“LEFT CRITICS STANDING”
Mr E. 0. Mouslev’s Tribute
A tribute to Nevil Shute, the British author who died in the Melbourne Hospital on Tuesday night, was paid by Mr E. O. Mousley in Christchurch yesterday. Mr Mousley, an authority on international law and a noted author, was a friend of Nevil Shute and visited.him last month. “He began late in life and he came under criticism from other writers but he has left them all standing in many respects. He fulfilled the first requisite of a novelist. He told a story,” said Mr Mousley. “Though some of his work was imperfect in execution and limited in scope and depth he tells a story concretely within the comprehension of the ordinary mart.” Speaking of the film of “On The Beach,” Mr Mousley said the story was Shute’s story. What Stanley Kramer had done was to exaggerate the romantic element, the sub-theme of the book, until it had discounted the main theme.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29102, 14 January 1960, Page 11
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