Genuine Noises
I] DIDN’T think I was going to care for The Last Lap, the NZBS Sunday Showcase play. Racing-car stories come second to stories about dogs and horses on my list of most-disliked themes. This tale of a Racing-Car Man Torn between Love for his Beautiful Wife and the Thrilling Lure of Speeding Wheels struck me as being Clark Gable-Lana Turner material. So the fact that I listened to and enjoyed it all is a tribute to excellent production and playing. As the hot-rodder and his wife, Norman Griffiths and Ria Sohier played with such professional sincerity that they lifted their dilemma above the world of soap-opera, Of the others, Charles Sinclair (disguised in an Italian accent) impressed the most. What added the final touch of conviction and generated a real excitement were the superb sound effects. I had given a mental alpha plus |. to the ingenuity of the sound-effects boys, when the announcement at the end that the "noises off" had been authentic Trophy Races ones revealed that, even on the radio, there is sometimes nothing so good as the genuine article. .
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 11
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186Genuine Noises New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 792, 24 September 1954, Page 11
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