SANDY’S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 268, 13 November 1945, Page 4

SANDY’S CORNER

EXAMINATION SEASON. This is the season when all good little students sit for examinations. Beware of what happened last year on some of those general knowledge questions. There have been a few new bodies formed. One they won't have on the paper this year is “Unesco,” because It was only formed last Saturday—United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation. But you had better know your “Corso’s,” your “Unrra’s” and the rest. HIS SONGS WILL LIVE ON. All of us who have memories of “Showboat” will feel regret at the death of Jerome D. Kern, one of the most noted of America’s composers. He died, significantly enough, when New York is about to witness a revival of “Showboat.” something which bears out the belief, firmly held in Wanganui, that musical comedy is in for a great revival. Amons Kern’s works were “Very Good Eddie,” “Have a Heart.” “Oh Lady. Lady,” “Head Over Heels.” “The Night Boat.” “The Cabaret Girl.” “The Beautv Prize.” “Showboat,” “Men of the Sky,” “The Cat and the Fiddle.” “Music in the Air.” The music of Kerns, like that of many/ others, will live on though he himself is still. THE KAIONE GOES ! - (The Wanganui Harbour Board’s dredge Kaione left in the small hours of this (Tuesday) morning for Brisbane, to be handed over to her new owners, a Queensland firm, for dredging coral. A few of the city’s public men saw her sail.—News item.) Fundamentally and specially an eater of sand, Dredge Kaione’s gone to seek a diet on a coral strand. Marram-crested ridges wav’d farewell, the sand grains drifting still. “We wish you luck in coral,” they said, “a belter job fulfil/ “As the chopny waves of Tasman take** you, we’ll still have our dream, “Of one day seeing, between the moles, a deep sea harbour gleam. “We stay Io fight the battles of the sand: we’ll toil, sweat and graft, “And, notwithstanding your jealousy, we’ll buy a trimmer craft. “But over dur ledgers we will gloat and rub our hands and thrill: “She’s been written off. Mr. Chairman, old Kaione and her bill!” —“Sandy.** Wanganui, Nov. 12. 1945.