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"LAUGH IT OFF"

Sir,-I did not hear H. R. G. Jefferson's talk "Laugh It Off,’ commented en in Radio Viewsreel, but I concur with the conclusion that one of our greatest failings is our diminishing sense of humour. It seems to me, too, that our Broadcasting Services have responsibility in this matter. The proportion of humour in our programmes is negligible, and for years I have felt that a greater amount of humour would not only improve the programmes, but have a salutary effect on our people. When British people begin to lose their sense of humour they are in danger of losing their spirit. The Broadcasting Services were the first section to succumb to this regrettable trend, and, what’ is worse, they deny listeners the pleasure of sufficient humour in the programmes. Can anything be done to resurrect the dead sense of humour in programme organisers and so revive the dying sense bumour of New Zealanders?

WOT, NO FUN

(Grey Lynn).

MUSIC AND WORDS Sir,-It is a pity that Delius, having the whole of our literature to select from, did not choose something more worthy of a musical setting than the trash published recently in The Listener. I say nothing of the music itself, apart from the words, because I have not heard the composition; but even if the music has merit, and it may have for all I know to the contrary, its association with a text which, regarded as literature, is about equal to the banalities bleated by Bing, is as laudable as adorning a gutter-snipe with a _ king’s -Tobes. Let me here acknowledge my indebtedness to Shakespeare. Appalachia evidently has its admirers. So, too, I suppose has rubbish like "Glory Road," "Mamma didn’t know, "Pappa didn’t know," and, I make use of a phrase taken from an estimate of -a piece beloved by budding pianists of an earlier generation, "that most detest‘able of abominations" Moussorgsky’s "Song of the Flea."

JOSEPH C.

McEVOY

(Dunedin).

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 445, 2 January 1948, Page 5

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"LAUGH IT OFF" New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 445, 2 January 1948, Page 5

"LAUGH IT OFF" New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 445, 2 January 1948, Page 5

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