Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average zoo-goer never hears in a hundred visits but also such familiar noises as the rhythmic bleating of sea lions, broken by short, harsh, discordant barks, which sound like a few bars from Ravel's Valse. More sophisticated listeners preferred the grotesque beauty of the West African red river hog's grunt, the resonant, whuffing snort of the white-tailed gnu, the whistling whinny of the panda...
Fables in Verse (Sun. 2:45 p. m. NBC-Red) written about animals specially for radio by Poet Alfred Kreymborg. First of a series...
Last week Red, now a Yale freshman, set out to get prestige of his own by stumping Dad on an Information Please question. With millions of radio listeners tuning in, one smart Kieran asked another to give the first line of three poems. Father John muffed Shakespeare's Silvia completely, identified The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (but gummed up the first line), had trouble getting the curfew before the knell in Gray's Elegy. Mused Father John into the microphone in Kieranized Shakespeare : "How sharper than a thankless tooth it is to have a serpent child...
Lotte Lehmann (Sat. 1:55 p. m. NBC-Red) heads the Metropolitan cast in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier...
President Roosevelt (Sat. 9:30 p. m. NBC-Red, CBS, MBS) addresses the Jackson Day Dinner in Washington...