Due Reward
PERHAPS I have tagged along too long : with Paul Temple and his fast-moving | 1adio-consciots contemporaries to respond with the old abandon to radio ver-_ sions of Edgar Wallace, but I found the | BBC version of The Ringer rather slow to get moving, cluttered as it was with heavy-tongued and painstaking policemen being polite and reasonable to their in--feriors, the members of the ‘criminal | classes, even if they did take the liberty of addressing ihe Ringer’s wife by her christian names. There were some nice ripe (almost over-ripe) character studies, notably Maurice Meister’s we!l-shod heel, but it was perhaps unfortunate that Cora Ann’s accent should have reminded me so forcibly of Trudi Barrudi (the’ siren of Traveller's Joy) that I kept waiting for her to climb into a negligee and subvert the ends of justice. (It is obviously a long time since I read my Wallace.) However the denouement, when it came, was thoroughly satisfying, and I felt grateful that there is no radio equiv- |
alent of the Johnston Office to rob the criminal of the due reward of his sixtyminutes of conscientious accent-building,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 11
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185Due Reward New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 655, 25 January 1952, Page 11
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