GREEN FOR DANGER
Sir,-I was particularly interested to learn from your last issue that we are to hear an NZBS production of Green for Danger. As one who thoroughly enjoyed the film, I shall be keen to compare the local production with that of Messrs. Launder and Gilliat. It is pleasing to note that Selwyn Todgood will play the part of Inspector Cockrill and although I have every respect for Mr. Toogood’s undoubted ability, I venture to think that. Mr. Sim’s original performance will remain undimmed. But ‘my principal reason for writing concerns the photograph in your last issue depicting Inspector Cockrill (alias Selwyn Toogood) interrogating doctors and nurses. Although the inspector may have been fatuous, frivolous, flippant, etc., I am sure he had manners enough to remove his hat in the presence of ladies. I may be wrong, but I doubt whether Mr. Sim showed such ignorance. This business of detectives leaving their hats on under any circumstances is, so we are told (how truthfully I could not say), the prerogative of American investigators.
While on the subject of NZBS plays I would like to point out that on Sunday night (October 24) 4YA presented The Savage Breast, which, according to your programme, was a BBC production. The play was undoubtedly of British origin, but it featured the aforementioned Mr. Toogood, as well as other well-known New Zealand radio players. I should like to know whether this was merely an error in publication or if it was, perhaps, an attempt to bask in the sunshine of the BBC. We know that BBC productions are almost invariably perfect, but the NZBS has nothing to be ashamed of either. On this occasion their performance was excellent and they "should have been given credit for it.
C .R.
EDMOND
(Roslyn).
(There are two recordings of "The Savage Breast," one made by the NZBS, the other by the BBC. The former was substituted for the latter in 4YA’s programme after ‘The Listener’? went to press.-Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 492, 26 November 1948, Page 5
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