SPICK and SPAN

Radio Record, 19 June 1936, Page 56

SPICK and SPAN

OT often has Radioland been-so lucky as to have two visiting Uncles from Scotland. There was a glorious welcome to’ them from the Radioland children of New Zcaland. The Mail Box will have to be enlarged if their correspondence increases, so many are: the appreciative letters which have come in from children, and grown-ups, too. Spick, the thin one, with his. marvellous tenor voice, sang all the lovely Scottish fairy tales which children love, and with: his fiddle, playing Scottish reels, and, as for. his yodelling ! Spick was pleased to note that the "Radio Record" called it "his secret sin," and if it is‘a sin, it was a very delightful one for radio children. _. Span, with his "20 stone, *? ‘has to reduce.to nine stone to dance with Aunt Molly on the studio floor, with Spick at the piano playing a "Rhythmical Something,’’ » Span, with his lovely, lazy giant voice, and his Scottish fairy stories, and his mountainous and. giant-like music, and, then for contrast his fairy music, pleased: all listeners. *Then the wonderful -Music Box which he produced from his stupendous pockets, and played just like a little elf. Span sang a Hebrides "Round," the kind of special song used for

the country folk to dance to if they have no other: music. Then, who can forget ‘ Span’s . pianoforte ~- pieces, . which he composed himself. and played to the children? Listen-in’ again on Monday, June 29, and you will hear «them . giving a special farewell ‘entertainment before they leave New Zealand shores. They think all the children in New Zealand make the most appreciative audience that they. could find anywhere. :