CELEBRITIES WANTED
To the Editor, "The Listener" Sir.-You will perhaps, when you read this, say: "Another malcontent!" re anne of that, I shall put in my plea. It’s always been a mystery to me (and still is) why we don’t hear more records of "celebrity" singers over the air. By "celebrities" I mean longrecognised artists like Galli-Curci, Miliza Korjus, and Beniamino Gigli-to mention a few. Of course we get them occasionally, but more often we have to suffer in silence some blighted youth drooling "I love you-ou-ou!!" I have nothing against youth--far from it!-but when young men feel like that they should take themselves where they can go on with their "music" in cloistered happiness, My complaint is that we hear only half as many records of famous singers as of the cowboy, pastrycook, naked native type of thing. Yours, etc.,
M. D.
BASSETT
Kumara, Westland, December 16, 1939.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 10
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149CELEBRITIES WANTED New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 29, 12 January 1940, Page 10
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