MATERIAL FOR THOUGHT

Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 151, 23 March 1938, Page 8

MATERIAL FOR THOUGHT

This Week’s “Radio Record” When the week’s "Radio Record” is published, there is a good volume of of articles on hand for thought and entertainment and discussion. This week's issue is no exception. Sometimes, perhaps, the writers are a little too cocksure, but that does not make them the less interesting. In an article on “Flynn of the Inland,” the Rev. J. R. Blanchard, minister of St. John’s Presbyterian Church, Wellington, tells the fascinating story of how John Flynn, Twentieth Century knight, whose weapons were not shining lance and sword, but aeroplanes and radio sets, made war on the isolation of the desert of Central Australia. The unique contribution that radio will make to New Zealand’s centennial in Maori plays, presented by Oriwa Haddon, and telling the unwritten history of New Zealand from the Maori’s point of view, is vividly described by Jack Daw, and Maros Gray has a subtle little tale that set one wondering whether radio is the great boon to culture that so many people say it is. How crusaders for the cause of deaf people hope to make radio their ally in New Zealand is told with sympathy by Sylvia Munroe, and Gordon Mirams turns astrologer to foretell the course of his film stare in 1939.

A new an dinteresting feature of a critical nature is “Music' of the Week,” which is written, the writer says, with no other object than that of helping to raise the standard of broadcast performances in New Zealand. Striking review of “Marie Walewska, the new Garbo-Boyer film on Napoleon, is contained in “The Film Record,” by Gordon Mirams. and “Passing Pageant,' by Trevor Lane, and “This World of Ours,” by John Guthrie, round off the isaua.