The Edwardian Stage
SIR COMPTON MACKENZIE’S flair for nostalgic re-creation of the Ed--wardian period has given us some excellent radio talks in the past. (Personally, I prefer his honest relish to the rather faded preciosity of "the incomparable Max"). However, in the first delightful Beaux and Belles programme (1YA) we heard him on the same theme, but in a new role-that of commentator on some of the songs and personalities of the Edwardian stage, and as interviewer of the fabulous Ada Reeve, one of the darlings of the day. One can only guess, in a caddish way, Miss Reeve’s age from her casual references to musical comedies she played in in the nineties, and those
which Compton Mackenzie, now in his Seventies, saw as an undergraduate, but she stole the show by her chirpy reminiscences, her "old trouper" manner and her singing of a bright song with amazing zest and polish. Cultural footnote: I was interested to observe that musical plays of which both spoke in reverent tones as long dead and forgotten are still going concerns in the repertoire of some of New Zealand’s amateur operatic
societies.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 10
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190The Edwardian Stage New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 10
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