Gathered Threads
AN amazing lot of tidying up went on in the weeks before Christmas, Dumetrius’s dossier was finally filed, Elizabeth Bennett suitably settled. Our Mutual Friend happily vindicated, all of which might have been designed by a benevolent Service to set me free from radio trysting for the holiday period. On the whole my saddest parting was, I think, with that excellent series The Halt-Century. Not all the programmes lived up to the promise ‘of the first, at any rate from the point of view of entertainment. Rebecca West's programme The Twenties was outstanding-the first time I have been given any explanation of what went on behind the facade of Flaming Youth, of the inner glow that animated the Bright Young Things, The last programme The Closing Years was scarcely climactic tending to hitch its wagon to windy platitudes of faith in the Humanity of Man. But, on second thoughts, what else could it have done?
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 11
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159Gathered Threads New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 11
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