Not Gold
ATTEND the début of each new serial, half hoping for, half dreading, subsequent enslavement. In the case of All That Glitters (first instalment from 2YA the other Saturday) I am pleased to pronounce myself out of danger. The opening lines were promising. The scene was the staffroom at a girls’ school, and the determinedly bright banality of the conversation gave it an authentic ring. Till, however, tragedy reared its starkly naked head. The parents of the schoolgirl heroine have both been killed in a plane crash, whereupon the sports mistress (it might have been the English mistress) had to deliver a line something like "She has lost both parents? Poor little Pamela!" Pamela herself, though she has scarcely appeared yet, seems fated to become a much-put-upon young woman, The heavies, Uncle Matthew and Aunt Sarah, are destitute of even the skim milk of human kindness. Poor Pamela! The depths of misery to which she has already sunk suggest that it will be a long time before she surfaces.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 386, 15 November 1946, Page 14
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170Not Gold New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 386, 15 November 1946, Page 14
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