Jack Davey
N Jack Davey’s Cavalcade one of the characters sings "I Don’t Want to Set the World on Fire" and another retorts that he hasn’t been disappointed yet. This might well be taken as a comment on the show itself, in spite of the fact that a recent programme was concerned with fires and fire-fighting. On the other hand there is hope in that "yet." Jack Davey has modelled his programme
fairly closely on the Tommy Handley Half-Hour and if he has not yet attained the high-speed enamelled finish shown by Tommy Handley and his team he seems to be getting somewhere near it. He uses the same techniques-he has set before himself the Handley ideal of a gag a line — but the gags are not usually so.funny nor the rhymes as felicitous.. And his -Cavalcade, like most cavalcades, tends to be slow-moving, partly because its continuity is broken too often by commercial announcements and musical numbers. But it certainly has its moments-I liked the fireman who couldn’t fight the fire because his hose had a ladder in it, and couldn’t climb the ladder because he was wearing wedgies-and I appreciate the fact that inside the Handley framework the idiom is dinkum Aussie.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Page 15
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204Jack Davey New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Page 15
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