PAYMENT MADE IN ICE CREAM

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26020, 25 January 1950, Page 2

PAYMENT MADE IN ICE CREAM

NEW YORK BROADCAST BY N.Z. WOMAN

Payment for a radio talk on New Zealand given by Mrs Celia Man Son, of Nelson, over a New York station,' was made in the sponsor’s product, icecream. Mrs Manson is recording several talks for the New Zealand Broadcasting Service in Wellington. Mrs Manson will be known to many children and parents as the author of “Willow’s Point,” an adventure story with a New Zealand setting for the nine to 14 age group. It was published about a year ago by the Museum Press, London. Her publishers asked her to call herself C. Drummond Manson, for this occasion, as they thought boys might shun a book written by a woman. In England Mrs Manson did free lance work for the B.B.C.,'including a number of talks on New Zealand in both the Pacific and Home services. For the schools’ section of the 8.8. C. she did a series of programmes ing the history and development of the Dominion as seen through the lives of three generations of a New Zealand family. “I acted as narrator, but the parts in the dramatised stories were taken by extremely good actors and actresses,” she said. “The 8.8. C. can draw on really top-flight professional people for this work, and they give character to even a very indifferent script.”