SIX THOUSAND MILES OF BACKGROUND
ORRIS WEST, the author of such serials as The White Marriage, at present being heard from the four ZB stations (Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8.30 p.m.), and The Mask of Marius Melville, Dick Barton and Experiment with Time, heard previously in this country, last year toured Europe with his wife, gaining first-hand
impressions of post-war conditions there.- On a motoring tour of the Continent that covered over six thousand miles, he gathered at first hand the background material and local colour for The White Marriage. Morris West began his career aS a writer during the last war and wrote his first book when he was an officer in the Intelligence Corps in Sydney. Shoftly afterwards he received an appointment as secretary to W. M. Hughes, a post which he retained for six months until he married. In 1945 West left journalisin and broke into the free lance field, establishing a radio production. enterprise with his brother-in-law. A year later The Mask of Marius Melville established them firmly in business, and since that time the number of successes which West and his partner have produced has continued to gtow.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 21
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192SIX THOUSAND MILES OF BACKGROUND New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 21
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