Strange Bedfellows
USING good material with lordly ex- . travagance, 2ZB packed four eccentric characters into one short "When Did This Happen?" session the other night -Beau Brummel, Louis Braille, Franz Liszt, and John Howard. A few moments of dialogue enlivened each biographical sketch, and then followed incidents like these. John Howard, after a tour of English prisons, was heard protesting to his local M.P. "I have seen women lying in damp, dark, dirty dungeons. I have seen . + » etc. "Mr. Howard, you astonish
and appal me," replied the M.-P. briskly and instantaneously. "I will have the matter put right at once." And he did. I enjoyed, too, hearing the young Liszt’s impassioned vow that he would make Vienna the great musical centre of Europe. The choice of Vienna, a capital in which Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, and Beethoven had already done a certain amount of pioneering, showed a discriminating prudence not usually associated with this gentleman’s career. But there is surely a point beyond which such. jokes may not be carried.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 8
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169Strange Bedfellows New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 334, 16 November 1945, Page 8
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