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...Ladies and gentlemen of the radio audience, having been found guilty of turning on your radio in search of good entertainment it is my solemn duty to sentence you to 30 minutes within the auditorium of Central Prison...
...begins every Friday night over Mutual affiliate station WRAL the prisoners' broadcast from North Carolina's brown, brick Central State Prison just a few blocks from the business centre of Raleigh. Started eight months ago by six-foot, 240-pound Ren Hoek as part of the recreational activities of which he was director, the show began with a kazoo player, a piano pounder, a drummer. Inmates took part on the program only as a reward for good behavior the preceding week, soon made it the "shortest half hour of the week" for their 900 fellow prisoners...
Director Bob Bowers and WRAL's program director, Fred Fletcher, last week began to polish up the show, find out how many programs their entertainers were "in for"; eyed hopefully a possible spot on Mutual's national network for the Central Prison boys this fall...
...Grapewin, a crooked lawyer, spends all his time drinking a sickening mixture of scotch and milk until Lloyd Nolan, a rat of the second water in the inevitable role of a gangster, picturesquely stabs him to death with an icepick in a Turkish bath. A few double-crosses and prison breaks fail to thrill, except once when Tyrone almost gets killed. The most exciting scene in the movie, in fact, is one in which Dotty uses a bit of a dance as an excuse to assume a very effective substitute for her sarong of old and to reveal somewhat more...
...Hurvitz and Segel had decided to fight the case and had been found guilty, they might have received a heavy penalty, either a fine or prison sentence...