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IKE many merely time-filling radio dramas, Elleston Trevor’s Mr Mysterious seemed to me little more than an anecdote which, in the theatre, wouldn’t have yielded more than a halfhour’s Women’s Institute play. A kind of poor man’s Brief Encounter, it presented a married man about to spend a weekend with a cafeteria pick-up who is brought back to married harmony by the temporary disappearance of his stepson. Although I suppose one should approve the sentiment of such a play, its content and treatment placed it in the genus Soap-Opera, and I wondered why the NZBS had troubled to record it or, on the other hand, why it hadn’t expanded it into thirty episodes for commercial use, William Austin and Davina Whitehouse went through their paces again, as the husband and his over-con-fident secretary. Among the other ~players, I was especially struck by Melanie Paul, who made of the other woman, Cherry, a more touching and convincing character than the script seemed to
draw. But would anyone who had a woman’s magazine on hand have given up an hour and a half to Mr Mys-
terious?
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 23
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189Expanded Anecdote New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 928, 24 May 1957, Page 23
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