Run, Rabbit
AST week’s Radio Stage offering from 2YA-"Love on the Run"-had about as much relevance to life in New Zealand*as a publication of the "Etiquette for Young Officers" variety. The setting is Monte Carlo, and the curtain rises as the hero staggers from the Casino after haying lost his last sou. The plot depends for its humour on the fact that the hero has no money and no manners and the heroine too much money and too little modesty, Whereupon . the hero, who has a self-respect worthy of a nobler object, is compelled to flee her through labyrinthine \ ways, but always behind him hears the pursuant purr of her automobile tyres. It was mildly amusing, and the sort of thing we might occasionally read in the 6d. magazine we buy with the knitting pattern in, but in this case we didn’t get a knitting pattern. However. one thine
in the play impressed me -~ Penelope Knox’s ingenuity in thinking up expletives for the hero to voice each time his escape mechanism proves defective~expletives with force and without offence. He began, I think, with "suffer. ing cats," and prefaced the climax of the chase with "Ye Gods!" So did we.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 11
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199Run, Rabbit New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 364, 14 June 1946, Page 11
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