"Oliver Cromwell"

Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 28, 22 January 1932, Page 5

"Oliver Cromwell"

--""- 2YA Broadcast Applauded "THE recent broadcast programme of "Oliver Cromwell" by Myr. Victor Lloyd and his company met with widespread appreciation. The producer and 2YA have Fseceived letters from all parts of New Zealand, as well as many telephone messages on the evening of the performance. A Hawera listener wrote:-‘"The play ‘Oliver Cromwell’ has just concluded, and the writer feels that it is only just that an appreciation should be given where it is due. The play was very much enjoyed in our house, and were it not for the interruption caused by the relay from the Ninety Mile Beach, time would have ceased to exist from 8 o’clock till the end of the play. We hope that many others will give you their appreciation and that as a result we will be favoured with more plays of a like nature in the future." From Napier :-"I wish to express a radio listener’s appreciation of the excellent performance of ‘Oliver Cromwell’ broadcast by your station last night. I was listening-in with four others and we were completely thrilled with the performance from beginning to end. The reception was very good and we hardly missed a word. Wach member of the cast was extremely good and there was no difficulty in distinguishing the various’ speakers. Personally, I have never enjoyed a radio programme more.’ . Christchurch :-"Please congratulate the producer ef ‘Oliver Cromwell’ for

me for his very excellent preducticn. The parts were well sustained and the property effects were splendidly effective. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole performance and others also have expressed their appreciation." A reverse opinion :-‘"Can you imag: ine a tired businessman listening-in to ‘Oliver Cromwell’? I will guarantee not 5 per cent. of radios were on Wellington last night. Why not put on records in place of the weird wailings in Rastern music of the Orchestra and Orchestrina? They only make ‘static’ a pleasure."