ACTOR'S DAUGHTER
DRESS REHEARSAL, by Monica Stirling; Victor Gollancz. English price, 10/6. 7 HE blurb on the jacket is misleading. I started off thinking this was to be a novel about high life behind the proscenium arch. Instead, I found myself in an English-very English-school for young ladies. I have become faintly allergic to troubled childhoods and _ introspective adolescences, but was agreeably taken with Monica Stirling’s heroine. Jocelyn is young at the time of the Abdication, she goes to one of Mosley’s meetings, she adores the early Marlene Dietrich, she hears the first rumblings of Hitler’s anti-semitism. She is reveajed in quick strokes as at once sensitive and hardboiled. Daughter of professional actors, she brings a continental background into a world of. stewed prunes, giggles, quiet
talks, and deportment. The result is easy treading, enjoyable and often very funny.
Isobel
Andrews
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 11
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141ACTOR'S DAUGHTER New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 670, 9 May 1952, Page 11
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