No Longer Unusual
"THE trouble with 2YC’s Unusual Tales '" by H. G. Wells is that they are no longer unusual. If fifty years of scientific fiction since H. G. Wells have not resulted in our all wearing our hair en brosse, can we raise a hackle or even an eyebrow at such harmless gimmicks as a self-accelerator that enables you to see winks in slow motion, or a bacillus that turns people blue? And "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" has had his originality flattened out of him by countless imitations. However, the programme showed that if we could no longer be titillated by Wells we can still be entertained, and to some. extent edified. Felix Felton’s production is sportive, his musical effects at first heroic, later wry, and-particularly in "The Man Who Could Work Miracles" -one is left with a warm feeling for the Wellsian "little man," who knows all along his unsuitability as a vessel of
super-science.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 11
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161No Longer Unusual New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 787, 20 August 1954, Page 11
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