THEY WORK WHILE THEY TALK TO THE LISTENER
The Everybodies
Interviewed
By'
Ann
Slade
"Now clothes," I suggested. "Q,. clothes-yes, well 1 like them but I just can't be bothered with them." I thought how the pinafore dress with its great loose sleeves gathered in to the wrist, and the low neckline suited her. "I’m happiest in slacks-slacks and pyjamas. I never wear anything else at home. Another ‘thing I love is driving. But Fred’s a driver, too, so it means whoever gets the car first. He hates playing passenger."
Fred had scarcely lifted his sleek dark head. He wrote diligently, passing the books on with occasional directions. "Who writes your scripts?" I asked. *O, we all do that," he said now, "At least, I write them-seven a weekbut they give me ideas. Madeleine, too, and jolly good ones," " How many have you done to date?" Fred looked up. " Eight hundred and fifty-seven," he said, Two assistants were unwrapping and wrapping again-addressing and post-ing-as hard as they could go,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 47
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169THEY WORK WHILE THEY TALK TO THE LISTENER New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 30, 19 January 1940, Page 47
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