Between Items

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 7, 25 August 1933, Page 20

Between Items

Chestnuts Dra Gentle Thrusts ~S= And One or Two Ideas

by

THE IMP

FIVE shillings this week to "Deep- _ water," Featherston, for his paragraph’ on the days of sailing ships. Winners of the 2/6 prizes are marked with stars. % % a "QUBSCRIBER,". of Hawke’s Bay, writes to say that he fully agrees With the suggestion made recently on this page by "Enthusiast," of Palmerston North, that the YA stations shoul give the names of the records after the items during the day, and not before. as is done at present. . i a OYA sets a new fashion for womenfolk, by announcing recently Raie da Costa in "The Girl in the Little Tin Hat." How could you, Clive!-Two Young Amateurs (Wellington). ue ® m x A CERTAIN radio station man ager said to the electrician, "I hear you and the leading lady had a fall out and are not on speaking terms. What's the trouble?" "Well, you know that scene in the third act where there is a black out and a quick change-I thought she said ‘lights,’ but what she wanted was ‘tights.’" This finished the talk and the announcer was chuckling as he signed off for the night. -L.B. (Wellington). Es ® * SYA’S bright Soccer broadcast on July 22 is to be commended, but, tell me, was the shock of this two hours’ respite from the studio "mike" responsible for this bright one from an announcer, who, about 4.45, resumed with a record titled: "Clap Your Fingers. Snap Your Hands" ?-"Tangled" (Christchurch), * R YA’S relay of the last Sunday nigh* concert from the De Luxe Theatre was great. I can’t understand why we haven’t had more this winter. Just the thing to brighten up a Sunday night And another thing, what has happened to Paul Cullen? Hoping to hear more of both.-H.G. (Auckland). [Paui Cullen is now playing at the Crystal Palace Theatre in Christchurch.-The Imp.] & e . * I HAVE just been wondering what the Broadcasting Board ‘intends to do with the old 1YA and 8YA plants when the new ones commence operation. Perhaps they might be kep* on to provide an alternative programme or else they might be shifted to othe: parts of the country not so well covered. Say, 3YA to somewhere on the West Coast of the South Island and 1YA to perhaps Rotorua.-H.G. (Auckland), , = * s SURELY, the following would be a better way for the YA. stations io sign off. When the good-night melody is almost finished, to sign off something like this: "This is station 2YA WelIington, operated by the New Zealand

Broadcasting Board, transmitting on a frequency of 720 k.c. with a power of 5 k.w. now signing off until 10 a.m. tomorrow (Monday or whatever day tomorrow is). 2--Y-A wishes everyone -good-night." The good-night to be said just as the melody finishes.-H, A. Barker (Hastings). " a UCH is the price of fame that our lovable little friend "Amazon" ‘appears likely to become the bone of contention in an argument regarding sex! I don’t think "she" could properly be classed as a peroxide blonde, nor yet as a brunette. Almost everything that friend Fraser, of Ohura, says is true, with one little exception. "Amazon" is certainly bright, clever, straight, and | a

friendly, and has a very nice sense of humour. Without wishing to insult a "lady,’I feel that I must inform Mr. Fraser that "Amazon" would probably not conform to his ideals of femininity although "she" can be very ladylike on occasions. "Amazon" is a rather rare type of femininity, being neither a flapper nor a spinster, and, rarest of all, doesn’t talk a great deal. Anyway, I’m looking forward to many more pleasant hours spent in "her" company.-The Old Man’s Son (Palmerston North). * Bo 2. (SOULDN’T 2YA, when they are giving the classical hour, give a short summary ‘of the story pertaining to the

various records? I’m sure this would encourage people to listen more intently to this type of music, and visualise the story, which the composers are trying tO convey in music form.-Low Brow (Ohingaiti). a * s > [® is high time that the. present good-night mélody from 2YA Was scrapped and a new one substituted. I would like to suggest that the popular good-night. melody from KIl some time ago be put on. This is "The Song of the Islands," obtainable on Ti.M.V. This is often heard from America and does not pall through. constant playing.-DX .128, M.O. (Timaru), be] , A FEW lines of appreciation of the bandsmen’s hour, or "More IFamous English Bands," but why spoil the educational value of the records by the speed the machine .goes? We have a knob for applying the power, another knob for getting. the stations, yet another knob for controlling the quantity, ff or pp, and why not another knob for speed-just a little brake af-fair?-Scrooge (Ashburton), WHiLe dial-twisting the other evening, I- struck the following :- ‘He’s over. No, he’s still on his feet! Yes. No. He’s out!" Settling myself, { waited for the next hold to be an-nounced.-‘4ZL, Dunedin, on relay from the Cinema Ball, Mr. Pitt has been having rather a trying time with a canopy of balloons."’---Courier (South Dunedin), * ¥ * D4 (CLAPHAM and Dwyer, closing their record, "A Further Day’s Broadcasting," with Dwyer announcing an 8.0.8.-"If the young man who met the young lady at Margate last summer would communicate with her he would hear something that would take that grin off his face." This was promptly followed by Mr. Drummond announcing "A Kiss in the Dark.’ For an im promptu appropriate item this would take some beating.-Really Surprised (Nelson). . * * = HEARD from KPO a few nights age: "We have received -reports-: from those two islands in the Pacific, Australid and New Zealand, but as they have not sent return postage we cannot verify."-DX 128, M.C. (Timaru). . , 3 , 2 ‘ s (COLLOQUIALISM, as employed by ome Australian announcers, is rather startling to we more staid New Zealanders. On a recent evening a B station Australian announcer nonchalantly remarked, "I’ve got a very large programme to-night. God only knows how I will get through it." Imagine our much-respected and exacting Mr. Drummond giving utterance to.a similar phrase. Ye gods!-2YK,