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N such programmes as The Cruel Sea, Horatio Hornblower and Moby Dick the sea is constantly with us, and we don’t really need the mewing of the gulls or the creaking of the rigging to remind us, Eight. Bells, a play by Percy Mandley, was much less successful in establishing the nautical atmosphere. Conviction is further weakened by the fact that the setting of the play, sailingship becalmed without means of communication, tyrannical captain with wife aboard, mutinous crew and much throwing into irons-suggests a period mych earlier than the 1939 declaration of war with Germany. Disregard the scent of phoneyness and the play was exciting, the complications of romance and _ politics well worked out, but a fundamental lack of sympethy for hero and heroine made me docile about accepting, to get it over with, a Gordian solution of the
marital tangie,
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 764, 12 March 1954, Page 11
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145Becalmed New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 764, 12 March 1954, Page 11
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