Wit's Beginning
"\/ HEN, O, when, will we be prepared to laugh at ourselves? Perhaps this year? Who knows?" So one of my colleagues, surveying last year’s broadcasting. Well, now we know. Thanks to Bruce Mason, the wonder boy, and his intimate revue, Wit’s End, we have now laughed, and I have laughed and
laughed. The best thing about Dr Poop from Radio BEGM was the singing commercial, the genre unmistakable, the words incomprehensible; but the eternal quadrangle of mature emotion had the virtue of surprise. Then the French cabaret star, Brumasson, sang two pleasant songs; and he was followed by Herr Professor Apfelstrudel, speech trainer, whose labial mobility wouldn’t have disgraced Danny Kaye in his prime, but whose diaphragm control proved fatal. So to the piéce de resistance, little Wolfy Mozart’s Kitchen Symphony, in which Mr Mason did a Florence Desmond act with Aunt Breezy, the shy and retiring L.D.A. (kinder names, these two, than in the original revue), Manly Allover and Seldom Doogood, and, marvellously sustained, with Robert St James, who told how he found the MS in a barnacleencrusted baby’s bottle on Paekakariki beach. The symphony itself) knocked the Toy into a cocked hat. "I love a cadenza!" breezed Aunt Breezy. I loved Wit’s End and hope it’s only a beginning,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 939, 9 August 1957, Page 22
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213Wit's Beginning New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 939, 9 August 1957, Page 22
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