Animal Farm
HE Animal That Talked is_ the never-failing support of editors of children’s pages and setters of school essays. A more adult version of the same theme was presented from 2YA last Sunday night, in the form of a play by Wallace Geofrey, I Don’t Believe It, which proves there’s life in the old dog yet. In one way if seems a pity that because of its very nature, radio should be so indissolubly wedded to fantasy, so that instead of getting good plays about things that do happen we get competent plays about things that don’t. Entertainment, how many. crimes are committed in thy name! The air is thick with telephones that talk, jovial ghosts, discerning dogs, and penny-in-the-slot poltergeists. Considered purely as entertainment (and it had no other claims), the play was not so bad (the conversation of the two elderly lions at the Cat Club was a delightful interlude). But too much of this and we shall end up where Professor Duberry and the Rajah of Bhong ended up, in the monkeyhouse. Probably accompanied by the Marx Brothers.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 410, 2 May 1947, Page 8
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182Animal Farm New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 410, 2 May 1947, Page 8
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