Some Women
"\V OMEN OF HISTORY," a_halfheur Sunday feature which has become regular at 3YA, deals with such various females as Marie Antoinette, Sarah Siddons, and Du Barry; but the chief qualification appears to be royalty, which lets in the Empress Eugenie, with immorality (Catherine the Great, Du Barry) a good second. The characteristic common to all is a shiny-magazine historical glamour, represented by the playing of minuets in the background at intervals and by a limp pomposity in the dialogue. This one could endure; but the whole is really false. Many of these ladies were nothing like as interesting as suggested-historians have failed to discover that Eugenie had any character at all-and the quality of all these features represents, one feels, the awed astonishment of the innocent-minded at discovering that these fabulous beings existed and moved against such surroundings. It is like the adulation felt for the more luscious female film stars in the early days of that art.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 310, 1 June 1945, Page 8
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160Some Women New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 310, 1 June 1945, Page 8
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