ANGRY LISTENERS.
Sir,-Thanks are due to The Listener for reprinting the very interesting talk by Miss Ngaio Marsh on "The Angry Listener." I found a great deal of the talk to be very much to the point and hope it has the desired, effect on the "far-flung correspondents." But has not Miss Marsh answered herself in her second to last paragraph, where she claims greater tolerance for the highbrows? She cites "The highest musical brains imaginable" and the "loftiest brows in the world of letters" as being tolerant in these matters. It seems she has overlooked that vast number of not-so-lofty brows who, it seems, think it would be lowering to their selfesteem to admit a liking for anything regarded as lowbrow. There seems to me to be as great @ proportién of low-brows who concede the virtues of the classics as there is of loftybrows who confess they think some jive and boogie-woogie ingenious and interesting. ’ I would like to take a guess that there are as many.angry letters written by the not-quite-so-high-brows ag by the croon fans, a number of whom, as Miss Marsh suggests, are probably inspired by a subconscious grudge. If members of both factions would "read and inwardly digest" Miss Marsh’s article the number of angry letters to The Listener should drop considerably.
TRYING TO BE TOLERANT
(Murufara).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 476, 6 August 1948, Page 5
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