Word: playlet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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House of Commons' tradition demanded that this cobwebby playlet be enacted this week: In the absence of a Speaker, M.P.s point silently to Anthony Eden or some other designated Member, who announces the King's wish that another Speaker be appointed. Two M.P.s propose and second a man agreed upon by Tories and Laborites. The new Speaker formally "protests his unworthiness," is then elected and conducted to the seat of Commons' authority. At this stage he wears a bobbed wig. The King is asked to approve the choice. When he does (in practice, he must), the Speaker...
Also of Erskine, Miss Marjorie Robb makes her second curtsey to the college community, following up a recent radio success. Appearing in all three feminine parts of Side Street," a Gidding playlet on the Crimson Network, Marjorie won immediate commendation. The program had barely ended when the studio phone rang, and an eager but bashful undergraduate vowed his undying affection for her. Miss Robb promises the anonymous swain an opening-night date, if he can successfully establish his identity
Sample: a playlet which takes place in "the combination cellar and playroom of the Bradley home in Pelham Manor. Mr. and Mrs. Bradley and their two children, Bobby and Susie, are grouped about their new automatic oil burner. They are all in faultless evening dress, including Rover, the family Airedale." After a sufficiently shattering amount of balloon dialogue ("Oh, Moms, I'm so glad you and Dads decided to install a Genfeedco automatic oil burner and air conditioner with the new self-ventilating screen flaps plus finger control!"), Bobby answers the door and "admits Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher...
During the last campaign Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg created a stir on the air waves by playing recordings of Franklin Roosevelt's pronouncements, rebutting them sharply as they scratched along. Squelched during this campaign will be little playlet parables against the New Deal. No more will Romeo tell Juliet that he cannot marry her because the WPA has bounced him for being a Republican. Agreeing that such tricks are unfair and unseemly, the National Association of Broadcasters last week voted to restrict political broadcasts to speeches, interviews, bona fide rallies...
...Allen's reported $9,000-a-week radio salary. Off-mike, she is not always so dippy. As a guest on Information Please last summer, she stacked up favorably with the most select experts. On one Screen Guild show she played opposite James Cagney in a serious Irish playlet and did it well. One year U.S.C. psychology students, professing to find considerable sense behind Gracie's nonsense, voted her Hollywood's most intelligent actress...