In Walked The Author!
FEW days ago Bernard Beeby, head of the NBS play production department, had a_ visitor who said he was from Australia and that his\ name was Walter Brooksbank. "Two years ago," said Mr, Brooksbank, "your service bought a play of mine called ‘Fashion Belong Mt, Fisher.’ Any news of it?" By the sort of coincidence without which novel writers would never make a living, Mr. Beeby was able to take his visitor to a typewriter and show him that the final production notes for "Fashion Belong Mr. Fisher’ were being typed at that moment. The play, he assured Mr. Brooksbank, would be recorded in a week or two, and be on the air as soon as a place could be found for it on the schedule. And the sequel to the story is that Mr. Brooksbank was so delighted that he took Mr. Beeby to dinner. "Fashion Belong Mr. Fisher" is described as "an ingratiating little drama _ set in colourful New Guinea." It is the result of a visit paid by the author to Port Moresby, where he was much attracted by the pidgin English used by natives and whites, The play has been twice’ broadcast over the ABC network. Walter Brooksbank is a South Australian’ who has contributed — short stories to a number of Australian magazines and periodicals, and has had several other plays broadcast by the ABC. "Fashion , Belong Mr. Fisher’ is his first play to be broadcast in New Zealand,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 120, 10 October 1941, Page 14
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247In Walked The Author! New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 120, 10 October 1941, Page 14
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