Garden Enclosed
| WAS as pleasantly surprised to find Oscar Wilde coyly emerging from the company of sopranos and contraltos who usually people 2YA’s For My Lady session as was Ulysses at finding Achilles among Lycomedes’ women. The occasion was the reading of Wilde’s fairy tale The Selfish Giant, a choice peculiarly appropriate at the present time. The Selfish Giant is not one of my favourites among Wilde’s many felicitous trifles, and this particular American recording seemed to underline a slight mawkishness not so apparent in a private reading. The whole thing was a little too beautiful and too precious for wholesale broadcast, so that our initial delight was overshadowed towards the end of the session by that vague embarrassment felt by those ' forced to overhear private feelings made ‘public. However, the story’s message was timely, since in these days of ¥
enforced holidays many a householdet, may be tempted to follow the example: of the Selfish Giant and build a high wall round his garden to keep out the swarms of neighbouring children, But whereas the giant’s conversion to unsel+ fish behaviour was comparatively: simple, the Selfish Householder ca always justify himself by a reference t the Health Department and the undesir. ability of encouraging undue congrega#’ tion of the Under Sixteens.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 444, 26 December 1947, Page 8
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211Garden Enclosed New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 444, 26 December 1947, Page 8
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