MEET ME TONIGHT
(Rank) \/ALERIE HOBSON, Stanley Holloway, Jack Warner, Kay Walsh, Nigel Patrick, Ted Ray and others in a strenuous (and sometimes strident) attempt to do with three cheap little Noel Coward sketches what has been done with Somerset Maugham’s short stories. "The Red Peppers" may have been funny with Coward and Lawrence in_ the leading roles, but Kay Walsh is miscast and Ted Ray I find more amusing on the radio than brawling backstage in a provincial theatre. Stanley Holloway struggles mightily (in "Fumed Oak’’) as the henpecked husband who has the last word, but the supporting players he is saddled with would scarcely pass muster in a local repertory production. This centre-piece is sub-titled ‘‘An Unpleasant Comedy.’’ The third sketch, ‘""Ways and Mean:,"’ set in the Riviera, invites comparison with "The Facts: of Life’ and "The Ant and the Grasshopper"’-~and can’t stand up to it. With Shakespeare still in the air, I feel I can sum up only in Hamlet’s phrase"A plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams." ; : ;
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 19
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173MEET ME TONIGHT New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 719, 24 April 1953, Page 19
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