All for Love
]-RIENDS: we are going on a little journey. Come with me to Krasnia, where the King is feeble, not to say impotent, and the singer Militza Hijus (?) is not only the real power in the land, but the toast of the populace. Enter, from it seemed, the BBC, an English inventor called Anthony Allen, impoverished, stifled by the massive indifference of the world. Militza befriends him and lends him £1000. Here the story becomes a thought confused. There is a plot to depose the King. Militza rushes on to an ocean liner, but Mr Allen is in her cabin. So she sings, to allay her vexation. There is a stowaway called Cleo Wellington, from the Deep South, no less, and she and Militza sing at the ship’s concert. During Militza’s song, a knife is thrown at her. It misses. Boom! The ship blows up. Next thing Militza finds herself on a mudbank surrounded by her trunks and Mr Alien. "What do we do now?" he quavers. "I want you to kiss me until I tell you to stop," she replies in a clear voice. Music. They rush off to her native province .of, as far as I could judge, Dzsprentontovie, and are married in quaint old gipsy style with their wrists slit and blood mingled. Back to the capital. The King’s life is in danger. Barry Linehan is about to kill him. Bang! Mr Allen saves him. "Militza,’ says the King, "be my Queen." "I will, Sire," replies Militza. But what of Mr Allen, her old bride-
groom? He leaves, with tears in his eyes, knowing that there is some corner of his stout heart that will be for ever Militza. Krasnian National Anthem. This is a digest of Ivor Novello’s Glamorous Night, than which I have heard nothing more sickening ever from the NZBS. Pamela Woolmore warbled away prettily, and the strings made some nice gipsy noises. But for the rest? O God, O Montreal!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 24
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329All for Love New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 946, 27 September 1957, Page 24
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