Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 40, 12 April 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

A GROWING number of nervous breakdowns among Christchurch business men is causing concern, (CLARA BOW, the original .. "Tt? girl, has become a mother. Suppose she’ll. soon be. playing in "Over the Hill." HE steel frame of Wellington’s new railway station is now complete and work is going ahead on the concreting. 7 "STIXEN MINUTE ALIBI" \ * company will probably *present Drinkwater’s play, "Bird in Hand," in Auckland at Easter. \)O more toy pistols; swords, cannon -and miachineguns are to be stocked by Montreal (Canada) shops, says an official edict. Aik travel is becoming popular between Nelson: and Wellington. . The trip takes approximately 40 minutes by air and 10 hours by boat. HEN the ground is dry enough to permit the airport at Balclutha to be officially opened, 4YA will probably be: "on the job." ‘PASSERS-BY in Queen Street, Auckland, are taking much interest in the building of° the: new: Roxy Theatre. , . ELEPHONING business men at unearthly hours and giving them the "Bronx cheer" is popular with a queer person in Auckland at present. "BEWARDE! Death stands _ at your door. . You are a.marked man. You are soon to. pay the price of your evil deeds," read a note which was left at an Auckland resident’s house last week. ‘TT is rumoured that a portion of a well-known play running in New Zealand just now was written for the author hy John Van Druten. Some of the situations certainly remind one of "Young Woodley." TT.HH recent Wmpire broad- , cast brought together two brothers. Mr. Joshua Handy, Auckland. farmer. sand the Cotswold shepherd. Walton Handy. of Timington. Warwickshire. ©-They had "lost" each other for 30 years. 1 A SPWAKER at 9 reront «x Wellington luncheon said that ho laaked an bane tralians and New Zealanders as one peonle. A New Zan Jander present got nn and protested that the remark was nothing short of an insult.

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"()NE NIGHT OF LOVL," ~ °Grace. Moore’s film, has run:a total of 21-weeks in the four. centres. oMMy JAY, in " "The ‘Wind and the Rain," ‘is Blved Jay, who was last heire in "Blue Roses." . * .? [THE postage on a recent half-ounce air mail letter sent from Berlin to the "Radio Record" amounted to 8/9. "THE Commonwealth Bank of Australia is one of the big advertisers from a Sydney B station. MBS. WILLIAM ROLLESTON, wife of one of Canterbury’s Superintendents, was 90 years old last week. HE Monowai is to take pleasure-seekerS On a cruise to Tonga, Samoa and Fiji, from Auckland in July. ACK DAVEY, Australia’s Bing Crosby and popular on the air, is a son of Captain Davey, of the Monowai. SPEAKDR in an educational session from a YA station last week said that in the old days Maoris were seldom "united together." NORMAN ALLIN, BEssie Ackland and John Amadio, at present with the Fuller Opera Company, in Melbourne, may tour the New Zealand national stations. RACE MOORE, famous ' opera and = sereen star, has been awarded the Society of Arts and. Sciences’ gold medal, and-is the second wo- man in 52 years to be so honoured. BRITAIN is making an effort to establish a national theatre in commemoration of the King’s jubilee. The sum of £150.000 was raised in. 1908 for the purpose, but the War intervened. ARNING to ambitious broadcasting mast builders in Australia: The 1YA mast is more than 500 feet. It is 508 feet something and ahalf inches. HE embarrassment of being mistaken for a fugitive husband and brought before the wife was the experience of a well-known young Aucklander last week. : AUL CULLEN. former New Zealand cinema organist. ic at present at the Civic Theatre at Auburn. nesr Sydney. A letter from him apnears in this week’s "Radlo Record,"