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Radio Record, 27 May 1938, Page 47

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"DISGUSTIPATING" I eannot congratulate you On your choice of "Popeye" ag a suitable subject for your newly instituted children’s page. The uneducated speech of "Popeye" is, in my opinion, liable to give wrong ideas of grammar to children of seven or eight years of age, who are the oldest who are likely to enjos

his antics.-

E. A.

Clowes

(Dunedin).

SERVICE APPRECIATED I suppose there are many more film goers like myself who take the excelleni service Mr. Mirams provides just a little for granted, and who only rous¢ themselves to an appreciation of his work when that service seems threatened, as it does now, by the extraordinary action of Columbia Pictures’ executive in forbidding him to attend any more of their previews because of your recent criticism of "I’ll Take ltomance." After seeing this picture a few days ago, I think:your criticism of it not only fair, but even generous. From now onwards [ shall be more appreciative of his work, now 1 realise that in doing it honestly he meets with discouragement and antagonism.-~

Anon

(Napier).

WHO ARE THEY? rok the past few weeks I have read with mueh interest Scherzo’s page in the "Record." The criticisms, to my mind, have been fair and should have proved instructive and helpful to those concerned. I am not a performer, but I am intensely interested in music, both vocal and instrumental, and am very anxious not to miss anything that is worth while. This desire for more knowledge has prompted me to take the liberty to write. The first paragraph in Scherzo’s review of April 29 includes these words: "There are more executants and more brilliant composers in the world to-day than there have ever been in the past." Of course, I realise that what is musie to one is not to another, but will you please tell me who are these com posers and where and when is their music to be heard? 1 agree there are some very brilliant executants, but who is the composer Who ¢an compare with Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Bach, Verd). or Sehubert, to say nothing of

many otbers?.

T.E.

W.

Wellington.

[Neherzo will write an article on Modern Composers for the "Record" shortly.--Ed. | BAND CRITICISM 1 don't know who is responsible for the article published in the "Reeord of April 14 in which the Ashburton jund is criticised. Was it necessary to say that the band has "a long way to go before it reaches top microphone form’? One does not expect a B grade band to be at top microphone form, And, anyway, why criticise the Ashburton Band, certainly the best B grade band in New Zealand, when we are asked to listen-in to broadeasts by bands like the Christchurch Municipa! and New Brighton, about which ne comments are made, and whieh, in m) opinion, are a good deal lower in the standard of playing than Ashburton in its present form,