"BARBARA AT HOME"
Sir,-I gather from "Materfamilias’s " comments on the. series "Barbara at Home" that Mary Scott’s work in radio is new to her. This is a pity. Mrs. Scott has given many radio talks, and has thrown much light on the sterner as well as the lighter side of country life. Possibly it is more important that Mrs. Scott should discuss problems of rural adolescence, marital incompatibility, or the vexed question of freehold and leasehold, than that she should present the comedy of Barbara and her husband spending a hectic day getting to the polling booth, only to cancel out their votes, but there must be a lot of humour in country as well as town life, and shouldn’t we be grateful for anyone who distills it out? There is precious little fun in our native literature. The extent to which our younger writers are filled. with inspissated gloom is the subject of widening comment. Fortunately Mrs. Scott is not young enough to regard life as little or nothing but a bad joke.
OLD FOGEY
‘Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 275, 29 September 1944, Page 5
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