Wasted Years
D ital as Milton, at a comparatiyely early age, could regret that time, the subtle thief of youth, had stolen on its wing his three-and-twentieth year, so I feel the waste implicit in the fact that I have only just caught up with Clem Dawe’s Rookery Nook, which spreads its invitingly dubious. shade (somewhat incongruously, I feel) amidst the sunny music-filled expanses of 2YA’s Monday afternoon. Once inside the Nook a delicious atoma of Music Hall fills the nostrils, and listeners are transported to a brighter world where there are servants to swop insults with and where the moral atmosphere is so rarefied " that ' three impeccably married men can allow themselyes to be dragged within lassooing distance of the divorce court rather than permit the slightest whiff of gossip to taint the fair mame of a lovely and innocent cirl. )
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 13
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142Wasted Years New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 13
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