"An Excellent Thing in Woman"
HE soft and gentle voice that read the "For My Lady" programme on Fernando Autori from 3YA (one of the (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) "Great Artists of the World’ series) seemed to me to have been perfectly chosen for the purpose, Its owner spoke with diffidence, and not the least sign of presumption, which is probably what My Lady demands, And she employed a tone that allowed no emphasis to fall-at any point which was just as well, since there was: no single point of interest in the material she had to read that merited emphasis, and stress on any phrase would have been misplaced. Nevertheless she had the virtue of being able to seem impressed by the trivialities on the page in front of her, and had a remarkable ability for reeling off the kind of details of which most of these talks consist, such as opera houses burning down, artists turning down valuable contracts, and the extremely noncommittal remarks. of unnamed "famous critics," as if there really were some usefulness in all this information,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 10
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185"An Excellent Thing in Woman" New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 10
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