Two at a Time
A COUPLE of weeks ago in the Friday night talk from 2YA A. T. Zeigler told me that I Too Could Learn to Appreciate the. Drama. He was quite tight. Last Sunday. found me firmly tuned to 2ZB, where I proceeded to enjoy, first, No Flowers for Carmen (NZBS) and Talking of Tight-Ropes from the studios of the BBC. No Flowers for Carmen was a better-than-average thriller about a prima donna found drugged just before the performance, with suspicion falling heavily upon her dresser, her understudy, and her Don José. The average listener would enjoy having the atmosphere so cunningly built up with the aid of something that the taxpayer in him would’ be glad to know were recordings of the NZBS Carmen. As for Talking
of Tight Ropes I don’t suppose I am likely to hear anything else that brings a circus so far into the living foom. The story of Lou, the tightrope "artiste" who loses her nerve, is tragicomedy, but it is set against an ever-so-slightly burlesqued background — of circus life which does for the Ring what A Bullet did for the Ballet. ("Put away that gun-it shoots straight,’ the sideshow proprietor hisses to his mate.) The fact that both plays were heard from the same station on the same evening convinces me that there is such a thing as lavish programme arrangement.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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230Two at a Time New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 484, 1 October 1948, Page 8
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