Absent-minded Saint
_JAVING enjoyed many brief trots with the cultured mind of Patrick Campbell, I did not expect that his BBC play, The Saint of Virette would prove to be over-pietistic or solemn. And I was right. Although it was adapted from someone else’s story this gently comic tale of an absentminded curé, unofficially canonised by his fellow-villagers after his death, was full of the characteristic wry fur and bland acceptance of human frailties of the lantern-jawed (if we are to believe Mr. Ronald Searle) writer. The holy priest, occupied with’ Bach on his celestial organ, interpreted the petitions of his former parishioners either overenthusiastically or misguidedly, creating a situation which could be solved only by the tact of his successor. Very much of Brittany, this story, with all the marks of a sophisticated treatment of a real Breton legend, was most delightful listening for a languid Sunday afternoon. But why, in this case, did the BBC depart from its practice of giving us the names of the players? Or was it a cut in 1YA’s studios to catch a dropped minute or two?
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 11
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184Absent-minded Saint New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 11
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