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...Circle aims to stand or fall by a novel format of radio entertainment-a round-table type of informal-sounding chatter about anything under the limited radio sun, participated in by the elect of the entertaining world. The informality is achieved by the cast sitting down with the script writers few days before, sometimes tussling all night with the job. The Circle's, original members were Ronald Colman, a ten-year holdout against radio work; Cinemactress Carole Lombard; Leading Man Gary Grant; Baritone Lawrence Tib-bett; Groucho and Chico Marx; Robert Emmett Dolan and his orchestra. Early guests were...
...insignia and wings without-forming the background of almost every scene, they add the only element of color to an insipid "Wings of the Navy," currently at the Metropolitan. Built around a trite story of two brothers in a naval flying school, the picture contains little acting, a dull script, and slowly paced direction. Olivia DeHavilland, apex of the now-winged eternal triangle, has nothing to do except be ornamental; John Payne, who wins the girl from George Brent and sells the airplane (replete with wings) to the government, makes the most of an exceedingly limited role. Only the photography...
...Please note the enclosed script is copyrighted...
...hiring dialogue writers, and not creators, the Hummerts save lots of money. Most serial writers in radio command $200 to $400 a week. For The Goldbergs, Gertrude Berg gets about $2,000. The Hummerts pay a minimum $25 per 15-minute script. Since most Hummert ghosts are glad to add caviar to bread-&-butter from other jobs, they have seldom squawked...
Last year the Hummerts began sending scripts to London to be Anglicized and broadcast from Normandy and Luxemburg to British listeners. Anglicizing largely involved changing cops to bobbies, dollars to pounds, Manhattan Merry-Go-Round to London Merry-Go-Round, Lorenzo Jones to Marmaduke Brown, and most writers felt that some fame or profit from this rebroadcasting should come to them. But every script that went abroad was prudently marked, like those used in the U. S.: "Authors-Frank and Anne Hummert," and B-S-H picked up all the chips...