Word: georgias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incident held a lesson for television: tell it through the vision. It was a lesson that radio-trained telecasters badly needed. If they learned it, red-haired Georgia did not die in vain...
Beginner's Plum. Georgia-born Fred Hooper has been doing all right since 1923, the year he cleared a 15-mile stretch of land on contract for the Florida East Coast Railroad. Out of that shoestring venture grew a flourishing construction business. Hooper later bought a 5,038-acre farm in Alabama's "black belt" country and a long-legged quarter-horse named Royal Prince, that was unbeautiful but fast. Winning match races with this "moneymaking horse," he dented so many rich Georgia and Florida farmers that people stopped betting against...
...redhead in Apartment 1-A was strangled first. Then the redhead in 2-B and the one in 3-C got theirs. All died at the hands of "The Creeper," a sinister, unseen character in last week's Suspense play over CBS television. But after the murder of Georgia, the redhead who lived in 4-D, Georgia came back to haunt her scripters and the network...
Since network television rules forbid any act of violence to be shown (after all, Greek tragedy had the same convention), Georgia was done in just offscreen. A man's voice murmured: "What nice lipstick you use . . ." Georgia shrieked and dropped the phone she was using. The camera panned blankly at the phone while the dirty work was done...
Minutes after Suspense was officially ended, Georgia was on the haunt. In all, more than 2,500 phone calls jammed CBS's Manhattan switchboard. Everyone had the same reasonable question: Whodunit? Apparently the scripters thought they had made it plain: "The Creeper" was the locksmith who had just come to fix Georgia's front door. Why, then, had the TV audience been confused...