On the Ball
(NE of the things I think we’re least good at is wireless whimsey. Sometimes a speaker, airing a discomfort, for instance, strikes the right note, but I’ve ‘heard so many would-be bright, witty talks which turned out to be lumbering, arch or damply funny that I’m inclined (continued on next page)
to run for cover now when a talk-title signals, "This is a SCREAM, chums!" Not so with Denis Glover’s Papers in Top Right-hand Pocket (1YC)..Lurching round the bend, with a passionate quiver of indignation in his voice, Mr. Glover outlined a fiendish plot to sabotage our national sports, and degrade our sacred totem, the football-by teaching horses the rules of football. Horseball, as he described it, would strike at the roots of the calf that lays the golden egg, and gnawing at the wheels of New Zealand sport, would drag the foundations of the nation into the dust. His outlining of the social implications of this subversive game, and its diabolical rules, was a delightful piece of dead-pan clowning, with not a dip or a dull moment. Perhaps he rode the joke a little hard. But, in the main, this piece of comic irony was on the
ball.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 10
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204On the Ball New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 804, 17 December 1954, Page 10
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