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Signed for a two-year contract with the Bell Syndicate, Pundit Thompson transfers her column to the arch-New Deal New York Post, after five years with the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune.* Said Columnist Thompson, of her showdown with the Herald Tribune: "We just agreed to disagree. I like the Herald Tribune and we've had pleasant relations. I think everyone understands there was a difference of opinion. ... It goes back to the campaign, so what's the use of talking about it now?" Herald Tribune men doubted that any syndicate could better its record...
...Blue networks, proceeded to cut down on its aerial schedule. While the economical mood was on it, P. & G. also decided to give up its Everyman's Theatre, least popular of its three nocturnal programs, on which it had given radio's wunderkind, Arch Oboler, free rein since last October...
This is a rather unusual situation for Arch Oboler, who is so anxious to hold his franchise as a prodigy that he admits only "roughly" to 31. Ever since he graduated from pulp writing to horror scripts five years ago, he has sedulously and successfully cultivated the notion that his out-rourings represent art of a very high order. A great wind-sawer at rehearsals, Director Oboler has worked with such lights as Nazimova, Bette Davis, considers himself a sort of Radio Reinhardt. Betimes he has ghostwritten a biography of the late Tex Rickard, recently adapted Escape for the screen...
...Although Arch Oboler has no quarrel with P. & G., he claims to be pleased that his commercial shows are ended. Says he: "We can't just do business as usual in these days, and I can't work my editorial policy in with an advertiser." He hopes to put his editorial policy across by way of an hour sustaining show once a month. "I don't want to do the sort of thing The Free Company (TIME, Feb. 24) is doing," he pontificates. "No flare of drums and 'now we take you to Valley Forge...
Last week Arch Oboler doffed his inevitable sweat shirt in Hollywood, headed for Manhattan to talk over his sustaining series with NBC. Typical plot he has in mind: A man and wife live all by themselves in an apartment, refusing to speak to other occupants. Then a gangster moves into the apartment house and the man and wife discover they can't isolate themselves from others. "See," he says, "that's like American isolationists, and the gangster could be Hitler." The rest of the series is along the same lines...