In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 5, 12 August 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

"Wer have pleasure in. introducing . "Mr. Wallace, who will tell you all that the All Blacks did in Australia," murmured my loudspeaker the other night. I hushed everybody to dead silence and listened-but the title of the talk was misleading. He talked only of football. & oh * (THE week’s joke. Our Wellington "B" station starts the day by playing, "Here Comes the Sun." % % mw HW ZBEALAND’S Olympic dancing representative (a New Zealand girl resident in Los Angeles) surprised the Americans by broadcasting a haka from KFI, Los Angeles. A unique combina-tion-a Maori chant articulated with the American accent, broadcast ‘by a New Zealander going into the dancing arena in the world’s greatest city of make-believe. They ought to hoist the New Zealand flag after that. ¥ Pd * HE organisers of the Wellington community singing secured a scoop last week when they introduced the star artists of the "Blue Roses" Company. Probably they won’t appear again at -2YA, but by no stretch of imagination can their appearance be called the Last Rose of ‘Summer. -% Bo y ON Sunday night 2YA’S fading ring started a few feet from Mount Victoria. J expect next week’s mailbag will tell ws where i. inished. Dd B a ON hearing the wrestling described from 1YA recently one was reminded of the prize-winning efforts of a Wellington announcer last year who amused his audience by describing @ match in terms of "He cannot get outyes he is." After having read up a few of the terms, he was at least entertain~ing. That announcer did much to popularise that station and wrestling in Wellington. Incidentally I went to the Town Hall just to see "How he did get out of it." , * * PY I HBARD WMAQ, Chicago, the other afternoon-but not on my radio. That station plays a key part in a pic- | ture now running in the city. The de-

tails are well worked out-one is introdticed to the station from the listener angle, then taken into the talks studio, later shown into the sound-proof glassed-in studio where one can see but not hear people talking, then back to the. home. bi] gy & "INEM men is wrasling," my radio informed me one night last week, but it didn’t get a chance to tell me anything else in that strain. The switch was up like a shot. That is not broadcasting as she is spoke. z a bey Dont some people get nasty thoughts. An Australian radio paper reporting the meeting at which Captain Wckersley presented his recommendations for eight new stations, stated that some of the engineers present thought the report would not cut any ice because the famous Captain had been brought out by a private company who possibly might make a pound or two out of the scheme! » xt bv] HE B.B.C. recently took their listeners on the journey that various members of the Ottawa Conference will | travel. It was an interesting account of the various parts of the Empirebut when he came to New Zealand this is what went over, "And now we are leaving Wellington, New Zealand ; mind, hold on your hats," and then follow yd the imitated shrieking of a howli¥g southerly. Hardly fair-particularly as Wellington is not really windy.