GOOD CLEAN FUN
Sir,-A remark in The Listener about the radio programme "Home Town Variety" prompts me to add a word or two of my own. Every Thursday evening Fred and Laurie provide us with enough laughs to make us forget the daily grind and end the day with a smile. None of the jokes need dry cleaning. Never have we heard anything offensive, or suggestive, on this programme, "Laurie" is clever, and, her cracks at "Fred" are so natural and spontaneous that we all enjoy them. His comebacks also show he is. not resentful, but has learned one of life’s most valuable lessons--to be able to smile when the joke is on YOU. Such programmes as this, not only afford pleasant entertainment, but "they help make evenings in Radioland profitable to our family who, without good, clean fun in our home, would probably seek diversion elsewhere, One small criticism in connection with "Home Town Variety" is this: that we think that three items by any one artist on the show is over-doing it a little. The local artists are, in the main, good, but not so acceptable when heard too many times in the one programme, especially if the sheer Eh are inclined to be slow ones.
C
B
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 197, 2 April 1943, Page 3
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211GOOD CLEAN FUN New Zealand Listener, Volume 8, Issue 197, 2 April 1943, Page 3
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