More Forsytes
EMEMBERING my enthusiastic reception of The Man of Property I am at a loss to explain my lukewarmness towards the first episode of In Chancery. The whole mood of the thing seems wrong. It begins with an inept synopsis in which a middle-aged Young Jolyon tells an excessively bright young Jolly and Holly something (carefully-edited) of the family history, swoops on to Old Jolyon’s death scene ("the thistledown no longer moved") in which the howling of the dog Balthazar sounds like a muted factory whistle, then on to Soames at Aunt Julie’s-a Soames strongly suggestive of stove-pipe trousers and luxuriating unnecessarily in a tadio-begotten tendency to talk to himself, The episode, with its disjointed snippets and startling transitions and the jerky, speeded-up movements of the characters seemed the verbal equivalent-' of an old-time movie. The little I have heard of Irene makes me almost willing te accept Hollywood’s judgment of her as "That Forsyte Woman." Subsequent | listening may reduce the degree of jaundice with which I view the whole pro-. duction, but I maintain that it was an : error of judgment to use Old Jolyon’s death as a mere trailer to a novel con-
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 11
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204More Forsytes New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 556, 17 February 1950, Page 11
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