Sunday Best
WHEN Occasion demands, 1ZB can be as dignified as her higherbrowed sisters. The matey little private jokes of Request Session announcers, the sodden pulp of soapoperas, the plugging of tooth-pastes, the emasculation of great musical ‘works, -the throbbing sentiment of children’s choirs, the potting of culture into shiny little capsules hardly prepare us to accept that kind of presentation in which pomposity and exaggeration give way to taste and dignity. But 1ZB has often shown that,
when the incubus is locked away on Sundays, she can give us from her own resources, unexpected pleasures. On two recent Sunday evenings, . brief _programmes were broadcast in memory of Oscar Natzka and Sigmund Romberg. In both, the script was sober, intelligent, worthy and most capably read by Doug. Laurenson. The music was especially apt and not aggressively "sold." In these sensible" and sensitive tributes to the recently dead, the shades of Aunt Jenny and Doctor Mac aid not for an instant intrude.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 22
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161Sunday Best New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 22
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