Unfortunate Marriage
A RADIO play cannot communicate its agony in silence. There is no sound suggestive of the stiff upper lip, but few radio plays dare to end, as did the BBC’s Mrs. Watts, in a crescendo of heart-broken sobbing. Mrs. Watts, which I heard from 2¥C last Friday, is the story of the sixteen-year-old Ellen Terry’s martriage to the painter a Watts, a beautiful little play superbly acted, the title role played with spirit, charm and ter- }
rible pathos by Dorothy \ordon. But there was more to it than emotional purgation-the calmer passages were enriched with sparkling glimpses of entertainments at which we have never assisted, like the dinner party given by Mr. and Mrs. Watts for Mr. Browning, Mr. Tennyson and Mr. Rossetti.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 15
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125Unfortunate Marriage New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 15
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