The Play's the Thing
NE of the effects of an increasingly high standard in broadcast plays is impatience with what is, pleasantly but regrettably, piffle. Station 3ZB’s Radio Theatre produced recently a real gem from among its collection of Crown Jewels-one "inspired by the classics" -in a word, "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair." It concerns a Brilliant Young Violinist on the eve of his début, His father has been missing for 22 years, but the son is Still Hoping. While strolling through London with the FlaxenHaired Girl Friend (second generation) he hears the unmistakable strains of a Cremona (or Stradivarius) played by a Master. Well, you can guess the rest. Father attends the début in the front row of the dress circle, son is a huge success with the paternal Stradivarius (or Cremona); Debussy is rendered with a wealth of sentimental significance, past and future. It is a pretty story, well produced, and well acted; but it »simply wasn’t worth producing. Once again I am compelled to commend the NZBS production of short: stories, so much easier to come by than short plays of a similar standard, and equally satisfying.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 11
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191The Play's the Thing New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 438, 14 November 1947, Page 11
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