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...barnlike recording studio in London, a trim, middle-aged actor in a fawn-colored Savile Row suit sat down last week before a microphone. Adjusting his horn-rimmed glasses, he spoke to a technician in the crisp Mayfair accent that is known to theatergoers the world over: "All I want is lots and lots of water to drink and to have a frightful fuss made over me." Noel Coward, 47, was taking his first serious crack at radio...
Most of the burden for these and other short-comings in the staging lies apparently at the feet of director Andrew McCullough, an experienced technician who must have been below his best for the current production. One piece of staging in particular was painful: the hiding at the back of the set of the frighteningly pathetic scene in which June comforts her son Johnny after he sees the ghost of the man he has betrayed...
...biology major and during the war was a radio technician in the Navy...
...wanted the world to know who is responsible for all that glamor. For instance, when Ingrid Bergman first came to Hollywood, she had to use an onion to bring on the tears. With the help of the make-up men, she had learned to use a menthol inhaler. One technician recalled that he had successfully taped back one of Alan Ladd's ears (the other one is all right). Another had taped both of Frank Sinatra's ears to minimize his "handle-cup appearance...
...first programs were picked up in student rooms by tapping the radio to the radiators. After three weeks of such operation, a smug technician heard the station over his automobile receiver on the way home from Wellesley somewhere in the Newtons. F.C.C. has strict limits on the radiation of unlicensed stations, so the Network turned from the radiators to the cold water pipes...