Authors Badly Treated
DOUBT whether the famous authors, even the live ones, have much choice as to which of their short stories is given the works for Theatre of Famous Authors, heard from 2YA. The overseas adapters apparently feel. they have done the author sufficient honour by including him in their series. They start off with a patronising snippet or two of biography, then justify their patronage by using a story that is neither particularly brilliant nor particularly good dramatic material. Gerald Kersh (‘the poor man’s Rudyard Kipling") got off comparatively lightly with "Tomorrow in the Morning,’ warmly sentimental but lacking the characteristic bite. But poor Scott Fitzgerald was most unfairly represented by "The Four Fists." It was handicapped by the fact that it had only two characters, the business man telling his own success story, and the interviewing reporter with no part in the action, confining himself to appreciative comments, increasingly slurred, on his host’s whisky. Since the tycoon’s story is a highly moral one, the reporter was doubtless retained’ to illustrate Fitzgerald’s jazz age nexus.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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179Authors Badly Treated New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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