Rebecca
NE comforting fact about human nature is that we learn to like what we get used to, or (to plagiarise) familiarity breeds'content. We have only to consider compositions such as the "Warsaw Concerto," which appealed to us on its first hearing because it re. minded us vaguely of other more established musical offerings, and has now reached almost tear-jerker status because we have heard it so often. So in the literary sphere there is a certain advantage to be gained from presenting familiar material, even in a slightly different medium. Therefore 2YA’s new serial Rebecca should be popular, since there must be few people who have not either read the book or seen the film twice. The drawback to the use’ of familiar material is, of course, that listeners will be free to pay more attention to manner than to matter, and will insist on everything being according to Hitchcock. So far, I am relieved to note,
everything has been. The heroine has imbibed her art straight from the Fontainehead, and Mrs. Van Hopper, like her film equivalent, is cramming as mucii of her undesirable self as possible into the few episodes allotted her.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 366, 28 June 1946, Page 14
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195Rebecca New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 366, 28 June 1946, Page 14
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