Home-grown Variety
HE road to a really good local radio variety show is lined with the tombstones of gallant triers and littered with the bones of a thousand laboured jests. But 1YA’s Auckland Variety Stage seems to be developing into a very agreeable combination of acceptable variety turns and amusing sketches. This programme has improved week by week. Given time and encouragement, it shows every sign of becoming a distinctive and engaging feature. The recent broadcast from Whenuapai was the best yet. Nancy Harrie, Jimmy Warren and other artists, crisply introduced, played pleasant light music, and Athol Coates, Pat McMinn and Barry Lineham. brought zést to several sketches, The latter’s Laughtonish "Captain Sly" was a first-class piece of mimetic comedy. There are, perhaps inevitably, traces of the T7FH manner in the style of these scripts; but they
are genuinely original and the gags are tather fresher than those of some BBC comics. A little brisker pace; and time to allow the personalities to establish themselves, as all comedy teams must, and Variety Stage may prove to be the home-grown product we have been waiting for for so long.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 776, 4 June 1954, Page 10
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188Home-grown Variety New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 776, 4 June 1954, Page 10
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