Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 32, 15 February 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

ONE of life’s minor delights: 2YA’S musical programme on Sunday. morning. R. ERNEST SHORT, who manages Christchurch’s Winter Garden cabaret, was Uncle Ernest at 2YA for four years. F New Zealand’s water shortage grows any worse it might be a good idea to paint Plimsoll marks on bath tubs. [Lost in Saturday’s heavy fog: several young tliings bound for a Wellington night club which has its location on a lofty hill top. A "THREE DIMBNSION" film was given a private screening in Wellington the other evening. This new process threatens to revolutionise the talkies. QGHAKESPEARE was all wrong about ‘Cleopatra. We saw the film, and what Mare Antony really said was, } Cleopatra, I’m mad ,about f you!" T is possible that the. wellknown Bailey-Marston orchestra will broadeast. from) the Winter Garden, Christchurch on Haster Saturday. c . TINWO Great Danes and u six-inch-high toy dog,all bosom pals, were a midday attraction’ in a Wellington main street last week.. The tiny one, by comparison, seemed to be getting along in low gear. URTHER increase in the radio license figures for last year leads us to believe that’ the programmes, transmissions, announcers and ser- vice of the New Zealand stations cannot be as bad as we have been told. OTH "The Sun," Christ- , church, and the "Evening Post," Wellington, issued commemorative editions last week -the former in celebration of its 21st birthday, the latter for its TOth. HE "Japanese Houseboy and his Employer" series of broadcasts are among the most popular ever put on the air from the national stations. Letters asking for more are received by the Broadcasting Board every day. | SAD sight: 400 of Wel- ~~ lington’s brightest and best waiting on «the Pipitea ‘Wharf on Saturday morning for the Otranto which was fog-bound all day in Cook Strait. A. reception was to have been held on-board at 11 a.m, .

Hat Skots

T hus rained. Good Heay-ens!-Most obliging heav‘ens, in fact. ma BL’S programme item this week: "Pierrot Peeps." We are telling Pierrette about him, . ; A LIFTMAN in the D.1.C. building, Wellington, is a King’s corporal, one of seven in the British Empire. UMOURS are afloat that.a well-known picture theatre in Queen Street, Auckland, is to be sold for demolition, Quick dispatch: An Auckland man died last week at 12.30 p.m., and was buried less than three hours later. HE heat in, Wellington last week caused a man to lose his head completely. He was a wax dummy in a shop window. BIG farewell is to be given the Governor-Gen-eral and Lady Bledisloe by the citizens of Auckland on March 6. So many windows are open these hot nights, that music from loudspeakers fills many Dunedin suburban streets. . , (THE costumes of the Buglish women’s cricket team are necessarily utilitarian, and, of course, they don’t all play. in slips. . AN eminent Inglish baritone, Mr. Robert Kingsley, has-been engaged to make a tour of the New Zealand national stations. H#24DINGS to a ericket -report in a Dunedin paper: North Otago Defeats ‘South Canterbury A Drawn Game. "L?! HERE THE GENTLIU ; LARK’ is an item by the Grenadier . Regimental Band from 4YA on Saturday. Imagine about four dozen big wind instruments. and drums telling you about a gentle lark! LTHOUGH the Australians would have none of "Smithy" in 'the Air Race, when it came to dashing across to Norfolk Island to succour an ailing woman they put their "discard" first on the list. DURING his speech rebroadcast from Daventry the other evening, Sir James Parr complained that New Zealand butter could be bought only. under the label of an "Empire nrodnet."