"FRED AND MAGGIE"
Sir,-I am convinced that the older one becomes, the less tolerant one- is . With the inanities of life-and the radio programmes. I refer to those two nonsensical purveyors of present-day humour-Fred and Maggie. Ten years ago in my much earlier youth I listened with some amusement to their perambulations, and did at times manage to enjoy their particular brand of humour, and in moments of stress even imitate Maggie’s "H’m, fancy!" But tolerance of such mediocre entertainment does wane
with the passing yéars. Why put them on! the air on Saturday evening of all, nights? Saturday night is really a| "going-gay" night. Pictures, dances, | parties and the like seem to be in order. | Yet to those of us forced to stay at home on Saturday nights is denied the sense of "going gay." Money-Go-Round, whose place has) been taken by Fred and Maggie, was) bright, breezy and entertaining. Now we | are forced to put up with something that | is boring, banal and exasperating. Can- | not something be done to improve the! lot of those of us who are stay-at-homes | on Saturday night? /
THIRTY NOT OUT
(Christchurch). |
(Abridged. Ed: )
Sir,-Accustomed though I am _ to having my taste offended by radio Ppro- | grammes, I have never heard such, in- | consequential drivel as that contained | in 1ZB’s Fred and Maggie Everybody. ' Saturday night’s programme would be! the richer for half an hour’s silence.
J. K. B.
FOUNTAIN
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 12
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238"FRED AND MAGGIE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 12
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