Great Scott
NE usually regards dramatisation of the lives of the late great with extreme caution, since writers and producers so rarely seem to share one’s imaginative view; but a feature broadcast recently by 3YL, entitled "The Author of Waverley," certainly broke down the barriers, In technical skill alone, telling its story largely by soliloquy, with dialogue faded in and out with amazing fitness, it was sky-scrapingly above the average. It achieved the incredible feat of telling a story in exceeding broad Scots, without. a single skirl, a single facetiousness, or a single teardrop, and making it authentic, exciting, and affecting. To one who is neither Scot nor Scott-lover (except at a considerable distance this side idolatry) this story of Scott’s struggle against financial failure proves just. how much can be done with radio drama under intelligent direction, and indeed counts as the best ever in its class. Genuine local colour and vocabulary have, when properly employed (very rare it is), a considerable power of entertaining and exciting. My one regret is that we do not hear the voice of Dugald Dalgetty, the only Scott character (I find) admired by schootboys-and how right they are,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 9
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195Great Scott New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 286, 15 December 1944, Page 9
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