Admirable Miss Campion
FOUND Sarah Campion’s talk, "My Aunt Katie" quite delicious. What a fine, brisk, measured and tailored voice she has, though do not think from this that there is anything prim about it: on the contrary, it is warm and full of humour. Her Aunt Katie, with her massive, silk-encased, jewel-encrusted bosom fairly sprang out of her script, and so did the life she led. How clearly one could see it: the England of Cambridge and the rural downs; in fact, that amiably bucolic existence which was still possible for a woman of good family in the late 19th Century. I found the collision of Aunt Katie’s mild but \implacable eccentricities with the, shall we say, basic English of early New Zealand life beautifully rich in comic possibilities. Would Sarah Campion consider making a play of it? Her account of Aunt Katie’s death in its restrained good taste was a triumph in a fifteen-minute talk: one had lost a friend.
B.E.G.
M.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19550318.2.21.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 816, 18 March 1955, Page 11
Word count
Tapeke kupu
164Admirable Miss Campion New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 816, 18 March 1955, Page 11
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in