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WAS glad to have the chance of hearing Joyce Grenfell Requests the Pleasure of Your Company on the Suncay National Programme, since I had
caught only a tragment during its earlier ZB Sunday Showcase airing. Miss Grenfell who on films plays toothy, gauche games-miistresses, affected modistes and prattling Englishwomen abroad, shows herself in this programme much more subdued and genteel, but still exceptionally entertaining. Save for one sketch, a piece of typical English classhumour about a_shop-girl mad on dancing, she bypasses the comic "turn" or impersonation, for nostalgia and wellbred evocation. She deals in polite, Punch-like, fun-not at all like Anna Russell, as I'd expected, but more like
the late great Ruth Draper. Much of her material, especially a song about a woman and her three brothers, reminded me of the more serious songs in early Noel Coward revues. Without being at all hilarious, this session had a gentle, wry charm of its own, a distinctively British kind, suggesting private schools for girls, hols with Mater and Pater, tea on the lawn, tweedy walks and dogs. But it was infuriating to hear the announcer call her, more than once, "Joyce
Grenfield."
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 21
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196Enter Joyce Grenfell New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 920, 29 March 1957, Page 21
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