String of Pearls
LITHOUGH listed in the programme as an NZBS recorded play, "String of Pearls" from 3ZB was really a short story, read-and well read-by a single voice. As the story had at least eight important characters this was infinitely better than attempting to dramatize it; the different characters were’ well brought out in ‘the reading and the interest well sustained. The chief impression gained, however, was that the story just wasn’t worth it. A certain measure of probability is necessary even for this type of story; and it seems hardly credible that a thief cunning enough to steal a valuable string of pearls from a mansion positively bristling with burglaralarms should cast them nonchalantly into the gutter at the first suggestion that they were fakes. But Cadger does just that. Perhaps it is the improbability of it all that makes the climax appear so weak, No doubt the only thing left for the poor rogue to do when he found out his mistake was to swear long. and loudly; but somehow it seemed a little inadequate.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 409, 24 April 1947, Page 11
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178String of Pearls New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 409, 24 April 1947, Page 11
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