..Of Many Things

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28536, 15 March 1958, Page 12

..Of Many Things

TWO complete sets of staging collapsed on the New Zealand Players 10 minutes after the opening of Shaw’s “Pygmalion” at Nelson this week. Apparently the theatrical gremlins became tired of hearing Miss Doolittle say “not bloody likely.”

TpROM a report of the match between the All-Japan Students team and the New Zealand touring team. “The New Zealand forwards had a difficult time with the smaller Japanese men who were forever in their hair while under their feet.” Surely it’s not suggested that some of our forwards are a bit hairy at the heels.

£20,000 swimming pool, paid x for with money, earned by servicemen for their work on the wharves during the 1951 waterfront strike has been opened in Auckland. So that’s what,pooling the money means.

“BURNISHINGS At Airport. Use Of Architect Declined.” Well, the headlines were right when the City Council was wrong. Sitting on or tearing strips off any member of the profession is quite unwarranted.

pHOUSANDS of gallons of water had to be used to hose cream off a city street last Saturday morning. Some cream samples seen lately suggest this had to be done before the cream ate through the bitumen.

QTUDENTS of the Royal College of Art in London are attempting to convey the rhythm and movements of jazz in a mural for the International Exhibition at Brussels. They should be restrained from making jazz visible as well as audible.

'T’HE British Railways are to experiment this year with radiotelephone communication to trains. Can’t a man ever get away from either his wife or the office?

IRLS jn bathing costumes will model safety helmets at the Industries Fair in May. And bathing costumes, surely.

yEW season’s supplies of nipping wools were advertised recently in a provincial newspaper. They should be useful to keep out the cold this winter now that whisky imports have been cut.

JT is to be hoped the children did not read this advertisement in “The Press” last week. “Alsatian collie cross dog, six months, used to children, make good pig dog.”

QHIPS and the frying pan are described as man’s worst enemy by a British doctor. One by one all our old institutions are being attacked.

£2J.OOD books, according to the president of the Booksellers’ Association, Mr R. Parsons, are carried on a stream. Not a stream, Mr Parsons; books are in brooks.

J.JEDSIDE chats by surgeons the night before any operation have proved very successful in the Croydon area of London. "Famous Last Words” would be an untactful description, perhaps.

A report this week said that a x branch of the Men of Trees was formed in Christchurch at a meeting of nature and free lovers. Where were the people interested. in trees? Don’t they like mixing in this sort of company?

“T OCAL Body Members See Port At Work,” said a headline in “The Press” the other morning. Didn't they have a chance to look at the sherry or the madeira?

r rHE Minister ol Social Welfare (Miss Howard) says she wants to meet some bodgies or widgies. Well, she could always stroll round the south-western corner of Cathedral Square or on the western side of Colombo street between Gloucester and Armagh streets. But she’ll have to keep strolling or be asked to move on.