Gentle Josephine
APOLEON and Josephine have been thoroughly gone over by radio authors in search of a character, and anyone who, like me, has given the best years of his life to Empress of Destiny cannot be expected to come to John Gundry’s You May Come In Now (2YA, Sunday, May 23) with unblemished mind. I found it pleasant, but unconvincing, owing to my difficulty in equating the gentle accents and sweet diffidence of Mr. Gundry’s Josephine with the more spectacular Empress. (Though tradition, of course, is emphatic that Josephine must have been a lady.) Napoleon seemed much more in line with his historical and traditional self, and his relationship with Barras — the unblushing egotism that gave him the mastery over his one-time employer-is intelligently and amusingly worked out. I have no criticism to make of the production, which (as we have come to expect in those bearing the NZBS standard mark) was excellent. It merely occurred to me tod wonder by what means the producer elicited these peals of delicious laughter that break so spontaneously from the lips of the female members of the cast,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 467, 4 June 1948, Page 8
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186Gentle Josephine New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 467, 4 June 1948, Page 8
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