Hot Shots

Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 44, 10 May 1935, Page 5

Hot Shots

(CHRISTCHURCH has al- _ Teady had a nine degree frost.

A SIXTHEN tube radio set} is being boosted in Auckland. ©The price is in the vicinity of £75. , "THD BARRETTS OF WIMPOLE STREET’ has brought the best business to a Dunedin theatre since it showed "Disraeli" some years ago. MOVID camera and screen have been installed for geography lessons at the Kowhai. (Auckland) Junior High School. HE signatures of male members of Wellington society are few and far between in the visitors’ book at Government House. A PIECE from the Wedgwood dinner service belonging to. Catharine the Great of Russia is on display in a Christchurch store. YBIL THORNDIKDH has returned to London from America to play the lead in. a Hew play by Merton Hodge, the New Zealand playwright. (SOLOURED floodlights, the first in New Zealand, are being used to illuminate Parliament Buildings, Wellington, during Jubilee Week. MBS. DAISY BASHAM ("Aunt Daisy") reports having received a tempting offer to remain in the United States. But she preferred New Zealand.

THE first trip was made last week over the Tawa Flat railway deviation, near Wellington. This deviation will eut more than half an hour off the Auckland-Wellington trip. ‘ADY DAY, wife of the official secretary at Government House, Wellington, was farewelled by 400 women at 4 reception given in Wellington last week prior to her departure for England. HRISTCHURCH is the only one of the four centres lacking a town hall, and resi-}. dents are again pressing for the provision of one. The Civie Theatre, adjoining the municipal offices, is used for official functions. "THH’B.B.C. has returned to the beam system of. transmission and is contemplating increasing the number of zones and narrowing: the beams. This should mean improved shortwave reception and is Britain’s answer to Germany’s shortwave challenge.

Hat Shots

"BLOssom TIME" will open Christchurch’s.new Avou Theatre this month. . . (QHRISTCHURCH’S new State Fire Insurince: ‘building is. easily the nrost’ imposing structure in the city. A SCHEME for:an Auckland "little theatre" to cost £29,000 has been temporarily abandoned owing to lack of support. ENGLISH visitors express surprise at the politeness of Australian and New Zealand men in removing their hats in lifts. I five years a national scheme will be completed . giving radio programmes to 700,000 Indian villages, embracing 320,000,000 people. HB Dunedin Public Art Gallery Society has bought three pictures from Mrs. Murray Fuller’s English exhibition. One of them is "Perthshire Uplands" by Sir D. Y. Cameron. WELLINGTON children are wildly excited at the thought of a children’s party at Government House next Saturday-the first for some years. AN advertisement appeared in New Zealand newspapers last week asking for a general manager for a broad{casting company newly formed in New South Wales, "ROYAL CAVALCADBE," "The Iron Duke," "Jew Suss" and "Lives of a Bengal Lancer" seem to be the chief New Zealand: talkie attractions for Jubilee Week. [ the continuity of the 4YA programme on election night cannot be broken, the new mayor of the city will be asked to broadcast his remarks from 4YO. URING Jean Batten’s flight from Australia to England, her father, an Auckland dentist, telephoned the "Star" every day to get the latest-pro-gress reports. ACCORDING to "Aunt Daisy," who recently returned from Australia, Reg. Morgan and Albert Russell. New Zealand’s community singing kings, are doing well in the Commonwealth. N Auckland resident, annoyed by the nightly thumpings of an opposum on his roof, dispatched it with a shotgun. He was last week fined 5/- for killing the ’nos[suns having no license to do ,