Word: programming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marchandeau measures gave evidence of being broadly unpopular, so last week Premier Daladier abruptly threw the whole program out. He invited Paul Marchandeau to hand the Ministry of Finance over to Paul Reynaud and take M. Reynaud's Ministry of Justice. This was quickly done with no Cabinet crisis. After the swap new Finance Minister Reynaud announced he would not answer his telephone for five days, promised by then to have drawn up a new financial program. This was expected to be "orthodox," that is, not to crack down on private capital or private initiative, but to continue "democratic...
...present audience surveys and other statistical mumbo-jumbo to prove to sponsors that they can pull in listeners. None of this was necessary, however, when Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre of the Air was sold to Campbell Soup last week. Week before Mr. Welles had proved that his program had grip when his production of The War of the Worlds and the U. S. radio audience's gullibility had created a national panic. Mercury Theatre will replace Campbell Soup's Hollywood Hotel on CBS December...
...Onetime British Prime Minister David Lloyd George from London, Senator Henri Haye from Paris, Professor Bo Osten Unden from Stockholm, onetime Belgian Premier Paul van Zeeland from Tulsa, Okla., Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, General John F. O'Ryan from Manhattan speak on the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace program, Family of Nations...
Lauritz Melchior (Sun. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue). No. 1 Wagnerian tenor is guest soloist with Frank Black's orchestra on RCA's Magic Key program. Other guests: Critic Clifton Fadiman, Actress Helen Claire...
When it was over, U. S. Composer Roy Harris, who had sat it out, sniffed: "I should say the piece was 19th-Century German Romantic." Confused Bostonians, looking everywhere but under the seats for the romanticism, found a will o' the wisp clue in their program notes, where Composer Krenek's own words told them: "At the end of the piece the piano seems to remove all traces of solidity, the orchestra reverts to the indistinct sounds of the high violins which introduced the work . . . leading the music back to the remoteness whence it came...