Mach 1 Comedienne
ELDOM have we had sessions so jetpropelled as Cicely Courtneidge’s two NZBS-recorded programmes, Miss Courtneidge has obviously been reared in the great tradition of comediennes, and believes_in giving the audience all she’s got (and she’s got ‘a lot), and those whose ears have been tempered hitherto only by the gentle strains of Bing and Marion and their ilk possibly reeled from the impact of her powerful contralto. All the old favourites were there ("Sing, Brothers," "Keep It Under Your Hat") and in the second programme we even had Two Double Damask Dinner Napkins. But I rather regretted Miss Courtneidge’s fondness for patriotism in monologue form. Her "There Are Two Ways Into England" and the "Ordinary People’ which concluded her second broadcast, were both, I felt, items which demanded the personal contact between speaker and audience only possible in the theatre‘throughout them I was uncomfortably consciots that at any rate some of Miss Courtneidge’s personal magnetism was failing to make contact.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 10
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163Mach 1 Comedienne New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 10
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