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)/ICTORIA THE GREAT, which I occasionally hear from 2YD on a Sunday evening, reminds me of a gladstone bag-when it opens up there’s more in it than you thought there would be. There are, to begin with, several of the expected ‘historic personages, sounding as one has been led to believe they sounded, and including (naturally) the Queen herself, making characteristically Victorian remarks such as "It is my duty" in response to characteristically Albertian remarks like "I beg of you to spare yourself, my love." Then the hero'ne, Dorothy Lucas, the circle of whose private life intersects at various points (and always at interesting ones) the lives of her more prominent contemporaries. At the end of last Sunday’s episode our heroine was being interviewed with a view to employment by Miss Nightingale, whose mode of expression (perhaps due to her liking for the phrase "dear child") reminded us strongly of Gladys Mitchell’s Mrs. Bradley, even to the suggestion of an elligator grin. It was therefore something of a shock to our new-found feeling of fam liarity when we found ourselves out of the serial and listening to a Fitzpatrick-worthy reference to (I think) "the lady with the kind eyes, the lady .with the healing hands, the lady" (pause, then rallentando) "with the lamp" (exclamation point). The serial stself_ is workmanlike and convincing, and should not need this blatant salesmanship,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 10
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231Good Value New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 400, 21 February 1947, Page 10
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