Picture Parade

New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 458, 2 April 1948, Page 9

Picture Parade

PICTURE PARADE promises to be a very good programme. I have vague but happy memories of the first of the series heard from 2YA some weeks ago, in which somebody told somebody else how not to run a cinema, and Deborah Kerr and Roger Livesay acted scenes from Colonel Blimp so delightfully that even those who had not seen it could believe it a very good film. The latest programme I have heard had my concentrated attention, from the appreciation of the music of Addinsell by Muir Mathieson, which began it,.to the preview of Appointment With Crime which ended it (very unsatisfactorily, if I may say 80, since the excerpt was trailer-tailored and left the listener in mid-air, apparently with the object of collaring 1/6 for the British film industry at some*future date), That Picture Parade is 100 per cent. behind the British film industry was further evidenced by the middle item of the programme, a talk by James Agate on "That Something Censor," in which Mr. Agate enjoyed himself at the expense of the Hays Office (Mr. Johnston he even refused to acknowledge). Keen-edged as a glass-cutter the Ego’s wit was incisive but not constructive, a happy state of affairs, since there is far more entertainment for actor and audience in the knocking down of an Aunt Sally than in the unfolding of a laborious scheme for the construction of a Censor De Luxe.

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