Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 19, 23 November 1934, Page 5

Hot Shots

(THE Broadcasting Board is considering the purchase of several excellently-record-ed fairy tales for the children’s sessions. N announcer at a YA station was heard to remark the other night thet "wet rain would be experienced." [He Italian cruiser arrived in Wellington ov a day that rivalled Italy for warmti. Saturday was the hettest day ' this season. W ORK on Punedin’s new Post Offic? is :progressing, and the firint shipment of structural stee} frm England is expected at the end of this nronth, "TPANNHAUSER" is to be broadcast * from the Apollo Theatre, Melbourne, by 3LO at 10 p.m. (New Zealand time) on Thursday of this week. SOUTHERN paper generously suggested the other week that "some of the programmes have been so good lately that the Broadcasting Board must have turned over a new leaf’! ICYCLHE thieving is rampant in Auckland at present. A man who left his machine outside 1YA last week and was inside only two minutes returned to find it] had disappeared. HEY are certainly "matey" up Auckland way. An hour or so after the new navy sloep Leith arrived from Eneland, one or two bluejackets]. from the ship were seen arm-in-arm with Auckland girls. DRAMA that might have ended in tragedy was enacted on top of the 150ft. sheerlegs at the Auckland Nivy Base last week. when Captain C. Madigan fainted and was saved by two. com-| panions. Hypa KIRKLEY, well. known in repertory and art circles in Wellington, has announced her. engagement to a London -barrister. Miss Kirkley is a step-daughter of Mr. W. S. Wauchop, for some time producer.for the Wellington Repetory Theatre, A WELLINGTON. woman golfer recently attempted to drive through some men playing a few-yards ahead.|and her ball caught one of the men in the eye, so severely injuring that organ that it had to be removed. The woman continued her game,

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NO definite date has yet been ., fixed. for the opening..of the new 1YA. ~~: _ NEw -PLYMOUTH | is © to have a" State ‘Theatre opening in the New Year. BEN in Hawke’s Bay recently: bath taken from the bathroom into the back yard for the purpose of scalding a pig. "DAMAGED LIVES," the "film that everyone should see," seems more a lesson in how not to speak. than in sex: Some of the scenes are pathetic in their absurdity. (CHRISTCHURCH radio license figures vre on the up and up, . Last month there was an increase of 349, making a total for the southern city of 15,649. " JOURNALESE," the book about New Zealaud journalists, politicians, -- faithhealers: and atists, and writ-ten-by Robin Hyde, of Auckland, is now on the market. [THE story is told in "Journatese" of Dame Clara Butt’s visit to Wellington. As she stepped on to the stage, a voice in the gods ‘said: "What a‘luvly tart!’ Dame Clara joined in the general mirth.

"THE scaffolding is now almost removed from the Town Hall, Wellington. ‘The building, despite its lack of tower and portico, looks impressive in its coat of cream paint... FL UNDREDS ‘of people’ gathered. outside. the Hotel St. George, Wellington, last Saturday evening to watch the arrival of guests at the Italian Consul’s recep- . tion. , OW that summer. has returned: cricket teams are being formed at. some of the Otago relief . camps, equipment being sent to them from . town. | {[t looks as if the "war will be on" when. the three _ theatres now being built in Christchurch open early next year. This will mean. 138 theatres within a few yards of Jathedral Square. PRINCESS YOUSOUPOFF, | who collected staggering damages from the. M.-G,-M. film company for alleged defamation of character in. the film "Rasputin and the Empress," threw a big party at the conclusion of the case and invited the film members!