An Hour in Italy
"CEE Naples and Die," the Elgin marbles, old engravings and the lives of the Romantic poets-through all these a soft and languorous picture of Italy was once refracted., Italy was mellowed and ‘stilled in a way that as mitch belied her then as it would now. Italy is a museum crowded with a poor, shouting, gesticulating accordionplaying multitude, only some of whom are concerned with her past. It is a land where the demarcation between opera and real life is harder to dis-
tinguish than elsewhere, where the sincerest sentiments have a rhetorical ring, and where the Sunday morning groups singing as they walk through the olive groves might be moving in a play. Perhaps for these reasons Italy is, of all countries, the one which most lends itself to the direct tecording of street scenes and conversations. Even so, the one-hour programme, Window on Italy could be no more than a rather breathless impression, though one which reminded at least one listener of the great appeal that country exerts upon the imagination.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 22
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178An Hour in Italy New Zealand Listener, Volume 25, Issue 650, 14 December 1951, Page 22
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