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...child to collect the songs he heard the Hottentot farm boys sing. By the time he was 19 and a fiddler with the Cape Town Symphony Orchestra he had amassed a great fund of native and Boer folk songs. In 1930, in London, he sang a few for BBC, soon became a BBC standby. When NBC gave him a quarter-hour spot two years ago he got so much fan mail that his time was increased to a half-hour. One homesick South African informed him that he changed to hunting boots and shorts for every Marais broadcast...
Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major for Horn and Orchestra (Aubrey Brain and the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50) and Duo No. 2 in B Flat Major for Violin and Viola (Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose; Victor; 5 sides; $3). Two out-of-the-way items, finely tooled...
From Vichy old Marshal Henri Philippe Petain broadcast an appeal to the people of France. In his tired, halting voice he begged: "Frenchmen, your duty is clear -put an end to this butchery. Do not let more evil be done in France." Frenchmen who illegally tuned in the BBC broadcast from London heard an other radio appeal. General Charles de Gaulle asked his countrymen not to kill Germans "in the present circumstances. ..." Instead he asked all Frenchmen to join a general strike, to spend five minutes this Friday in silence and "scornful meditation...
...Kemsley (Daily Sketch), Lord Camrose (Daily Telegraph & Morning Post) and Lord Beaverbrook (Daily Express)-who already owned 25% of Reuters stock through their provincial papers. The M.P.s warned that such control might destroy Reuters' go-year reputation for trustworthy reporting. They also feared for the good name of BBC, Reuters' biggest customer, feared still more for the prestige of British news abroad, which Reuters had done much to build...
...British Broadcasting Corp. had to cope with a voice which was quickly nicknamed Harassing Harry or von Donald-the latter because of its high, rasping resemblance to the quacking of Donald Duck. Into BBC newscasts von Donald injected such quacks as "We want a national Government, not an American Government or a Jewish Government or a Government of the Press. . . . We are being swindled and led up a garden path and sold to America. . . . Too much talk. We want more food. Churchill will get his cigars...