“FLESH AND BLOOD” SHOWS
ALL WIRELESS AND TALKIES. 'Wireless and the talkies were subjects mentioned by Mr John Fuller, of Fullers’ Theatres, Ltd., in an interview in Christchurch. He expressed the opinion that the death knell of "flesh and blood” .shows had been sounded for 'touring companies, and that the new system of broadcasting control in New Zealand and Australia could be a suc-
cess if the subscribers were given the fullest representation.
Mr Fuller was a member of the Australian Broadcasting Co., which had its license from the Federal Government to control the whole of the broadcasting of Australia. , Recently the license lias been taken away and in reply to a question as to whether he was sorry, Mr Fuller said : “Yes, and no.’’ He said that he replied “No,” because he had always . advocated that broadcasting should be conducted from a national standpoint, that it should be free, and tha,t it should be obtainable for 24 hours in the day. “I am of the opinion that Parliament should be broadcast for one thing,” Mr Fuller continued, “and above all there should be- a system which included specialised .stations. By that I mean stations which .broadcast the. one type of news or entertainments and that type only. Thus if the Melbourne Cup was being run the, sports station would be broadcasting it at the -time it ’was run, and listeners would riot have to wait until a certain time for' the result or description. Listeners should be able to select a station for the type of entertainment thev desire.
“I have been pleased to see the attitude that has been adopted in New Zealand in regard to the control of broadcasting, and I think it would be a great error not to have a subscriber member from the North Island and the South Island on the Board of Control. "You ask me if the ‘flesh and blood’ will come again,” Mr Fuller concluded. “No.’’. In isolated cases there will still be grand opera and Gilbert and Sullivan, but in such countries as this Dominion the future of the ‘flesh and blood’ shows lies entirely in the hands of the 'Repertory Societies.
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1931, Page 3
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