A likable melancholic 

THE GLASS WALL  


          'The Glass Wall' is a likably melancholic episode of Romance. 
          Like the canyon road at the beginning, 
the writing credits are rather curvy—the story belongs 
to murder mystery novelists John C. Fleming and Lois Eby, 
it was adapted for radio by Kathleen Hite, and edited by John Meston.  
Once you're past steering and listening to all those screeches, 
what it all means is that there's not much that is recognizably Hite. 
          As a matter of fact, Hite and Meston don't have much 
to be proud of, considering the way the story crashes 
to an end, as though a couple of scenes dropped off a cliff 
or were never written.  Your mind searches for a penultimate 
like you're looking at the truncated trunk of a car 
that's been in an accident. 
          'The Glass Wall' really belongs to Lamont Johnson, 
whose sympathetic voice does as much to create 
the hangdog hopeless loser noir atmosphere 
as the music.  



August 8, 2011 


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