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November, 1945
FILM AND RADIO GUIDE
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Left to right — Jeon Killian, 16, Bayside High School, and member of Doug-Inn, Douglaston, N. Y.; James Thorpe, 17, Western High School, Washington, D. C.; Dr. Frederic M. Thrasher, Professor of Education, and Chairman, Adult Advisory Committee, Metropolitan Youth Council; Bill Slater, WOR, Moderaior, and Herbert Margolies, 16, Fieldston High School, New York, conduct a ponel discussion following a professional dramatization on WOR's "It's Up To Youth" program. The Metropolitan Youth Council is cooperating in the preparation of the program and in furnishing representative teen-age participants
in the panel. (WOR, Saturday, 12 noon EWT.)
young people appear on the program are the White Plains HiSpots, Mount Vernon Teen Town, the Manhasset Youth Council, and Doug-Inn of Douglaston.
The Talent Wing of the Council provides teen-age talent for this and other radio programs, for dances, servicemen’s affairs, and other meetings throughout the area.
The Council is cooperating in the presentation of a new program, “It’s Up to Youth,’’ on WOR Saturdays at noon. This consists of the dramatization of a youth problem by a professional cast and then a panel discussion conducted by Bill Slater among a group of teen-age young people from the Talent, Speakers, and Civics Wings of the Council.
The Council’s Movie Wing is composed of teen-age young people, including graduates of the National Board o f Review’s
Young Reviewers and members of the Four-Star Motion-Picture Clubs. This Wing reviews films and makes awards such as the Award of Merit recently given to Isobel Lennart for the script of “Lost Angel.”
The first Wing meeting of the Council was held in the Town Hall auditorium June 16 and attended by some 300 teen-agers and 100 adult advisers. In addition to the award to Miss Lennart, the Movie Wing presented a film produced by the MotionPicture Club of the Greenwich High School. Professional and commercial shorts were also shown.
The organization of the Movie Wing illustrates how the Council is being developed. In addition to the teen-age organization of the Wing, there is an adult advisory committee, headed by Helen Cahill of the National Board of Review and including in its membership Capt. R. C.
Lewis, New Tools for Learning; Albert R. Perkins, Look Magazine; Phil Williams, March of Thne; Max Brunstetter, Teachers College, Columbia University; Ray Bingham, Y. M. C. A. Motion Picture Bureau ; and Carol Landis, Evelyn Ankers, Ann Miller, Martha Scott, Martha Tillton, Arleen Whelan, Joe E. Brown, Chester Morris, George Brent, Irving Cummings, and Otto Preminger.
The chairman of the Radio Wing is Marjorie Crampton of the Teen Age Association of Eastchester. The Adult Committee of the Radio Wing is headed by Katheleen J. Norris, Director of the Teen Age Bureau, Inc. It includes Jay Jostyn, adult chairman of the Manhasset Youth Council ; Dorothy Lewis, Coordinator of Listeners’ Activities, National Association of Broadcasters; and Dick Willard, radio commentator. Trip and Fashion Wings are also being formed.