Hullo, Please
{t must be I don’t know how long since I' heard the cheery Oriental Malapropisms of the Japanese Houseboy, Frank Watanabe. The lengthy chronicle of the misadventures of the Houseboy, Mr Hipplewhite, the Hon. Archie, and the rest, was, like Easy Aces, one of the first non-musical programmes to attract an earlier generation to radio. But Frank had vanished into the limbo of pre-war half-mem-ories until, last Sunday, my eye caught, incredulously, the title The .jJapanese Houseboy and His Employer in 1YD’s programmes. Would the old appeal have
vanished? Would a sour near middleage reject as infantile the mirth-pro-voker of youth? But, as the séssion went on its Wodehotisian way, it seemed as entértaining, in a simple style, as it had ever done, and more original than most of the series of its kitid tow broadcast. My responsé may have been partly nostalgic; yet I shall certainly listen again, if only to hear how Frank gets out of his present watery predicament. It is one of the advantages of 1YD’s flexibility that it can Offer us something so old that it is néw again. There’s a good deal to be said for a repertoty approach in radio
occasionally.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 24
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202Hullo, Please New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 948, 11 October 1957, Page 24
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