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The-Radio-Pictorial RAM PICTORIAL, January 18, i OS.No 53 PORTRAIT PLATE HE ONLY PAPER DANCE BAND LE*DERIith CONTINENTAL PROGRAMMES OF ENGLISH LISTENERS GREAT OFFER RA DIO STARS AUTOGRAPHS 4 4.1 .s, 7 1 ' 4;440'0 ji 4 41' 0 * 41.1*'411 IL7 S *.f LES ALLEN & ANNA LEE Registered at the G.P.O. as a newspaper. RADIO PICTORIAL January 18, 1935 41?The PRICELESS= EWELS \YGOOD VERNON'S Britain's SPECTACLES CUM CORE WEAR SNIT I LARGEST & BEST MEN= ARE INEFFECTIVE! OPERATIONS LIE INNIEMINSI You realise how precious is good eyesight, NOTHING BARRED and the importance of treating your eyes, if at all affected, in the right way. The right FOOTBALL POOLS -the rational-way is the Neu -Vita gentle, safe method of Eye -massage, which is giving Tune in to wonderfulrelieftohundredsofeye - (312 sufferers every day, simply by gentle mani- PARIS (POSTE PARISIEN)metres) pulations over the closed eyelid. 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Just send a Postal Order for 4/6 to Name Publishing Department, RADIO PICTORIAL, Address L1F6 58-61 Fetter Lane, (POST FREE) R.P. Londe, E.C.4. PIONEER 0F T. STRANG POINTS POOLS HAWKHILL AVENUE, EDINBURGH, 7 Send for yours TODAY 2 Pages 3 and 4 are missing January 18, 1935 RADIO PICTORIAL Sir Henry Lytton says: "A new race of radio comedians must Radio Pictorial No. 53 be created who do not depend on audience response. For the Published by Bernard Jones Publications, Ltd., 58-61 Fetter Lane. E.C.4. present the B.B.C. must persevere withthe established Editor -in -Chief BERNARD E. JONES Editorial Manager ROY J. O'CONNELL comedians. There is none better. But they should be straining Editor KENNETH ULLYETT every nerve to discover and develop young men . .. OMETIMES I feel very envious of all listeners, and if the studio audience is amused, the 1,..)5the clever young men who are busily other listeners will be too. creating the art of wireless entertain- Sir Henry LYTTON This is only begging the question. ment. Here is a brand new method of The studio audience may be amused for the appealing to an audience, here are the biggest writesthisspecialarticlefor very reasons that the listener is bored. The studio audience hears and sees the complete show. The audiences that any performer in the history of "Radio Pictorial" and tells frankly the world has had to amuse. During the last listener only hears the spoken word.If a man what he thinksaboutthe with a funny face says something foolish, people ten years an enormous amount has been will laugh because he looks so funny.If a voice learnt of the science of radio presentation. methods of radio comedians and issuing from a loud speaker says the same thing But now the foundations have been laid and it variety stars with the same intonation, the listener at home is during the next ten years that this science is irritably thinks to himself "How fatuous ! " and going to be converted into an art.Alas, I shall switches off. only play the part of admiring onlooker ! Furthermore, it is impossible to evolve a spoken So long as he has an audience in front of him, a Had I been born fifty years later I too mightjoke or a piece of comic "business" and say withcomedianwill,consciouslyorunconsciously, have participated in this fight for the mastery ofany degree of certainty that an audience willappeal to the eye as well as to the ear.Yet the the microphone. find it amusing. Both stage and films have foundperfect radio comedian must appeal only to the ear. Still, for more than fifty years I have wooedthat things which appeared excruciatingly funny There is only one solution. fair Thalia, the Muse of Comedy, and out of theduring rehearsal have fallen absolutely flat in A new race of radio comedians must be created knowledge I have garnered it will be amusing topublic. With either stage or film work it is possiblewho do not depend on " audience response." For speculate on the problems the B.B.C. will have toto discover these errors and rectify them.A playthe present the B.B.C. must persevere with the solve before just one element of entertainment-is given a short run in the provinces, a film isestablished comedians. There is none better. the comic-will be satisfactorily put "on the air."unobtrusively inserted into the programmes of aBut they should be straining every nerve to Every single part of a wireless programme-songs,few selected cinemas, and the reactions of actualdiscover and develop young men who will think music, talks, drama, instruction, news-all haveaudiences are carefully noted. and act only in terms of the microphone when their own set of difficulties. With radio work this is impossible.The firstcreating their comic effects. Though most of us agree that the world of radiotime a performance is put in a programme, it is So far as I know, this is not being done. New has achieved miracles during its short life, no oneheard by anything up to ten million people andartistes are discovered, but they appear on the will deny that a tremendous amount yet waitsthat is the end of it.It is too late to make amend-same programmes as the older ones, they watch to be done. ments, to strengthen weak spots. them at work, they have the studio audience to Greatly daring, I will deal with humour, as This brings me to my first point, the first greataddress themselves to, and they are infact presenting more complexities than any of thedifference between wireless humour and all otherlearning to perpetuate the old and worn-out others 1 forms of comedy. Up to now, comedy has beentechnique instead of trying to discover a new one Humour differs from all other branches of enter-judged by " audience response."With radioof their own. tainment in that there are no standards by which ithumour this is impossible. The next problem is to discover how to do can be judged. It seems to me that this factor has been neglectedwithout " audience response." Goodness only A symphony by Beethoven or a concerto byor ignored, yet surely it is the key to the wholeknows what ingenious methods will be discovered Bach is something as fixed and immutable as thesituation? Both B.B.C.
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