Dis is Da Pay-off
B Sunday Showcase plummeted to the depths last week with a piece called Within the Law, starring Ginger Rogers. How are the mighty fallen! Could this have been the elegant, witty dancer of my youth? The play, styled "one of the most famous in the whole history of the American theatre," was quite appalling, soggy, characterless, unpleasant. Lee Tracy rasped his way through his part as a clever cop, throwing the American police force in a most disagreeable light, _and Ginger, hard as nails, but with a woman’s heart beating underneath it all, rasped back. It became clear about half-way through when I heard a tiny off-stage titter, that this play had been recorded before an audience, though what they made of it, goodness knows. Sunday Showcase continues to bewilder me utterly. Its range is surely the widest in the whole of New Zealand radio. One week we may have a distinguished BBC or NZBS production, the next, something fished from the trash-can like Within the Law. ZB has a national
audience on Sunday night; at times when we hear first-rate work on Sunday Showcase we can feel that this time is being responsibly used. At others, like last Sunday, we can only assume that the barrel is never very full, and has at times to be scraped very hard indeed,
B.E.G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 20
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227Dis is Da Pay-off New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 872, 20 April 1956, Page 20
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