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Kirsten Flagstad (Sun. 9 p. m. CBS). Metropolitan Opera's famed Wagnerian soprano is soloist with the Ford Symphony. José Iturbi conducting...
...cause of this amazing, nationwide panic last Sunday night was a broadcast by Orson Welles's CBS Mercury Theatre of the Air of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells (no relative). Author Wells's classic pseudo-scientific thriller about how the men from Mars invade earth in a flying cylinder (at first thought to be a meteorite) was first published in 1898. That its broadcast on Halloween Eve 1938, caused something pretty close to national hysteria was not entirely due to the timelessness of the Wells story, the persuasive microphone technique of Orson ("The Shadow...
...week's end FCC was flooded with indignant protests against Mr. Welles and CBS. In Germany the newspapers treated the unconscious hoax as a war scare. In the U. S. the press, no friend to radio, treated it as a public outrage. In London, Author Wells was a little shirty, too. He said: "It was implicit in the agreement that it was to be used as fiction and not news. I gave no permission whatever for alterations that might lead to belief that it was real news...
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Fri. 7:30 p. m. NBC-Blue, CBS, MBS) speaks as a "voter of New York State" from his Hyde Park home...
This Thursday (10 p.m. EST), again from CBS's Workshop, Poet MacLeish speaks to half-poet ears through another verse play, Air Raid. The station announcement is followed at once by the studio director's voice addressing...