AN INSPECTOR CALLING
Sir.-Two queries arising from The Listener for December 20. 1: Should not "Mr. Interlockiter"’ in the front page illustration be "Mr, Interlocutor?" The former looks like an advertisement for a patent sort of underwear. 2: Would your film critic F.A.J. throw a little more light on his criticism of An Inspector Calls? Paragraph 3, "The dead girl, Eva Smith, is never seen," and paragraph 4, "None is better than Jane
Wenham, who gives a fresh and touch/ing performance as Eva Smith." If your critic can describe a performance by anyone who is never seen, he seems to be. gifted with more perception than
most of us.
M.E.
M.
(Kerikeri).
(Not much perception is needed to grasp the meaning of the following sentences in F.A.J.’s review: "The whole action of the play takes place in the Birlings’ dining room in the one evening, and the dead girl, Eva Smith, is never seen. The film makes her one of the most important members of the cast, bringing the play’s conversation about her vividly to life in some of the most effective flashbacks I’ve seen for a long time.’’--Ed.)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 5
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189AN INSPECTOR CALLING New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 808, 21 January 1955, Page 5
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