A Cat Across Their Path

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A Cat Across Their Path
Genredrama play
Running time60 mins (8:30 pm – 9:30 pm)
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Written by Max Afford
Original releaseDecember 6, 1939 (1939-12-06)

A Cat Across Their Path is a 1939 Australian radio play by Max Afford. [1]

Contents

The play was about Monica Sefton, who was the lead character in Afford's later Lady in Danger . Many other aspects of that play appear in A Cat Across Their Path including a cat and Monica's husband. [2]

The play was produced for radio again in 1940 [3] and 1951. [4] [5]

Reviewing the 1939 production, Wireless Weekly said the play was "disappointing. This crime drama fades out in a bloom of tenderness which is uncalled for and rather hard to bear... it is rather less plausible than usual, and lapses periodically into domestic moments which interrupt the story without diverting the listener from its obvious weaknesses." [6]

Premise

"A swift-moving laughter-play about a young lady whose habit of claiming false acquaintance with the famous and the notorious finds her mixed up in a sensational murder case." [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "WRITE TOUGH—BUT AREN'T". The Lockhart Review and Oaklands Advertiser . New South Wales, Australia. 23 January 1940. p. 2. Retrieved 27 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "WEDNESDAY .. DEC. 6", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, December 2, 1939, nla.obj-729695262, retrieved 28 February 2024– via Trove
  3. ↑ "TUESDAY —March 12", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 9 March 1940, nla.obj-1326307942, retrieved 28 February 2024– via Trove
  4. ↑ "This Trend To "Highbrow "". The Sunday Herald (Sydney) . No. 141. New South Wales, Australia. 7 October 1951. p. 12. Retrieved 27 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "RADIO PLAYS for NEXT WEEK A.B.C.", ABC Weekly, Sydney: ABC, 6 October 1951, nla.obj-1549769642, retrieved 28 February 2024– via Trove
  6. ↑ "JONATHAN LISTENS TO PLAYS", The Wireless Weekly: The Hundred per Cent Australian Radio Journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, December 16, 1939, nla.obj-729719056, retrieved 27 February 2024– via Trove
  7. ↑ ""A CAT ACROSS THEIR PATH."". Macleay Argus . No. 8746. New South Wales, Australia. 28 November 1939. p. 6. Retrieved 27 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
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