A HORRID WARNING
Sir-lIt is to be regretted that you waste space, and presumably money, by publishing the adolescent opinions of one Bruce Mason and invest his pseudosatire with the dignity of a "Review." Some time ago this opinionated young man disparaged the world-acclaimed masterpiece of Sutton Vane and spoke with insufferable patronage of the mentality of the playgoer of the 1920s (something else of which he obviously knows nothing). Now he does the same thing about Mr. Axelrod, a modern playwright, and makes the startling discovery that the modern playgoer in U.S.A. and England is just as mentally deficient as he was 30 years ago. Bruce Mason’s "horrid warning" came too late for Hutt Repertory, which recently presented a most successful reading of The Seven Year Itch The play was recommended to us by Mr. Russell Reid-who has some claim to authority -and he and our members showed a most lamentable deficiency of Bruce Mason’s Olympian wisdom in that, far
from being bored, we were highly diverted and entertained. We associate ourselves with the thousands of playgoers on both sides of the Atlantic who enjoyed this play so much. It is fairly evident that praise from Bruce Mason is the hall-mark of mediocrity, and that from a successful theatrical viewpoint, the most desifable attribute would be to confirm his worst suspicions.
L. ASSHETON
HARBORD
(Lower Hutt). .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 5
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227A HORRID WARNING New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 5
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