“JACK POINT’S” WEEKLY WHISPERISM.
More Torture. Word has just’ come to hand that photographs on phonograph records, and fhe subsequent broadcasting of faces by radio stations—all this has been made possible by a new and sensational invention. As soon as “Jack Point” read this, he took his radio set out in the back yard and smashed it into pieces with the axe. He could not endure the thought of hlr Coates’ face, all ablaze with glee and expectation, popping out unexpectedly some evening just as he was going to tune in on the evening’s programme. Fancy trying to catch the last race result with the face of A. Killjoy, the great inventor of betting systems (who threw himself under a tram after the failure of the hundredth and most promising system), flickering prophetically before the eyes! Of the face of Amelia’s mother, or the landlord—but enough! Wflat will th.) wireless people invent next? “Jack Point” fears that ere long the ether won’t be worth living in at all. It is not a long step from the face of a celebrity to the prize cabbage of a. suburban garden, or the prize pig of some backblock’s annual show—and when they’re all in the ether it will be time for the rest of us to sign the * pledge.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 20085, 2 March 1928, Page 3
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