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...Radio Theatre is Cecil Blount De Mille. Nominally producer of the show, De Mille nowadays does little more than serve as commentator, leaves actual work of whipping programs together to Director Sanford Howard Barnett. Only when particularly knotty problems occur does De Mille contribute a bit of sage advice. Once, when animal imitators were unable to render the baying of a beagle, De Mille dispatched six of them to Lake Arrowhead, there to study the call of four fine hounds. Best scholar was one Lee Millar, who progressed so fast that he was eventually permitted to imitate Mr. Smith...
...minutes, Muni got a grip on himself, went through his act without a hitch. Another mike-fever victim was pop-eyed Joan Crawford, who was so scared during her first performance that she had to remain seated through it. As part of his job as Lux Radio's sage, De Mille has to calm such agitated performers. His favorite actors among those who have appeared in the show are Joel McCrea, Fredric March and Barbara Stanwyck, whom he describes as "sincere." Miss Stanwyck insists on going shoeless when she broadcasts...
...Proudly showed the rough draft of his acceptance speech to Editor William Allen White (Emporia Gazette). Sage Mr. White announced that Wendell Willkie's victory was "in the stars," told a story: "In 1936 I told Alf Landon that he wasn't going to carry Kansas . . . But this year it's different, and Mr. Willkie is going to carry Kansas...
...least in the West) where any conception of foreign policy that exists has been determined by the newspapers of William Randolph Hearst and finds expression in parrotlike repetitions of Washington's "no foreign entanglements" statement. The result of this unwitting partnership between half-cocked idealists and the sage of San Simeon is a young generation with about as much sense of world responsibility as a tribe of aborigines in the Australian bush...
...fanfare for TIME'S Music Editor who wisely dedicated a column and a half of his department in the May 20 issue to excerpts from a characteristically sage editorial by our beloved Kansas editor, William Allen White. It definitely puts one heretofore lively controversy in the category of finished business. The Sage of Emporia has hit the proverbial nail so well on the head that there remains no nail to work...