With an extraordinary sense of humour it might be possible to derive ets of clean, good fun from local radio programmes and the efforts of stockbrokers to spoil whatever pre= tence at radio entertainment there 1s, in Shanghai. New York quotations fare interjected into programmes amazing intervals and with the aforementioned extraordinary sense of humour the radio listener ought to 40 Into roars of laughter at the merrie ment provided by the jovial stocks. For instance, on Saturday night the song "Remember my forgotten man' was being sung and the record wat nearly finished. In fact, it had got to the last two Tines and' the following joke: 7 was the slockbroker's pretty litle
Forgetting him you see Youre forget ike my forsolten "So—to-and-so market company.
We will now give you the 1030 an, New York stock market quotations It only needed the word "man" to complete the song and record but the exigencies of the local business market are such that even a mere syllable counts even if it does spoil Public pleasure. Incidentally, if this condition is to continue local' stations might at least appease their radio audience by procuring a few new re~ cords. The two advertising promotion records applying to "Wonder-bar" and "Murder at the Vanities" are getting 2 Little stale considering that the films have long since passed off the local screen, Some of the Programmes are beginning to acquire [the mustiness of auction room bar= gains in gramophone records.
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