In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 19, 18 November 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

2 ER "RECORDS," said the questionnaire, "Records," said the questionnaire," repeats 1YA. "Records... . TeCOr...., TCC... 0..." Dut they have forgotten to change the records, s * * OYA regularly does its Boy Scout act by broadcasting the carillon every Sunday afternoon. The act, of course, is to someone other than the listeners. 2 ¥ Me . A CERTAIN 2YA Aunt annoys a large number of her listeners by obvious "dog." ‘Refined,’ for instance, is pronounced as it is spelled, not "refained." The effect of this kind of thing on kiddies is far from good, 8 = s So they broadcast the amateur golf finals as we suggested several: weeks back, The Board is to be congatulated on its interprise-the broadcast. without a doubt went over well. s %, x HEN Madame Annette . Chapman sang Schubert’s "Serenade" and Brahms’s "Wiegenlied" on Monday at 2YA, it just showed us all how difficult it is to sing some of the old classical songs that we found so easy to whistle in the days of our youth, & » of WAS pleased to hear one of the Grand Opera stars speaking from 2ZW on the operatic programme last week. Now that we have seen opera and heard solos and choruses by the company, Wwe can appreciate the work such broadcasters as Cesaroni have done in keeping this side of music alive. " v we "QOSTEN UTO" in last week’s mailbag deplores the musical tastes of "Neutron" and myself. I am very sorry my plebeian tastes offend his musical sense. P.S.-I know he is a musician because of that long word he uses as a nom de plume. eB Ne a iss ALMOST ENGAGED: "Daddy, it was sweet of you to buy me this nice wireless set. And can I really take it with me when I get married?" Father: "Of course, my dear, but don’t broadcast the fact too much, it might spoil your chances." *. a * TWO minutes’ silence... . Slowly the traffic stopped. At first people wondered what it was all about. Real--isation. Silence. Even the radio was silent-but were we remembering? I think not. A generation is growing up

a which has not known war, and all this is incomprehensible .... dead. e * s AERIALS-Just look at them when _ you are out walking next Sugday. Big, little, straight, bent, shared and unshared; they are everywhere in evidence. In one particular Wellington locality, almost every house- in one portion of a street has one, and a veritable forest of masts disfigures the arresting beauty of multi-colour, multishaped roofs. x = s HEN will the Tourist Department’s representatives stop talking about "the wondrous beauty of New Zealand’s enchanting scenery" and really tell-us what we want to know? For example,’ how one gets from the lodge to the Chateau proper on a wet week-end without getting covered in mud and severely disarranged. 8s * a ROM a talk ‘broadcast by 1YA f learn that a Dominion Parliament can lengthen its own life and increase its own pay, but it cannot alter the Salaries of judges of the. Supreme Court. That would require a speci:l Bill and the assent of the British Parliament through the King: So it’s not. much good * judge asking for a rise, ¢ wm EAR QUADRANT,-I’m in trouble. I want you to help me out! You seem a decent sort. The other night a party of young ladies from 2YA sang out greetings to various grandfathers and friends, and to my astonishment a fresh young girlish voice called me upme, well over 50. I have not been near. Wellington since the war, and am {hopelessly at a loss as to the sender of: the call. Anyway, I want you to think real for me.-Revitalised (King Country). [I have to be careful what I say about or to young women now. My wife has returned from Day’s Bay. But J’ll do my best.-Quad.] E, 7