Too Much Wagon, Not Enough Wayne
PART from*the felicity of its title, Double Bedlam, the current Wayne and Radford vehicle heard from 2YA on (continued on next page)
(continued from previous pige) Mondays, is not quite up to the standard set by the earlier Fools’ Paradise. I would have liked the mixture as before, but instead there isn’t enough Wayne and Radford in it. A large proportion of our listening time is taken up by other characters, largely sinister, and to our bemused minds, largely interchangeable. One thing that draws us closer to dur heroes is that they, too, are completely bemused by the whole business; they, too, are unable to tell _ David from Simon or estimate the relative villainy of Max and Marie. But they are not granted enough opportunities for displaying their particular brand of fooling (although there is the breadknife incident: "I say, old man, there’s pblead on this breadknife." "I know, old ‘ chappie, it’s mine.") What they need is a real heart-interest (at the moment they have only the Turf). I hope that thé scriptwriter will be as indulgent as William Shakespeare was to his sovereign’s similar request on behalf of the Elizabethan Wayne-and-Radford. |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 10
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198Too Much Wagon, Not Enough Wayne New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 428, 5 September 1947, Page 10
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