SINGER HEARTBROKEN
CONCERTS IN SYDNEY SMALLNESS OF AUDIENCES CONTRAST WITH MELBOURNE (Received August 1, 12.-15 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 31 Musical circles and critics in Sydney and Melbourne are greatly concerned at the comparative failure of the concerts so far given in Sydney by the Australian soprano Miss Marjorie Lawrence, who recently returned from a successful concert tour abroad. She was acclaimed in her home city of Melbourne, where her concerts averaged attendances of 2800. She opened her season in Sydney last week, but the attendances at each of three concerts were poor. Actually there were only 600 at Saturday night's concert/ which resulted in to-night's recital in the Sydney Town Hall having to be cancelled due to (lie smallness of the bookings, which were under 200. Miss Lawrence described her Sydney visit as heartbreaking. She added: "People are apparently not interested in Australian artists."
Concert promoters think some blamo is attachable to the National Broadcasting Commission, which is importing artists competing on an unfair basis with the aid of radio licence fees.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23413, 1 August 1939, Page 9
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