Light and Bright
T is not very often that I listen after ten o’clock at night with any alertness to features on the radio; if I begin the evening’s listening at 7.30, by 9.30 my interest and concentration are at a low | ebb, and the entertainment offered later than this must be either soporific or hilarious to avoid the complete switchoff. "Let The Navy Try" came to, me via the bedside radio at 10.0 p.m., and was, perhaps, worthy of presentation at an earlier hour. This episode concerned a couple of matelots who re-staged the drama of the wooden horse of Troy, by penetrating into the camp of the wily Jap. bandits disguised as the front and back legs of a prop. stage horse, thereby rescuing a couple of true-blue British spinsters from the penalties ‘of hon-payment of the ransom-money. Story, music, commentary, acting, were all histrionically exaggerated, and the Navy suffered an unmerciful ragging at its own hands. Light and bright entertainment of this sort is hard to come by, most attempts at it proving disastrously over-weighted, and _ sinking dismally to the depths of that ocean which drowns all laboured humour.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 436, 31 October 1947, Page 9
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192Light and Bright New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 436, 31 October 1947, Page 9
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