Story of Dunkirk
STORY which verges at times on the sentimental becomes, I think, rather more so, in the dramatized radio version of the Snow Goose. I have heard this play twice recently; my first impression was that the original story had been changed considerably, but on looking it up I decided it was rather a change of emphasis than anything else-and this chiefly due to the difference of medium.
The story, when it first came out, was of course enormously popular in its timeliness, and in its very real charm. This latter has been retained in the radio version, particularly in the early scenes on the marshes, where it is laid on delieately, with a restraint that is very necessary, It is in the latter part that both story and play, it seems to me, get carried away-not unnaturally, considering the nature of the subject, but unfortunately for the artistry of the work. In the play it is particularly noticeable because there is a delicacy of touch in the original and a simplicity which apparently could not be transferred in an otherwise ably dramatized version.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 9
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186Story of Dunkirk New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 430, 19 September 1947, Page 9
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