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...armful of notables, chose a young woman whose name means nothing at all to most cinegoers: Agnes Moorehead. She played the pyrotechnic part of paranoiac Aunt Fanny in Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons-her first role of any size. A versatile veteran of radio's washboard weepers, playlets and the MARCH OF TIME, she was once a teacher of English literature, holds four college degrees, is a third cousin of Eugene O'Neill. Closest competitors for the honors she won were: 2) Greer Garson; 3) Katharine Hepburn...
...dozen-odd washboard weepers will continue to do business at their same old spot, with the same old plots. In addition they will put on an entirely different show each day, using the same characters beloved of millions of housewives but involved in entirely different adventures. What these new Government-inspired adventures will be is up to OWI. But listeners who never get enough of CBS's Our Gal Sunday will be able to follow her breathless career as usual at 12:45 p.m. E.W.T., earlier that day (at 9:45 a.m. E.W.T.) they may follow...
...Washboard Weepers...
...started this war with a morale as good as anybody's, but it started slipping after a few days of steady "washboard weepers," and by the end of a week I was ready to surrender...
...were certain figures in the annual Crossley summary on program popularity released in Broadcasting this week by the Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting. Although confined to evening programs, they strongly suggested that at least one type of program could be safely substituted in daytime for a few of the sadder washboard weepers. From October 1940 to April 1941, Drama & Serial Drama had an average popularity rating of 11.7, with 28% of evening time on the air. Only 1.2 behind in popularity was Classical & Semi-Classical Music at 10.5, but this type of program had only 3.2% of evening air time...