Adapted Omar
PROGRAMME from 4YA, merely called "Omar Khayyam" proved unexpectedly to be the first episode of a serial by Maxwell Gray, It turned out to be an interesting and exasperating half-hour’s entertainment. Using the circumstances of Omar’s life, the author has centred his tale on a wandering poet and has manufactured a string of circumstances suitable for the introduction of quotations.’ Thus someone asks Omar whére the caravan is going and he answers that it starts for the dawn of
nothing; the meeting with qa wine-seller bristles with the possibilities of excerpts. such as "I often wonder ‘what the vintners buy,’ and "I was never deep in anything but wine’; the proximity of two beauteous damsels, of course, leads to mention of many things-but not, surprisingly enough, to the book of verses underneath the bough, which I have no doubt will turn up later on. I should have liked this programme better if there had been either a great deal more quotation, or none at all; as it is, to hear Omar quoting Fitzgerald is exasperating and anachronistic enough without the added annoyance of having the poem only in snippets.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 11
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191Adapted Omar New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 491, 19 November 1948, Page 11
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