CHANGING PROGRAMMES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 422, 1 May 1937, Page 2

CHANGING PROGRAMMES

Completely One-dimensional The hours of the itheatre and hell are diort and their artists can play the same role over and over 'again, from one theatre to another. A successful play runs for ‘twelve months without a change. But the radio, with hours that are three or four times longer has to change its programme every day an'd nev. r repeat nsclf. Not olil y that, but it has io tr-insmute all its entertainment, into the one physical vehicle of the human voice and the mechanical one c>f nistrum ms, without any of the glamour of die theatre, lits lights, settings ar,d other embellishments, and without the per£'.;BQli- : ties of this actors. In other woras, it is completely one-dimensional Yet 'there are people who, having stood in the rain for hours to see an indifferent film or vaudeville show and accepted its limitations without criticism, will go home and turn off the radio with a snort of disgus: because it doesn’t hapnen to give them just what they reel Ike at th,j moment. Is it because they get it too easily? it is always on tap like the wa t er and electric light, with the difference that it is cheiaper than either.