As Any Sucking Dove
Once when an honest weaver slept, And Puck passed by, a kindly traitor, And on his shoulders set the head Of a Shakespearian commentator, . . , ‘THIs quotation, though not wholly relevant, is pleasing to recall in connection with 3YA’s Christmas Eve broadcast of A Midsummer Night's Dream (NBS production); which was, all things considered, just about how Shakespeare should be broadcast. My only complaints are against Puck, who bore an occasional resemblance to Harry
Tate’s office boy, and the sycophantic and superior titters of the Athenian court at Pyramus and Thisbe, which I cannot but. feel would have provoked even such mild souls as Bottom, Snout and Company to hoist the Red Flag and alter the constitution, crying: "This is Ercles’ vein." However, this was an exe cellent performance; not only in its own right, but also by force of comparison with the film version (the last to be available in Christchurch) which poisoned the screen with Mickey Rooney as Puck and James Cagney as Bottom — "and certain stars shot madly from their spheres."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 290, 12 January 1945, Page 6
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177As Any Sucking Dove New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 290, 12 January 1945, Page 6
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