Antic Hay
TATION 2YA’s programme organisers have shown their good sense in building their new Saturdey night Music Hall out of tried and tested materials, so that an appearance of mellowness is given to what m ght otherwise appear a prefabricated structure. Mellowest of. the mellow (I use the word in the sense of ripeness being ell) was Will Hay, who with the help of the boys of St. Michael’s spent a good five minutes playing shuttlecock with a weathervane. Now on the face of it this selection isn’t. particularly funny. We have made better pyns ourselves and been content to see them drop plummet-l ke into a pool of silence withcut making any attempt to retrieve them for future use. Yet we are infinitely amused at the spectacle of Will Hay and the Fourth Form pouncing on en old joke and worrying it to tatters. My theory is that it’s all done by inhibit ons. When we were young we were not encouraged to play Herbottle to the form-master’s Hay. Now our libido rejoices at seeing the Fourth Form at St. Michael’s getting away with it.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 399, 14 February 1947, Page 10
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187Antic Hay New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 399, 14 February 1947, Page 10
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