Life is Earnest
‘| HREE "first"? broadcasts came on the same evening from 4ZB. I didn’t hear Journey Into Melody, but noted that someone else had stolen the idea of its title in another programme later in the evening, Journey Into Music-who was responsible for the plagiarism? The Stars Out of Reach proved to be an unconvincing romance of office-girl meets film-star, and I confess I left it to arrive at its own conclusion after patiently hearing three-quarters of it. Real Life Stoties, on the other hand, was quite dramatic. Here we had a most unhappy quarter of an hour crammed with incident. Between 7.45 and 8 o’clock, a lovely model managed to fall for an artist, accept his declaration of love at its face value, met his wife, found out that the latter was hopelessly mad, escaped from the, madwoman’s clutches and then watched her leap from a high window and crash to the ground below. No, she didn’t die, unfortunately. This was a Real Life story, remember. She got well again and went on being hopelessly mad. The end was very tragic — the lovers just went on hoping. Hand me my _ handkerchiefs, somebody, please!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 14
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195Life is Earnest New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 498, 7 January 1949, Page 14
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