Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 41, 19 April 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

R. STANLEY BALDWIN confessed the other day that he lives on his overdraft. T is not yet known whether the voice of Princess Dlizabeth will be heard by the Dmpire during the King’s Jubilee Week. HEARD from 2YA during a recent dance session: "We will now have a voca-lude-antalude-a vocal interlude." OY-RIDING must have _eaten up a few useless les of lift travel since the two new insurance skyscrapers in Wellington have opened. ‘TH latest musical composition by Mr. Thomas Gray, of Wanganui, will be performed by the Port Nicholson Silver Band from 2YA in May. THM in a recent Wellington radio programme: "Danny Malone," "The Same Stupid Gossoon Am _ I." Well, that is putting it frankly. RIGHT opportunism: The Wellington delicatessen preprietor whose window full of}chickens on the day of Viscount Galway’s arrival was labelled, "Fit for a GovernorGeneral." FILM for screening in connection with the King’s Jubilee is at present being rushed out to New Zealand by air mail. A radio hoawer at Limerick Has ridiculed matters most politic. The P.O. and police Cannot make the chap cease From being a Limerick heretic ONGS of birds outside William Wordsworth’s Westmoreland cottage were broadeast to America on the anniversary of the poet’s birth a egaple of weeks ago. Apf rently the bird’s word’s WV rth something to the B.B.C. HD Auckland Mayoral election promises to be interesting this year. Apart from the. Labour nominee, there is an elderly lady representing the Douglas Credit movement, a well-known Prohibitionist, and the managing’ director of the biggest liquor firm in Auckland. AFTER an order .for possession had been made in the Magistrate’s Court, Dunedin} a defendant’ began to protest, but was told to be silent. "Silence, my foot," she mumbled, and as she left the courtroom she indignantly remarked: "Justice indeed."

Hat Shots "FRESH FIELDS" ‘is to be played. in New Zealand "by a company expected -from ‘Australia ‘early’ ‘next month. "RECENT headline : : "Sober, ~ Realism."-- Which . ex-, plains ‘a lot ‘of ‘the ~ money . spent before 6: p.m. \ . mF AUCKLAND © ‘restaurants. have advanced the prices of their méals owing to the higher prices of foodstuffs. "KID MILLIONS." Yes, that’s what some U.S.A. film producers have been doing for years with some of the stuff they send over. SOME members of the new Broadcasting Board are already receiving requests from "friends" hoping to secure engagements. . HEN the new GovernorGeneral’s medals "came unstuck" during his civie welcome in Wellington he had to enlist the aid of his aide, A BIG taunch on Auckland Harbour is now installed with a modern electric refrigerator. The owner can now treat his friends to iced ale while at sea. » ALBERT RUSSELL and Reg. Morgan, Auckland’s two community Singing "kings," are now in Australia. They are engaged by the Australian Broadcasting Commission .running community sings. ‘I DON’T know what this car is supposed to be," said the announcer who deseribed the procession at the | opening of the Balclutha Bridge, "unless it’s the: local atmosphere; it’s entirely empty." A HIGH tribute was paid the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra last week, when its concert was broadcast by 4YA, One listener maintained that during the evening several orchestral records were played, whereas in actual fact the orchestra contributed the whole of the musical programme. DEVONPORT resident who left his large dog inside the house during his absence last Friday returned to find that the faithful hound had chewed two of the four legs of the big radio console. At last week’s meeting of the Takapuna’ Borough Council an extremely garrulous member of a deputation had to be actually gagged and held in his chair by a@- colleague. ‘ ‘