African Veldt
COULDN’T help comparing ‘Sarie) Marais," a short story by Fay King with "The Rain," which I mentioned recently as full of atmosphere and colour. There was little difference in the presentation of the stories, although one was BBC and the other NZBS, and it is a point to be noted that our own dramatic production department can de as good a job with a play or a short story as any imported recordings, and usually does a great deal better. But
in the actual material one story surpassed the other so obviously that the comparison was inevitable for any listener who chanced to hear both. The impression of "The Rain" was almost a visual one, so clearly was the scene and its immensity presented in the written word; bat in "Sarie .Marais" a quite average romantic story was presented whose scene might have been laid anywhere in the world without changing its appeal. Since both stories were laid in the African veldt, there was obvious room, even in the small canvas of the UNdie see. Bad adlaid. and. danke
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 13
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