This World of Ours

Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 31, 13 January 1939, Page 2

This World of Ours

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Germany’s Minister of Impropaganda? . Song from abroad Mae West Is one of the best: I would rather not Say the best what. Several years ago Adolf Hitler thought he had cancer of the Jarynx. Dr. Carl von

Kicken, head of a Berlin University department, diagnosed Hitler’s ailment as a simple polyp (small benign : growth, round and stemmed like a pea), on his larynx. Removal of the polyp from the larynx, a simple threat-cutting operation that many a physician (and layman) would be glad to have the chanee to do for Herr Hitler, was very easy. |

we ww ae Theat Certain Age me FOR several weeks the Canberra Advisory Council has hotly debated the weighty problem of whether men should be allowed to wear trunks in ‘the local swimming pools. They have just announced their decis-ion-Against. Explains the ehairman: ‘‘The human form eeases to be divine at a certain age."’ , Bd % oF LEROY of the French Air Force, crawled out on to the wing of a training plane 10,600 feet above the village of Ouzhy-au-Bois to make a regulation parachute jump. Waving to his comrades, he bailed out, pulled the rip-cord, floated geatly to the ground. Peasants rushed to the spot where he landed, lifted up the lifeless body of Engineer Leroy. He had died lin mid-air.

Pets’ Corner WULDRED and Wiliiam Hurd, of San Francisco, wanted a divorce, but could not agree what was to be done about their dog. The judge settled the issue by awarding the animal to Mrs. Hurd on week-days and to Mr. Hurd on Sundays. ze Pe % Historical Research Dept.

"Tt is high time that New Zealand had «a film of tis own, showing our national characteristics. Can nothing be done about it?’?’-Newspaper correspondent. Asked for his views on this matter, one of our better-known film magnates said this was the irritating sort of question that people asked without knowing the facts. The main Centennial films were well on the way, said this chap, showing the lively drama of New Zealand life, with one or two pretty big heartthrobs in it. The scene showing the. First Pioneer swapping two beads and one blanket for 43,000 acres of good sheep country was very moving, the joy of the innocent Natives at getting the ‘beads and blanket so cheaply being sympathetically portrayed

and making one think of Diake’s Songs of Innocence and realise like nothing on earth just how far away we. had got from the happy old-time days when the simple things of life could give so-much pleasure and delight.. The scene immediately after the transaction, showing the First Pioneer falling on his knees and thanking Heaven for guiding his footsteps into the country of a people so utterly decent and unspoiled by crude commercialism, is beautifully done (says this chap) and makes you realise also just how far away the present godless age has got from the fine spiritual things of the past. The First Pioneer, of course, is a symbolie figure, something like an early patriarch, who stands for most of the boys of the time. The film will go to show, this chap added, that:

Mr. J, A. Lee Was all at sea: Our forefather Was decent, rather. % o>, ry Snow-white In more whimsical vein, the film magnate told us, there will be a film about New Zealand as it is to-day. The leading parts will be taken by a young farmer (who has done pretty well in the Junior Agricultural Club competitions) and his stock, under the striking title of Snow-White and the Seven Calfs, the young farmer playing the part of Snow-White who will be a prince in this imstance, rather than a princess. Only trouble is, said the film

magnate, that this young chap will keep falling into drains and things and we are having a job getting him to look the part. We're giving him a course of Lux this week, and then Viyella, and after that, if he still needs a bit of doing up, we're washing him in warm water with Rinso. ""We reckon that pretty soon we shall get him in such condition that the mothers of all the other young farmers in the country will be looking at thei own boys with .tears in their eyes and saying they thought they were white until they saw them alongside this chap, and no spoiling his fabric etther.’’