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Here is the hectoring muse of the theater, certain of every wink and diphthong. For Pygmalion, a road company Liza Doolittle is counseled on Cockney sounds: "Liar is lawyer . . . Handkerchief is Enkecher . . . Brute is not broot: it is brer-ewt. The utterance is slovenly and nasal, colds in the head being almost chronic in the gutter...
Boston was not amused last week when NBC decided to rebroadcast Assignment: U.S.A. The city had heard all it wanted to hear last February when the program first went on the air (as one of an NBC series, Words At War-Tues., 11:30 p.m., EWT). But Variety, radio columnists, trade journals, etc. protested that the program said something important and, since NBC put it on at a late hour, without advertising, listeners should be given another chance...
...debut of the ten-station Atlantic Coast Network was deliberately demure. It began by relaying as sustainers a pair of BBC programs: London News (weekdays, 10:45 p.m., E.W.T.) and Foreign Correspondent (Tues. & Wed., 8 p.m., EWT). Next month the network plans to add band and symphony concerts and news commentaries from Washington. But radiomen are still watching Bulova intently for other reasons...
When NBC's Blue Network was divorced from the Red, the Blue retained custody of one of radio's brighter offspring - the Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street. Like many a bright village charmer who strangely never wed, the Basin Street program (Blue, Wed. 9 p.m. EWT) has never been seriously wooed by a sponsor with honorable intentions. Last week, for example, the Blue turned down a bid for it from Sal Hepatica, which wanted it as a summer substitute for Eddie Cantor, which would merely have involved the Blue's giving the show...
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