Raucous But Vital
EFORE I knew his show, George Wallace spelt vulgarity to me. So much for preconceived ideas. In actual fact, 3ZB’s George Wallace Show is raucous, hilarious and full of vitality. It is, more or less, ourselves shouted loud with that little more readiness to quarrel which probably distinguishes the Aussie from the Kiwi. Of vulgarity, or the common rather than witty allusion, there is none to speak of. The whole show demonstrates that if you feed corn fast and furious enough and wink at the audience while doing so yon can get away with it. I laugh every time George Wallace nastily comes up with his "Ha! ha! false laughter," and even at the ancient dodge of having an actor quote his stage directions as well as his real lines. For me the George Wallace Show has been a breath of fresh tornado after the doldrums of Take It From Here.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 10
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155Raucous But Vital New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 731, 17 July 1953, Page 10
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