Simple Souls
HAT is it, I sometimes wonder, that makes me rush home from that weekly treat for the housewife, Friday night in town, to be in time for the (continued on next page)
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current Wayne-Radford vehicle, Having a Wonderful Crime? Is it the combination of comedy and crime that breaks down my listener resistance, so that, although I can turn a deaf knob on Perry Mason (crime) or Daddy and Paddy (comedy), I must sit with all controls alerted for the signature tune of Having a Wonderful Crime? Some credit must go to ‘the genre, some to the scriptwriter, but when it comes down to brass tacks I find I am just a victim of the star system. There’s something about Radford and Wayne. Perhaps it is their very obvious kinship to the youngest sons in all the fairy tales, the simple good-hearted types who outwitted their shrewd but self-seeking ‘elder brothers and won the princess in the end. Perhaps it is that their inoculation against harsh reality has been so complete that they appeal to our protective instinct, or that their reactions and even their conversation are so predictable that we feel completely at home in their company. We know where we are with them, and like it,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 553, 27 January 1950, Page 10
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214Simple Souls New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 553, 27 January 1950, Page 10
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