Woman Scorned
LDOUS HUXLEY’S | well-known short story The Gioconda Smile became a radio play with as little alteration as is required to transform a long evening frock into a short one, One perhaps regretted the loss of valuable material represented by tHe extra inches, but the essential shapeliness _ and aesthetic rightness of the original model were largely unimpaired. Janet Spence was acted by someone who, if she could not suggest the penholder mouth of Mr. Hutton’s fancy at any rate made a good attempt at conveying by voice alone the Agrippina brow and the George Robey chin. Mr. Hutton himself was in the unfortunate position of having to proclaim in oratio recta the secret thoughts which his creator had permitted him to cloak decently ‘in oratio obliqua (there is all the difference between thinking "What a’ queer face she has!" and ‘in proclaiming it €addishly to an audience, ‘like some villain in a third-rate melodrama) so that the Henry Hutton of the play seemed more*unpleasant than his fictional prototype. However, since avoiding this distortion would have meant denying the listener so much of the original Huxley it was obviously better to sacrifice Hutton.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 10
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193Woman Scorned New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 516, 13 May 1949, Page 10
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