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HE high standard of most features in 1YA’s Feminine Viewpoint shows up the thinness of many of the For My Lady scripts, relics from the Old Order which still appear several times weekly. The Artists New to Listeners series, for instance, is scraping the very bottom of the barrel. The reason for the unfamiliarity of the artists becomes clear enough when one hears them .perform, and the commentaries, like those for the interminable Queens of Song cycle, have a Kind of infant-room coyness which is especially noticeable when, as is the case with most of the subjects, the life outlined has been conspicuously uneventful. Consequently, the trivial anecdotes and the lists of "spectacular" débuts and successes, forgotten as soon as heard, have as little interest and value as has the average digest article. A major source of irritation is the prevalence of this sort of thing: "Madame Whosis scored her greatest triumph in 1902 as Isolde in Wagner’s opera. She will n now sing ‘By the Waters of Minnetonka"" The time has come, in my view, to inter these series decently, and to seek new approaches in which "human interest" is less ‘saree sean pursued.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 535, 23 September 1949, Page 10
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196Trivia New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 535, 23 September 1949, Page 10
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