The Field is All White
VANCE PALMER is not one of your roseate radio speakers working on the assumption that distance lends enchantment to a view his listeners can’t see. His talk on Play-writing in Australia was oddly satisfying-oddly, considering the comparative barrenness of the field. I was disappointed that, in " view of the medium he was using, Mr. Palmer did not devote more attention to radio play-writing-surely a_ wellstocked field-but with pharasaical respect for the letter of his subject he passed by on the other side. However, assuming even a small proportion of potential dramatists in his audience his talk was most inspiring, for what play-wright-to-be could fail to be moved by the view of a clear field ahead, and at the end of it teams of earnest young National Theatre Groupers looking for almost any brow on which to bestow the accolade of their performance?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 11
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147The Field is All White New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 630, 27 July 1951, Page 11
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