How Are They at Home?
‘To judge from 2YZ’s Housewives’ | Choice today, when the breakfast | dishes are done and the children gone, | our wife and mother leaves us for a/ strange kingdom of her own choosing. Her departure is to the somehow familiar gurglings, of bath tub or kitchen sink, which open the "Samba of the White Suit." A medley from Salad Days sets her singing and look at her, she’s dancing! Then we lose her to rhythmic Africa, the compelling beat of "Sixteen Ton,’ the urgency of Eartha Kitt in "Freddie," then, breathily, she is "All Shook Up" by Elvis Presley. Patrick O’Hagan seeks to entice her back home to a "Cottage by the Lea," but she’s off again to the more primitive beat of "Red Wings," in which there are echoes of an old and ribald acquaintance, Mrs Porter and_ her daughter, on whom the sun shone bright years ago. Another pull at the home strings from Perry Como, but the wild calls once more as Felix Mendelssohn and his Hawaiian Serenaders beat out "Tiger Shark." Is this the Hawke’s Bay housewife, a creature torn between the call of the jungle and the ties of home? With the jungle winning? Ah’m all
shook up:
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 21
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208How Are They at Home? New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 950, 25 October 1957, Page 21
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