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...Take It With You (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC) is a radio serial based on the PulitzerPrizewinning (1936) comedy by George Kaufman and Moss Hart. The opening show clung tenaciously to the original playscript in putting the zany Sycamore family through its paces: Penny, writing plays in the parlor; Paul, detonating explosives in the basement; Grandpa, exhibiting snakes in the living room. Cinemactor Walter Brennan plays the philosophizing Grandpa Vanderhof, and is described with deadly accuracy as "a wonderful, scheming, lovable old pixie...
After the 17th revision on a six-year-old playscript, bestselling Novelist Betty Smith (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Tomorrow Will Be Better) decided that she would stick to novels: "I am absolutely through with playwriting . . . through with being the vehicle for producers' inarticulate creative writing urges . . ." Producing a novel is "not as glamorous as the theater," but it has a certain "dignity...