Panic
| SOMETHING happened in a For My Lady session the other morning that I found a little touching. Usually the session goes with a suave if rather flat smoothness. This time a pleasant deep voice (just a trifle bored) began to tell us about the Russian’ composer Alexander Dargomijsky, and stumbled over the name. That was no bad fault, but having done so once, she panicked, and did it not once again but twice. She also made a bungle of "Notre Dame de Paris," muffed an ordinary English word, and then gave us "Rimsky-Kor-sakov"’ with the exaggerated slowness and care of a badly-frightened candidate in an elocution examination. As we seemed to be listening to a record I could not help wondering why the thing had not been scrapped and re-made.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 513, 22 April 1949, Page 14
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131Panic New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 513, 22 April 1949, Page 14
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