Christmas Fare
HOULD the critical faculty, I wonder, be/given.a day off in a time of general goodwill and tolerance such as Christmas Day? Perhaps Station 4YA was counting on this when they introduced such a weak concoction as the BBC play The Skeleton Key into their Christmas programmes. Or possibly the time chosen, two o’clock on Christmas afternoon, is significant. However, all (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) the plum pudding in Otago could not so dull the critical faculties of listeners as to make them accept The Skeleton Key as genuine radio drama. The sentimental memories awakened in some human derelicts in an English hotel boardinghouse by the broadcast of a $trauss waltz were calculated to thrill no one. If anything at all was to be gleaned from this play, it was a realisation of the devastating dreariness of the popular Anglo-Saxon ideal of romance as mirrored in the youthful love affairs. of these characters: We were presented with a monotonous series of gallant adventures round the Mediterranean, with the world well lost for the embrace of a dark stranger in a gondola. Little wonder then that they all seemed such a dissatisfied lot afterwards. The producer intended no doubt to evoke an atmosphere of wistful regret for the roseate past: what he actually evoked was
nausea,
K.J.
S.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 551, 13 January 1950, Page 10
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222Christmas Fare New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 551, 13 January 1950, Page 10
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