"THE VANISHING ISLAND"
Sir,-I feel impelled to take up my pen to heartily thank the NZBS for broadcasting The Vanishing Island on September 9, I am sure it brought home to everyone listening that the principles for which the Moral Re-armament movement stands are almost the only hope of saving the world of today, ideologically quaking before the prospect of the new nuclear deluge and the soulless aetheism of the Communistic regime. I strongly agree with N. R. Prickett’s wish to hear the musical play repeated. How noble the sentiments: how sparkling the music; how lilting the libretto. They must have charmed all those who listened. Lines like: "If men like you can change, no need to hate you./We’ll learn to love and not to liquidate you," are scarcely surpassed in delight by Gilbert and Sullivan, and are infinitely superior in didactic quality, I feel sure that as the camel grasps at the last straw many more New Zea‘landers will be caught by the compelling power of this message.
ALEX
QUENTON-TURNER
(Auckland).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 5
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172"THE VANISHING ISLAND" New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 898, 19 October 1956, Page 5
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