In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 14, 14 October 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

SZIGETI-the greatest broadcast yet, % % 2 QOMEWHERE I read that radio had put up the birth rate. Perhaps that is where all the squealing has been coming from lately. s ¥ bd "THE closing thought for the final mid-day 2YA community sing was, according to the announcer, "Abide with me and the King." At least he might have put the King. first! Q Clive, your eloquence when the stations first went over to the Town Hall Tuesday last was astounding. Try writing a description of the New Zealand bush. o = e I WANT to know what wrestlers’ eggs are like. According to a Wellington announcer the other night the contestants were laying all over the ring, I heard a lot of cackling, too. NNOUNCERS defined: No. 1, "taxtieable income’-income that goes out when you have a private car and ought to use a taxi. But I doubt that 2YA's acting announcer meant that when he was talking about the Budget one night last week. ’

MaAs0R8 LEWIS’S talk on the Secret Service captured my imagination, but I want to know what happened to the mother and daughter he caught spying. Were. they let off with a caution or put against a wall and shot? It is the old-fashioned movie style to ‘leave the story at its most interesting part. " APPRECIATIVE LISTENER " writes: "Just a word of appreciation of 2ZW’s ‘by the way verse,’ ‘and the night will be filled with gladness,’ ete, An interested listener is wondering whether the announcer has any, other similar verses at his ¢om-mind."-Or, better still, if he has on fap » free and ample supply of the "sladness,"

INF ERSTAS ERY S46 So Will Bishop is going to produce "The Dumb Wife." Quite 2 change for Will; he always gives one the impression that wives are very far from being dumb. I think there must be a catch in it somewhere. * + + ‘ Is Szigetti really ambidexterous, Mr. Editor? & cd Rg "NEUTRON" says that 1YA‘'s programmes were pretty thin a forinight ago, and as a little incentive tells us that the Dominion’s largest ciry should be able to do better than that. But it isn’t bulk that counts-its initiative, and some stations lack it tre mendously: a little goes a long way, 0. to e Ed & "How incredulous! A woman announcer was reading out a re cipe and came to this: "One teaspoonful of white vinegar-white vinegarI have never heard of it before, but that is what is here." No, if a woman is to put over recipes she must be a practical cook-and not talk about the juice from an onion either.

OES 4YA’s new announcer refitse to recognise jazz as music? Said he the other night, "This completes ‘he musical portion of our programme, and we now commence our dance session." ou know tow, with "approaching darkness, the radio will gradually build up in strength until the volumé has to be adjusted. Such happenee Sunday last during the Sunday Schoo! anniversary relay from 2Y¥A in a cer tain suburban home. The speaker wa growing more and: more eloquent, ant the radio louder and louder, till at las father, who had just returned afte an absence of séveral weeks, and conse quently had every right to monopolist the conversation, could bear it no longer "What is the matter with that man does he think God will be able to hea him better if he shouts! We are no deaf as well-turn it off’-which dut! ful daughter straightway did.