LAUGHING BROADCAST

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 34, 9 March 1928, Page 15

LAUGHING BROADCAST

A real live Kookaburra, or Laughing Jackass, has atrived at Melbourne, and his laughter is to be broadcast every Wednesday for a few weeks. His name is Jacko, and he is now four years old, and laughs at the slightest provocation. He evidently sees a joke in everything, and it is verv difficult to subdue his infectious laughter. ‘This little fellow has been trained to laugh since he was a tiny baby, and he apparently intends to do his job well. At his first rehearsal the other day, he did not suffer in the slightest degree from microphone fright. Little Miss Kookaburra happened to be there, and she and ‘‘Jacko" rendered perhaps the most nicvel duet ever produced. The real and mimic laughs blended perfectly, and became a rare laughing competition. When Miss Kookaburra first started her laugh, ‘‘Jacko" stopped short, and looked at her in that quaint wavy, as only a Kookaburra can look. He anpeared to wonder what kind of a "hird’? Miss Kookahurra was, and then, as thoueh he saw the joke, burst out afresh, lanehine and cackling and gurgling and chuckling in sheer abandon with Miss Kookaburra, but ‘‘Jacko"* laughed last.