Word: scripting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Thomas has never strayed from the aerial middle-of-the-road, has aroused few good-sized controversies in his radio career. He got into one aerial row in 1931, when, following a rule of The Literary Digest, then his sponsor, that no material already aired be included in his script, he failed to report the first broadcast of Pope Pius XI. Promptly he was swamped with messages accusing him of being anti-Catholic. Wrote a Mrs. McCaffery: "I spit on you, you Orangeman." Next day Thomas related a gentle human-interest story about how Monsignor (now Archbishop) Spellman...
Last week the American Bar Association decided that radio script writers were doing wrong by the profession. Huffily the Committee on Public Relations announced: "The committee objects to the characterization of lawyers on the radio as villains. The committee is taking up this objection with the broadcasters with a view to obtaining modification of such characterizations, at least to the extent of having villainous lawyers presented as an exception rather than as the rule...
Similarly annoyed with the script writers last week was the International Association of Chiefs of Police, holding its annual meeting in Milwaukee. Decrying aerial crime dramas as being bad for moppets, the chiefs resolved to stop supplying radio writers with factual information from their files. Chief gripe was that their material was so distorted on the air that they could not recognize it. Whether they would approve of crime stories that stuck to the facts was left unresolved...
...master of ceremonies for Lux Radio Theatre, De Mille is sometimes absentminded. Near season's end last year, he announced that the next Lux bill would be "Sidewalks of New York," his offhand reading of the script's Sidewalks of London. He rarely misses a performance. Once when he was ill he had himself conveyed to the theatre in an ambulance, did his bit from a stretcher with a hospital intern and nurse looking...
...five years, in a script so microscopic that it has to be read through a magnifying glass, Eugene O'Neill has been writing the dramatic history of an American family from 1775 to 1932. O'Neill explained that he was working on scenarios for nine plays, each one complete, but all part of a cycle. The first two would be called Greed of the Meek and And Give Me Death. Last week the Theatre Guild announced that the cycle would be called A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed, that the titles of the other seven plays would...