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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Major Dupuy got on the air four times for CBS mostly as a military conversationalist with News Analysts Elmer Davis and H. V. Kaltenborn (see p. 46). Major Lambert, in his single turn at the microphone, told MBS audiences that the Polish strategy would be to withdraw before the Germans to the Vistula and stall until the autumn rains, which were expected to bog down Germany's mechanized army...
Toward week's end, CBS, MBS and NBC got together, agreed to "edit" the news (i.e., avoid repetitive bulletins, pair up varying reports, sift announcements from foreign radio stations). CBS decided on at least two foreign hookups a day, interruptions of programs for big news only. NBC planned to use its men abroad on a newly announced schedule of war news periods only when they had something to say, began to scout around for correspondents in neutral European capitals, in the hope of getting uncensored news...
...devious military movements and tactics. NBC had cornered General Hugh Johnson's spare time. CBS had Major R. Ernest Dupuy, old New York Herald man, World War veteran, author (If War Comes, with Major George Fielding Eliot), and West Point's public relations officer. MBS got Major Kent C. Lambert from Fort Jay, onetime exchange officer with the Polish Army. But last week, almost as soon as war began, all three went out of action...
...worry of all broadcasters is how to make strategists, commentators, etc. earn their keep. One way (already registered at the U. S. copyright office) was suggested last week by Manhattan Press-agent Joseph P. Annin, a Wartime aerial reconnaissance officer. Annin's idea, which he got while traveling cross-country in an airliner, is to sell radio advertisers on the idea of distributing war maps and sets of colored pins to the audience, hiring military experts to digest the news of the day, analyze the tactics, then devoting five sponsored minutes each evening on the air telling...
...best-seller for $55,000, Author Bromfield, no lover of Hollywood, returned to his expatriate retreat outside Paris, thence prankishly dispatched identical telegrams to Constance Bennett, Kay Francis and Marlene Dietrich, informing each that she was his choice for the sought-after part of Lady Esketh. Harried Producer Zanuck got no peace until he solved the mystery, passed the telegrams around. The only memorable performance in The Rains Came is that of button-faced, button-sized Russian veteran Maria Ouspenskaya. Cast as Charles Boyer's grandmother in one scene in Love Affair this year, Actress Ouspenskaya stole the picture...