In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 8, 2 September 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

ECORDS weren't in the same street as Will Yates from 2YA one night last week, when he put ovey 9 topicality on the Ottawa Conference. His art is to be all the more appreciated when one bears in mind that he imitates about a dozen people in each effort. His prize effort this time was the Chinaman in the climax. ne ~ % AN innovation in the Wellington competitions was the introduction of radio classes to sort out those who are likely to broadcast well. Many entered, few were recalled. They are just beginning to realise that this broadcasting business is not as simple as it seems a 4 bd HIS week’s appeal: "Join the 2ZW Club and save Wellington’s premier B station," ; u 2 * if BELIEVE one of the womenfolk ‘proadcasting recipes récently told hér audience to take the roller and smooth out their pastry. ‘ Evidently her conscience troubled her, for some time later she told them they had hetter use n rolling pin. Just as well she made the correction or her recipe would have fallen a bit fiat. e Mw t& EAR QUADRANT,-Why don’t you give the other stations a look in? It is all 2YA and 2ZW with you.-Auck-land Olubite. That is simple. My crystal set and amplifier will not hear of them, + * bg HD Sphinx, talking on 2YA on Satyrday night, remarked that if a certain digit appeared jn the numerals hidden in one’s birth date, he was naturally selfish, but that other things such as heredity and environment might make some difference. Wouldn’t Mendel and all those other biologists be pleased to know that the individual was infiyenced by, first, numerology, second heredity, and third environment! % % ve I BELIEVE non-rustling paper has " been used by the B.B.C. for some time. }t wouldn’t be a bad idea for the Board to import some of it for nervous ‘broadcaster's. oR " ¥ A BROADCAST joke. ‘The first bank- "* jng was done by Pharaoh’s dayghter, who went down to the Nile bank and. drew out a Moses, I thought old Adam started the business badly by not: checking upon Who’s Who betord Making ae advance to Hive.

"TEAR QUADRANT,-I read somewhere that Sir John Reith was recently found wandering in the corridors of Broadcasting House, ‘apparently Jost. One said he was looking for his private bathroom, but another held that after reading the Latin ipscription in the entrance hall he wa, Macrely taking a waltz to dissipa his blushes. This reminded me of a spirit that I saw wandering around Parliament House grounds in the early hours of the morning, and the lone policeman told me it looked like the awner of a B class station looking for a deputation or for an antidote for blushes.-Sprite. I think the party you. had just come from had been too much for you. Under such circumstances my advice is to keep well away from policemen; they often say hard things. at Me us I WOULD like to inform "Quadrant" that if he did not think the announcing from ‘the racecourse at Riccarton and Addington good, hundreds -of listeners thought the gentleman responsible made a splendid job of it.-Queens-town. vo. Ooh! I did not say that, nor even think it. I wouldn’t dare, , 5 a % A 2XA STAR, "The Gospel According to Cricket"-it isn’t cricket to parody religion-at least not offensively. s bd Mu [fF the boy soprano wasn’t drowned going to the concert relayed by 2YA last Sunday night, he undoubtedly was when he’ started to sing. a ™ * voice was worth preserving, s? he went to Sydney and had recordings made. Great minds do not always think alike, and no one else liked the records. So the great man returned to his homeland and now plays them unmolested from a station which he partly owns. In many ways broadcasting is not fair. an * » A ONCE popular tenor rng, HAT would you do if an imposing van stopped outside your door and on it was written: P, and T. DEPARTMENT. RADIO INSPECTOR? I got a horrible fright and forthwith bought another license... They ought to make these excursions more public, soineone might: get caught without a Noone,

Radiolighis (A Sumitary of the Week’s News) '"Clyes" to Final Section of Literary Competition. y PY AN Forms Radio Club. ° * Broadcast from 38YA on World’s Great- * est Music Composers. % xs 2VA to Give Talks on Gardening. s BJ Licenses Exceed 78,000.