A Bit of Fluff
CONFESS to a weakness for the meatier kind of radio play-Death of a Salesman, Wolves, World Theatre, and the like. One and a half hours seems to me a shade long to spend on a cream-puff piece, even for reviewing purposes. A theatre-minded friend of mine disagrees. Too many radio plays, he claims, are more "solid" than the average commercial play or amateur stage production; more should be broadcast to suit plain John Filmgoer. It is true that, with. the rise in NZBS play standards over the ‘past decade, the "merely entertaining" ones no longer predominate. This is hardly a Bad Thing; but we can scarcely complain at the occasional broadcast of pieces which, as stage-plays, might be spurned even by certain of our repertory societies, yet, on the air, provide undemanding light relief. So with Sunday Showcase’s Mate in Three, an L. du Garde Peach confection about a_ thrice-married authoress deciding which of her ex-hus-bands she shall remarry. Somewhat longwinded for its fragile plot, it still bounced along, thanks to Davina Whitehouse, Peter Reed, William Austin and Roy Leywood, gaily enough to satisfy any Sunday gardener anticipating Monday’s repose in the office. "See what I mean?" said my friend.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 23
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204A Bit of Fluff New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 940, 16 August 1957, Page 23
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