Literature With Life
OW that the NBS has overcome its natural awe at laying microphone hands on our only internationally-recog-nised literary figure I hope we will have
many more Katherine Mansfield programmes of the calibre of 2YC’s Three Women, which proved conclusively that translation to radio terms need not imply reduction, The studies were, of course, well chosen for radio, the gossamer eschewed in favour of good solid human emotion. The first two studies (Mrs, Parker and The Lady’s Maid) were interpreted so sensitively that their freight of ‘
human suffering was delivered intact to the listener, though Maureen Ross-Smith had a slightly easier task than Peggy Walker, whose Mrs. Parker was so loaded by her creator with the materials of sorrow that it was a considerable feat to
keep it from trembling into bathos. The last study (the more robust Miss Moss) was wisely given dramatic form instead of being played as a monologue, which made for a balanced programme, and the contrast of voices plus Sinclair Ronald’s own virtuosity brought home Miss Moss’s tragedy with terrific impact. Nothing like radio for making one realise that there’s so much life in our
literary figures!
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 10
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196Literature With Life New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 10
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