Extract of Shakespeare
HERE are hopeful souls in the commercial world who claim to be able to give one "The strength of two whole oxen" in one small basin of beef tea; and there are similar hopeful souls in the broadcasting world whose aim is to condense a ‘full-length Shakespearean tragedy into half-an-hour’s performance. Playhouse of Favourites, a Sunday night feature from the Commercial stations, performs this sort of reductio ad absurdum regularly with a variety of world-famous dramas, to which I have listened with a varying degree of tolerance. But 3ZB’s_ recent effort, a Romeo and Juliet. that ran 30 minutes from first curtain to last, was too much to endure. True, as the proprietor of the beef tea might say, there was nothing in it that wasn’t ox; such as it was, it was all Shakespeare. But if you had never seen an ox, would you gain any idea of what it was like from a cup of beef-extract?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 470, 25 June 1948, Page 8
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161Extract of Shakespeare New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 470, 25 June 1948, Page 8
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