Victoria and Bolitho
ECTOR BOLITHO’S Victoria and Disraeli (heard from 2YA on a recent Sunday night) clung loyally to its heroine’s foible by refusing to "have any truck with expediency. ("That hated word , . . I have never understood nor liked it,") For it would seem scarcely expedient to put on the air a play which lasts an hour, when perhaps 55 minutes of that hour is taken up by the two main characters, whose speaking voices show the deliberation and monotony characteristic of age. The impressiveness of the production will be welcome to the moralist, since it proves that truth is greater than expediency. For though for the first quarter-of-an-hour the listener may be unable to suppress his yawns, if he listens longer he will be so bowed beneath the authentic weight of the production that he will
be unable to stir hand or foot to his radio to release himself. We are told that Mr. Bolitho consulted all available material for the compilation of this work, but it is perhaps. unfortunate that 30 many have ransacked the storebouse
before him. His atmosphere of authenticity is partly due to the fact that so much of his dialogue has been vouched for by Mr. Strachey and Mr. Housman.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 10
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206Victoria and Bolitho New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 425, 15 August 1947, Page 10
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