RADIO ANNOUNCING
TO THE EDITOR OF THE PBISS. Sir,—l am sorry to hurt anybody's feelings; but you can't make omelettes without breaking eggs. Leaving out the question of accent, it is surely undeniable that an announcer should be an edncated person, able to speak correct and fluent English and French. This is an age of specialisation, and an announcer should be a specialist. You can't see him, smell him, or touch him, but to hear him should be a delight. There should be no endurance of the commonplace. There are many degrees of quality and variations of intonation and inflexion m the speaking voice, as in the singing
voice. Imagine the torture of listen" ing every day to an uncultured, singer with an unmusical voice. A dreadful fate indeed!— Yours, etc., SYNTAX. March 8, 1930.
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Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21418, 9 March 1935, Page 9
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