Word: workshop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story of whatever U.S. Government activity was uppermost in the news. Assigned to the job were CBS's clearheaded Washington correspondent, Albert L. Warner, and a producerdirector, Brewster Morgan, who had directed a Shakespearean theater in England, worked in Hollywood, got radio down cold in the Columbia Workshop...
...pool itself, which still goes by the name of "Big Tree," is now turned over exclusively to enrage space for old sets and scenery and a workshop for building more of the same. A platform covering the pool is the floor for the second story at the level of the former edge of the pool. With chairs, tables, and couches spread about, this has been turned into the living quarters for the members where they can relax and waste idle hours. Here also rehearsals and tryouts will be held to discover future John Barrymores and Noel Cowards...
Columbia did this in 1936 when it gave time and money to the famed Columbia Workshop, and Anthologist Weiser considers that radio dramatic writing as an art began about then. His ten plays show that it is still a short-pants, if lusty, art. The selectees (awarded Harper Prizes in the form of scrolls...
Completing plans for fall broadcasts and announcing the opening next week of a competition for all boards, the Harvard Radio Workshop has started its fifth year of undergraduate extracurricular study of radio drama techniques. The Workshop's first essay into crime plays is "The Corpse in the Classroom," the opening drama in a collection of six blood and thunder tales to be presented over the college network in the near future...
...addition to presenting programs via "800 on your dial," the Workshop plans to continue its occasional appearances on WRUL, the international short wave station, and will exchange recorded dramas with other collegiate radio groups belonging to the Intercollegiate Radio Network. Originally organized by Archibald MacLeish, now Congressional Librarian, the Workshop sponsors an annual series of lectures by prominent radio personalities. Last year Norman Corwin, ace script writer for the major networks and Philip Cohen '32, head of the Federal Documentary Radio Program, spoke under its auspices...