TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 42, 4 May 1928, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

The New Zealand Carreno. A. daughter of this Dominion, Miss Esther Fisher, returns to her own land | to the plaudits of her countrymen and_ the welcome home of her friends. Ofa rare intelligence and an artistic sen.gitiveness of the most remarkable, | Miss Fisher has brought great gifts _ to bear upon her career, and has conrentrated with distinction upon the lonely path of Parnassus, which is apt to "run uphill all the way." Admiring: this young artist on her valorous peak of achievement, warm-hearted New Zealand rejoices in her success, and takes credit to itself for Iustre conferred as being the land of her birth; haying kept a kindfy, prophetic eye upon Miss Fisher, predicting fame and_ fortune and valorons overcoming of obstacles. Many remember the farewell recital of Miss Fisher, then a gifted and beaatiful schoolgirl, given just before leaving for Europe; in which the hheart of the audience was won, and its musical taste captivated by an adorable shyness of manner, a sensitive interpretation of a difficult programme, fine technique, and unmistakable possession of the "one tre light,’ without which all the technique in the world is at nothing in the make-up of_ the great artist. All of an interest unique, and the New Zealand public will hasten to hear and to see its own Carreno, who has returned to the home of her childhood, bringing her sheaves with ner, Aunt Edna of 3YA. To relinquish one’s duty as a Radio Aunt or Uncle is a severe wrench, for. it is ene of the most absorbing of tasks, | self-imposed and purely honorary as the duty iss An Unele or Aunt dees not like severing that invisible radio link which binds him or her to thousands of | chiidren. That is how Aunt Edna, of 8YA, feels now that she has reluctantly decided to give up her position as assistant to Unele Jack. Aunt Edna has been on duty at 3YA for the + past eighteen. months, and her singing and _ stories have found a big place in children’s hearts, as many little correspondents | confess. Despite the fact that Aunt. Kdna has always found her radio duties. to be a severe call upon her time, she has unsclfishly carried on. She has, | however, at last decided to have a spell, to the regret of many voung people. She appeared fhefore the microphone for the last time on Monday, April 28, as Aunt Ena. Tiibiiil

SO TST eI Tiel itren tire Hi ttL SL Unity of Empire. , At a dinner given at the Mansion House, the Duke of York said:"The people of the Empire are becoming conscious of a anity of purpose in Imperial matters. In each of the Dominions of the Impire, the question of how to improve Imperial trade and develop Imperial communications is being ceaselessly explored, and, best of all, being explored in the traditional British spirit." Kinema Supermen. Kinema propaganda has been Jargely responsible fur a widespread populat belief in the ruthless efliciency of the American police, but Los Angeles fiction is again strangely at variance with fact. An official committee attributes the prevalence of crime in America largely to a "lack of average intelligence in the police force." St. TLonis, for example, makes only 16 per cent. of arrests inconnection with reported cases of murtder or manslaughter, compared with 42 per ‘cent. in this country. Since figures relating to other States" are almost as bad we may now perhaps manige to reconcile ourselves to the_ seeming inability of our detectives to thew cigars with avpropriate fiercencss ami to wear their hats at a becomingly jaunty angle in a drawing-room. Pepularity of Oid Time Dance Music. The wish of many continental listeners for an houf or two of polka, mazurka, waltz, and quadrilles dance musie was responded to by Radio-Paris some time ago, and now there is another growing desire for an occasional programme of this music which "thrilled our grandmothers" All our modern youths and maidens who dance, savs ‘a Vrench paper, are not, it seems, fox-trot and tangs fanatics,

Horsewomen’s Race. Five of France's best horsewoimen met recently in the Bois du Boulcgne to be imspected, together with their mounts, hy the organisers of the race on horseback for wotnen ircm Paris to Cannes. The trace is the ontcome of a challenge issned by Mile. Mary Feraud, one of the competiiors, to Mlle. Dorange, who recently rile on horseback from Paris to Berlin, and has won a prize offered for F'rance’s most perfect woinan rider. Mile. Derange could not accept the challenge, but it has been taken up by four other horsewomen. The conditions include departure and arrival every day under contrel, and the obligations on the competitors of saddling, feeding, cleaniug, and attending to their monnts without assistance. The same horse must be ridden throughout the journev, which is over 50 miles. Lion-Tamer Entrant. Besides Mile. Ferand, one other amateur has entered, Mlle. Gaiatry, a young Oriental lady, who appeared at the meet carrying a live tortoise as a mascot. ‘The three other entrants are professional riders, of whom the west picturesque is a lady lion-tamer, who is known in the circus world as "Martha the Corsican,’? hut may Rot start, : as her horse is slightly lame. Tidier Work Baskets. To. save temper and also waste of | money and time, put small elastic bands round cotton and silk reels; ihe loose end can then be pulled under the band. No more tangled threads and untidy baskets if this is done,