MIRANDA McELWAIN'S

Radio Record, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 21 August 1939, Page 26

MIRANDA McELWAIN'S

NONSENSE NFWSREEL

LAD news, girls, on the fashion front, for those of us who, like Gracie Fields, prefer to be ‘‘coomf’table."? I got snooping around among the summer frocks in a department store, and there were the happy

old dirndis and peasant cottons again, noisier than ever as to design and colour, fuller .and shorter and less cramping and more revealing ... the most sensible garments ‘sinee Helen wore a tunic. * AND just when we had written off the Italian dames as about as styleconscious as the well-washed, shining faced, Hitlerised hausfraus of Germany, the sly hussies evolve an erection of a hat that has even Paris knocked for height, je ne sais ' quoi, and insanity. But they keep on the friendly side of Mussolini by calling it the Leaning-Tower-of-Pisa Hat (actually it is tower-like, and jeans), and publicising the fashion as a patriotic gesture, *« KE are now lying back hopefully waiting for the idea to catch on in England. If someone will only bring out an Albert Memorial model, we shall die happy. HAVIN G run a rapid mental eye over New Zealand’s

architectural triumphs, I should like to suggest something tricky modelled on the Bath House, Rotorua, or the Christchurch Railway Station. * Att this Centennial hooha in the air reminds me of a colourful rumour that is stealing round among us. It seems that someone wants to make an official film, and with startling originality thought up the landing of Captain Cook as suitable film material. * ANXIOUS to do the thing properly, they worked out a scenario covering the authentic facts, and then sent the seript to a Hollywood Expert for an O.K. as to its film-worthiness, * "POYS,’’ wrote the HE, ‘‘vou’ve certainly got something, but you aren’t getting the most out of it. What about Glamour? What about

Sex Appeal? What about a chorus of lovely Maori euties, doing their stuff on the beach, and when the Captain lands they all go into their dance and sing ‘Looky, Looky, Looky, Here Comes Cookie!’ ’’ * ISTURBING news comes from Bali, the lovely island where the girls-how-ever, you know all that. The trouble is that the attractions have grown too popular and tourists too pop-eyed, blush-

making, and generally crude. So some of the best-looking belles are taking to shawls. and bodices, and the boys from Shepherd’s Bush, Little Rock, Ark. and Motueka can go somewhere else to experience the broadening effects of travel, * ID you know that German @& Hitler and the civilis world’s Charles Spencer Chaplin were born on the same day, nearly 50 years ago? These two headliners share the same

birthday, the same moustache, and the same genius for inspiring mirth... only difference is that we laugh with.the gentle little Jewish gentleman, and at the Austrian maniac. * from an Australian advertisement: ‘‘When you wake up stiff and sore from . over-exerting your muscles, just pat X’s Liniment gently on the stiffened pants.’’ Or else, of course, you could try wearing a nightshirt. * jz pays to keep your ears flapping. I attended a musical recital recently and had the felicity to overhear tha conversation of two women behind me, discussing the Per former. "The violin’s very hard,’ said the first. ‘‘Yes, and he’s a foreigner, too,’"?" said No. 2 ‘‘Can’t speak a word of language!’’