Meeting the Bradens
"HERE are people who have been listening to Dad and Dave of Snake Gully for years, but of these I shall say nothing. There are others who followed Tommy Handley with the same avid devotion, and it is not worth my while trying to find out why. But for myself variety is the spice of humour and after’ a time any series which sticks to the same settings with the same kind of joke palls. For this reason I welcome First Rehearsal, now being heard from 3YA, with open arms-that is, so far as the duties of a critic permit. At a certain point, for instance, Bernard Braden turning to the conductor of the orchestra said that ‘since the audience was recovering from their last item "it was time to "hit ®m again.’ Now if he’d Said that about the singing, the selfpitying songs, he’d have lost a joke and gained even more admiration. A pity they included the husband and wife scenes, too, because they are too close in spirit to those done by Ted Ray and Kitty Bluett. That’s what I mean by a
~ critic welcoming a show with open arms: in the end he only offers a cold cheek. |
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 11
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206Meeting the Bradens New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 11
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