SHAKESPEARE EVENING

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 42, 4 May 1928, Page 4

SHAKESPEARE EVENING

A NOTABLIS FRATURE, The special efforts made at «ll stations to commemorate Shakespeare’s birthday have evoked definite appreciation from a number of listeners. Correspondence, both dircet to the stations and to the performers, has been fairly voluminous, and, what is more notable, of a high quality, indicating the appreciation of the definite circle of listeners, The modern tendeney in broadcasting, as is evidenced from a number of quarters, lies in * feature evenings" of this character, as by that means those seeking special entertainment can recciye it. It is plain that the Shakespeare audience is by no means simall. One particularly interesting appreciation received by Mr. Byron Brown from a medical man in a country town is worth reproducing. It runs as follows :-‘Although quite a stranger to you, I feel I must write and thank you for your very delightful evening’s entertainment, Your lecturette on Shakespeare was full of interest and most beautifully delivered, «and was conunented on by all of us as a lesson in cultured English diction, Your Cassius and Brutus was a splendid effort, ‘The whole evening was a sheer delight, Dut I suppose some of our disgruntled ones would sooner listen to the --- Jazz Band Thank (God, the age of jazz will pass, int beauty liyes for ever. Once again, many thanks, and a sincere desire to hear you again,"