Cheerful Double
\WHEN you take in an NZBS Double Bill you don’t expect, both Jegs to romp home, but, on the other hand, I haven't struck a lame one ‘yet. Last Friday’s (April 15) was a happy choice. First ¢ame Piper’s Bid, an expansion of the old chestnut about auctioning the chair with: the probable fortune tucked in it, but the Dunedin cast acted with gusto and gave back some of the original freshness to the theme. Honeysuckle Cottage, however, an adaptation from P. (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) G. Wodehouse, was sidesplitting enough for two. I remember reading the story and chuckling, but it was as nothing to the play, where you were privileged to hear the condensation of the sentimentladen atmosphere of Honeysuckle Cottage going drip-drip-drip on the hardboiled hero’s heart. As the wistful, elfin slip-of-a-heroine Paddy Turner could not have been better, managing somehow to be the cause of nauseous sentimentality in others without actually getting wet herself,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 10
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164Cheerful Double New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 10
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