Between Items

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 9, 8 September 1933, Page 19

Between Items

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

by

THE IMP

PHS week’s prize-winners are marked with stars. The winner of the 5/- prize, A.M.G. (Wellington), did not supply his name and address. Will he please forward it? * _@ 2 Not long ago we were listening to church service relayed by 2YA, and the announcement of the last hymn was worded like this: "We will now stand

and sing, ‘Is there any room for

Jesus,’ "-

Veetee

(Palmerston North).

ILL "Amazon" please send her ad- ' @ress to "The Imp"? He has been charged with the duty of forwarding a bulky letter from one of "her" admirers, and has mislaid the "lady's" address. g =z DENIS (Johnsonville) : We seriously doubt whether your suggestion would have sufficient interest, except to students of the language, who, presumably, have their own sources of information. % * *% Y set has’ a detector oscillator, which, of course, gives a whistle when tuning in to a station. On Sunday morning, about 12.80 a.m., after the usual preliminary whistle or two,

I tuned into an Australian (4BO, I think), to be instantly greeted with the words, "Stop that noise, will you?" For a split second I was dumbfounded. It almost seemed like a personal repri-.

mand for oscillating;

Radiola

(Wel-

lington).

ps SIERE has been a great deal of discussion lately relative to the pronunciation of some foreign languages by our announcers. What about 2YA proadeasting a series of talks by competent authorities on the pronunciation of the more important foreign tongues, or, better still (as has been done overseas) courses of instruction by radio

jin Wrench and German.-

Tinakori

(Wellington)

= *- Ld WOULD it be possible to have broadeast the winning entries in the Model Programme Competitions? Listeners could then see for themselves whether it is possible for the present programmes to be improved upon

greatly.-

Tinakori

(Wellington).

e MANY thanks, Miss J.C., Tauranga, for. your note. Would you please send the "enclosed clipping," as we should like to read it?-The Imp. * * * HO’S right? On the front cover of the "Radio Record" for August 25 a complaint is made of the lamentable ignorance of correct pronunciation of B station announcers, titles murdered, ete.-‘"one announcer described a record by Beniamino Gigli as a ‘song by Benjamin Giggly’." Imagine my surprise when reading on page 5, under the heading of "To Beatrice Blliott-An Intelligent Artist," to see Madame Biliott refer to the famous

tenor as Benjamin Gigli!-

Savant

* Wuat a convivial little party they must have been having at 4ZL on Saturday night, during their special dance session. At About 1 a.m. on Sunday morning the announcer,

after a preliminary hiccup, said, "I wish television were in use now; you’d have a thrill" A lady present with him in the studio then gave a surprised and dismayed "Oh-h-h." I wish I’d been

there !-

Radiola

(Wellington).

= > . HB station soprano was reaching the climax in a song entitled "When My Ships Come Sailing Home." Suddenly her voice . broke down on the top note, and the mike went "dead." "What was that!" cried the announcer, ‘The station operator

having faded out the rest of the song in time. replied, "Just another wreck

on the high (C’s) seas!’’-

J.V.

M.

(Wel-

lington).

you have probably heard of the lady who reached from Dover to Calais, to say nothing of the one who did likewise from Wellington to Lyttelton, but

Sir James Parr has them both beaten. In his talk from 1YA this week he mentioned a rough trip across the Bay-of Riseav. "and we eventually reached

Gibraltar." Steward !-

Mariata

(Auck-

jand).