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Want a Laugh? A gang of Brooklynites make weekly book on the program, betting on their favorites to win. That disturbs the three showmen. Says Laurie: "We're worried to death some night a gunman will come into the studio and say 'Keep the fourth joke under 70. fellers, we're out for a killing...
...Yours) has turned out one or two lusty tunes, and gone to town with Steam Is on the Beam, but his score is on the whole unexciting. Finally, though pert, attractive Ingénue Miller is a promising newcomer to Broadway theater, the cast contains none of those accomplished showmen who can amiably bully the audience into thinking that pink is green...
...shows for the service men are to be "clean but humorous." Before they can go on, the Army's Morale Division has to okay them. In the promotion for Camp Shows, the word "sex" is archly avoided. As a makeshift for it, Camp Showmen have coined a yoo-hoo substitute-"woodle...
This leaves radio playwriting an art in a vacuum, inhabited solely by writers, producers, performers and sponsors. A sense of the vacuum sometimes reduces the writer's respect for his audience to the sponsor's commercial level. Or the writer may be luckier than most showmen ever are. He may work for a sponsor, or for a broadcasting company, liberal enough to encourage first-class, spirited work in a medium of unplumbed possibilities...
...cause of American democracy, almost a majority have given up hope for success in the fight for peace. This form of defeatism led one Boston columnist tacitly to admit yesterday that he could be convinced of the merits of fighting if only the Administration would hire some better showmen than bumbling Mr. Willkie and dull Mr. Stimson. Another "Over There" in his opinion would give the needed touch of crusading spirit to the cause macabre...