10 FEBRUARY 1933, Page 32

Last Saturday evening's Radio Music Hall broadcast was apparently intended

to prove that broadcasting in this country does not depend upon the co-operation of the music halls for the success of the vaudeville programmes. It hardly succeeded. The artists chosen had all won their fame on the air. The show they gave was quite good : varied, lively, and really suitable to broadcasting. But the trouble is that this little ensemble of eleven artists (eight of whom worked in pairs) represented the pick of wireless vaudeville stars. To maintain the same fairly high standard, therefore, the B.B.C. would have to call on the same artists again and again. The prospect is not a very bright one. And there seems no way out of the difficulty : broadcasting comedians are still as rare as roses in winter.

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