Leacock and Tusitala
STATION 2ZB’s Tusitala usually confines himself to what is earnest if not what is real, so it was a delightful surprise to find him rendering Soaked in Seaweed from 2ZB last Wednesday. But I am still wondering whether the amalgam of Leacock and Tusitala was an entirely satisfactory one. Leacock can bend’ over backwards and Tusitala does not unbend, retaining, even under great provocation, his formality of presentation. Now there were two ways of presenting the Leacock, either with fireside informality, allowing yourself an occasional second’s chuckling time, or, possibly better, the mock heroic presentation. Tusitala’s treatment was sternly heroic, but lacked the element of burlesque. The result was that the listener felt vaguely guilty in his gigglings, as one might who detected dubious double-entendres in the bishop’s impressively-delivered sermon.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 9
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133Leacock and Tusitala New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 427, 29 August 1947, Page 9
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