A Loathsome Thing, God Wot!
R. MIDDLETON writes like a sensible man, visitors from England have told me that he speaks like one, and that he is one I continue to believe in spite of evidence to the contrary submitted in a "BBC Personalities" feature from 1YA the other morning. The woman who introduced him and gave a few welcome biographical details mentioned that he was becoming week by week more like a caricature of himself. We were then treated to a record of Mr. Middleton presumably caricaturing himself in a way that may have been very funny indeed to people who know him in his everyday garb. Next, a man with a cinema organ announced that he was going to take us for a walk around his dream garden, a dreary musical monologue to the tune of "Trees" and a few bars of the "Bees’ Wedding." Mr. Middleton then made a few more aimless remarks about daisies and trees (background music, "Trees"), and finally the man with the cinema organ gave us enother tour of his dream garden, again playing "Trees" and a few bars of the "Bees’ Wedding." The great heart of the British public knows its onions where gardens are concerned, and it is not with inanities such as these that Mr. Middleton has dug himself into it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 300, 23 March 1945, Page 8
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221A Loathsome Thing, God Wot! New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 300, 23 March 1945, Page 8
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