Ave ITMA
OW is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by the return of That Man Again. No longer shall we find it necessary at week’s end to seek the neon lights and the pallid pleasures of the local picturedrome, since Saturday night has now no chance of being the loneliest night of the week. I write this immediately after the first broadcast of the new ITMA series, and find it indeed difficult to descend to the brass tacks of impersonal comment from the dizzy heights to which I have been exalted by my first intoxicating handle of new-brewed Handley after three months of enforced abstinence. I am conscious that the task of evaluating ITMA needs the pen of a Kavanagh, so with acknowledgment to this instrument I shall content myself. with remarking that Tommy Handley as the Cork of the North is even more at home than he was as Governor of Tomtopia, that Colonel Chinstrap is still as indefatigable in his Trail of the Lonesome Pint, and that to compensate for our loss of Major Munday and Naive we have a brand-new brigadier nephew for the Colonel plus a nice little piece (destination unkhown) from the other side of the Tweed.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 441, 5 December 1947, Page 10
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205Ave ITMA New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 441, 5 December 1947, Page 10
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