GROWTH OF RADIO
SERIOUS “MENACE”
MUSICAL SOCIETIES HIT ARTISTS SUFFER (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 8.55 p.m.) Sydney, May 5. Mr W. D. Dixon, director of the Royal Christchurch Musical Society, has arrived here from England. He said there had been a serious decline in the community effort in music owing to radio programmes having stultified the natural outlook. There was not the same interest in amateur musical societies or repertory movements. He expressed the opinion that the radio was a menace to be dealt with seriously. Artists in such great centres as Manchester had been complaining that everything was radiated from London. Most people were now prepared to get their entertainment by turning a knob or a dial. He feared that cultured effort in the dominions would be crushed. If any unrestricted Empire broadcasting scheme were adopted local artists would secure no work. People were even forgetting to go to church because they could get their services from the broadcast studios.
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Southland Times, Issue 22008, 6 May 1933, Page 5
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162GROWTH OF RADIO Southland Times, Issue 22008, 6 May 1933, Page 5
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