Dance of Death
THOUGHT Nesta Paine’s Fight Against Cholera (2YD, Sunday, September 4) somewhat lacking in that quality of high drama that usually distinguishes her work. In The _ Fight Against Fever; an earlier opus, the plot was neatly encased in the framework provided by a city labourer and his wife, who in Scene 1 are discovered mourning their children’s untimely deaths and in the final scene celepbrating, in less sewage-scented surroundings, the mafriage of their granddaughter. But the fight against cholera is at a disadvantage, dramatically speaking, mce it is still going on, so that inead of the human ending we were forced to’ end with a somewhat pompous talk on the World Health Organisation. A pity, since such a rich vein of drama was opened in the first scene -a ball in the Paris of 1832, where Death disported himself among the dancers and ever and anon a masked reveller fell stricken in the middle of a valse triste and was unobtrusively removed by waiting attendants via the back stairs, ...
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 534, 16 September 1949, Page 11
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171Dance of Death New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 534, 16 September 1949, Page 11
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