Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 34, 1 March 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

AID a notice outside a King Country theatre the other day: "Merry Wives of Reno." Carefully cooled. ‘THE anonymous author of the Dunedin slum story, "Children of the Poor," is at work on another book. AUCKLAND'S tramway men are to. finish the summer in cooler suits of alpaca. WO Auckland pressmen have had a story on the Bayly case published in an American detective magazine. TRANSLATION of the inscription on the King’s jubilee medal reads: May the fortune of the house endure! N American in New Zealand the other day deseribed the Sydney bridge as "Wing Kong’s coat-hanger in concrete." B.C. Empire programmes * are so popular in Canada that a special station is being built at Ottawa for reWroadeasting the Daventry ogrammes. A BURGLAR who stole the duplicate key of a bedroom from an Auckland hotel office was kept at bay by a housemaid until help arrived. "GEVEN One-Act Plays, 1933," is now out of prini and is rapidly gaining in value from a collector’s viewpoint. The plays are written by New Zealanders. (CHRISTCHURCH’S idea of holding a wedding on Brighton Beach as a Mardi Gras attraction has aroused a storm of controversy in the southern newspapers. 4 CANADIAN visitor, after y looking at some of Christ"shureh’s 40,000 bicycles, suggested to the City Council that it should impose a tax of 5/on each one. "THE Christchurch Liedertafel treated ferry passengers to some beautiful singing on the wharf at Lyttelton one evening last week. The occasion was the departure of one of the foundation members for Dngland. GIRL recently requested "" a Dunedin B station to lay a particular record. Her other afterwards wrote to the station stating that the girl was "very much upset" when her name was associated with another record played.

Hatt Skots

Att the Australlau stations am to have a reshuffle of frequencies on September 1 of this year. — A N a Dunedin picture. theatre; A young girl ‘ina. bathing costume, "She simply . slipped. a coat over it at the end of the performance, (CL2M DAWEH’S revue company, which opened its New Zealand tour in Auckland last May, has just reached Invercargill, (CHRISTCHURCH is having to reconcile itself to the fact that the white butterfly has taken up its permanent residence there. (PT HIRTY-SHVEN Adelie and Emperor penguins were brought to civilisation in the ice chamber on the Byrd Bxpedition ship, Jacob Ruppert. NTDRING the Auckland Friendly Road radio station, 1ZB, by a fanlight, a burglar stole several shillings and a dozen letters addressed to the Rev. C. G. Scrimgeour. A "COPPER TRAIL" across Cook Strait is the latest method of raising funds adopted by the kindergartens of Christchurch and. Wellington. One penny represents two yards of ocean wave. "QTEEL Foundry from Symphony of Machines" is the name of a piece of music being featured by 2BL, Sydney, next week in a_ programme entitled "Strange Music of the New Russian School." AFTER successfully negotiating a most difficult pronunciation test the other night, a B.B.C. shortwave announcer unexpectedly remarked: "By jove, that was. a mouthful." "THE: biography of "Uncle Serim" of the Friendly Road is soon to be published by a well-known Aucklander, who has been working in conjunction witb the well-known radio figure. A SECOND-HAND copy of "The Bayly Case," published by National Magazines, Limited, was sold in a Wellington book auction the other day "for its full published price. Con PORTER, writer of the musical play, "The Gay Divorcee," is at present on a holiday visit to New Zealand. With him is Moss Hart, author of "As Thousands © Cheer," a successfuj Broadway hit.