"Punch's" Window
NEW Zealander indifferent to Punch may well have thought better of that old but still youthful institution on hearing the BBC feature from 2YA. Presented in the form of dialogue studded with dramatized jokes, with here and there a skilfully laid trap for the questioner (""That.was in the New Yorker’ — "Yes, but it was in Punch some years before"), and always a bright eye for illustration of social change, the programme was so good as to remind me at times of the BBC’s Gilbert and Sullivan standard, The best known jokes were carefully avoided. I know my. Punch pretty well, in my life-time and before that, and I did not recognise one of those dramatized. The producer had to do without the artist, but. how effectively he used the voice! The only criticism I would make was that the fire was a little too rapid at times. We had "The Song of the Shirt," the most famous item from Punch’s Radical days. Many of us wish Punch cou}d be a little more Radical now. Did you know that Tennyson is on the roll of Contributors? I had forgotten that his lambasting of Bulwer Lytton (of which he Tepented) appeared there. We were read pait. of an article which I took to be an example of the sort of thing that is rejected. Unfortunately it sounded rather like what is sometimes accepted. The Editor told us that the cartoon is still chosen at the weekly dinners. It is a pity that this collective wisdom reproduces so much that is tame. However, here was a lot of the best of Punch and the best is most welcome. s
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 496, 24 December 1948, Page 8
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278"Punch's" Window New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 496, 24 December 1948, Page 8
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