Stealing the Show
WONDERED why I found the last quarter of an hour of the NZBS production of The Guinea Pig somewhat slow, in spite of the fact that this is when the ends of the play are satisfy(continued on next page)
ingly tied up: Lin gets her ambition of fulfilling her mother’s role as housemaster’s wife, the hide-bound elder housemaster goes more than half-way to welcome his son-in-law successor, the guinea pig himself sees doors opening to his long-desired Foreign Service career, and in general the principles of ‘sane social progress are suitably vindicated. Then I realised that it was because, fifteen minutes before, Olive Lucius, the Housemaster’s wife, had gone up to bed. Her vital playing had the effect of centring my interest in the housemaster’s family, while the Guinea Pig and his personal problems, when not impinging, remained peripheral. And this was quite as it should be, since to Home Listeners of the NZBS the democratisation of public schools is not such a vital issue as marriage, true love, and careers for women.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 10
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178Stealing the Show New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 786, 13 August 1954, Page 10
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