Traveller's Joy
S we leave, two ecstatic professional voices’ extol the glories of dress, sheer, stretch stockings (let any amateur try that for ecstasy!). We hear but we do not attend. Travelling over the dull stretch from Wellington to the coast, we should be the perfect listeners, tamed and receptive. But these programmes have a_ sluggish effect. As irrelevant musical number follows lacklustre commercial, I see in the driver’s mirror only apathy down the line. Last week I saw the men in the factory similarly unmoved by the music offered them while they worked. Perhaps advertiser and programme _ organiser should watch us in the factory and listen in the bus. Today’s sole audience reaction is the whistle that greets the cowboy number, unlikely companion piece to a commercial for: venetian blinds. On the motorway a man’s voice strains to reach us beyond the wind. At Porirua it succeeds; stockings again. Someone purrs soporifically about the romance of moonlight. This is corsets, but no flicker of interest. lights the face of the women passengers. A singer cajoles us to "Put it back where you found it," but the driver will have none of this advice. As Aunt Jenny takes up her real life story, my neighbour’s body ‘slumps against mine, she has nodded off completely.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 21
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214Traveller's Joy New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 21
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