Meeting the Other Half
RADIO DIGEST, on Sunday evenings, is a must for all those who like to know how the other half lives without, if possible, revealing to the other half how they do. Its interviews are much more intimate and revealing than anything you get in the newspapers. (To be sure, the interview with Mr. W. Burnside, casting director for the film The Seekers, was word for word what we got in the newspapers, but it seemed to make it more personal having his remarks about "glamour," "a young Dorothy Lamour," and all those requests for photographs directed so much more pointedly at us.) I like the way that versatile young man, the interviewer, adapts himself so_ perfectly to his audience, sounding Dunhillishly _ respectful when addressing a Third Sea Lord (a scoop here), bendingly avuncular when chatting backstage with small competitors in the Competitions. And I do admire his ability to impart the
illusion of value to the answer of the inarticulate person who _ gratefuliy echoes the remark made by the three previous speakers,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 10
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176Meeting the Other Half New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 739, 11 September 1953, Page 10
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