3 New Zealanders 3 Stages of Development

Radio Record, Volume XIII, Issue 11, 21 August 1939, Page 10

3 New Zealanders 3 Stages of Development

succeed in one field or another in England. There’s the first exciting, rather frightening struggle when you eagerly lap up any crumbs that might fall from the tables of the great; the coming, like the first snowdrop, of small success; bigger successes, when you become celebrity-conscious, because the celebrities (in a different way), are becoming conscious of you; then the sunshine of real money and real recognition. Three successful New Zealanders at three different stages of development are Merton Hodge, playwright; Hector Bolitho, writer; Marie Ney, actress. And their homes reflect this. Merton Hodge’s flat in Ebury Street, near Victoria Station, is liberally scattered with autgrophed pictures of people famous in art, on the stage, on the screen. Hector Bolitho’s drewing-room at his home at Saffron Walden, in Essex, has only two autographed photographs, one of Queen Marie of Romania, the other of a member of the British Royal Family. . Marie Ney’s drawing-room at her Halsey Street house in London has but one autographed picture-and that of her husband, who is in Malaya. are stages in the development of New Zealanders who have the yen to