Links of Empire

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 8, 7 September 1928, Page 14

Links of Empire

" (THOSE listeners fortunate enough to hear Miss Winifred Guy’s educa‘tive and fascinating talk over the air ‘ at the children’s session at 2YA recently, will be interested to know ‘something of the personality of this ' feminine pioneer of the poster. Brownz of hair and eye, entirely lacking in the voice declamatory and the gesture aggressive, Miss Guy tells a tale of sailing the seas, wandering the wide ways of the world, gathering her sheaves en route, as exemplified in her posters, such as perchance we never . shall look upon the like again. i] STEN ING to her tale of effort and achievement, the psychological aphorism, that what you think you become, takes on added force. Of a tentative ambition, a hope born and nourished in the heart of a child, has evolved the hazardous, but eventually guecessful, grappling with difficulties of -a@ new idea, a try-out, so to speak, of a hitherto unexploited medium. A childish hope to see the world beyond, frowned on by obdurate family, kept steadily in view through an interval of teaching school, where instruction was presented through the eye as well as the ear, finally materialised in the -.eollecting of advertisements of the -seenic loveliness of many lands, involv"ing long rovings in strange surroundings among many creeds and classes. As a result, for our delectation we now have unique opportunity of viewing the beauty and wonder of Europe, Ameriea, and the lovely land that we of the _ Dominions call Home. ACCUSTOMED as we are to frank ugliness and vulgarity of picturisations that sprawl crudely over landscape of town and = country, we rejoice to find our gracieus and appreciative Prince’ of England expressing himself in accord with and admiration of Miss Guy’s venture; and ready to acclaim the wide scope of the exhibition and its potentialities for memorable setting forth of the resources of the Hmpire. commercial, industrial and _ scenic. Winally, by way of practical and syrpathetic interest, H.R... presented Miss Guy with official photographs, to be used as she thought fit, of his reeent tour of Australasia, still vivid in the memory of his devoted Dominions. (SHATTING over the fire of logs in the small and colourful studio, where hang wonderful examples. of present-day posters; clad in black velvet cunningly cut and girdled with quaintress of steel and blue, Miss Guy exoressed admiration of our bays and ixlkiunds, the loveliness of the environs of Wellington, and appreciation of kindness and courtesy extended to her by the advertising world, and others reasonably awake to the advantages of telling the tale of our country to a wider audience, made possible by 9+ sociation with so accomplished an ex _ ponent of advertising art. Men she has found notably interested and help:

ful, the feminine faction showing itself more wary and not prone to kindle to appreciation. It was different. in Australia, she commented, where--more temperamental and enthusiastic -they rapturously applauded a rising star, a new occupation for women 4s well as men, and a fascinating study leading far from parochialism that is apt to descend upon those unready to welcome new facets of the social whirligig. Greatly entertained was Miss Guy by our sisters over the Tasman, interviewed and feted by public and

Press, and her tour a triumphant one taking her to many a lonely outpost, where her vivid views of English countryside must have brought poignant nostalgia to many an exile fram the Old Land. QO the originator of an idea which holds infinite possibility must homage be given, and good wishes for further venturesome blazing of pictur: esque trails,