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_:PISODE 1 of The Amateur Gentleman showed a professional awareness of serial requirements on the part of Jeffery Farnol’s adapter, since it obeyed the prime canon of serial writing in introducing hero, villain and heroine, afd all under highly dramatic circumstances. What could be more satisfying to listeners than to have hero challenge villain over the heroine’s unconscious body and to have heroine opening her eyes to her first glimpse of the hero as he solicitously sets about the business of bathing her bruised temple? The names themselves might have been dreamt up by some radio scriptwriter, Barnaby suggests rugged, though not too rugged, worth. In Cleone there is the suggestion of that distance that lends enchantment to the view. It is difficult not to sneer when mouthing the syllables that compose the hated name of Sir Mortimer Carnaby. My only misgiving is that at the present rate of ravelling a good six of the 12 episodes will be needed for the unravelling of complications. But this is, perhaps, to deny the Houdini touch that has always been so marked a quality of radio scriptwriters,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 522, 24 June 1949, Page 10
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187Professional Production New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 522, 24 June 1949, Page 10
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