IN THE WAKE OF THE
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_ ite No Dross a BY. the way, did you listen in to the 2YA feature on Wednesday last week between 9 and 10 p.m.? We,warned you that it was a good show some weeks ago, so if you © missed it, be it on your own head. Diving round a book sale the other day, one discovered the story in book form of the Artiglio’s hard work up to the time she was blown up. ‘The drama broadcast from 2YA followed the book faithfully, and was splendidly dramatised. The radio feature, however, ‘took listeners right through the story: to the great moment when the gold ‘first beamed on the salvagers from the trawler’s decks. The use of marine .effects-and not a few submarine ones-was carefully designed, and the trouble the Broadcasting Board staff went to in Wellington te eollect and: then distribute the shipboard noises with their recording apparatus is justified by the result. It turned out to be quite a thriller when one considers the way it was "put across," and a most commendable effort all round by the local enthusiasts. No Savvy PERHAPS, as the judge remark- ‘ ed, the subject of last week’: inter-’Varsity debate between Victoria ;and Canterbury Colleges, "That the Savage is Happier Than
Civilised Man," was not very happily chosen-especially as it was being discussed by young people who haven’t had time yet to look around and find out much about either. However, the evening was academically interesting. The affirmative had the task of build: ing up their case on visions of people whom they had never seen nor were ever likely to, and the negative side had to argue about a thing which exists only in the spiritual appreciations of the individual-happiness still has no price upon its head. We love to think of Abyssinians, mid-Africans, Papuans and the like sun-basking and hopping about without a care in: the world except their respective versions of the hula-girls. But our just thinking so doesn’t help any. : Reach-Me-Downs KINDLY enough for housewives, the Association for Country Education, Home Science Tutorial Section of the Otago University (whew!) provided a talk from 2YA last Monday week entitled "Altering Ready-Mades." The good wife of a certain scribe listened intently to the talk, but was unable to glean many hints that she hadn’t worked out for herself by now, but she reminded her husband at luncheon that day of the talk. Which, in turn, reminded the husband of a certain. tragic incident ‘vhich cropped up around Christmas‘ide last. Having delayed the ordering of a grey summer two-piece until the last moment, the husband found that reach-me-downs were the only thing the tailor could offer. So, with slightly longer legs and arms, it was decided that a fit could be arranged. But the altered suit, "picked up’ the day the victim left for his holidays, proved to have acquired wrong sleeves, about two inches short. Nothing could be done about it until the victim returned from his holidays, some four ‘mbarrassed weeks later, having’-spent most of the time slinking about looking and feeling like an ill-dressed schoolboy. All of which made him quite glad that he was not at home to hear’ the talk from: the..A,C.B. «He had learned all he wanted’ to..about . "Altering Ready-Mades,"
Up Against It THE fact that humour is so scarce in broadcasting is not anybody’s fault really. Last week at different times there came over recordings by John Tilley, Gillie Potter, Clap-
ham and Dwyer; Stanley Holloway and a few others. The recordings had all been heard before; which was handicap number one against broadcast humour-repetition of hu---morous numbers as frequent as that of songs would ask for protests. Point number two is that the stupidest words and the most piffling tune can get by as a song-either serious or dance number-whereas broadcast humour has to have a definite comic quality in order to be even tolerated: by. the least. particular of listeners. There is a limited field,. too, of. artists
inthenhennemdentewDendenhenderdedeederhekedk ow a ae ae THIRD KNOT Last ot Great Trio Weds Australian NLY immediate relatives and close friends of the bride and bridegroom were present when Edmund Kurtz, ’cellist of the Spiva-kovsky-Kurtz Trio, who toured New Zealand last year, was married to Barbara Bellair in Melbourne a few weeks ago. The speech of the evening is said to have been made by the bride’s mother, but a friend of the family, Mr. A. E. Kimpton, was inspired to introduce verse, and here it is: A charming young fellow Who plays-on the ’cello Came here for art’s sake And only got heart-ache. Thus the third nuptial knot is tied among the famous trio, for the other two-the Spivakovskyswere both married before they came to New Zealand. One of them had married a Melbourne girl. The brothers gave a charming Continental touch to the latest wedding proceedings by bowing low and kissing» hands as they departed instead of contenting themselves with the rather bleak, curt handshake of the British. ae A OE SEE EN OO OD a te ea ZT rr rr
bucket compared with vocal and instrumental niusicians. And a merely miniature field of good humorous writers. With all these initial troubles, you might think that the problem of broadcast humour would eventually be. solved-just a matter of finding the / to put the stuff across-a drop in a ,
vight people to do the work and that sort of thing. Don’t believe it. The biggest hurdle of all is the last-the ‘yotiblic. They will insist on having "Widely divided tastes, and no matter " hosy much of the Gillie Potter style of humour igs written, or how much of the Japanese houseboy style, there will always be "moaners" about both,
Rudy-Runaway Story of Vallee’s Rise to Fame ee Rypy VALLEE, whose band is featured j in the dance session from station 4YA_ on Monday, June 29, comes from the little ‘township of Westbrook, Maine. His father managed the local theatre and was also proprietor of a drug store and soda fountain. Rudy’s ambitions always centred on music and the stage, even when the nearest he could get to it was as Motion picture operator in the theatre. He was young when he first appeared as a solo saxophonist, but his growing success as a musicjan did not stop his attending the University of Mainz, and later entering Yale. He had an opportunity. to go to London to play in the Savoy Hotel with the Savoy Havana Band. He did this for a year, thus earning sufh- ‘ inne to return to America for a || }further three years at Yale. It is no exaggeration to say that Rudy Vallee has millions of admirers scattered throughout the . world, and that he is one of the most successful band leaders in the United States. His band specialises in a soothing, simple type of presentation, which is al- ‘ ways musical, Perhaps this is the secret of its popularity. ‘
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