Journalist's Jottings

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18581, 15 December 1934, Page 9

Journalist's Jottings

“DOBTN Hyde,” a name which nnin-(le-plumes the identity of a bright young New Zealand woman journalist, stepped out of her college “gym” dress into the “morgue” of the Dominion newspaper when she was lfi, and now with 12 years 61 working journalism behind her she Jollows tho new fashion of publishing parly memories, giving a most entertaining volume of recollections under the appropriate title of “Journalese.” in addition to her established reputation as a writer of short stories and verse in New Zealand and Australian journals, “Robin Hyde” has held down stair jobs on several metropqlitnn and provincial dailies of the Dominion, where newspaper . life brought her in close contact with all sorts and conditions, and her first book gives the reader refreshing glimpses and close-up views of many famous and infamous characters which have fluttered across our public life in the post-war period. There are politicians and faith-healers, lories and Communists, spiritist mediums and musical fjtars, criminals and crooks, all brought to life with a. vivid- pen and a blithe naivete which makes them appear very human and understandable. “Robin Hyde” writes of them all with a sympathetic touch, except for an occasional blatant humbug or insufferable poseur, and her viewpoint is far different from the outlook of the newspaper man who covers . the daily events for the press.—(National Printing Company.)