Word: workshopping
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Born one full year before the Crimson Network, the Workshop was started in February 1939, by Archibald MacLeish, then Curator of the Nieman Collection. Its purpose: to experiment in forms of radio broadcasting. Its staff: at least a dozen of the leading members of the Faculty, in addition to a large number of students...
...records show very little activity during the first eight months of the organization's existence. When it got under way during the following autumn, Archibald MacLeish had left, the Faculty members had become mere names on the Workshop stationery, and a nucleus of three undergraduates remained to carry out that high purpose of experimenting in forms of radio broadcasting...
...first play went over well enough. But the second, in which this writer was to make his debut in the role of Mayor LaGuardia, didn't quite get by the WRUL, censors: and the records show that the Radio Workshop, as such, never again performed on the Boston station...
While waiting for the Crimson Network to get started, the Workshop, its members politely sniffing at the upstart radio organization, did not idly mark time. Using the facilities of the Harvard Film Service, the Workshoppers put on two more non-experimental plays and had them recorded...
With the Network finally on the air, the Workshop began to produce a play every week not an easy task. They were low on actors (but the Dramatic Club helped out), and they were miserably low on script writers (and nobody helped...