Word: colliere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MONKEY WIFE-John Collier-Appleton...
...Monkey Wife Author John Collier has written a more forthright satire than did David Garnett in Lady Into Fox, but the tone of the two books is similar. You may be shocked by some of Author Collier's implications; never by what he says. Nothing is here for tears; plenty for a smile...
Your broadcast March 20-superb. Courtroom audioscenes perfect. Introduction of military in ambush well done . . . but can it be you had to borrow Collier Hour Girl for ambush play? . . . Present hour too late. . . . Great compliment to Columbia-your selecting them...
TIME was glad to "borrow" able Lucille Wall, famed "Love Story Girl" of Collier's hour, for the telephone girl's part in the Spanish revolution scene. TIME will continue to "borrow" (i.e. employ) the best radio dramatic talent available. Another of Collier's actors is William ("Bill" ) Adams who does "Uncle Henry." In "The March of Time" he has played Mayor William Hale Thompson, Speaker Longworth, and the resurrected soldier of Miracle at Verdun...
...that Collier's editorial rejuvenation began. Editor Chenery. brought in to succeed the late Loren Palmer who went to the Butterick Publishing Co., and later to Liberty, was given practically a free hand. Most important, he was allowed to spend freely to get and hold good authors. He set about to speed up the magazine, insisting on more and snorter stories in each issue, buying by the story, not by the word. He originated the "short short-story," complete on one page, first of which was written by Octavus Roy Cohen. Four-color illustrations were used in Collier...