All the Tricks
T is not very often that a feature remains throughout a complete succession of clichés; even the soap opera does manage to introduce an occasional person or scene of more than stock interest. But a recent ZB drama, Alibi That Went Wrong, was so full of trite situations and obvious characters that it sounded like*a pot-pourri of all the potboiling murder plots invented by the mind of the slick journalist. They were all there, the Irish cop, the night-club dancer and her boy-friend, the cracksman turned murderer, and they said and did all the usual things, got themselves into the same old jams and fell for the stalest gags, even to the trapping of the criminal into an admission of guilt by producing a falsely-printed newspaper. At the end of this "drama" I found myself wondering if any listeners take this sort of thing seriously.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 10
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148All the Tricks New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 515, 6 May 1949, Page 10
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