Miss Grenfell at Home
T UCKY Australia to be entertaining Joyce Grenfell in person! In an informal talk on "The Need for Quiet" (BBC), 2YA’s Saturday Miscellany introduced us to a slightly more serious Miss Grenfell than usual. Throughout, it had a tiny core of absolute sincerity, but her exploration of the subject-the need for quiet, how to find it, and what to do with it when found-allowed her to use her "voices" enough to remind us of her better-known self, Shot through with autobiographical detail, this was really Miss Grenfell at home;
the talk revealed the serious woman behind the comic artist. Confirming the impossibility of planning for quiet, her account of the invasion of privacy by wildly irrelevant telephone calls and the front door bell was reminiscent as well as amusing. As "afters," Claire Mazengarb served us the introduction to "Joyce Grenfell at Home," a joyful medley of opening-choruses-we-have-known, from the blasé line of young ladies in Today’s Fiestaday (and they couldn’t care less!) to the graduates from the Slade School clamouring for attention with their "Hark at me, Oh, hark
at me, I'm Barking!"
N. L.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 17
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190Miss Grenfell at Home New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1051, 16 October 1959, Page 17
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