That Man's Ghost
HE particular success of ITMA was due to a combination of comic talents -Handley’s and Kavanagh’s- vhich can never be quite fepeated. That Man’s ghost continues to haunt his successors, none of whom reach his measure. Much-Binding fell into genteel decay; Ted Ray has, I believe, his devotees;
even TIFH relies on a gift of parody more irfitellectual in kind that ITMA’s rich store of rednosed comic iftvention. The most recent comer to the field, Bernard Braden’s First Rehearsal (from 1YA), has some familiar features, including a stooge for Mr. Braden to insult. It dispenses, however, with the studio audience and relies for its laughs on the orchéstra-a Case, surely, for the Musicians’ Union. Apart from that, it had some good jokes with sound-effects, two puns of splendid atrocity (one of them made over from an old TIFH script), and a nice piece of fractured French. This is not a large rewatd for half an hour’s conscientious listening; and although it is somewhat unfair to judge a variety series on its first show, the present impression is that First Re-
hearsal is a bit mousey.
M. K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 10
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191That Man's Ghost New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 10
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