"MR. AND MRS. GRUMBLE"
Sir,-I think Editors should go straight to Faradise when they die, without the cleansing fires of Purgatory, as some poor compensation for suffering captious critics gladly. Maybe it is good to have an open forum where readers can discharge their surplus bile-but "methinks they do protest too much." As for classical music puritans who are always bleating for Bach and Beethoven-well, they should be tied to a stake and jazzed to death by Yankee dance bands with Brobdingnagian loud speakers. Disraeli once said: "Critics-why critics are only disappointed authors." And I recollect that Oscar Wilde gently flayed them thus: "There are some folk who are always grumbling-if you were to put the liver-wing of an angel before them, they would grumble at the bloody stuffing." The adjective is his. not mine. Let it stand. Mr. Editor: Bernard
Shaw uses it.-
HENRY J.
HAYWARD
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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148"MR. AND MRS. GRUMBLE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 95, 18 April 1941, Page 4
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