Yesterday's Theatre
( LD men "full of days" not seldom seem a little drunk on the past. Their words have the relish they feel for times past, and their attitude is expansive. Listening to Sir Compton Mackenzie's two sessions Beaux and Belles, I felt pleasant, inclusive informality about his excursion back to the gaiety of the 1890s and 1900s. However, despite the lively voices and the well-dis-ciplined choruses, one felt the prompting presence of Gilbert and Sullivan beating everything out into an almost martial rhythm, ultimately monotonous. Lady Hicks spoke with amazing crispness for one of her age, and if her singing flagged it was nevertheless possible to evoke from her rendering of "The Honeysuckle and the Bee" echoes of the vast applause with which it was once met. I liked, too, the liberal in Sir Compton, who, looking from his cab window, saw the poor wrapping themselves in newspapers to keep warm, and who commented briefly that times were
better now than then.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 11
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164Yesterday's Theatre New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 781, 9 July 1954, Page 11
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