THE BROADCASTING BOARD

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20955, 8 September 1933, Page 17

THE BROADCASTING BOARD

This play was contorted almost out | of recognition, and then was played by women characters who had no knowledge ot' the dialect and who gave a weak and insipid presentation of the characters. Some time ago we suffered similarly from a radio production of "Waterloo." While these things are being done in the name of drama, I shall continue to be disgruntled. No wonder that plays came last in the late "questionnaire." Suppose that the programme organiser or the announcer took one of Beethoven's sonatas, and deleted a portion here and there and added movements of his own composition, and then caused the mtqsic to be presented over the air by an untrained orchestra, what would bo the reaction of the musician listeners-in? I think they would be disgruntled. It is far better that drama should not be broadcast at all than that it should be mutilated.—Yours, etc., A. M. SPENCE-CLARK. .September 7, 19315.

! "SO THS KDITOa 07 TUB Kta«. Sir,—.your correspondent of yesterthinks I am disgruntled, and he « quite right. When I see what is Wit over the air in the name of drama, t * 3s time to be disgruntled. ' ♦i^ asfc week we suffered the mutila- : distortion of what is recog- > ?»«a as one of the best of one-act "Legend," by Philip Johnson.