HOTSHOTS

Radio Record, 4 September 1936, Page 5

HOTSHOTS

ON’T kill your wife! Let electricity do it, You poy as well be up-to-date-\Waitaki Electric Power Board advertisement, JPRANCES REVERE, the clever young Feilding pianist, journeyed to Wellington last week-end to hear Fileen Joyce playing. MEMBERS of the South Canterbury Rughy tean). as guests of the Otago Rugby Union, visited the station at Highceliff. HE shopping publie will ~ snffer little inconvenience under the 44-hour week -for retnil establishments, according to a .Obristehurch business man. PASSENGERS to Christehureh.from Wellington the other morning ‘did. not know that they were travelling. in company with a.cargo of £250,000 Reserve Bank notes.

eT Tee TT eT oh AOTSACTS "DRUNK" wus tined 10/-, in default 24 hours’ "improvement," according to a Dunedin paper. AN SOUNCER the other *" evening: "That was a broadeast by the Wellington Amateur Operatie and Theoretical Society." A WHELI-KNOWN Auckland eartoonist last week returned from the House with notebooks full of drawings of parliamentary personalities. AUCKLAN D nudertakers have abolished Sunday funerals. Yn future, will those who are about to cross the Great Divide kindly do so early .in the week? HE "Society for the Pre. vention of Women and Children" was how a wellknown New Zeatand radio announcer quoted the spore. sors of a tulle the other day.

‘Defending Films

(Continued from Page 5.) There is an open cheque waiting for the genins who can attach bimself to any film-producing organisation as Lord High Orystal Gazer or Somesuch end forecast what picture patronsmen, women or child-minds-want, The trouble with the carping critics is this: They overlovk the fuct that the function of the cinema is to emer-. tain and to tell the truth about life. Only while it does both will it continue to attract. When it stops, it will die the death it deserves, That pillar of journalism, "The Manchester Guardian," struck the nail on the head recently. when it had ocgasion to rebuke Lord Tyrrell, the British film censor, who didn't like the idea of "politics creeping into films." "The three most important and alsorbing subjects of discussion on earth are probably religion, politics and the relations between men and women." said the "Guardian." "If anyone has something genuinely new to say about them he. has reasonable liberty to speak in the pulpit or Hyde Park; he may publish books; he may even, thanks to the Shaw-Ibsen assault on the Lord Chamberlain. write and produce moderately candid plays. What he may not do, as. he generally has sense tnough to know, is to get any film profucer to look at him and his ideas. Curiously enough, another speaker at the conference was lamenting that miltions apparently never eutered the cinyma. As remefies one m'ght suggest, frst, the production of better films, md, secondly, the abandonment of the ldea apparently held by Lord Tyrrell, that the British people are a pack of children who cannot endure hearing or seeing anything disagreeable without breaking into open riot."