Portrait in Focus
T is always a pleasure to be proved wrong when one has made a gloomy prognosis about a new radio series. A couple of weeks ago, I recorded my disappointment with the opening talk in the Imaginary Persons feature, based upon my feeling that a chance for lively satire had been missed. But its successor,
Dennis McEldowney’s "Horatio Fulsome," was all that. one could have wished-a bright, » clever, imaginative portrait of a fabulously successful «quizmaster. The whole concept of the session, Loser Takes All, itt which prizes are given for the wrong answer (checked by lie-detectors) allowed for some juicy irony on the subject of one of the most extraordinary of radio phenomena, Thus far, Fulsome might have been a flat character, but the revelation, with psycho-analytical implications, that he is an erudite man posing as an ignoramus, and a secret reader, on a par with Butler’s secret eaters, added the third dimension which-made him fantastically believables Shrewd comment on modern follies, allied to a novelist’s sense of personality, made this talk really good fun, I hope that- Mr. McEldowney’s example will be _ followed by later contributors,
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 816, 18 March 1955, Page 10
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192Portrait in Focus New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 816, 18 March 1955, Page 10
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