Between Items

Radio Record, Volume VI, Issue 51, 30 June 1933, Page 16

Between Items

Chestnuts ~- Gentle Thrusts --And One or Two Ideas

by

THE IMP

*} JOYLESTON Wants a Kick in Its _"~ Sunday Broadcasts," says a heading in a southern paper. Why? What has it done? . # o & "(HR announcer of old 2YA Took the ferry across to Day’s Bay, The Good-hight Melodee He dropped in the seaThen he’d done his good deed for the day. ; EJ So Ld A SPEAKER from 1YA said that the couhtty had now definitely turned the cornet. Ah, those dear old familiar cotners that we seem to have been turning for the last three or four years! sd 8 * Wouldn’t it be great if we saw in these column that a YA Station in each island was coming on the air from 7 a.m. to 8 a.m. on week days?-

F.

M.

(Timaru).

* EP s "MR. PETER DAWSON will speak on the evening befote his last appearance, we hope, in Dunedin," said pee

the 4YA announcer the other night. An impehding apology, as Mr. Punchmight say. tf we _* Have just received my second edition of the "Radio Record’-it’s a gteat book-and wish I had subscribed to it long ago. I want to tell you of an amusing experience I had a while back while I was listening to KNX advertising session. The announcer had been talking for a good while, and I'd decided to look for some music. Just had my hand on the dial, when from the speaker came: "Hold your dial, lady. Take your hand off that conttol,’" Well, the Yanks are certainly

up to scratch always, but that was the

best Id ever heard:

P.C.

P.

(Tau-

ranga )

u % * WEEK or two ago I was struggling with the writing of a business let, ter when Clive Drummond announced the presentation of a series of dance records from 2YA. "Oh, be quiet, Clive," I said aloud. "I feel like givying up writing with all this racket going on." As if in answer, Clive said: "J Pon’t Blame You’-the title of a

fox-trot.-

C.

B.

(Invereargill).

i B a" N a recent Saturday afternoon before the start of the All BlackAustralian match, the 4YA announcer told us that the band had just finished playing the New Zealand National Anthem. According to the score, I think something should have been played in favour of Australia, don’t you?J.A.W. (Oamarn). e bs) ® I beg to suggest that the YA stations have a request night once a month. Listenets could have their favourite songs or records broadcast. Should prove vety popular.-"Jiggs" (Whangarei). s ® a OME time ago I was tinkering around with my crystal (nothing having been heard for ahout two hours). when suddenly the ether became alive with bells, clanging. screams, crashes, and unearthly laughter. This was not sufficient, however, for a voice then introduced himself as the Devil. Of course, I had tuned in the middle of the record, "I'wo Black Orows in Hades." I think I am the

first dxer to log Hades.-

Lone Star

(Wellington).

bed ZL put over quite a novel record, on test, last Friday morning at 1 a.m. It was descriptive of sounds heard in a farmyard. The cackling of the hens was so real that I automatically reached behind the receiver to collect the eggs.-"‘Amazon" (Palmerston North).

AST Wednesday, just before community sing time, Clive Diummond was heard to say: "Before passing over to the Town Hall, ‘I Don’t Want to Go to Bed.’" We don’t blame him eithér, with’ Owen Pritchard and

Frank Orowther in charge-

D.

Cotter

(Manakau).

* One afternoon recently while entertaining visitofs with gramophone recordings, the front door bell rang just as I started playing "Casey Taking the ,Censns." My wife opened the door and the visitor-an enterprising insurance agent-was gteeted with the following words: "Look at the face on this coming to the doot; there’s a face for ye-the map of Oireland." My good lady was rather embarrassed, and made matters worse with a stammered explanation: "O — ah — er — that’s the gramophone.’-‘Dinkum" (Gisborne), 3 2 * HE five-shilling prize this week goes to Mr. D. M. Copland, Weston, via Oamaru, for a paragraph on a radio coincidence, Four half-crown prizes are awarded to "Jiggs" (Whangarei), P.C.P. (Tauranga), "Dinkum" (Gisborne), and F.M. (Timaru), Wotld the last-named prize-winher please vend in his postal address. More halfcrown and five-shilling prizes will be awarded next week for bright suggestions and topical paragraphs. Who wants to be lucky?