Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 38, 29 March 1935, Page 3

Hot Shots

THE Broadcasting Board is holding a charity concert in Christchurch in May A DUNEDIN announcer told listeners that "Carmen" Was by "Bits-eet." ORRY we didn’t see you in this column last week, but We just missed the bus. Time and type wait for no' man. MAY we hope that the new Broadcasting Board wili ti ind us of that song they "sed to broadcast ... "Bigger and Better Than Ever."’? HEN the King came to the ‘throne just 25 years ago Whikey was selling at 5/6 a bottle! "THE last of the rivets has been driven into the steel work in Dunedin’s new Post Office, and a start has been made with some of the marble work. HY 18-month-old son of a visiting singer speak as much Italian as he does English. In another year or so he } should be able to get a position ag announcer. S an extra inducement to listeners to become members of its club, a Dunedin B station gives a different member each week a double ticket} for either of two city theatres. OMEOND is going to tell Dunedin listeners about "The Loch Ness Monster" in a talk next week. May we suggest aS a beginning: "Once upon.atime.., " MELBOURNE had the whale’s share last year, but this year King George, Bach, and Handel have the best anniversaries. The King will probably enjoy his more than , the other two. dg TEE Associated Press has / chosen the following as the best ten news stories of the last 12 months: Hauptmann’s arrest. King Alexander’s assassination. Hitler’s blood purge. Shooting of Dillinger, Death of Dollfuss. Birth of Dionne quintuplets. Morro Castle disaster. Democratie off-year victory. San Francisco general strike. Insull trial. MORE INTOXICATION, \ CITY RECORDS SHOW { Arrests for Drunkenness { Ynereased During Ten Months of Repeal OFFICIALS ARE PLEASED (Headlines in American Newspaper.) Why? Have they got shares in the breweries?

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HERE is a_ proposal iu "~ Dunedin to shift.some of the B stations to other South Island towns not. already served by a "local" [_JONELLO CECIL, operatic tenor now in New Zealand, Was given a tremendous ovation at the Wellington Town Hall on Sunday evening. ANOTHER talk next week is to be on "Studies in Pre-History."Is this some reflection on modern dance muic? ' HE 4Z0 request’ pro grammes on Monday are evidently meeting with appro-val-over 450 requests have been received so far A MEMBER. suggested in the House -that the "Radio Record" could be made a much more valuable publication. Should we invite him to write some articles for: us? i is said that the Wellington Repertory Theatre’s plays represent a thousand pounds of lost business annually to the Wellington picture’ theatres. ({ UESSES at the proposed height of the mast for the new 2YA vary between 300 and 500 feet. When it is built we'll go up there sometime and measure it for you, perhaps. VISITORS to Lyttelton Wharf at Wellington have been entertained on several evenings with amplified gramophone music from the sloop Leith. It’s a way they have in the Navy. 1*4’s breakfast sessions have been brightened up considerably.. If similar action was taken with the dinner sessions further advance in YA programmes popularity would be achieved. HY did the American Consul refuse to grant a visa to a well-known radio lecturer who planned to leave for the United States recently? Association with the Communist party? STATISTICIANS have compiled the following for motorists: If you cuo out of Ine of traffe. your chances of having an accideRs ave multiplied by 50. If you drive over 40 miles an hour, your chances of having an accident ave multiplied by 25. If you pass another cay on a curve, vour chances of having ass accident are multiplied by 21. If you pass another car going up hill, your chances’ of having an accident ave multiplied by 10. If you fail to sgnol a turn or stop your chances of having on $ are snultipied