Word: libs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Margaret McBride, WOR as Martha Deane. In her dual role she made somewhere between $50,000 and $100,000 a year. Now she functions only for CBS, and a new Martha Deane has taken over her spot on WOR. Her five-a-week, 15-minute show is strictly ad lib...
...understand a classic. Last spring he and Columbia Broadcasting System's Adult Education Board decided to try to explain the world's great books to the U. S. radio audience. In a program called Invitation to Learning, each week three literary critics held a half-hour ad lib discussion of a classic before a microphone. Among their topics: The U. S. Constitution, Plato's Republic, Flaubert's Madame Bovary...
Although McKay regards Newscaster Stearns as his protege, he admits that he still has quite a way to go before he comes up to the level of Fulton Lewis Jr. Checking on a twelve-minute ad lib broadcast by Lewis from the Democratic Convention Hall in Chicago, McKay discovered only three and a half errors, a score that left him breathless. Close to Lewis on the McKay charts is Raymond Gram Swing who consistently scores a brilliant 17, has a perfect command of French...
Jimmy Durante's methodical performance, on the other hand, lacks the zest and originality of his usual ad-lib burlesque. Ilka Chase, also prominent in the comedy sequences, carries off one of the show's funniest scenes with Durante and Bolger in "Rhett, Scarlett, and Ashley." Typical crack out of the mouth of academy award winner, "Scarlett O'Leigh" is: "Mr. Selznick made me--he made me over night...
...heads in show business surmounts Cinemactress West's opulent curves. For Mae, who fancies herself no end as a literatus and has always jealously insisted on authoring her own scripts, this time took a tip from Producer Cowan. She let Funnyman Fields write in his own part, ad lib to his heart's content. Best ad lib was carefully excised from the picture. Murmured Fields one day to the goat which he mistakes for Flower Belle: "Darling, have you changed your perfume...