Alas, Poor Ghost!
a ghost?" to a paragraph in a recent Listener about the play Frame for Death, written by Victor Donald and produced by the NZBS, I duly tuned in, but I found that the author was
just as much in the dark about the ghost as we were. In fact, he left it to us. This appears to be the perfect answer to the old problem of Pleasing the Public-a ghost for the superstitious and the easilypleased, and another
solution for the scoffers: one that they can work out for themselves. A persistent scoffer soon becomes rather good at this sort of thing. He says, "Ah, all done by mirrors (or electricity, or atomic energy)," if he is scientifically minded, and "Simply a matter of hypnotism (or telepathy, or something)," if he happens to be a psychologist. In this play, however, all he needs to have is a high opinion of the wits of the police force, and a sound knowledge of Edgar Wallace. Then he will see that there was no need for the poor ghost of the exprisoner to bestir himself; it only wanted an ingenious member of Scotland Yard in a cunning disguise, The result: Justice, a Plot, and Promotion for the ExGhost.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 8
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208Alas, Poor Ghost! New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 420, 11 July 1947, Page 8
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