Fly in the Face-Cream
TATION 1YA’s Feminine Viewpoint continues to offer as much good fare for the masculine, as for the feminine, listener-which is as it should be. It is, above all, an excellent stream in which to fish for items,one may have missed elsewhere; 10. my pleasure, I receritly netted the elusive James Bone’s London, "The only fly in the face-creani is the serial, The organisers clearly) take pains to find good material; yet Hester’s Diary belonged with laxatives and tooth-paste and not cheek by jowl with Owen Jen-
sen and Charles Lawrance. And’*now we have Strange Destiny, which submits a distorted version of the life of the eccentric Lady Hester Stanhope to the most cliché-ridden of soap-opera treatments. I have noticed that, while half-hour episode serials are usually good, the fifteen minute variety seems expressly designed for commercial stations, with all that that implies. Of course, this may be merely a perverse masculine reaction to something dear to the legitimate Feminine Viewpoint listener, but I am convinced, at least, that Hester is an unlucky name for this session; and I do know that as soon as that Inner Sanctum voice hollowly announces "Strange Destiny!" I switch off, often missing something good
which comes later.
J. C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 10
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209Fly in the Face-Cream New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 10
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