Old Rip
INCE I have not read Rip Van Winkle since I was a child, and then possibly only in some Rackham-illustra-ted bedtime version, I am not in a position to pass judgment on the fidelity of ‘the short radio version of the story I heard from 2YA _ recently, but I can vouch fot its excellent entertainment value. Walter Huston brought a certain Yankee wryness to the part of Rip Van Winkle, and the shrill stridency of Mistress Van Winkle on the rampage threw the emphasis rather on the wisdom of old Rip’s escape technique rather than the oddity of it. I suspect that the -snippets of somewhat commonplace description of the Hudson and the Catskills were Washington Irving’s own, but am tempted to give credit
for the general hilarity of the treatment to scriptwriter Robert E. Lee, who with a name like that should go as far as his steamboat-namesake,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 11
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153Old Rip New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 11
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