In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 4, 5 August 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

Y the sound of things, 2YA’s innards are being vigoréusly overhauled. The station does enough squealing and groaning. off the regular schedule to make one believe it is getting a real tub down. swe dt % Ca % "THE Commission’s report is a rave document. I feel quite proud about it-for once I can understand what the experts are talking about. e % ~.@ HMDRE are strange voices from 2ZW again. Most people make friends slowly, and we all look upon the wire less people as our friends. % Ba -_ (TED PRIBSTLY is rather game trying to teach listeners to dance properly. I think if he saw some of us trying to follow his evolutions he’d give it up in disgust. * . ® it THE text of a knitting song sent to the 2YA community leaders was shown me the other day. The chorus goes "Knitting, knit, knit, knitting. It’s saved us women since the fall." Their lines hang on a thread--poor women! * Ba st Wwe were listening to 2YA on Saturday afternoon when it went off the air. My technical friend thought it was his set, and after frantically jiggling round for some minutes gave it up in disgust, declaring, "When a station goes off the air why don’t they say so?’ Agreed! It would be an excellent idea, but not always practicable. % 3 us I HEARD this unique opening of an address come over the air the other day, "Listeners in New Zealand, Aus-

tralian, and perhaps the world... ." That is not bad. I have only once before heard its parallel. G. B. Shaw, talking from the British Broadcasting Corporation, opéned his address with "Your Majesties, your Royal Highness the Prince of Wales... ladies and gentlemen"’-apparently inferring that everyone in England was listening But that is G.B.S.’s little joke. & 2 R [t is not nearly sufficient to require , that only announcers comply with the best standards of pronunciation. All regular broadeast talkers should at least approximate good English. And this applies in no uncertain terms to the children’s session. ‘Culture and refinement can be expressed in language only by plain, ‘unadorned pronuciation and unaffected modulation. © 2 by m OME say that an announcer’s wie has a lonely life, but it has its compensations. At least she knows where he is, % % & PROFESSOR: Seience has made such progress that we ¢an now send pictures by wireless. Old Lady Listener: Really, ready framed ?-"Answers," is * a ]_APY of the House: This pie is absolutely poisonous! a Cook: I made it from a wireless Yecipe, ‘but there was a chemistry talk coming through from another station at the same time. . £ = s A FRENCH wine expert says that one should be able to listen to wine’s "electric conductivity." I’ve listened in to..its. electric verbosity often.