Behind the "Scenes"
HEY say’a cat may look at a king, and if we accept this there seems no reason why 2ZB’s Bachelor (Selwyn Toogood, I opine, heavily disguised) should not continue to look at marriage for five minutes every Sunday night, as he has been doing for the last few Sundays. Whether either cat or bachelor has any right to criticise what he sees is another matter, but the Bachelor is as lacking in \finet feelings as the Man Who Came to Dinner, and almost as indefatigable in dining-out on his experiences. This, of course, makes for an amusing session. But there is more to it than this. For the essential triviality and the music-hall triteness of many of the happenings which cause rifts in the matrimonial lute should not blind us to the fact that they are still the causes of rifts; and whereas a bachelor complete with two-inch crust can afford to laugh at. Husband’s Failure to Remember Wedding. Anniversary and Wife’s Sensitivity to Criticism of New Hat, the husband and wife concerned are more vulnerable. The Bachelor Looks at Marriage is an unambitious, little session which is both good entertainment and (incidentally) reasonably sound social science. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 435, 24 October 1947, Page 16
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