Projection of Personality
ESPITE the fact that over 80 people have appeared on the 1YC Critics panel, it has not yet produced its Joad, possibly because only through repeated appearances do such personalities impose themselves. However, the nearest thing I have heard to a Joad-ish performance on The Critics was A. J. C. Fisher’s contribution to the recent discussion of the National Orchestra and the N.Z. Players’ Private Lives. Subdued during the Orchestra portion, Mr. Fisher leaped to life at the mention of Noel Coward, and the resulting tangle with A. R. D. Fairburn, who was inclined to defend Private Lives, was vastly entertaining. His characterisation @f Coward’s exquisites was maliciously perfect, and was pointed by idiosyncratic emphases -#in-cred-ible, fan-tas-tic, and significant pauses. "Good gracious! Mr. Coward would have died!" (a character’s suit) and "A corsage that completely malformed the poor gal,’ were among the least acid of his comments. Out of the
clash of opinions came a fair estimate of the performance; but the main impression I carried away was of a fruity character having his say with unusual pungency of phrase-a projection of personality as much as a critical contribution, but a very agreeable one.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 10
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197Projection of Personality New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 771, 30 April 1954, Page 10
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