The Offence is Rank
O; this is not an attack on the present organisation of ‘the British film industry, but some further consideration on the "Alice in Wonderland" -recordings which are fairly frequently broadcast from Christchurch stations, and have been mentioned on other occasions in these columns. Much of it is passable, some excellent: testy eccentrics like’ the Caterpillar and Humpty Dumpty are depicted with skill, vision, and colour (I suspect by the same actor); Tweedledum and Tveedledee have been unsuspected and disconcerting infantilism for which one femem! -rs them. But the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party is a travesty of the origin.l and had best be dropped into the tea pot,in its entirety and’ forgotten-Arthur Askey, beyortd praise in his own sphere, is about as much like the Hatter as your commentator is like Nelson Eddy-cnd, worst of dll, the damset who portrays Alice gives us merely seventeen’s idea of seven. In a recent programme an announcement of these fecordings was followed by the words (Carroll-Slaughter). I have had moments of doubt whether this is the name of an author or an indictment of the offence.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 350, 8 March 1946, Page 13
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186The Offence is Rank New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 350, 8 March 1946, Page 13
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