Morning Miscellany
CAN imagine few programmes more beguiling than the 2YA Women’s Hour, at present so ably conducted by Claire Mazengarb. I tuned in the other day to hear Russell Reid and Nola Millar ably expatiating on their year’s work on this session, summing up the value to listeners of their many discussions. Are drama schools of value? To some they conclude, not for others. What is stage technique? Russell Reid thinks it applies mostly backstage, Miss Millar insists that for actors it is only a means to develop and extend the area of the imagination. She asks for an imaginative Ttesponse to what actors find in the script. What a great deal these two amiable sparring partners have contributed to this session and to thought on the theatre all over the country over the last year! But thére is more. This. discussion was followed by the wholly admirable ‘talk by Owen Jensen in his series The Pleasures of Music. Mr Jensen, as I have remarked before, has a unique gift for placing musical issues before listeners in a manner which relates it wholly to life. The session was concluded by Miss Mazengarb herself, ; (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) who read a fascinating talk on Mauritius. If this is the fare designed to ease the morning chores, it is doing its job, and then some.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1054, 6 November 1959, Page 16
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