Reluctant Suitor
URGENEV’S play Tks: Sweetest Wine Makes the Sharpest Vinegar had much to commend it for radioatmosphere, a strong romantic interest, and the precise and sculptured dialogue that makes listening a pleasure to the
senses as well as to the intellect. I liked the way the drama of Vera’s courtship * enacted itself as best it could in the middle of a morning’s social activities, with inconsequential characters blundering in and out of the fine-spun web of attraction and mistrust uniting Vera and Gorsky. I liked the ironic changes rung by Turgenev on the theme of freedomGorsky’s obstinate clinging to bachelor liberty, Madam’s concern that ail of her guests should do exactly as they like (provided, like Henry Ford, she chooses it). But most of all I responded to the warmth and heartbreak behind Barbara Jefford’s playing of Vera. This, and the intense emotion generated in _ her clashes with Gorsky, made me wonder if I was over-generous many years ago in crediting two parts of the passion that raged in the film Summer Storm to Hollywood (Linda Darnell and George Sanders) and only one-third to Tur-
genev.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 10
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189Reluctant Suitor New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 10
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