On the Road to Mandalay
[LISTENERS who enjoyed last January’s NZBS play The Waters of Lethe-the story of an amnesia victim who is accused of being a notorious criminal-will be interested to hear that two more plays by the same author, G. Murray Milne, will shortly be broadcast by the Commercial stations. They are The Route March and Two Can Play, and they have also been produced by the NZBS from G. Murray Milne’s scripts. The Route March is a powerful drama of conflicting personalities built
round an imaginary incident in the Burma jungle during the war. The plet concerns two British army officers -Captain Walker, commander of a Gurkha platoon, and the newlyarrived young Second-Lieutenant Brown. Walker has orders to train his troops for the coming Japanese attack by a series of punishing route marches, and the first step in the drama occurs when Brown falls out in the course of one of these marches, although he has been told by Walker that to do so in front of Indian troops is one of the greatest crimes an officer can commit. During the actual campaign the battalion withdraws, and the story of what happens on this forced march through mountainous jungle from Myedu to Mandalay leads up to the play’s final exciting climax. G. Murray Milne can speak with authority on the scenes and events he portrays, for during the war he served himself throughout the Burma campaign as a captain in the Gurkha rifles. His second drama, Two Can Play, deals with the unexpected results of a poker game in which one of the players detects an opponents cheating and
atranges to meet him outside after the game. The Route March will be heard from 2ZB at 8.0 p.m. on Sunday, April 4, from 4ZB at 8.0 p.m. on Sunday, April 11, and from 2ZA at 8.0 p.m. on Sunday, April 25. Two Can Play will be heard from 4ZB at 8.0 p.m. on Sunday, April 4, from 2ZB at 8.0 p.m. on Sunday, April 11, and from 2ZA at 8.0 p.m.-on Sunday, April 18. Both will later be heard from 1ZB and 3ZB.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 457, 25 March 1948, Page 25
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356On the Road to Mandalay New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 457, 25 March 1948, Page 25
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