The Laugh's on Humanity
F Honoré de Balzac, it is said, had had the powers of Shakespeare and the life of Methuselah, he would never have completed his "Human Comedy." This vast -work-which was conceived as a complete series of novels and short stories only after some of the author’s earlier books had been successful-was to run to some one hundred volumes. As it was, Balzac died before he had written sixty volumes. However, there is enough in those fifty-odd to keep anybody busy for quite a long time, so the unwritten remainder is not of. any great importance. There is enough, for that matter. in the one serialised story which will be broadcast from 3ZB (beginning on February 12 at 10 p.m.) to last most listeners for half a year. This story, which will be broadcast under the title of The Human Comedy, is set in France and England, and moves lightly among its characters, which include the weak Sir Richard, the villainous Captain Hardley, the Baron and his son, and the beautiful Suzanne Patrice. :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 19
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176The Laugh's on Humanity New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 657, 8 February 1952, Page 19
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