In Phase and Out

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 21, 2 December 1932, Page 4

In Phase and Out

By

Quadrant

AFTER having had a sample of advertising and amusement sandwiched into the local programmes for the last week, I am confident that the British system is miles better than the American. w & s \ EB hear that a resident of Rotorua has had his wireless masts and aerial stolen under the cover of darkness. Moonlight meanderings of master marauder, masters mast while master sleeps. a & J DON’T like the way the announcement of the children’s sessions are curtailed in the weekly programmes these days. &

(QUADRANT-1I won’t call you dear beeause I don’t like you-I don’t say refained, nor do I use "dog." See if you can say "going down town" without apparent affectation and let me know how you get on. I can’t, but don’t you judge me by one phrase. -Auntie. m u TTHERD was too much static on Saturday night to get Christchurch satisfactorily, so I turned off my radio, * mu

WB announcer in charge of 2ZW’s microphone on Tuesday successfully put across in approved Hollywood style one of the best commen: taries of its kind I have heard. I thought this little interlude funny: "Here comes a big businessman from the Grand Hotel-I know he is a businessman because he has 2 pencil in one pocket and a pen in the other. Come on, sir, speak a few words to the: people." Then, "G’night folks, hic, s’great night." "Gee, I wish I was like him... . Well, here comes Mrs. . . -" * Fo) " HD relay of the unveiling of the memorial at Port Said was fair ly successful, I think 3YA’s version was the best, but only one announcer used uncommon sense and played the National Anthem instead of the goodnight melody. Somehow the solemnity of the ceremony and the cooing of the melodies did not mix.

T SAW an automobile receiver for the first time last week. It was in two parts, the tuning gadgets just by the wheel and the rest of the business on the floor. It is equipped with automatic volume control, so that irrespective of the distance from the station the volume, up to 2 certain point, is the same, I believe that in Sydney they are very popular, and you can go down Pitt Street and hear half a dozen different stations at one time. It would be a bit of a paradox if a motorist was pulled up for speeding and his radio burst out with "Oh, I am so Happy, so Happy." ge ~ oo _ a

" A REPRESENTATIVE of the Department of Health," as Mr. 2YA says, was giving his interesting, instructive, and weekly lecturette, Health Hints. The hints, this time, were on what. we should do and what we should not do if we wished to be healthy during the hot weather, Seriously and solemnly he dealt with the necessity. for adequate ventilation. Seriously and solemnly he went to deal with the desirability of suitable clothing. "In the matter of clothes," said he, "women have far outstripped the men." True, oh King! But is "stripped" quite the most kind,- courteous, charming and gallant way of putting it?-G.G. . 7 wf wm

PDEBAR Quadrant: Tell 2ZW’s Aniarican announcer to go to Napier and jump over the Bluff,-Yours, ready to mourn, Sympathetic. * Me e PEAR Quad,-There is a story that a woman, in appreciation of sum~mer time, wrote to say that the tomatoes had come on so much better since they had had the extra half-hour’s sunshine, Our Patricia seems to be another, In a recent issue she remarks: "Although the garden benefits by the daylight saving, .. ." In the same issue it is hinted to the housewife that fish requiring par-boiling: should be steamed! Come, come, Pat-ricia,-Yours, Interested Female. Now that accounts for the peculiar taste of the fish my wife brought back from Day’s Bay. She is always trying these new-fangled radio ideas.