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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early this week Speaker Väinö Hakkila of the Finnish Diet broadcast a stirring plea for aid in which he declared that "We believe the civilized world . . . will not leave us to fight alone against an enemy more numerous than ourselves." But if Scandinavia went to the aid of Finland, it would be an invitation: 1) to Russia to move in on the north; 2) to Germany to move in on the south. There was always a chance, though slim, that Russia would be satisfied with Finland, and there was an even slimmer chance that with enough unofficial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SCANDINAVIA: Help Wanted | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

...leading players took time off for a little "rest" when they rushed over to Station WBZ for a fifteen minute broadcast of five scenes from the play. Half an hour after they came off the air, they were all reassembled on the stage, and from then until nearly dawn the 175 members of the cast, plus a number of technicians, went through the whole play twice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Curtain Rises on New Show Tonight | 12/14/1939 | See Source »

Five scenes from "Poo Late to Langh a new play by Vinton Freedley, Jr. '40 which the Harvard Dramatic Club is presenting in Sanders Theatre tomorrow Friday, and Saturday evenings, will be broadcast this evening at 10:15 o'clock over WH2. The dress rehearsal was held last night and marked the first time at which the entire cast of 115 was assembled together...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dramatic Club on Air | 12/13/1939 | See Source »

...James W. Fesler, who could hear the weekly broadcast much better in their own front parlor (in the studio the music sounds almost as if it were being played under a blanket), make special weekly train trips to Manhattan to see the Maestro conduct in the fiery flesh. Two Buffalo newlyweds recently made Studio 8-H their Niagara Falls. One Texan chartered a plane to get there. Refugees from Central Europe spend their first two cents on U. S. soil to stamp a letter to NBC asking for passes. Bootleg passes retail at $25 a pair. Last week, when Toscanini...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

When NBC officials threatened recently to deprive sardonic Composer Deems Taylor of his free tickets to the broadcast, on the ground that he "didn't like Toscanini anyway," he blasphemously cracked: "I admit Toscanini was at the Last Supper, but I insist that he did not sit at the head of the table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Toscaninnies | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

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