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Radio Record, Volume VIII, Issue 1, 12 July 1935, Page 5

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| DESTRUCTION by fire of y "POPULAR Variety Hour’4° YY HERD is Victor Penny, the *, centric maiden aunt drops in ~ on Sunday afternoon. . pearing before the 1YA micro- } 4 ( Southland’s° Garston Hotel hag robbed winter sports enthusiasts of a headquarters. EHUDI MENUHIN was responsible for three crowded houses at the Auckland Town Hall last week. HINA has prohibited the the broadcasting of ghost stories and songs that are a little "risque." When the rich but very ecWRESTLIN G announcer in Christchurch last week: "One of the men is wrestling in bare feet and the other in blue tights." OR all the persons involved in one "send-a-shilling" chain letter to get full value for their money, 244,140,625 would have to dig up a shilling. T the last meeting of the Invercargill City Council, the Deputy-Mayor accused the Mayor of adopting "Mussolini tactics." HE housing problem is so acute in Wellington that some overseas arrivals are still looking for a house three months after landing. iD R. COOPER, brilliant * Christchurch student now studying science in Hngland, has attracted the attention of Lord Rutherford. . A DUNEDIN community sing in aid of funds for providing and maintaining radio sets in relief camps realised £150 last week. DVERTISING opportunity missed: Gladys Moncrieff drank a well-known New. Zealand cough mixture before ap‘phone last week, ‘¢ _ young Takapuna (Auckland) inventor, assaulted on the night of June 19? Since he left hospital last week his whereabouts has been a mystery. (GFETTIN G in early! An Auckland man advertised in the "Herald" last week intimating that he was a candidate for an Auckland seat ag an Independent Labourite, "with a view of becoming Prime Minister." ASKED why last Wednesday, July 4, was a day of great importance, an Epsom schoolboy told his teacher that it was because Auckland retained the Ranfurly Shield that after-

Hat Shots |NEW YORK has published a "‘ "who’s Who in Crime"a considerable volume, §- ‘WHEELBARROW Derby was organised by a Christchurch borough last week. "(1 RIEF GOES OVER," new play of Merton-Hodge, formerly of Wanganui, is enjoying a big-success in London.. Aven ELLIOTT and Cyril Ritchard, popular Australian musical comedy stars, are now to be married in August. FrULLERS may build flats on the empty section next to St. James Theatre in Courtenay Place, Wellington. "WHE TATLER" (London) describes the Right Hon. |G. W. Forbes as a "well-known lawyer." "We Telegraph Wlowers."Wellington advertisement. Our congratulations to an enterprising P. and T. Department. UN LIGHTED cycles were responsible for 180 riders having their names taken in one Wellington suburb street last week. {PWINA BOOTH, starred in "Trader Horn" in 1929, is still ill from a disease contracted in the African jungle during: the filming of-the picture. Oe A RADIO version of a new film, "Death at Broadcasting House" was broadcast fron) nine national Australian stations recently. , "BROADCASTED" is. one of the last words one would expect an announcer to use, yet a well-known voice offended in this way the other night. : SOME Dunedin listeners are wondering if their old-time sets will take kindly to the new high-powered 4YA when it opens. BROADCASTING in New Zealand is officially 10 years old this month. Some critics evidently still believe in the old saw, "Spare the rod--" ‘THis issue marks the "Radio Record’s" eighth birthday. But don’t let that worry youtops and marbles are out of season, and we always choose our’ own cigars. WELLINGTON daily, reportU.S.A. Independence Day ‘deaths: "Fifty-four died as a result of motor accidents, 52 were downed ... " Did the cars throw the other two up in the air?,