Hot Shots

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

Hot Shots

| JDUNEDIN still has its pet ‘seal. It recently tried to climb aboard a tram. WIL. ROGERS’S death and career were given nearly six pages in New York’s most important paper. N Imperial Army officer living in Wellington has received notice to report to Whitehall as soon as possible. QNE hundred and fifteen thousand New Zealanders have come of age since the last. general election. (THE stand-by power plant at the new 4YA worked well when it was .tried out last week. HE scenery ‘to be used in Invercargill’s amateur performance of "The New Moon’ was used in the original Sydney production. HE principal of a Christchurch girls’ school said last week that she was tired of the Garbo imitators among schoolgirls to-day. IX empty whisky bottles were left standing on the footpath outside the home of an important Wellington » bank official recently.

THE cruiser Leopard. in the \ film "Brown on Resolution" is really the H.M.S. Leander, to be stationed in New Zealand waters next year. , STORY of the early struggles of the Rt. Hon. G. W. Forbes is told in an English paper. It is illustratea with pictures of our Prime Minister and his wife. HH story is told in Wellington of a certain fire brigade that refused to answer .@ eall because it had had "so any false alarms lately." house in this instance was burned to the ground. AYMOND BDATTY and Heather Kinnaird, radio honeymooners, took a_ trip . round Central Otago last week in a ’plane. They saw as much in a day as the ordinary traveller sees in a week, FOLLOWING a dance wu Wellington which was attended by Lord and Lady Galacay and their suite, this conversation was overheard between tun airls on a bus bound \ for the Hutt: ' One: "And guess what! Sir -- asked me for a dance!" The Other: "Garant "Who aqave. yer. a.‘knock-down’ to in?"

Hat Shots

"LION BITES ACTOR," says news heading, Now if.an actor bit a lion! IG changes, with increased eapital and production, are likely to take ‘place in British film circles: soon. MYStuRy trains, ‘popular in New Zenland for three years, have:‘just been started in America. ‘SEEM to have. heard some- . where that ‘some All Black footballers lost 4 match recently. Lot HE Queen Carnival’ Ball, to be the big feature of Christchurch’s . ‘Metropolitan Queen Carnival,*-has beep abandoned. rt FILM was removed recently from . the programme of a . Wellington theatre at the-request of the Friends of the Soviet Union. OME Dunedin citizens still believe that the 4YA rrtists. will have to go to Highcliff when the new station opens, : FOLLOWING the big testi- . monial concert given in Auckland a week or so ago for Miss Nellie Bramley, the well-known actress was handed a cheque for £106." "THD children of the Dunedin unemployed will benefit to the extent of £130 as a result of the Broadcasting Board’s last charity. concert. :

HD only native-born Abyssinian in New Zealand is nightwatchman. .for the Deyonport Ferry Company. He hasn’t seen his native land Since his..early youth, but is [peut a staunch patriot. HE ‘Prime Minister pointed out last week that Parliament would have to meet to pass special legislation before New Zealand could be at ‘war with anybody. Small comfort!

O the layman it would seem that the new transmitter for 4YA is a completed job, ag all the panels are now in place; but actually, about two months’ work has to be done before the station can be tested. RS. KNOX GILMER, Parliamentary candidate for Wellington North. at a meeting the other night: "T’ve been told that New Zealand doesn’t want petticoats .in Parliament. Fancy any man thinking. a woman wears petticoats today ?