Viewers’ Views
Letters on television topics! are subject to the rules applying to genera) correspondence. SATISFIED “Satisfied Viewer” is right when she says we have the power to turn off when something not to our taste comes on. Not to do so is just as ridiculous as reading a critic’s 1 column day by day when it makes us heartily sick to read all the grumbles. —WHY TORTURE YOURSELF. MICROPHONES I have always taken offence at those who spoke to me with a pipe or cigarette in their mouth. The sight of our leading artists with supposedly golden voices having to virtually fling the microphone into their mouths has a similar effect. Even if the microphone is left on a stand they eye It as If they are being mesmerised by a snake. Would it be possible to wire them for music in some other way? Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Grace Moore and others sang to their audiences, and not to the snake’s head. Could it happen again? GULLY GULLY.
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32352, 18 July 1970, Page 3
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