Two Plays
APAPTATIONS of two W. W. Jacobs short stories were heard from Wellington stations last Sunday, and assuming both to be NZBS productions I was inclined to praise a policy of talent economy which ensured that accents laboriously conned and_ effortlessly tripped off the tongue for the first production Alf’s Dream could be turned to good account later in the evening for The Cook of the Gannet. However, my theory was given its death blow when I realised that The Cook of the Gannet -was no NZBS production-and that dis- | covery left me at a complete loss ‘to account for its presence on the air. The Cook of the Gannet is certainly not one | of W. W. Jacobs’s happiest or even salt,iest comedies. Mrs. Blossom wins neither ‘our sympathy, our respect, nor our laughter, and her alleged triumph over her gross supplanter is somewhat bath_etic. Mrs. Pearce, in Alf’s Dream, is a much more menacing figure, and her spectacular table-turning at the conclusion of the comedy wins our unwilling admiration as well as Alf's Uncle George’s unwilling hand. This whole production had that authenticity of place and atmosphere which the NZBS production department consistently strives for and so often attains, and it was good to find this wealth of talent
employed in the interpretation of a nice human little comedy about one base motive triumphing over another.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 423, 1 August 1947, Page 12
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228Two Plays New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 423, 1 August 1947, Page 12
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