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...haired musicologists, giving original readings of such compositions as "Opus 33, First Door to the Left." The musicianship is sound; NBC Symphony players willingly take part, and well-known guest musicians need no fat fees as lure. The program's appeal was demonstrated when one week's script warned that Basin Street might be lost in a network budget cut and brazenly asked for letters to prove its popularity. ("If you must write two letters, be sure to sign the second one with a different name.") Six thousand replies came the first week...
Robert S. Kieve '43, president of the Crimson Network, established what he claims to be a new record when he thought up, wrote, rehearsed, and produced a script in the short time of two and three-quarters hours last night...
...Hope, who has been going great guns before soldier audiences. Last week Hope put on his tenth straight broadcast from a training camp (location censored). Benny has found that incalculable whoops and whistles upset his expertly worried lines. No ad-libber, he has to stick to his painfully prepared script, feels that a lot of mugging thrown in for a visual audience is a sin against his radio listeners...
Uninhibited Bob Hope adores his soldier audience. Monologist and avid ad-libber, he can and does depart from his prepared script at the drop of a hat. His camp followers drop their hats so willingly that they have to be cautioned beforehand to hold down the uproar. It could spoil the timing of jokes like this, which warm a soldier's heart...
...another type of radio drama was in full flower, especially at CBS: the original radio script, with its narrators, its musical "bridges," its fade-outs, fade-ins, sound effects. Daytime serials had long since arrived...