Pale Reflection
SCAR WILDE is not one of my greatest enthusiasms, but at least there is more life in him than would appear from the Decca long-playing version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, which has been going the rounds of the stations. It is a mere outline of the story (adapted by someone, edited by someone else, from somebody’s play) without the literary grace or the epi-grams-‘"the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it," and the rest of them. These not only give the story its colour; they add point to its horror, and to the paradox that the most characteristic literary product ‘of the greenery-yallery period should be this. picture of its own damnation. The departures from the plot, where they were not dictated by the need to keep the scene static for a stage-play (an irrelevant. consideration on the radio), seem to have been designed to méke it both less shocking and more obvious. This version has Dorian Gray killing the painter of the picture because he’s threatening to expose him. The book has Hallward threatening to pray for him. The acting is passable, but the quality of the recording as poor as any I've heard.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 18
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205Pale Reflection New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 18
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