TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 13, 14 October 1927, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

O well for him that finds a friend, Or makes a friend where’er ite oncs, And ioves the world from end to cid, And wanders on from home to home. A -Lennyson, % mi Who’s Zoo? In the world of fashion, Who’s Zoo? The doe is responsible for my lady's gloves, the calf for her belt, the tortoise for her shinglecomb, the snake for the cover of her cigarette box, the lizard and the crocodile for her shoes, the ostrich provides her feather fan, the silkworm her stockings and lingcrie, and the fox gives up his skin for her fur. » 2 » Imitation Pearls. Few people realise of what ancient lineage are imitation pearls, which today are endowed with such ¢xquisite

sheen and iustre, and such perfection of gradation and tint-that it is wellnigh impossible to tell the false from the true. According to one authority, they were first produced in the reign of Henry IV of France; while another one states that they were being made by a Parisian rosary-maker, named Jaquin, in 1656, od * s The modern girl has becn severely crilicised and scathingly commented upon, set in Spile of all the sarcasm, the British girl 1s welcomed wherever she Socs, lier supremacy lies in her adaptabilily, which is the hall-mark of her nature, This versatility of character earricd ker through the war. She made muriiions, built up businesses, creatcC professions. The British girl’s place is wherever her destiny directs her, She is never at a loss to discover a "wav out."? She confronts life in the Spirit of true gallantry. -Phillis Rees. 2 * 3 "‘Turn-on-the:-Tap" Radio An instrument which gives the listener entertainment with no more effort than is required to draw water from a tap las arrived in England. ‘The usual batferies are dispensed with, and the necessary electrical energy is taken from crdinary house lighting mains. There is no need for anvone to know much about the construction of these sets, for they are designed to enable anyone to listen in merely by operating an ordinary electric light switch. Excellent results have been obtained from Daventry from this "simplified wireless’ at a distance of 200 miles. s ta * Raffia Still to the Fore. Wherever there is decoration, there is raffa! Dear I'ttle brooches end scarfpins have long heen favourites-- now we have cunning little raffia buckles for our shoes and also for our hats, earrying out our pet colour scheme, and _yarnished, of course. Wonderland Alice. A Melbourne writer says: Few people have been so popular with younger listeners than Miss M. Shepherd--or "Wonderland Alice’--in her lecturettes "Myths and Facts of the Commonplace." This series hes proved most fascinating to the kiddies, and had lead them step by step into the realms of knowledge by a delightful road that isn’t the least little bit like "lessons’? -but more like a real fairy tale. The objects we see around us, and have hecome so used to, spring into fresh being, and are possessed of a new charm when seen through the eyes of a wondere land. = Ed If you are born without temperae ment you are extremely fortunate, jor none caw descend to such depils agony as the temperamental. It is not only in the great things, but in the trivialilies of life that one is weighted with a temperament. The sudden hurt look in the eyes of a lilile street urchin who has lost a halfpenny cuts to the heart as sharply, as deeply, as the contemplation of the ruin and the wasle of a devastated land. But that same nature by whose forces we temperamentals are held has a wonderful quality of readjustment. Just as we know the horrors of the depths, so we can rise to heights of happiness and exalialion that make ts tremble with the pure wonder and joy of living. No matter what torm beauly may take--a line, an exprecsion, @ splash of colour, or it may be just:a beautiful gesiure-it gives us G!ways the same exquisite happiness. -Anon. a cy i A New Zealand-made Picture. "Under the Southern Cross,’ at the Paramount Theatre, is interesting. the Paramount ‘Theatre, Wellington, is interesting, A New Zealand film, the interest iocused amid scenes of our own country-side-and very lovely, indeed, are some of those from around Hawke’s Bay-the story begins on board ship and reaches its denoucment on a real true-to-life sheep station, where sheepdogs round up flocks and flocks of silly sheep, and prize beasts of the field rear their stately heads, As to the cast, Jean Leckie is as ingenuous and delightful on the stage as off; Moasta Doughty, if not es dehonair as when he lounges along the Quay, looks and acts gnite well as the squatter; Tni Fryer and the otlicrs including Pat Ward (son of our own Sir Joseph), are adequate; brt the honours lie with the two who look and act to the life the dear old couple on the station, and with Mr. Ashford, whose appearance and acting are en ‘tirely right as an Englishman trying his luck in the Dominion. The plot is neither original nor exciting, the charm of the picture being in the portrayal of colonial life amid hbeautifal typical New Zealand scenes, G luck to it when it reaches the wider world