"TOURISTS' HOUR"

Radio Record, Volume IX, Issue 13, 4 October 1935, Page 5

"TOURISTS' HOUR"

ERY soon now this corner of the South Seas wil become the summer playground of wealthy Americans and well-known Englishmen seeking rest and new sights in a part of the world that is just coming into its own as a tourist resort. .These tourists will represent many interests-art, music, the professions, the stage, the army-and each will be entertaining in _ his _ own way. But the stories that each one will have to tell will be confined to the few people with which he comes in contact-and the rank and file of New Zealand will know him only by a small note in the personal columns of the daily newspapers. Why not overcome this-and, at the same time provide New Zealand listeners with an engrossing new radio feature-by instituting a "Tourists " Hour" on the air? As each boat comes in a )representative of the Broadcasting Board could scan the list of passengers, picking out a few of the more famous. These could then be approached with the suggestion that they give a ‘few minutes’ talk over the air. For instance recent tourists provided. such personalities as Lady Louis Mountbatten,, the Duchess of Westminster, Mrs. Winston Churchill, Cole Porter, the wor '-famous American composer, Moss Hart, Broadway dramatist, Oskar Denes, the Hungarian stage star, Barbara Hutton, the Woolworth heiress; George Bernard Shaw, Sir Phillip Game, Earl Beauchamp Al Seward, famous Hollywood scenario writer, to mention just a few. Advance reports indicate that this summer New Zealand will be visited by an even more imposing list of worla personalities-what fun it woula be to have them up at the microphone!