ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 4

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

MISS M. POWELL (Paeroa):-Sorry, but we haven’t a photograph of James Raglan (Roger Milroy) nor any biographical details, but we're still looking. NAOMI A. STIRLING (Wanaka) :-*" Tchaikovski "’ by E. Markam Lee (Lane), or better still ‘‘ Tchaikovsky" by Edwin Evans (Dent) in the ‘‘ Master Musicians" series. " INQUIRER" (Sumner): Something more has come to hand about Angela Parselles, Australian soprano. She went on the stage against her parents’ wishes, and ended up at Covent Garden. Her first BBC job, about four years ago, was an eleventh-hour "stand-in" with Anona Winn, in "Songs from the Films.’"’ She has. also broadcast from Radio Normandie, Poste Parisienne, and other Continental networks. She has made gramophone records with Debroy Somers Band at Columbia Studios. She sang Hedda in Pagliacci at Covent Garden, and was selected from fifty applicants to play the same role in the film version, but had a nervous breakdown just before. She returned to Australia about two years ago, married Hans Trouser,.had a baby son and lives in Melbourne. She broadcasts occasionally from 3LO. " OTAYE." — Thank you for your appreciative remarks about Russell Clark’s drawings. Although we can’t persuade him to talk for publication you will get an impression of him, as he appears to himself, in our issue of November 17, 1939, and another as he appears to our photographer on the cover of our issue of November 26, 1939. He’s in this issue, too, on page 12. Your inquiry about a collection of his drawings we shall leave him to answer by letter. STANLEY DEVERELL (Kati Kati):-Your criticism has been noted. We published one photograph of John Charles Thomas on March 7, but*have not yet been able to find anything better. "DUNEDIN LISTENER"’:-You forgot to give your name and address. "OSTRICH OR REALIST’’?:-A guinea for your thoughts if you will supply name and address,