"As. You Were!"

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 40, 19 April 1929, Page 9

"As. You Were!"

The Army Way of Correcting a Radio. Announcement T happened at 3YA. The Christchurch @iarmonic Society was giving a concert in the studio and had supplied its own announcer. He was a military gentleman, quite accustomed to command a squad or a platoon, but he had never before had charge of a microphone, "However, this microphone, like all microphones, was a very tractable one. It responded to every word with remarkable alacrity. It well knew that it was not its place to "reason why," but to do. So, right or wrong, it did. But even military gentlemen are not infallible, and the studio heard what-the parade ground has often heard. After one announce- _ ment there was a. stage whisper, ,the military gentleman strode to the microphone, there was a slick of heels and a peremptory "As you were!" and the performing artist. was given a new name, It all went on the air. There is no way yet.found of overtaking a word sent’ out’ from a broadéasting studio, At any rate, it does not seem

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