"THAT MAN AGAIN"
Sir-May I have a little space to express appreciation of the new YA feature "It’s That Man Again: The Tommy Handley Half-hour." This is undoubtedly the fastest and brightest session ever to hit New Zealand radio, and I hope we will continue to get it as long as the BBC are transcribing it. Unlike American comedians, ‘Tommy Handley has no long periods to recover his breath and glance over script while the audience breaks into a primitive concert of raucous laughter, whistles, (continued on page 18)
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LETTERS FROM LISTENERS
(continued from page five) ; wolf-cries and so on. The laughter in BBC shows is always subdued, and the comedy is non-stop from start to finish. Appreciation is adequately expressed at the end of the show, and Handley is amazing in his delivery of some tonguetwister lines. I have yet to hear his tongue slip, and quite understand Bob Hope saying, when he heard "ITMA" in England recently, "I don’t know how he keeps up the pace.’ Hope and his colleagues rely entirely on their _Scriptwriters; Handley relies on his own skill, although his writer (a New Zealander, by the way) is also outstanding.
MOVIETONE
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 267, 4 August 1944, Page 5
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