"I'd Like to Meet the Author"
"ESSIE O’SHEA proved a bit of an anti-climax. From her write-up and. picture I imagined a sort of feminine colossus with a Wagnerian voice and a sense of humour to rival Gracie Fields. Instead I heard just another singer of popular hits. Probably Tessie has a stage personality, but for me she fails to register by means of radio. Her songs when I heard her were commonplace in theme and melody, and were not enhanced by her off-pitch renderings, however much they might gain rhythmically. She added a_ ukulele accompaniment of that monotonous vamping type which George Formby does so much better, No, I can’t say I fell for ‘Tessie, and I’d like to meet the author of a line in one of her songs, wherein she sings about a _ landscape being "all in technicolour-for me and you!" Nature holds her mirror up to M-G-M nowadays, it seems.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 9
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154"I'd Like to Meet the Author" New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 326, 21 September 1945, Page 9
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