[?] Talent on [?]stralian [?]ateur Hour
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[?]stralian [?]ateur Hour
:JI talent is to have a chance this year to compete in Aus tralia’s Amateur Hour, for which rize of £AI,OOO is awarded to the st most likely to succeed. t. Clifford Arnold, chief talent it for the Amateur Hour, was Fiji in June holding auditions Broadcasting House, Suva. He followed by the Amateur Hour ; on July 19. le unit, which comprises Terry r (director-compere), George )henson (producer) and George lor (musical director), was to rd two or three shows, lese will be broadcast later this ■ throughout Australia over the quarie network (55 stations) Radio Australia. (A somewhat sual combination of Commercial ABC stations). le recordings in Fiji are the made for the Amateur Hour ide Australia. le Amateur Hour unit is work in association with the Fiji ideasting Commission and the Visitors’ Bureau in choosing items (there will be 10 items ?ach programme) and making recordings.
All semi-finalists and finalists for the £1,000 prize are selected by popular public vote. The winners of the heats in Fiji will be brought to Australia to take part in the finals.
It has been calculated that the programmes will be heard by more than 2,000,000 listeners throughout Australia—one of the best publicity boosts Fiji has had for a long time.
And P-NG to Have
American Talent
One of America’s top news com mentators, Mr. Lowell Thomas, may broadcast his regular news analysis from Port Moresby next month.
He will arrive in the Territory with the Columbia Broadcasting System TV team at the end of July to make a film on the Territory for American viewers. P-NG will be one of seven countries to be so treated by the CBS; two of the ethers are Venezuela and Antarctica.
A CBS programme director, Mr.
Gilbert A. Ralston, arrived in Port Moresby in early July to make pre liminary arrangements for the TV team. t The film “Last Paradise,” made by Italian technicians Folco Quilici and Collona in Tahiti last year, was selected as one of the three best Italian films at the Film Festival held in Berlin in May.