, acted, and produced by the 4ZB staff; and was put over in. so excellent a style that I hope the cast won’t wait another 10 years before they seize a suitable occasion and give us another original effort of similar kind.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 437, 7 November 1947, Page 19
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201Birthday Party New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 437, 7 November 1947, Page 19
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