Astrology and Crime
STARS HIDE YOUR FIRES was the "" first NZBS play apart from Shakespeare I have heard for months, and I certainly enjoyed it. (I shouldn’t like to think it was merely absence-could’ it be that the NZBS is now adopting a policy of waiting for something to turn up rather than getting just anything on the platters?) The author, Peter Fraser, achieved a plot of just the right degree of elaboration for radio audiences, and my subsequent post-mortem on _ the skullduggery could not fault it. In addition the play has a strong and valid psychological motive-Sorel Farr’s addiction to the Let the Stars Guide You column of her daily paper tempts her, like Macbeth, to lend prophecy a helping hand. Sorel, a tiresome girl, was rather too tiresomely played by an actress with a tendency to put everything in. her’ verbal shop-window; the rest of the cast, led by old-timers Frederick Farley, Kenneth Firth and Peggy Walker, were thoroughly convincing.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 11
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164Astrology and Crime New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 713, 13 March 1953, Page 11
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