Word: cbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...National Broadcasting Co. prides itself on never letting the Columbia Broadcasting System get ahead of it. In the opinion of many a serious student of U. S. drama, ahead is just where CBS got last April when its skilful experimental Workshop of the Air produced Poet Archibald MacLeish's The Fall of the City. It was the most competent U. S. verse play written for the radio and, setting aside the beauty of its speech and the power of its story, The Fall of the City, as produced by oldtime Radio Engineer Irving Reis, added some new dimensions...
...countered with "streamline Shakespeare" by John Barrymore and his wife Elaine Barrie, and prepared to put one over on CBS with "original" radio plays by Maxwell Anderson and Stephen Vincent Benet. Playwright Anderson's The Feast of Ortolans, an historical drama about a party of 18th Century French intellectuals who haggle about the Revolution right up to the moment the Revolution walks in the door, is to be given next month. Last week Poet Benet's show, an operetta based on Washington Irving's A Legend of Sleepy Hollow, had its radio premiere over...
...tiny Canton Island, near the sunrise end of the shadow path, confused frigate birds came in from the sea when darkness fell. In Peru, at the sunset end, bats flitted around the fast-working scientists. Radio crews of NBC at Canton Island and of CBS in Peru were able to broadcast lyrical descriptions. The sun's corona was almost circular, a form associated with the high sunspot activity currently manifested by the sun. Exulted white-thatched Clyde Fisher of Manhattan's Hayden Planetarium : "This was the most beautiful of four totalities I have observed...
...French Minister of Communications, who is Musical Director at the University of Dijon as well, wrote to the officers of the CBS to suggest a joint concert for the furthering of cultural relations between France and the United States, and promised that the Chorale Universitaire would present their program at some date after the American broadcast. It was left to the Columbia executives to choose the "outstanding university chorus" in the country...
...further grievance of the Conference was that few radio programs are suitable for the classroom. CBS contributes the only program specifically for schoolhouse radios, the "American School of the Air." Broadcast on 122 afternoons during the year from 2:15 to 2:45, the school is planned for three age groups: six to nine, nine to twelve, twelve and over. The American history course this year is dramatizing the past of eleven U. S. cities. The Science Club broadcasts simple experiments to be performed by the listener, such as opening and inspecting a dry cell battery or observing goldfish...