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HE’ Christmas season brought its pleasures and disappointments in radio as in everything else. I thought You’re Welcome a very agreeable show, if not quite on the hysterically vivacious level the publicity "had led us to expect. The orchestra, Oswald Cheesman’s music and Peter Gwynne’s and Bill Austin’s imitations (especially Gwynne’s devastating Melvin turn) were its chief assets; and Fred Pollitt’s antedeluvian jokes and the unoriginal parts of the script (including the Colonel Stoopnagle nursery tale) among the debits. The Alec Guinness Christmas Carol was the main disappointment, Guiriness’ was as good a Scrooge as I’ve heard but, in a typical Towers production, the familiar story was so streamlined into half an hour that only a midget’s skeleton remained. Mr. Pickwick, on the other hand, enjoyed an almost unexpurgated Christmas, and Charles» Laughton read the Bible narrative characteristically, and, to my ear, beautifully. Although there was appropriate music in. plenty, and much of it unhackneyed, there was very little drama which explicitly recognised the religious character of the season, as opposed to the post-Christian and secularly convivial aspects. Yet 1YC’s play Emmanuel was such a moying and well-spoken play that one would perhaps be greedy to expect more,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 654, 18 January 1952, Page 10
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