Nitrous Oxide
‘THE usual NZBS voices made a fine frolic of Parson's Fling, by David Scott Daniell. In this play a vicar liberates himself from the strong women who have dominated his life by throwing a stone at a car driven by the latest, the wealthy patroness who has just given him a cheque for the vestry restoration fund. He walks away singing "Jingle Bells" and sells the story to a Sunday paper for 500 guineas. The atmosphere is George A. Birmingham without the Irish, Ian Hay without schoolmasters or the navy. The happy ending, which lets everyone out, Be me of The Middle Watch. I couldn’t help thinking how anaesthetising a stock scene and characters can be, One expects an English vicar to be eccentric and yokels with rustic dialects to be comic, But shift the scene to New Zealand, make the hero one of our own harassed clergy and his adversary the bank manager’s wife who is president of the missionary union, and the humour would be nearer,: sharper, not so happy; and the NZBS would certainly not broadcast it.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 20
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184Nitrous Oxide New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 918, 15 March 1957, Page 20
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