New Zealand Snobs
NELLE SCANLAN’s novel Leisure for Living, as adapted by O. A. Gillespie, made a quite pleasant, light-weight NZBS play. If we are to hear domestic comedies on radio, J think that, other things being equal, it is better that they should reflect New Zealand more than those of Kensington and Mayfair. Miss Scanlan’s not untypical Kiwi family, in an English environment, with just enough money to be able to pretend that it ‘has more, socially ambitious, snobbish, fascinated by titles and never suspecting that a smooth, upper-class Englishman could be a crogk and a heel, seemed somehow more plausible than the English families in recent radio plays by Dodie Smith and others, Selwyn Toogood and Davina Whitehouse, who make a fine radio team (reminced me rather of Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler) gave excellently judged performances. And William Austin’s part, that of the double-dealing Englishman, was a welcome change from his usual roles. With enough verve ard wit to raise it above s%ap-opera level, Leisure for Living should go well on a ZB programme some time.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 886, 27 July 1956, Page 31
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