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O one even remotely like Anna Russell has ever visited these shores. In her public manner she is as stentorian and absolute in authority as the President of some vast women’s guild, and
she has a vocal dexterity which only Danny Kaye can rival. Her ear is marvellously acute and her intelligence malicious; she is venomous towards: German lieder and the French Art Song, and there isn’t much left of English folk music either. I thought she was at her best in the satire which also required some characterisation, in her Spanish set, for example (South American polite and Flamenco rude), and the series of sketches of pianists in action which, as they say, slew me, though the Wagner opera was too long and, I venture, too hackneyed. She is supreme mistress of the double entendre and the delayed fuse. Full marks to Anna! Haeremai!
B.E.
G.M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 10
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151Masterworks from All Over New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 10
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