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...Radio script writers last week were finally honored by a critical anthology. The Writer's Radio Theater 1940-1941* by Norman S. Weiser. The compiler, dramatic editor of Radio Daily, did for the first time in radio about the same thing that Burns Mantle has been doing since 1909 for the Broadway theater. One difference was that Weiser's ten "best" radio plays of the year* could be printed uncut. Other differences were many in the plays themselves...
...fact that nobody ever pays a nickel to hear a radio play has had a determining influence on radio scripts and script writers. It means that the usual radio play gets no direct response from the customers, very little from impartial reviewers. Radiomen like to talk as if their stuff were attuned to the twitch of intangible millions, but the truth is that no box office and few critics exist...
...have slipped John Marcellus Huston the rewarding assignment of directing the studio's neurotic Bernhardt, Bette Davis, in her next picture. A son who does not much resemble his celebrated father, Actor Walter Huston (see p. 98), young (35) Huston not only directed Falcon but also wrote the script for it. Seldom has a new director made such a ten-strike on his first picture. Sometime actor, painter, prize fighter, Hollywood scenarist, Mexican Army cavalryman, John Huston accepted only a slight assist from his father in his new venture: as an unlisted bit player, Huston Sr., sieved with bullet...
...dramatization, taken from the New Yorker Volume of Short Stories, was adapted for radio use by the DRS script director, Scot Matthews. It will be presented by Alexander Fanelli and John Freeman of the Dartmouth players...
With these special opportunities MARCH OF TIME will resume its peculiar function of giving auditors the sense of being on the scene of great events. One of TIME'S managing editors took direct charge of preparing the script. Part of TIME'S staff and all of TIME'S newsgathering resources were placed at his disposal to give a coherent story of the events of a stirring new decade...