Keyhole Drama
| tune-something that means nothing to. the ordinary observer, but which has for N nearly everyone’s life there is a key that opens up vistas into the past. It might be a casual remark, a familiar scene, or more likely an old remembered one or two persons a special significance. In the BBC play The Skeleton Key the key to the past is a once popular Viennese waltz which brings back all sorts of memories to the residents of a private hotel who hear it. And as they sit around the radio listening to this tune they talk about the things it reminds them of. One remembers hearing it as he was burgling a flat; another, a girl, on the day she first fell in love, and so on. There are five self-contained tales told within this short drama, which will be broadcast from 4YA at 2.1 p.m. on Sunday, December 25. The Skeleton Key was written by Audrey Temple-Smith, and the strong cast is headed by Gladys Young, Gladys Spencer, and Laidman Browne.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 547, 16 December 1949, Page 19
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175Keyhole Drama New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 547, 16 December 1949, Page 19
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