2ZW Notes

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 14, 14 October 1932, Page 22

2ZW Notes

N Thursday last Mr. Byron Brown gave the first of a series of recitals under the auspices of the International Committee of Intellectual Co-operation-a committee appointed by the League of Nations. The broadcast of these recitals is in response to a request received by 2ZW from the committee, and the first of the series dealt with New Zealand poetry. It is proposed to devote about twenty minutes to these recitals every other Thursday evening at 9 o’clock. A fortnightly service at the request of the League of Nations is a small contribution, to help forward the peace and goodwill of the world, but it is a beginning and.there is no knowing into what great things it may develop. A poet has said: "There is music that is not of song, Nor yet of reeds or strings; It is @ music that to words belong, And in such, the noet sings." New Zealand has not yet produced 2 poet of note, but he will come in good time, and will sing New Zealand as gloriously as ever Scott sang to Scotland. Our poets do not smell of manuka or the kowlhiai, They lack poetical imagery and dramatic expression, and rarely remind us of our wild and romantic country. We need some man of imagination to hold the mirror up to nature, and show us our own image, as Scott did to Scotland." . The next recital is scheduled for Thursday, October 20.

R. 8S. W. M. Stilling, N.Z. represen‘tative of the Australian National Travel Association, is to give a series of talks on matters of interest concerning Australia, its history, and development, native life and customs, animal life, and natural resources. The first of the series will be "Australia’s Native Animals," to be broadcast on Monday, October 17. . Miss Kathleen Court, who is recognised as one of the world’s most famous exponents of beauty culture, is to speak from 2ZW on Tuesday, the 11th, at 11 a.m. Miss Court’s subject on this oceasion will be "The Acliievement of Beauty and Charm."