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...Gamble, biggest soap-opera impresario in the land, decided that it was ill-advised to run duplicating shows on NBC's Red and Blue networks, proceeded to cut down on its aerial schedule. While the economical mood was on it, P. & G. also decided to give up its Everyman's Theatre, least popular of its three nocturnal programs, on which it had given radio's wunderkind, Arch Oboler, free rein since last October...
...lights are anxious to deliver his lines. "They realize," he points out, "I have a respect for the medium I am working in." For this respectful attitude, Oboler is paid $4,000 a week by Procter & Gamble. His contract gives him the last word on all problems connected with Everyman's Theatre, on which each week he offers a half-hour of what he calls "socially conscious drama," written and directed by himself. Out of his $4,000, Oboler pays actors (his top: $1,000) and musicians, sometimes spends as much as $3,600 to put a show across...
...essential way different from the political purges of Italy, Germany, and Russia. Compulsory military training is completely against the American ideal of personal freedom, and leads directly to that choking of individuality which has told so heavily upon the youth of the totalitarian states. And the everyman-a-policeman attitude, strongly encouraged by the F. B. I., that resulted in the unfortunate Grand Rapids incident bears a startling and frightening resemblance to the Gestapo-inspired reign of terror in Germany...
...clique of worldly British moguls, give the drama superb and bitter satire. Never during the most intense moment in the hero's fortunes are we allowed to forget that the adventure of the mountain is but a facet, a link in the pattern of the tragedy of Everyman. Through the dramatic medium of poetry, Auden and Isherwood give a vivid universality to their characters...
...Little Theatre nights oldsters come down from their hillside cabins to watch the Caney Players put on Shakespeare, Everyman, Gilbert & Sullivan, original mountain plays like Feudin' and Larnin'. Last week ten softspoken, fresh-scrubbed Caney Players were in Boston on an annual 5,000-mile, seven-week crusade to spread the gospel of Caney Creek Community Center...