Word: schramme
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Last week the first of the broadcasts, employing music (by WPA Musician Rudolph Schramm) and a blood & thunder script (by Broadway Playwright Bernard Schoenfeld). told of the departure from Santo Domingo of three conquistadors, Pizarro, Cortes and Balboa, to search for gold on the mainland. Its dramatic climax: his following reduced by fever and cowardice to twelve men, Pizarro faces toward Peru on the sands south of Panama, shouts: "We are 13 against the jungle! . . . Thirteen against the heathen...