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Sayre spent four months working out a usable basic Spanish and writing the script. He found that the average Mexican laborer has about 500 words at his command, a white-collar worker some 2,000. With some advice from Harvard's famed Semanticist Ivor Armstrong ("Basic English") Richards, he boiled the Spanish course down to a working vocabulary. This 13-week transcribed series is available to any radio station...
With the Network finally on the air, the Workshop began to produce a play every week not an easy task. They were low on actors (but the Dramatic Club helped out), and they were miserably low on script writers (and nobody helped...
...little did instructors know or care about radio writing that one student was given back a script in English A-1 on which had been written: "This does not say enough in its first paragraph. You answer the questions when and where but not who and what"--advice which can be found in any manual on newsstory writing, but which certainly cannot be applied to radio writing...
...bang and banter. Further, they were not favored by WOR-Mutual's jerky dramatization of the life and death of Russia's hero Nikolai Gastello, who dived into a German gasoline stock pile. The Lunts could not make Gastello's parents even as convincing as the script made his act-which was not too convincing...
...script gets off on the wrong foot by surrounding them with such a loony murder story that their own looniness scarcely registers. But it would not hit very hard, in any event. Eight Abbott & Costello comedies appear to have exhausted the team...