In the Family
WO members of the Alley family have given me good listening this week. "In Coffee Bars" (2YA) introduced Ruth Alley’s series of talks on Working One’s Way. Such stories, part of the staple fare of women’s sessions all over the country these days, demand -a high degree of personality in the speaker, or experiences strange indeed, if they are to score with the listener. As ' befitted a former, would-be "Sarah Bernhardt of the Antipodes," Miss Alley revealed a sly delight in the quirks of character and situation around her while she worked. From Station 2YC came the long poem, Lament of the Soldier's Wife, a translation by Rewi Alley from an 18th century Vietnamese poet. Read" well and with quiet sympathy by Anh Dolphin, the verses evoked an exotic eastern world background to the simple timeless grief of a woman for her husband gone to the wars. Throughout its shifting moods, the lament, with its wealth of imagery drawn from nature, heightened the expression of personal grief and bitterness by the studied contrast of its changing scenes. We could do with more recordings of this kind
from the NZBS.
N.L.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 20
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194In the Family New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1052, 23 October 1959, Page 20
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