"Leaves From My Scrapbook"
ECIL HULL’S Tuesday morning session fills a long-felt need. For one thing her anecdotes are both memorable and repeatable, and»good dinner-table material whatever your social circle. For another, if you listen regularly to Miss Hull you will never find yourself in the library with that dreadful "don’t know what to get" feeling. Her scrapbook is rather like Grandmother’s piece-bag-you can dive into its spacious interior and be sure of finding something interesting, usually something you will want to explore further for, your own satisfaction. In view of Miss Hull’s many years as a teacher of English, it is not surprising that there are so many fascinating snippets in the bag. The whole session is good listening, but I felt that Miss Hull’s slightly militant tones were more suited to topics which can be treated ‘with irony or humour.. She seemed more at home poking a gleeful finger into the holes in an English review of Ngaio Marsh’s Died in the Wool or gloating over a psychoanalytical dissection of. Ophelia’s character than, for example, in reading from Mrs. Appleyard’s Year a leafy description of the New England fall,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 12
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191"Leaves From My Scrapbook" New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 12
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