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Last year CBS Script Director Max Wylie decided to do for radio programs what Burns Mantle does annually for the U. S. theatre. After wading through bales of material, he produced a 576-page tome entitled Best Broadcasts of 1938-39 (Whittlesey; $3). This week once again Max Wylie dredged up a few nuggets from the U. S. aerial dross, released his selections for the 368-page Best Broadcasts...
...Butter Stinketh," an original script, is scheduled for broadcast tonight as the first presentation of the year by the Radio Workshop. Written by Eli Goldston '42, it presents the story of the food riots during President Kirkland's administration, and includes the famed blowing up of the pump and the threatened blowing up of a privy, complete with sound effects...
...Dramatic Club has received three or four scripts but nothing worth the $1,000 which Vinton Freedley's experiment of last year cost. The Radio Workshop has little to count on outside its veteran script men. Perhaps, new talent will begin to crop up now that the Network has actually begun to put plays on the air. But a far greater stimulus would seem to be needed...
...town U. S. life, is to have his turn as a best seller-for last week the lively, human story of Parson Spence went into its third printing. Reader's Digest picked it for its December book abridgement, and in Hollywood Warner Bros, rushed work on a movie script to add to its string of screen biographies...
Competitors for positions in the Script Department will be asked to write a number of trial scripts which will be given careful consideration by members of the Board. These interested in acting will have auditions and, if satisfactory, will be placed on call for production work. There are also opportunities for men who would like to direct...