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...past fortnight, U.S. listeners coast-to-coast have been diverted by a killer-diller called Latitude Zero (8 p.m. E.D.S.T.), which makes its way out of NBC's Hollywood studios accompanied by the world's most bizarre barrage of sound effects. The script is written to match...
...hanging show includes metal shells to which actors repair when they are supposed to be below earth or water's surface, echo chambers, noise-making devices ranging from kettledrums to sheets of steel. Latitude Zero has a few new ones. When man-eating trees run amok in the script, the soundmen drag a real tree into the studio, grapple with it to give the proper effect. If the script calls for voices in a tunnel, the cast joins the soundmen in building one of chairs, tables, blankets, etc. In order to make a character, reduced in size...
This week U.S. radio script-writing took a short shuffle away from the tradition of heartthrob and supermanliness and toward the amiable vulgarity of Ring Lardner. The show is WOR-Mutual's Fight Camp, a good-natured yarn about a sturdy widow named Ma Corbett (Blanche Ring) who conditions pugs with one hand while keeping them away from her pretty daughter with the other...
This bit of tomfoolery manages to be engaging and downright funny in spots. Beauteous Miss Carroll's virginal retreats from the ruttish advances of her pursuer are performed in her best peaches & cream manner. But the script seldom rises above its morass of cliches, damp gags, trite situations, and occasional touches of propaganda. Mr. MacMurray's noisome conception of a vigorous American is on:: that most Americans would like to keep tied up in the backyard...
Then there was the war. Work on the script started two weeks before hostilities began. Shooting, scheduled for October, was held up until the following April because actors and technicians had suddenly become unavailable. There was a shortage of lumber for sets. Dunkirk over with, half the picture was in cans when the bombing of London began. Then the Nazis turned the Denham studio into a beacon-the point where their bombers swung toward London after crossing the Channel...