Thrill with Mason
ROM such an innocent-sounding title as The Diary of William Carpenter I was not led to expect such hair-rais-ing listening. The fact that the play starred such big game as James Mason and Flora Robson was recommendation enough; but the programme was well under way before I realised that this was more than a pleasant autobiographical sketch of some stamp-collecting crank. Even the smug conviction that I knew just what was. going to happen at the end was effectively killed at the very height of its triumph by a totally unexpected twist in the tail of the plot. Any critical faculty I possessed was banished by that first blood-curdling scream; from then on I was just a participant, uncomfortably convinced that my hands were clammy and my hair on end. It was a most convincing performance which only once became pure melodrama,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 9
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145Thrill with Mason New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 451, 13 February 1948, Page 9
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