Mr. Dennis Barry

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 32, 22 February 1929, Page 10

Mr. Dennis Barry

Well-known Before the Microphone "THOSE who were listening in the Sunday night Mr. Wilkie presented the special programme from 2YA, and those who were privileged to see the plays presented in Wellington, will remember the very fine songs sung by Mr. Dennis Barry. Mr. Barry is by no means new to the microphone, for it is now about three years since he first broadcast from Savoy Hill, the studio of Station 2L0, London. When he was in New Zealand about this time last year, he broadcast from Christchurch, This was his first appearance on the air in New Zealand. My. Barry affirms that he would rather sing to an audience than to a microphone. With the latter, imagination, and versatile imagination, was necessary to picture the audience, and the result is not so pleasing, nor so conVincing. His last song on Sunday night was one of his own setting, and as it has not yet been published, it is impossible for Mr. Barry to supply the listeners who have written him for a copy. As soon as possible, Mr. Barry will have

bl this published, and is keeping the names and addresses of those who wrote him, in order that he may fulfil their request. He has been with the Shakespearean Company since 1926. He has no favourite part, but says he just likes the part which he is playing, and if anyone has seen him as Puck in "A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream," they will quite agree. His representation and his stage appearance is very. fine, while his excellent musical voice is an/asseé to whatever role he may play. —