Unfair to Listeners!
| SOMETHING new in murders, but not for an instant to be compared with the best products of the old school, was Accessory Before the Fact, an NZBS production of G. Murray Milne’s play. There was something unsubtle about this attempt to slate the whole business home to the listener .by having him present in the play as well as outside looking in, and I was reminded of that curious expériment in cinematographic art for which the audience donned special red and blue goggles and flinched when it appeared as though missles from the screen were whizzing towards them. But after the first three throws you either detached yourself from the whole business by taking off the goggles or you stopped flinching. I must confess thet the first time the murderer hissed into the microphone, "And you're in on this too, for you are an Accessory Before the Fact," I dropped a stitch, but his subsequent harpings on the string left my sangfroid undisturbed, apart from a faint annoyance at the gentleman’s lack of chivalry. Certainly he tried to make up for it later on by explaining to the stranger in the lift that his companion had had no part in the murder, but by this time Accessory was so fed up at being involved in so bungled an execution that the amende was not regarded as honourable.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 521, 17 June 1949, Page 10
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230Unfair to Listeners! New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 521, 17 June 1949, Page 10
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