3 MARCH 1933, Page 48

Kiipenick, by the way, with its healthy laughter at an

out-moded national folly, provided a nice contrast to the broadcast of the seventh " Miscellany " a night or two later. These " Miscellanies " are made up of plays, songs and poems : a sort of radio anthology. A rather decadent cleverness was the keynote of this particular example. We had some ultra-sophisticated music, a sketch (called " The Last Tea ") with a quite insidious nastiness about it, and a first performance in England of Darius Milhaud's miniature opera, The Rape of Europa. The whole show left the listener with a distinctly unpleasant flavour. This sort of thing can do no good to the B.B.C.'s more worthy endeavours to keep abreast of the times in music.