MAKING FRIENDS

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 33, 22 February 1935, Page 5

MAKING FRIENDS

WHILe this issue of the "Radio Record" sets itself out as a special women’s number, it is also worthy of note in that it introduces a permanent increase in size of eight pages, making 60 in all. Two years ago we were making plans for increasing the size of the paper; times were not good, but there was a gleam of light on the horizon and we decided to launch on a bolder policy. To-day the "Radio Record" has a circulation that is envied by weekly journals that have been established’ five times as long; as 1935 progresses we hope tu put into action plans that will not only gratify our army of readers all over New Zealand but bring us many new ones. We have been interested in the opinions of our critics-and have profited by their advice on more than one occasion. We have also been interested to learn that our readers like the "Radio Record" because it is bright! The word "bright" might be analysed. There have been papers that have been as "bright’"’ as the noonday sun-but their moments of glory have been . brief and they have stolen quietly from view. Brightness in a journal is a very desirable thing, but there must be something else-a foundation of solid news and information, The ‘Radio Record," behind its lightness and its brightness, has a firm structure of ‘carefully. compiled news and accurate information. The paper’s chief purpose is to present radio Pprogrammes and full details of coming events and interesting happenings in the broadcasting world. But it is es‘sentially a home paper-for wireless is a part of the family fireside-and for this reason it retails other news of the entértainment world; the professional stage, the talkies, repertory, gramophone recordings; there is . news, too, for women and comments on modern literature,