NO NAMES
Broadcasting Plays VOICE TO DISEMBODIED SPIRIT The British Broadcasting Corporation has determined in future not to ; divulge or announce the names of ‘ actors and actresses taking part in wireless plays. This follows the de- ! cision not to announce the names of dance tunes. The new regulation has been made at the suggestion of Mr. Val Gielgud, the new director of plays for the 8.8. C. An official explained: The reason is that wireless plays are an aural amusement. The imagination should supply the visual part. Hundreds of people may know what an actor or actress looks like, and that spoils the illusion on the wireless, where the voice is the thing that counts and has to create the whole of the representation of the part. Some years ago the 8.8. C. ceased giving in programmes the names of the announcers, and this is an extension of their principle that over the wireless a voice should be a disembodied spirit.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 24
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161NO NAMES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 654, 4 May 1929, Page 24
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