Lawyers and Lucre
(CONSISTENT listeners to radio plays meet up with plenty of lawyers. I suppose fifty per cent of plays written (continued on next page)
for radio are concerned with money, either as a motive for crime (it’s easier to come clean in public aboyt money than about sex) or as a catalyst for the development of plot or character. Lately I seem to Have heard innumerable plays about wills, and where there’s a will there’s a lawyer, sitting upon the treasure chest with the faithfulness of one of those Tinderbox dogs. But now their authors seem to be letting them off the chain a bit. Perhaps it was Dickens who started the dry-as-dust letter-of-the-law tradition, but now dust would seem to be less of an occupational hazard. No Name and Miss Mabel both have lawvers whose duties are noticeably painful to them, and in the charming BBC play Mildred, Dear, which I heard last Tuesday (March 29) the staunch Mr. McPhail was the only major character to survive with motives unimpugned.
M.
B.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 10
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175Lawyers and Lucre New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 820, 15 April 1955, Page 10
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