MENTION OF MRS SIMPSON.
RADIO ANNOUNCER PUNISHED.
TO LOSE FIVE WEEKS’ SALARY.
United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright
LONDON. Feb. 22
Mr John Rorke, the British Broadcasting Corporation performer who interjected “Mrs Simpson” during a broadcast in which an allusion was made to “sex appeal,” is to lose five weeks’ salary in consequence. lie will not be heard again in wireless performances before St. Patrick’s Day.
“It was ‘Mrs Gibson’ I intended to say,” remarked Mr Rorke. “It is impossible to explain how 1 came to slip in “Simpson.”
“I shall take my punishment, which I consider most lenient, with resignation.”
Mr Rorke has been broadcasting for 13 years.
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Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20126, 23 February 1937, Page 7
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108MENTION OF MRS SIMPSON. Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20126, 23 February 1937, Page 7
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