TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 35, 16 March 1928, Page 3

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Asiist to Trayei. At an appropriate time after the performance of "In a Persian Garden" at BYA.on Wednesday evening, the announcer took the opportunity of expressing regret that this would be the last occasion on which Miss Jessie King would sing for Radio in Christchurch. Miss King is shortly leaving on au extended tour through America to the Old Land and the Centinent of Europe, where she will take advantage of the opportunity for further study in the realm of music. For some time now Miss King has been a member of the Madame Gower-Burns Grand Opera Quartet, the members of which are as sorry to lose such a talented associate | and agreeable companion as listeners who regularly tune in on Thursday evenings will be to learn of Miss Jessie King’s departure from radio at 3YA. Musical circles in Christchurch ate tendering Miss King a complimentary concert, which wili be licld in the Jellicoe Hall on March 27.

An Excellent Motto. Ever since those halcyon days in Eden, when Eve experimented with her first fig-leaf peignoir, woman has always striven to appear her best. Of course, there were no beauty specialists in those days, but as she had no rivals te outshine, crow’s feet and divers wrinkles arriving with advancing years fave her no cause for sleepless nights. However, in these hectic times, when the milestone of forty draws nigh a little dexterously applied, art certainly uiakes all the difference {at any rate, at a distance!i, and, lest we forget, let us remember that excellent modern motto: "Hair and eyebrows may be lost, but a good transformation endureth for ever!’ In sooth, woman has always put forth all her arts and races to attract that elusive biped manf In a night brunettes haye become blondes and vice versa. Truly Eve ate the apple and threw Adam the core to get on with! A good example was Lot’s wife, a bad "‘lot’"’ at the best, 0 0 0 00S 0 G0

S060) Si eS ey nevertheless, had she kept her eyes right, and not turned round when leaving the city to give some Johnny the pleasant eye, she would doubtless never have been turyed into a tin of Cerebos! Moreover, just as good artificial flowers briglten a dismal room in winter, sowill a well-preserved and tended complexion enliven the eyes, and, incidentally, the hearts, of those about one when reaching the evening of life. In years to come, should the monkey glands becoine an institution, we shall all be endowed with the elixir of perpetuail youth, and there will be nothing left for the beauty specialists to do but pack up their little bags of tricks and gracefully and mysteriously disappear like the flies in winter. POUPELLPLLEPEELECLLEEL ULE LELEEP ELL RCE ECL EE EEE EEL

Passing of Jazz, Jazz is passing, they say, and what are called the "soulful strains’’ of the waltz are coming back; the "Blue Danube" has been heard again in the land, and as delightfully as ever. But whether jazz be, in fact, passing or not, it is being abused as if it were, and there are few musically-minded people who will refuse some measure of sympathy with Sir Henry Coward’s and Sir Landon Ronald’s denunciation of its excesses. Yet, in art as in politics, { am unable to frame an indictment against a people, and still less against a whole worid, for jazz is universal, and has been every whit as popular in Vienna, the home of the waitz, as in New York. What is merely bad is never utiversaliy popular, and always there is some positive goodness in it. So there must be in jazz.