Witty and Subtle
talks in the 4YA Businesswomen’s Session promises something very good indeed if the speaker maintains the standard of his first talk. This talk, entitled "The Old Man of the Colonial Office," proved to be a witty and subtle conversation piece, period 1914, between the Old Man, worldly-wise and swift to detect the chinks in the armour of the young Empire-administrator, his vis 4 vis. The exquisitely polite skirmishing which resulted was admirably conveyed in a script which lost none of its nuances. It was worthy of Christopher Isherwood, or more accurately perhaps, Angus Wilson, who also would have relished the gentle cynicism of the inquiry; "You are not then a follower of Mr. Rudyard Kipling? You would admire, rather, the attitudes of Robert Louis Stevenson?" to the confusion of the young idealist. SiR ARTHUR GRIMBLE’S series of
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 11
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140Witty and Subtle New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 736, 21 August 1953, Page 11
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