Thrice Bitten
CERTAIN wariness now characterises my approach to 2YA’s Friday night Radio Theatre. It has given me some dreadful hours. Never shall I forget the immense fatuity of Meet the Wife, which I think started off the series, the meaningless gyrations of the couple in The Dominant Sex, or the unpleasantness of the one about the man whose wife had "arty" friends. To balance these was Anna Christie, and, in rapidly descending order of merit, If Winter Comes, and Rove from a Stranger, which had, at. any rate, some moments of genuine dramatic suspense. With Mischief in the Air on a recent Friday, we found ourselves equidistant from both the comedy of manners and the tragedy of temperaments, in the clean pure air of the Boys’ Own Paper. Mischief in the Air is a simple little comedy-thriller about a secret agent masquerading as a show sponsor who is bumped off with a blow-pipe. Its dialogue has. a crisp Australian tang, its plot is reasonably strong in invention and construction, and I would without hesitation recommend it for the Children’s Hour were it not that some parents. might object to the fact that the hero’s and heroine’s attitude to the corpse is as cavalier as that of Hamlet to Polonius,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 8
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210Thrice Bitten New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 8
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