"THE HILLS OF HOME."
Sir,-This morning an appalling scene was enacted in a serial during the session Mainly tor Women from 3YA. A consumptive young man, bringing his wife home from abroad to have a baby, finds his sister (engaged to his wife’s brother) raging tempestuously at their titled mother for carrying on a love affair with their future common father-in-law. The father-in-law, assumed by this time to be a fascinating rotter, first denies everything, then becoming vicious, strikes his future daughter-in-law. Her brother, attempting vengeance, is then knocked out and dies at the end of the episode with much consumptive gasping. I have been suspicious about this serial for quite a time and after the latest crisis can’t help protesting that this horribly vulgar emotionalism is not worthy of the rest of the session. "The whole thing is staggeringly unconvincing and quite incongruous with the standard of the interesting talks about Jane Austen, Katherine Mansfield, etc., and other wotthwhile features in the new programme. May I venture to hope that The Hills of Home may give way to something in better taste when at last it comes to an end?
LESS SOAP OPERA
(Christchurch).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 497, 31 December 1948, Page 5
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195"THE HILLS OF HOME." New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 497, 31 December 1948, Page 5
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