Uncommon But Not Convincing
WAS a little disappointed in C. Gordon Glover’s Magnolia, which I thought wasn’t quite convincing enough for a playwright who has turned out such .a number of fine radio plays. I suppose it is possible-indeed more than probable-that an uneducated man, after a glimpse into the world of beauty revealed in art, music, and literature, should long foremore and more of that beauty, until he is even prepared to commit a crime in order to attain it. Reasons for common theft are usually more prosaic; but this was an uncommon theft, and the man who did it an uncommon common man. What I found unsatisfactory about the play -was the abrupt way in which, after one attempt at crime, and a subsequent term in prison, the little man with big ideas promptly settled down in a humdrum fashion and’ renounced his quest for beauty. If he was as uncommon a man as pictured, would anything have kept him from the fulfilment of his obsession?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 9
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168Uncommon But Not Convincing New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 504, 18 February 1949, Page 9
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