QUIET WEDDING
Sir,-Your notice of the film Quiet Wedding was worthy of the picture, one couldn’t say more. As one who has long thought that lavish let-’em-all-come weddings tend to be an expense of spirit in a waste of vulgarity touched by indecency, I rejoiced in the social satire of the picture as much as I laughed at its comedy. The over-laying of the ceremony by social egotism and display has never been better described. I would make one criticism. Can we not have a close season for comic vicars? The parson in Quiet Wedding is worse than the worst literary cliché. And while a clergyman will go through the marriage service privately with the parties beforehand, and probably be glad to improve the occasion, would any clergyman allow a public rehearsal in his church in the manner of the one in this picture? Perhaps (I am not a Greek scholar) this is what Aristotle meant when he said tragedy made men better than they are, but
comedy made them worse.
A.
M.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 138, 13 February 1942, Page 4
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174QUIET WEDDING New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 138, 13 February 1942, Page 4
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