Cashing In
NOW that the Old Vic Company are with us, our alert impresarios of the movies and radio are doing their best to cash in on all their stock starring the Oliviers. On the radio we have, for example, had some of the speeches from Olivier’s movie Henry V, with the incidental music. Within its well-defined limits this was a perfect offering. Olivier has beautiful taste, knows what. he wants, and knows how to get it. The accent he gave "Once more into the breach , . . ". was highly artificial, and I think, Welsh. From a lesser man it would have been stagey, from Olivier it breathed sincerity and conviction. The battle-ery "God for Harry, England, and St. George!" was a wild compelling urge to the charge, springing from the lips of a leader whose selfbelief was measureless and inspiring, and whose passion verged on hysteria. What a contrast was the brooding chorus on the two quiet camps the night before Agincourt, Olivier, speaking very close to the microphone, shed understanding and all embracing pity. He reached out and enveloped the listener. In the whole programme there was nothing that was not immaculate, nothing of a lower standard than perfect. Olivier’s interpretation was final.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 8
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203Cashing In New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 485, 8 October 1948, Page 8
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