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Thackeray

QUARTER of an hour spent listening to "Bluebeard’s Ghost" in 2YA’s A Story to Remember session was sufficient to convince me that William Makepiece Thackeray was a man born 100 years too soon. For "Bluebeard’s Ghost" reveals him as a master in the ‘art of radio entertainment-the story is just that happy blend of wit and nitwittery that is considered most suitable to be served up with the housewife’s afternoon tea. The story concerns the widow Fatima, now courted by two suitors, Captain Bluebeard and Frederick, nephew of the Rev. Dr. Sly, to whom appears the ghost of her late husband, presumably to help her with her decision, (Line to remember-When Fatima asks tremblingly of the manservant if the apparition has a blue beard the manservant ‘reports "Yes,

m’am, powder blue.") But apart from this one line there seemed to me very few evidences of the master’s touch, and if I had not heard the annowincements fore and aft I might have wronged a great man’s memory by assuming "Bluebeard’s Ghost" to belong to the same literary family as "Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife."

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https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19461206.2.30.6

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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Page 15

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Thackeray New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Page 15

Thackeray New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Page 15

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