Uneven but Interesting
HE plays produced by Sir Laurence Olivier in 3ZB’s half-hour session Theatre Royal are uneven but interesting. Gogol, Stevenson, Dickens and Wilde have each been trimmed and adapted to the programme, sometimes with success and sometimes not. The ear-shattering music plugged in at what is thought to be the appropriate lull in the script ig the worst single feature. But the interesting thing is that one never knows what will be presented
next. The glimpse of Gogol was worth while, and I always like to find out more about Stevenson, even although everything I hear carries .me further from him. Best of all, lately, was Bret Harte’s The Outcast of Poker Flat, a story read by me so long ago that the plot had been forgotten. Sir Laurence carried the day before him with a wellassumed American voice. This pathetic Robin-Hoodish story of the strongest and weakest man in a snow-bound party, the card-sharper who never drank because it interfered with his "profession," moved to its tragic but not unkindly end as softly as the snow which fell be-
neath the sierras,
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 800, 19 November 1954, Page 10
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186Uneven but Interesting New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 800, 19 November 1954, Page 10
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