Faint Praise
NTERTAINMENT, what sins are committed in thy name! It’s enough to make one plump for culture till it hurts, for even solid culture can’t hurt as much as entertainment sometimes does. My bitterness is occasioned by the fact that I spent a precious hour of my life last week listening to two NZBS plays, Out of the Blue from 2YA and Tick, Clock, Tick from 1YZ, both of which were entertainment pure and simple, since they lacked any of the "more permanent qualities. In their favour it may be said that they were performed with an adequate amount of competence andeven gusto (gusto was a quality particularly noticeable in the | interpretation of the Nasty Child in Out | of the Blue) and if we are looking for virtues we could perhaps say that there was something of the inevitability of great drama in the fact that im both, the End was clearly implicit ‘(to the experienced listener) in the Beginning. Why didn’t I switch off, listeners may ask. Perhaps for the same reason that the Indian fakir remains in his bed of nails. ’
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 529, 12 August 1949, Page 12
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184Faint Praise New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 529, 12 August 1949, Page 12
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