"JOY WILL COME BACK"
PLAY ABOUT FANNY BURNEY "Joy Will Come Back," by Elizabeth Goudge, which was presented in London recently, is a dramatised life of Fanny Burney. The action follows her from the age of 16 to her death at 88. We see her as a young woman, confessing her authorship of "Evelina" to Johnson and Boswell; we see her abandon her career for a marriage in middle-age with General D'Arblay. We see her outlive her husband, her son, and her fame; and her consolation is to receive, just before death, the assurance from young Mr. Thackeray—a terrible young prig from the sound of him —that she is not forgotten. Miss Goudge obviously intends her plav to illustrate a philosophy, but all it actually does is to settle down into a gentle jog-trot chronicle without theatrical quality. "I felt last night rather as if the authoress were showing me through an old photograph album, skipping all the exciting pictures and concentrating on the dull ones," said a critic, in reviewing the play.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22723, 8 May 1937, Page 22 (Supplement)
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