Clay Patches
LL Miss Alice Woodhouse’s Famous Women talks to date have had" that dying fail which, calculated or not, has the. effect of making the obscure feel gratefully that there is something to be said for being common clay all over rather than merely from the ankles dowh. Madame Chiang Kai Shek, who was the first in the series, was treated with sympathy and understanding, but History stepped in at the last minute to wither somewhat the laurels on her deserving "brow. Age and custom and a change of Government have staled the finite variety of gadfly Nancy Astor, who, though quite a gal, is nat quite the gal she used to be. And not even that most admired of the moderns, Dr, Edith Summerskill, escaped without a certain amount of deglamourising under Miss Woodhouse’s ‘seeing eye. Having presented. her subject in her three-dimensional capacity as wife-and-mother, doctor, and politician, the author began little by little the deflationary process. In this, I regret to state, she had every assistance from The Listener, quoting lavishly from the report of the interview with Dr. Summerskill at the time of her visit to New Zealand.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 535, 23 September 1949, Page 11
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193Clay Patches New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 535, 23 September 1949, Page 11
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