MENACE OF RADIO

Grey River Argus, 6 May 1933, Page 6

MENACE OF RADIO

MUSICAL DECLINE Serious in Great Britain (Aim & N Z Cable Assn.) < Received May 5 at ]0 p.m ) SYDNEY. May 5. Mr W. 11. Dixon, Director of the Royal Christchurch Musical Socio! v. has arrived here from England. lb <; ; d that there has been tl serious de io communitv effort in music, owing to the radio programmes having stultified th' 1 natural outlook. Theri' was lot the <ame interest in amateur musical societies or repertory movements in England. He ex’pn •ss(><l lhe opinion that radio was n meiiace to I'e dealt with seriously. 'flip artists in such great eentri's as Manchester hnd been <-omplaining that everything i s radiated from London. Most of the people are now prepare I to get their entertainment l>v turning a knob o r a Mi- Dixon said he feared that cultural effort in Dominions would Im crushed if any unrestricted Empire' broad casting scheme were adopted. Their local artists would secure' no work. I'oeYph', lie added, were even forgetting to go to church because they coni I get their services from broad east studios.