Nostalgia Persists
T may be just another instance of the common habit of regarding _ something in the past as necessarily better than its equivalent now; but almost every time I hear a new NZBS play, I feel that the standard, while still high, has declined during the past three years or so. One recent re-playing convinces me that this is no nostalgic gilding. I thought Jeannie (1YA) was a new production, It was, no great shakes as a play-a Clementina-Wing-y story, with a Scottish lassie, relieved by death of a tyrannical father, seeking "life" and finding, first, disillusionment in Vienna and, later, cosy domesticity. Yet it was played with dash and evident enjoyment by all concerned, so that the fragile little piece was made delightfully human and touching. The chief joy was the vital personality of Jeannie, with her warm, homely Scottish accent. This, I thought, is something like a radio play — well produced and uniformly well acted. At the end, however, it was revealed that Jeannie had been played by Olive Lucius, who toured New Zealand in Brigadoon in 1952. So the nostalgia, I’m
afraid, persists.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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189Nostalgia Persists New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 774, 21 May 1954, Page 12
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