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...Education Association: "There has not been in the entire history of the United States an example of mismanagement and lack of vision so colossal and far-reaching in its consequences as our turning of the radio channels almost exclusively into commercial hands." Since, he said, both radio and cinema portray "the trivial, the sensual, the jazzy . . . we are in vastly greater danger as a people from New Yorkism than from Communism...
...part of Trixie, Producer Harris selected Ruth Gordon (Hotel Universe, The Violet). Miss Gordon is one of the few actresses who can portray the character of a loose young girl without being offensive...
...Wide Open Town" is disappointing. It does not nearly approach the gusto and vigor of his former work. Rather, it strikes one as being a carbon copy, slightly blurred at the edges, of "Singermann." The failure this time of the author to portray this particular phase of the American scene is primarily due of the American scene is primarily due to the besetting sin of his reliance on "local color." Mr. Brinig has grown up in the city he pictures, he knows its legends and its individuality at first hand--and he had done nothing more than photograph them...
...subject of the Pope's radio broadcast, I think the editor of TIME was more nearly right in endeavoring to portray the awe and reverence shown by pious Catholics at hearing the voice of the Holy Father, than your correspondent, Mr. Conner (TIME, March...
...performance tremendously. I thought it very well presented. It sparkled and sizzled with dramatic interest-particularly that section of your broadcast devoted to the story of the sale of the New York World. When this story was first announced I was a bit dubious that any radio presentation could portray the news of the day in a fashion as interesting, alive and fascinating as you handled these matters in the columns of TIME. But I see that once again you have succeeded in tack- ling a difficult task and making it register with a thud. Once again-congratulations...