A PLEA FOR COMEDY
Sir-I wish to make a_ protest egainst records and programmes which make one feel like Sunday afternoon in town. Why cannot we have some comedy? What has happened to Arthur Askey, Gert and Daisy, George Formby, Sandy Powell, Gracie Fields, Carson Robison? What about the goog old songs, and such cheerful ones as "The Shearers’ Jamboree," etc? Are they considered no good now that we never get them? Those of us who enjoy these pay our licences too, and are entitled to something that we like-and not just one item put in as a great favour among hundreds of the classical, jazz, swing features. And why do we have to have Saturday filled with sports programmes? After all, there is a summary given on Saturday evenings of sports results.
INDIGNANT
(Plimmerton)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 16
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135A PLEA FOR COMEDY New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 469, 18 June 1948, Page 16
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