Champagne and Mothballs
N spite of Anton Walbrook, who did his best for me, I did not enjoy "Anatole," a series of sketches of Vienna in the ’nineties, which took the place of the usual hour-length play we get from 2YA on a Friday night. There was, of (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) course, a distinct odour of mothballs about these glimpses of a young man, a "toy philosopher," flitting from flower to flower to the accompaniment of popping champagne corks, and occasionally stopping to wonder what it was all about, But if you could lull your social conscience to sleep the sketches were good for a chuckle or two (at the young man who hypnotises his sweetheart and then lacks the will-power to ask her if she has another lover) or a sigh or two for chorus girl who, having nerved herself to tell her lover she must leave him for another, is annoyed when he makes a similar confession, I suppose "Anatole" was very true to life, but to a life incredibly remote in time and space from the average New Zealander.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 8
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187Champagne and Mothballs New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 487, 22 October 1948, Page 8
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