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ALNA" (episode 1), broadcast from 3YL on a recent Sunday evening, was all a first episode ought to be. I am specially interested in first and last episodes, having a regrettable lack of the perseverance necessary to follow a serial throughout; in fact, I cheat. And I have a hearty admiration for the many who see them honestly to the end. A certain school. once sent out forms to all its parents asking them which serials (if any) their offspring listened to in the evenings; one parent, in an excess of truth or exasperation, replied "All of them." That child, if persistence and endurance count for anything, should go far. "Jalna" is from the novel by the Canadian Mazo de la Roche; I think the
author actually produced a dramatized version of it herself some years ago, under the title of "Whiteoaks." The series-there are seven of them, forming a sort of saga-was very popular; "Jalna," the first, is the story of three generations under the rule of a tyrannical old matriarch-and does Grandma spit tacks! The last episode will be worth hearing if only in order to find out who the old Tartar leaves her money to in the end.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 9
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203Serial Story New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 412, 16 May 1947, Page 9
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