Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the Crusades had the Near East seen such a polyglot host. Besides the Glubb-led Arabs, General Wilson had in his supporting cast British and Scottish regulars, Anzacs, Canadians, Indians (mostly Sikhs and Gurkhas) and Free French. Senegalese, Annamites, Algerians, Moroccans and Lebanese, in addition to Vichy-loyal French regulars, helped General Dentz furnish the present production's conflict...
...from kettledrums to sheets of steel. Latitude Zero has a few new ones. When man-eating trees run amok in the script, the soundmen drag a real tree into the studio, grapple with it to give the proper effect. If the script calls for voices in a tunnel, the cast joins the soundmen in building one of chairs, tables, blankets, etc. In order to make a character, reduced in size by a magic ring, sound tiny, a 50-ft. length of garden hose was rigged up through which an actor's voice was piped into a button mike after...
Responsible for dreaming up Latitude Zero is a thin, bespectacled wag named Ted Elton Sherdeman, whose wife, a veteran radio actress, assists him. Nobody is more amused by Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit...
Most prominent member of Latitude Zero's cast is the persistently romantic Elaine Barrie, whose ex-husband John Barrymore rehearses for the Vallee show a couple of doors away. Although Elaine is careful to primp herself before leaving the studio, she has never run into John. His agent and her's see to that...
Spring Offensive opens with a cast of East Anglian farmers and tradesmen organizing their local government for the land reclamation task. With the homely talk of people transacting their everyday affairs, they plan their campaign, put it into action. The rest of the tale is told through the eyes of a small boy evacuated from the city. He sees one old farm, gone to pot since World War I, rehabilitated with the aid of pooled machinery and labor. He learns that there must be no more of this business of farming the land properly only in wartime...