Days of Yore

Radio Record, 31 July 1936, Page 49

Days of Yore

Te Korero (Marton), writes: "I have been trying to work up sufficient bad temper to go crook at you, and now jast when I am feeling fit enough I pick up this, week’s ‘Radio Record’ and see that Chostiakoff is coming back. That lets you out. Still, I must tell you my upsetment (Frank). TI have been a listener since before 2YA. and saw the first and most of the succeeding copies of the ‘Radio Record.’ There is one remark you make in your 10th birthday i6rrie that upsets meé "Tn your article, ‘In Ten Short Years,’ you write: ‘All manner of local artists were pressed out into service in 19277 This reads to me as if these loca! artists were of no account. These old-timers Were aS popular as all the imported stars who are on the air now from the main stations, to the detriment of our local artists. Why do our own artists have to go overseas to get a hearing? "What happened to Clement May? I see a listener asking for elocutionary items when one of the best elocutionists we had in this country was forced to leave for lack of support. Now, Roy Hill is going to Australia. Good luck, Roy "The old-timer -.didn't complain so much, even if his neighbour did how] him off the air. No, sir! he used to open the door and listen to his neighbour’s set in those days, if his neighbour had one, and. not rush in and write to the papers and condemn the broadcasting authority."