Infamous Woman
[TRE Case of Lady Tallond was heard from 4YA on a recent Sunday. This is a straightforward play by Norman Edwards, with good acting, especially by Fay Compton as the infamous murderess who kills her husband to marry his conniving valet. The story is very nasty indeed, and there is nothing to be said in extenuation of the crime; but it is put together in a-way that keeps the
listeners in suspense throughout, not knowing whether Lady Tallond was or was not the author of the crime. Hearing this play for the first time, the listener might well imagine he was listening to the pleadings of wrongly-accused innocence, and the final: few lines, where the acquitted. woman many years later reveals her guilt by accident to her former defending counsel, would probably,come as a surprise. But if the NZBS sends the play on its rounds again, the listener hearing it for the second time, as I did, will realise that the innocence of the young Lady Tallond is merely a mask. This was one occasion where a foreknowledge of the climax did not detract from enjoyment.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 11
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188Infamous Woman New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 379, 27 September 1946, Page 11
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