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CAN’T see any embyro Sir Henry Irving passing up Hamlet to star in Murder at El Alamein, so I gather Actor’s Choice is merely a handy label for this series of half-hour plays by Australian authors. Murder at El Alamein, with its disconcertingly artificial musical bridgework and a plot far-flung to match its battle-line, was obviously a quickie, but the story was vivid and there was a certain quality of closeness-to-home about acting and setting. I warmed considerably more to the NZBS production of a play by a New Zealand author, John Gundry’s The Far Shore Dimly Seen, which somehow lived up to the suggestion of high roman¢e in its title.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 11
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114True to Label New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 751, 4 December 1953, Page 11
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