"IT'S IN THE AIR"
Sir-Can anybody tell me whether the Ted Kavanagh accused of writing the comedy script for the NZBS show It’s In the Air is the Ted Kavanagh who wrote ITMA? If so, I can only suggest that somebody has unearthed Mr. Kavanagh’s first adolescent effort for a high school concert during his New Zealand boyhood! I?’s In the Air is about the corniest thing I’ve ever heard. The vocal artists are adequate, but the alleged humour is appalling, and all the
more pathetic because everybody is obviously trying so hard without being funny at all, On behalf of everybody I know who heard the first show I suggest the NZBS save the money and give us more top-line BBC or American humour instead of local imitations. Let us realise our limitations and admit that local talent does not include ‘an Ed-wards-Nichols-Bentley trio.
TAKE IT FROM ME
(Devonport).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 5
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150"IT'S IN THE AIR" New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 633, 17 August 1951, Page 5
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