Quiet Wedding
-\VHEN first it gleamed upon my sight, Quiet Wedding was a modest little film, a wipsome and unpretentious daisy ‘rearing a shy but sturdy head in challenge to the more flamboyantly boxoffice blossoms of its day. Hoping to recapture my first fine careless rapture I tuned in on the radio version of Quiet Wedding from 2ZB only to find that the daisy was somewhat more crimsontipped than I had remembered. Not that this impaired its entertainment | value-quite the contrary, if we are to judge by the belly-laughter of that low--est common denominator, the studio
audience. But it was the same daisy. It is merely regrettable that the humour of character and action cannot’ easily be conveyed to a radio audience, so that most radio humour must make its appeal by chestnut or double entendre. Quiet Wedding (radio version) was a perfect mine of the latter, but if the salacity of dialogue and theme was more noticeable in the radio version there was this compensation, that the author’s criticism of society’s attempts to dress up and camouflage, and so destroy, personal relationships is also much more obvious in the play than in the film.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 10
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195Quiet Wedding New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 10
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