Fashions in Humour
ONDAY _ even- | ings having been engaged during the last few weeks, I have only _ once heard Olive Lucius’s Song and Humour over 3YA. Miss Lucius’s usual speaking voice is quiet with a touch of melancholy that gives the introduction to her programme a pleasing ee ee | |
intimacy, but leaves you totally unprepared for the flood of wit and vitality which comes once she begins on the actual item. The impersgnation of children of different nationalities saying "Little Miss Muffet" and that of the strenuous Holiday Camp Hostess were most enjoyable. This kind of humour harks back a long way. I have never been able fully to understand fashions in humour, and why so many people think that what was regarded as humorous 20 or 30 years ago is necessarily dill now. Passibly Miss Lucius has helped to destroy that impression where it exists. One fault, which detracted from the polish of the performance,- was in the -sudden bursts of vigour that nearly lifted the radio from the sheif. This may have been because Miss Lucius is used to the stage, where a greater range in voice intensity is quickly equalised by the distance between artist and audience.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 10
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200Fashions in Humour New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 10
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