Fourth Dimension
THE MOUSE, a play by G. Murray Milne which came over 2YC the other Sunday night, was one of radio’s more successful excursions into the fourth dimension. We have had a fair see lately of figures from the past showing themselves, in vindication of Mr. Dunne’s theory, to dwellers in the present, but they prefer to haunt desolate Highland moors ("That croft foe visited, my lady, was burnt to the ground 200 years ago at the time of the Bonny Prince"), or to tread the borer-dust of a deserted manor-house, The setting of The Mouse, however, was a night club in some town back of the Burma front, and the astral emanation an of the future, not of the past. A difficult theme, handled in a sensitive yet adult manner. My only quarrel was with the title which, though firmly rooted in the mainspring of the plot and adequately grounded in the Burns quotation: Still thou art blest, compared wi’ mel The present only toucheth thee, had the unfortunate effect of making me want to ask the junior subaltern the classic question, "Are you a man or a mouse?" whenever he sat silent for too long beneath the gibes of his senior.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 432, 3 October 1947, Page 8
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204Fourth Dimension New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 432, 3 October 1947, Page 8
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