Of Famous Women
T was Compton Mackenzie, wasn’t it, who in that excellent series The Halt Century dwelt with such communicated joy on the first 14 years of it? He deals with much the same period.in his talk on Ellen Terry in the series As I Knew Her, and even more lovingly, warming to his subject in a way that makes the past seem very near and hurhan emotion very durable. Listening to him I was conscious that a gossipy talk (given by the right person) has a direct appeal which a fussier, more elaborate presentation so often-misses, that a tribute implicit in the reminiscences of a contemporary is far more convincing than the best-produced end-product of a scriptwriter’s conscientious pen. I hope the fact that the three talks on famous women, As I Knew Her, are being broadcast in the Women’s Session in the mornings, and the parallel series As / Knew Him in the evenings has no connection ‘with the traditional New Zealand custom of segregation-for neither Ellen Terry nor Marie Lloyd (nor for
that matter Virginia Woolf) would feel happy about an audience composed almost entirely of . females.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 10
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192Of Famous Women New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 669, 2 May 1952, Page 10
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