Why Are They All So Highbrow?

Radio Record, Volume VII, Issue 7, 25 August 1933, Page 3

Why Are They All So Highbrow?

(Dedicated to Certain Radio Stations)

I love the radio, I own; It is my evening’s constant pal, But it is getting most high-flown And much too educational. When I am weary after work I turn my mind to brighter things ; I long for a comedian’s smirk, Or a soubrette who gaily sings.

I switch around around the dial In search of something bright and cheery ; My first catch is a murder trial,

Second, the orthopaedic theory.

Oh, why are they so highbrow? Why are their thoughts so grand,

When what I like To hear on the mike *S Cab Calloway and his Band?

But valiantly I pursue The search for broadcasts gay and comic: Five thousand birthdays now come through ; Next, facts about the cell atomic. A lecturette, "The Lower Bowel Considered as a Source of Trouble’: Again, "The Aims of Baden-Powell," Or "Points on the East India Bubble.’

"How to grow oats when soil is sandy," | "Before the

Pterodacty] flew"; "The doctrines of Mahatma Ghandi," ‘Religious Cults in

Xanadu." Oh-h-h ! WHY are they all so highbrow? With their talks on myths and oats,

When what we need Is a burst of speed And Gracie Fields’ top notes?

~BY

MARGARET

MACPHERSON