Word: workshop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week CBS's best "prestige program," Columbia Workshop, celebrated its third birthday on the air by inaugurating a Festival (Thursdays, 10 p. m. E. D. S. T.) of 13 broadcasts. Eight are the pick of the 140 radio plays the Workshop has done since its beginning. Five are new ones, among them plays by Dorothy Parker, Lord Dunsany, William Saroyan...
Original director of the Workshop was Irving Reis, a swarthy, jittery onetime control-room engineer who thought the production, not the play, was the thing, and who sweated with oscillators, electrical filters, echo chambers to produce some of the most exciting sounds ever put on the air-Gulliver's voice, the witches in Macbeth, footsteps of gods, the sound of fog, a nuts-driving dissonance of bells, the feeling of going under ether. When Director Reis left the Workshop-which also graduated an even more celebrated member, Orson Welles-it was run for a time by handsome, long-armed...
...Woods Hole, Mass., which has the best-equipped laboratory of marine biology in the world. In Princeton, he gets up every morning at six. Two mornings a week he tramps, in good weather and bad, the three-quarter mile from his red-roofed stucco house to his book-lined workshop in Guyot Hall. He also lectures regularly to graduate students. And, four mornings a week, he hops the 7:45 train to Philadelphia and goes to the headquarters of the American Philosophical Society...
Pacing up & down in Mrs. Jack's "workshop" in Greenwich Village, Monk sings, makes strange gurglings, stares out of the window, suddenly emits an ecstatic "goatlike cry of joy." Whereupon they join in wild cavorting, break off to eat the lunch which she comes each day to prepare. At times Monk speaks as follows: "Can I devour you? Can I feed my life on yours, get all your life and richness into me, walk about with you inside me, breathe you into my lungs like harvest, absorb you, eat you, melt you, have you in my brain, my heart...
...equipment, the workshop has received a generous gift of a complete recording set from the Worldwide Broadcasting Company, including a microphone and a "play back" offered as a loan for the present year. When the Workshop is more firmly established it expects to expand on this finally aiming at a completely fitted out broadcasting room...