Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sandwiched neatly between winter boom and summer slump of sponsored radio, the week of March 6 was chosen by the Federal Communications Commission's statisticians as typical for their first large-scale survey of what was coming over the air. Reports from 633 stations, released last week, revealed the percentage of broad casting time given to the seven major types of radio programs. One item surprised listeners...
...hard to see how he could have undertaken policies more offensive to David Low than those he has followed. How offended Low has been was revealed last week when copies of his latest book of cartoons- reached the U. S. from London. A collection of 146 drawings chosen from his contributions to the London Evening Standard, the book contained an entire new gallery of subjects for Low's caricatures. But it was principally notable for its merciless caricatures of tall, lean, sloping Neville Chamberlain...
...casts of the operatic scenes thus sampled contained no great names. For their productions, thick-spectacled Stage Director Felix Brentano and Conductor Fritz Mahler had chosen young, cooperative U. S. singers, devoid of upstage ideas. Thus equipped they rehearsed their operatic scenes as a conductor rehearses a symphony orchestra, shaped each musical phrase and each dramatic moment to fit, coordinated the action of the characters down to the 'slightest detail. By performance time they had done some 200 hours of solo, group and general rehearsing, far more than the most lavishly financed large-scale opera house could have afforded...
Neatly produced by Hal B. Wallis, earnestly directed by Edmund Goulding, handsomely performed by its well-chosen cast, White Banners thus turns out to be a smooth, ennobling circus, which should surprise and gratify those who look for sermons in shows and books on double bills. Typical shots: Hannah smiling bravely when Sally breaks a plate; when Pete is impertinent; when Paul Ward has a tantrum...
...these books in order went into production this week, will be a CBS coast-to-coaster Thursday evenings at 8 beginning June 30. NBC's projected Federal show is U. S. Secret Service, dramatizations of closed cases; MBS's is Command Performance, 13 famous plays chosen by audiences and radio critics...