BUSINESS AS USUAL.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 70, 23 March 1940, Page 8

BUSINESS AS USUAL.

The comic programmc supplied by the commercial broadcasting- corporation last evening was possibly, in the opinion of the controller, an appropriate one for a Good Friday evenings entertainment, but I somehow fancy there was one or two listeners who thought very much otherwise. After the ventriloquinl item nt eight o'clock I expected someone to give a parody of the Sermon on the Mount, or a comic version of the Crucifixion (there i* that type of mind in i this cominerci.il ape), or possibly a rendering of the "llolv City" sung by somebody's hill-billy band. A mock debate between the money-changers in the Temple and a farcic.il debate between the Marx brothers. Herod and Pontius Pilate could also have been worked in, with a few remarks on banking as it should be bv Uncle Scrim to finish the whole thing off. maybe. To any listener tuning in after divine service the .programme from eight o'clock onwards must have come as a distinct shock, but, there, T must be old-fashioned after all. Just, why somebody's hair oil, cocoa or shampoo mixture should get first preference and be allowed to put 011 a sponsored prop ram 111 cof last night's description and yet the movies be banned 011 account of the solemnity of the occasion beats me. I suppose I will hear the old argument that one can tune such stuff out—it should not be possible to tune it in. MacCI.URK.