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Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1923, Page 1

Bluebeard's Eighth Wife: The doctrine that a rich man buys a new wife as soon as he tires of the old one. ... The Dover Road: Husbands and Wives running off with other people’s “property.*’ The last-mentioned play is. of course, more satirical than serious, but. in its way. it helps to swell the tide of what, ihe theatre seems to be bent upon doing—emphasising that marriage is not likely to be a lasting success. ***** Cynicism with regard to marriage appears, indeed, to have besot the minds of most of our playwrights. Perhaps they have found statistics to confirm their melancholy outlook. Tdo not know, but I do know that the thing is being overdone. T wonder if a good many play failures cannot be traced to the unsympathetic way in which they mirror marriage? Respite “freedom.'’ "so* equality,” “women’s independence.” and all the rest of it, human nature has not changed, and the longing for happy mating is still one of the main motives of this earthly existence. And however uncommon wedded happiness may be in actual experience, it remains—and always will remain—pedesi.alhd in the secret hearts of most of os. Tt is a risky tiling to jest about if you are writing for mass approval.

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