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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...
Ferrer's show, aimed at listeners who were discourages in their youth by a "day and dusty classroom introduction to the master," offers a grab-bag variety of Shakespearean scenes, soliloquies, entire plays. For radio serial lovers, there is a four-installment version of Julius Caesar complete with synopses ("Amid the carnival-like entry of Caesar, the procession passes through the streets of Rome, leaving behind Brutus, who ponders Caesar's behavior, and Cassius, who waxes lean and hungry with petty resentment..."). Amatuer talent scouts had a chance to vote for the best of three recorded Hamlets (John...
...York Times's radio critic Jack Gould was appalled by Flash Gordon, an interstellar TV serial based on a comic strip. He damned it as "a macabre and sordid half-hour" which had no other purpose than "a stimulation of horror, fright and ghoulish suspense." Appealing to executives of the Du Mont network as "men of sensibility and judgment," Gould asked that something be done about the show (Sat. 6:30 p.m. E.S.T.), which "so easily can have an unhappy aftermath in the impressionable minds of youngsters...
...know what had happened to their hero. When last seen, Flash was being nibbled by a claw-armed space monster shaped like a sea horse. But by week's end, Crusader Gould had won a clear decision over the clamorous fans: Du Mont announced that another adventure serial, Don Winslow, would appear in the time slot previously held by Flash Gordon...
...installment 1938 movie serial starring Buster Crabbe...