"DOCTOR PAUL"
sir,-May I ask through the columns of your paper when (if ever!) the radio serial Doctor Paul is likely to come to a conclusion? If my memory serves me right, it is over six years since this feature first commenced, and Virginia and Dr Paul are no nearer to getting married than they were then. How much longer are we poor, longsuffering housewives to be kept in suspense, wondering how Elizabeth is to be got out of the way so that the hero and heroine can be finally married? By the way, if they ever do get married before the story ends, this -will be Dr Paul’s third attempt at marriage-two with Elizabeth, and one with Virginia. Another point is this: The serial always commences with the words-"A story of adult love." Adult love is right; it is more like adult crime and corruption, with a few murders thrown in for good measure. Talk about child delinquents through listening to "horror" serials; if Doctor Paul goes on much longer with its crime and intrigue, you will be having a few "delinquent housewives" on your hands. Even the original heroine who played Alice Logan and later Virginia Martin has faded out of the picture, and to my knowledge this is the third person who has taken the part of Dr Paul since the serial commenced., \ 3 Maybe I am alone ih my criticism of the length of this serial, but I don’t think so. I can hear some folks saying, "Well, (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) you can always turn off your radio" when it comes on, but that is not what the sponsors want, is it? So I return to my first question-can you give us any idea when we will be hearing the last e@nisode?
LONG-SUFFERING LISTENER
(No.-Ed.)
(Lower Hutt).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 26
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306"DOCTOR PAUL" New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 935, 12 July 1957, Page 26
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