IN THE WAKE OF THE WEEK'S BROADCASTS

Radio Record, 5 June 1936, Page 14

IN THE WAKE OF THE

WEEK'S BROADCASTS

Big, Bad Wolf. 47v S funny’ how, every time an overseas visitor’ condemns advertising over the.air, the New Zealand ‘press. gives his remarks full publicity. .The Rev. Dr. David Lang, ‘of -Canada, who has been ~

speaking from the national broadcasting stations in the Dominion, threw a couple of bouquets at the press and radio in Wellington last week, ending vp by: remarking that New Zealand-was fortunate in not being subjected. to a "lot of cheap advertising -over the air -one. of .the most objectionable features of the wireless service of Amer. ica." ~ It’s funny how afraid’ the New Zealand newspapers are of advertising over the air, especially when it has been proved the world over that radio advertising has not affected the revenue of newspapers. in other countries. Sydney’s "Troe." RANKED now with the Harbou, the Bridge and the shark that Zane Grey caught off North Head.,. is the Trocadero, the palatial Sydnev cabaret that was opened just before Easter. Rumour savs that it belongs to the owner of a group of well-known New Zealand and Australian weekly papeys-and, if it does. he has certainly spent a pot of money on it. The band-it has ‘been heard over the air a number of times in the past few weeks-is outstanding; an entertainment in itself. Among its members is John Robertson, the young New Zealand cornetist. Miles of carpet cover the floors of the lounges, hidden lights glow’and change seductively. sdacion dancers, specinily imported from

America, twirl in the glow of a purple spotlight and, nearly every night 2000, Sydueyites sway and glide to one of the ‘est bands in the Southern Hemisphere. Hey, Hay! WHEN 2YC provided, last Saturday night, a couple of double‘ided recordings of Will Hay, that "brilliant" schoolmaster, having the usual ericounters with his pupils. one was given to: wondering when he would send a new recording or so out to New Zealand for them as likes ’im He doesn’t seem half as enthusiastic Nbout recording as lots of other enfertainers who are of a lower order. He is a bright soul in his rare films. too, but he owns a high horse on which he has been known to ride. About October last year he was chopped off fwo minutes before he had finished his ‘llotted time in a B.B.C. broadcast. He lost no time in saddling the horse and ‘etting the Rress know that he was not eoing to play polo any more ever again ‘vith the Big Broadcasting Colts, But the B.B.C, had a square-off as sweet and real as a chocolate eclair. and in the course of a few days the horse had Seen stabled again and Will Hay was soon, headlining again in the brighter sections of the programmes. EveryNody was very joyful. because ther ‘tked Will Hay. and Mr. Hay didn’t "ind, either, because he liked the ~~ms of engagement he had secured. Vienna in London. VIENNA needs only to be mentioned to most radio listeners nowadays and they will immediately think of lilting waltzes, caring not. and perhaps knowing not, whether Vienna is the capital of Austria or Lapland. A couple of years ago the Viennese vogue was in full swing in the’ entertainment world, and one of the "most popular of the film efforts along this line was "Good-night, Vienna," "with the murmuring Jack Buchanan doing a lot of singing, Afterwards. it was turned into a_ successful radic musical comedy on the other ‘side of the world, In New Zealand we have heard the tunes from this attractive show innumerable times, and they don’t

pall yet. Now the whole thing has been re-written as a stage musicalereversing the usual order of adapta-tion-aud is to be produced in London by a most enthusiastic band of ama-teurs-a challenge to orthodoxy! Changed Over. JT was rather unfortunate that owing to the broadcast of Parliament on Thursday night last week each main station’s progrdmme had to be relegated to low power broadcast on an evening when each had to offer listeners something rather special. 1YA had promised listeners in hour with Duncan Morison and Sydney MacEwan, the unusually popular Scots on tour of the "nationals," ineluding half an hour twined round the, love story of Mary Queen of Scots and Lord Bothwell. From, 2YA. carefuh ‘rehearsals of the second performance within a month of Tschaikowsky’s Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in B Flat ‘~Minor culminated in the broadcast which was put through 2YC. Christehureh’s auxiliary undertook 38YA’s programme. which included a B.B.C. recorded show and two talks-one on dancing. Dr. Galway had to put his illustrated music talk through 4¥0, which station also broadcast Gladys Lorimer,