Call Them All Jane
DMIRAL CROFT in Persuasion was of the opinion that there were too many fine Christian names in use among young women, and that life would be less confusing if they were all called "Sophy." Listeners to 1ZB on a Monday morning may well think that this process of simplification has now been taken in hand, for they proceed straight from the rather dreary doings of Jane Austen’s Jane Fairfax to the melodramatic adventuress of that alarmingly competent American reporter Jane Arden, and then in the next quarter of an hour to "A Date with Janie." This last serial, which began only the other day, is to me quite the best date of the lot, in spite of its
unpromising title. It is delightfully silly, sometimes to the point of farce, but like all successful comedy it is firmly rooted in the truth. And there is truth enough in the back-chat between high-school Janie and her brother, and between these two and their parents, to take me back with sudden nostalgia to the hectic family life of late adolescence.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 289, 5 January 1945, Page 6
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182Call Them All Jane New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 289, 5 January 1945, Page 6
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