Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, for the first time in more than twelve radio seasons, neither NBC (the old Red network) nor the Blue Network broadcast an hour-long adaptation of a stage play. None was scheduled for the future. Possibly not many millions of listeners noticed this, but it meant that the book was closed on an era of radio...
...String Murders, was a murder-mystery best-seller (24,000 copies). Her second mystery, Mother Finds a Body, due for fall publication, "rolled right through the typewriter by itself." ("I'd no more think of saying that was a swell performance when I come off the stage-but when I finish a piece of writing, I read it over and I say to myself, 'Say, that's a hell of a hunk of writing...
When the opera began we were too far backstage to hear well, and we got more and more curious. Led by the intrepid Harry Newman we tip-toed back to the wings of the stage to watch and listen. We needn't have tip-toed. No one bothered about us. Stagehands and stars were scattered through the wings in profusion, and they didn't even notice us. We all crowded in and had a fair view of the proceedings. Until I stopped the show, Or almost...
...scenery, and I figured I could sit in it and see the whole opera. I maneuvered myself through the throng and crawled into the opening that led into my secluded box seat. Just as I put my foot down on the last step the lights flared up on the stage and I heard a sputtering over my head that sounded like a whole battery of spots. Someone pointed in my direction and yelled "Get that guy out of there!" I lifted my foot and the lights went down. I moved rapidly, and mingled with my fellows so that I couldn...
...look as though the various grand marchers would be organized come Michaelmas. But the opera is strange, and everyone seemed to gravitate into place. Not that the audience could have told in that mob if one or two courtiers or kings were on the wrong side of the stage...