Legal Eagle
T 9.32 last Sunday evening 2YA took me a sudden journey from woolbearer almost to woolsack when I found that This Sheep Made News had been replaced by another H. R, Jeans comedy The Great Barrister, a very ‘amusing
offering with opening and closing scenes almost in the same street as the Aldwych Theatre, The play aims at exhibiting scenes from the life of that eminent "Legal Eagle’ Septimus Cowhorn, and though certain scenes , in the latter part
of the play forget their primary object of searchlighting Septimus and become little plays in their own right the result is good entertainment, if not what Aristotle would call good art. Septimus’s legal manner is very well done, and his — "Is it or is it mot a fact that... ." proposal scene is a little gem. The irony is perhaps a little overdone, particularly in the scene where Sir George, young Septimus’s father, is acquitted on the charge of shooting a poacher. But Mr. Jeans brings a new technique even to the flogging of dead horses, and has the gift of bringing to our notice the delicious possibilities of such often-heard phrases as "sober as a judge" and "You’re now a man, my boy,"
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 395, 17 January 1947, Page 8
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203Legal Eagle New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 395, 17 January 1947, Page 8
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