Times Have Changed
F anything was needed to convince | me of radio’s success in improving listening tastes, it was 2YA’s presentation of a Macquarie production, Three Men on a Horse. Twenty years ago, geared to the standards of Easy Aces and Eb and Zeb, I would have received it with enthusiasm. As it was, there was nostalgic appeal in Mabel (who had Jane’s disarming _ literal-mindedness), and a welcome touch of Runyon in those shirtless punters Patsy, ,Charlie and Mugsy. (Though when Mugsy got slapsy it rather curdled to Chase.) But times have changed, and we with them. The _ NZBS plays, even when lightweight, are seldom corny; and their more ambitious productions and the World Theatre series have given us an appetite for drama on the grand scale. So that all we had to spare for Three Men on a Horse was wry amusement at the sycophantic applause of the live (but captive) audience and the Pharisaical pleasure of intellectual slumming.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 11
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162Times Have Changed New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 11
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