It Was Quiet, All Right

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 33, 1 March 1929, Page 7

It Was Quiet, All Right

HE programme organiser of 3YA recently, by invitation, formed one of a concert party which visited Paparua, gaol. The prisoners were entertained and cheered up by a great variety of items, which they heartily applauded. But they were brought back to earth and listened with stoical silence when a member of the party sang May Brahe’s "It’s Quiet Down Here." Performers and audience felt embarassed. Only the radio man seems to be appreciative of the contretemps, and his view-point was detached and different from that of anyone else there. He looks back on it now as a joke, but he says it taught him a lesson as to the fitness of things, and emphasised to him the variety of receptions which the best studio items can receive in a myriad homes, where the extent of appreciation, conditions, and environment differ so much.