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Sir,-Entertainment must match the moods of the public. Those who are in the mood for grand opera are not likely to be pleased with variety even as an interlude, and vice versa. Some people may be in the mood for a symphony to-night and comedy to-morrow night, but to be in a mood for both on the same night would be a little unusual. This fact led the theatre to develop programmes accordingly-comedy, tragedy, variety, etc.-offering each person’ entertainment suited to his mood. How absurd it would be if (being in a mood for an evening’s light entertainment) we had to go to the Royal Theatre at 8 p.m, to catch 15 minutes of humorous items before it turned on excerpts from grand opera, then on to the Imperial to catch 15 minutes of chorus singing preceding a band concert, then on ‘to the Presidential to catch a one-act comedy; and so on, To-night, a little weary from work, I am in the mood for an evening’s light entertainment lasting till about 10 p.m. The first programme I look at offers me light variety for half-an-hour, but this is followed by a dissertation on literature which I am not in the mood for. This lasts for 15 minutes. Then 20 minutes of dance music, I don’t feel like dancing, but perhaps the people for whom the literature was intended do want dance music to follow. Is it too much to hope that one of these days someone will "discover" that some people are in the mood for an evening’s dance music, crooners, and
hill-billies; others are in-a mood for light entertainment (which is rather different from dance music and does require to be light); others are in the mood for more serious recitals; still others for orchestral concerts, etc. That discovery might even be followed by a more momentous one-that people who are in the mood for dance music don’t really want a talk on the poets or a galaxy of damp weather reports thrown in. Could one even dare to whisper to somebody that such astounding discoveries’ might be just round the cofner?
A WEARY HUNTER
(Wellington),
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 388, 29 November 1946, Page 5
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