Desperate Doings
‘THE regular NZBS productions from 3ZB on Sunday evenings give us as a rule a good average performance. If it doesn’t attain the heights of a really memorable production, at least it never sinks to the level of something tinat is best speedily forgotten. Or so I thought until recently. The production that made me \
change my mind was called "Desperate Doings at the Dentist;" it was, to give it its due, well named. I had previously applauded the presentation of short stories, undramatised and unadapted, because even though the stories themselves were not specially outstanding, they were well-delivered and easy to listen to. "Desperate Doings" was. not. There were moments when the reader's enthusiasm was positively embarrassing to a listener; there seemed to be so little to be enthusiastic about. The story was ordinary encugh, being based on a fantastic dream which later appears not to have been go fantastic after all; but it was presented in the style of the persistent joker who can scarcely tell you his funny story for laughing at it himself. And that is very trying if vou happen to be amused and even more trying if you don't. As it is, I am inclined to think that dentists should be ranked with Scotsmen and mothers-in-law as a source of mirth-pro-voking comment which is unoriginal, unfunny, and apparently unavoidable.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 416, 13 June 1947, Page 19
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227Desperate Doings New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 416, 13 June 1947, Page 19
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