Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 22, 7 December 1934, Page 5

Hot Shots

‘ ‘at Miramar the other day, | GENE SARAZEN, demon- \ TROUBLESOME transformer kept 2YA off the air for some time on Saturday morning. , ME. L. F. MOLLER, leader of the Otago team in the radio debate from 4YA_ last week, is one of the 1935 lthodes’ scholars. (CHRISTCHURCH experienced the hottest day of the seasun last Friday, and Greymouth has had the driest November for 17 years. strating the Wnglish shot sent a ball through the windew of wa nearby house. "JUST too dead for words," was the opinion of Wellington expressed by one of the visiting Canadian schoolboy athletes. (CLEMENT MAY, of Wellington, who left for Hollywood a fortnight ago, took a letter of introduction from Lord Bledisloe to Charlie Chaplin. DYA is broadcasting a portion of the musical programme from the ball for the Duke of Gloucester in the Wellington Town Hall on December 17. AN Auckland listener to the Royal wedding broadcast last week, thought it must be a fake "because Princess Marina did not speak ‘a la steak and de’ ’oyst.’" EACH inspectors were on the warpath in Wellington last week-end; several women whose costumes were considered too abbreviated were asked to leave the beaches. [THAT Australians can mix cocktails-and Wellingtonians can drink them-were the opinions of guests and stewards when a’ reception. was held on board the P. and O. liner, Strathaird, last week, SINCE the visit of the Italian warship, "Salute’ (pronounced sa-lut-eh) hag taken the place of the customary "Cheerio" when glasses are raised at Wellington cocktail parties." AN Auckland girl arrived home from Wellington last week with portmanteaux full of a well-known. hotel’s linen. The porter at the! Wellington hotel had ‘ttached her labels to two portmanteaux which had just been returned from the laundry.

Hat Shots.

| A RBUNION of early ‘xet- : tlers. was celebrated .in Cheviot last week. ANY. women. searched for | hankies and © sobbed gently as they listened-in to lust .week’s Royal wédding.. ° ADAME ELSA STRALLL | is at present appearing at the Theatre Royal, Christchurch. : Lt TPHE Masonic’ Hotel, ‘Napier, is having to insta: a special private bathroom for ° the. Duke’s one-night stay. At present the Auckland police aré waging. open warfare on hotels who trade ufter bours, and lottery promoters having no licenses. . | NW ZEALAND women are becoming larger, we are told. Quite. possibly-they seem to have outgrown their bathing suits. URING last week’s heat wave in Auckland, the. Pohutukawas, came out in bloom. Very early for the Christmas tree. A NEWSPAPER coutro--versy is raging in Auckland as to whether the Grenadier Guards’ Band, now performing there, should give open-air concerts. WELL-KNOWN ° cleric who visited Auckland re: cently is said to have reniarked that Auckland was reputed to be the most immoral city. in the Southern Hemisphere. K\YEN those with only: a" smattering of musical © knowledge were astounded to hear: the announcement ‘ in Dunedin that an- item just’ played was by "Woodforde and Finden." a QNE of the men playing with © Gene Sarazen in the ex-., hibition match at Miramar, ’. Wellington, last week, was heard to remark that the crowd was the most disorderly . that he had aver played before, N amateur company, presenting a play in ‘the concert chamber of the "Wellington Town Hall this month, is to have the strenuous opposition of the Grenadier Guards’ Band playing in the same building. ; WAIRARAPA lad will probably appear at the Wellington ball for the Duke of Gloucester in an evening suit borrowed from the cook. on his father’s sheeprun. The’ eook is an Wnglishman once well known in London social life, tm