Wide Interest in First Radio Christmas Annual

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 14, 13 October 1933, Page 18

Wide Interest in First Radio Christmas Annual

Full Details Below of Literary and Artistic Competitions Considerable interest is being shown throughout New Zealand in our announcement of the forthcoming radio Christmas annual. The journal, which will have a brightly coloured cover and 80 pages of splendid reading matter, will be published in December, and below we give details of literary and artistic competitions for people of all ages. There will be a special photographic supplement of the aunts and uncles associated with the YA stations-radio personalities that are known and loved by almost every child in the Dominion. Entries for the competitions listed below close on SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4. Address-Radio Record Mystery Book, P.O. Box 1032, Wellington.

OPEN CLASSES. (1) Best suggestion for a name for this volume, which is designed to be ain annual event, Prize, £2/2/-. (2) Best humorous letter of sympathy, appreciation or blame addressed to a programme organiser on the occasion of his perpetrating his three hundredth programme (300 words). Prize. £1/1/-. (8) Dialogue showing the most tactful way of refusing the services (from an audition) of an aspiring but not talented performer from Suburbia (not over 600 words). Prize, £1/11/6. (4) A model speech, suitable for delivery from all stations at the funeral of the old year and the birth of the new-humorous preferred (700 words), Prize, £1/11/6. (5) Best dialogue between the shade of Shakespeare and Victor Lloyd on hearing the broadeast of a modern radio play (not over 1500 words). Prize, £3/3/-. (6) Best argument between the ghost of Demosthenes and Will Bishop upon the popular appeal of a broadeast description by Gordon Hutter of a wrestling match (not over 1500 words). Prize, £3/3/-. ; (7) The Wandering Jew, arriving unexpectedly in Wellington as a stowaway on a German tramp steamer, is engaged by the Broadcasting Board to give a national link-up of his experiences and reflections on the contrast between the present and any phase of the past. Two guineas for the best report of what he said (1000 words). (8) A famous punning rhymster is engaged to give 10 minutes of jumbled limericks. The office cat maltreats his manuscript. Help him out by supplying one or more amusing limericks, original if possible or super-original! (WARNING: None requiring asbestos earphones should be forwarded.) Payment on individual merit, (9) Will Yates, acting as guide io one of the Railway Departmeni’s mystery journeys, to the Beyond, introduces to the excursionists four celebrities in each place. Select the characters and record the imaginary proceedings.. (Not over 1500 words). . Prize, £3/3/-. (10) Write 150 words of constructive anggestions for programme improvement of any kind. Prize, £1/1/-. (11) Your best radio story or slip. (Short and amusing). Prize, £1/1/-.

(12) Short, original and amusing contributions on lines not laid down may be forwarded for selection. All those used will be paid for. (18) Short Christmas Play, suitable for performance in private homes in twelve minutes. Prize, £2/2/-. (14) FOR WOMEN ONLY: Yeu win a beauty contest carrying six weeks in Hollywood and are allowed £200 on your wardrobe. Describe, in 750 words, your purchases. £2/2/-. (15) The B.B.C. has asked for a typically New Zealand programme for rebroadcast in Britain. Suggest a 90minute programme. Prize, £1/11/6. (16) Describe humorous possibilities of television (750 words). Vrize, £1/1/-. CHILDREN’S SCHEDULE. All work must be original. Age limit, 16 years. Prizes as stated. Other work used paid for at space rates. (17) Describe any attractive Maori legend or local history (600 words). Prize, 15/-. (18) Which New Zealand bird do you like best and why? (3800 words). Prize, 10/6. (19) What is the most interesting natural phenomenon you have observed? (200 words). Prize, 7/6. (20) Describe the kindest action you ever saw. (100 words). Prize, 10/6. (21) An original fairy story (750 words), Prize, 15/-. (22) Humorous poem (original). (Up to 80 lines). Prize, 10/6. (23) Serious poem (original). (Up to 80 lines). Prize, 10/6. (24) Your favourite parody on "Mary had a little lamb." Prize, 5/-. (25) What do you enjoy most in the children’s hour? (250 words). Prize, 10/6. (26) SKETCHES (BLACK AND WHITE) Indian ink on white paper or board. Original drawing. any subject. Prize, 10/6. (27) Original drawing (bird or animal). Prize, 10/6.