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BEST SHORT STORY ADAPTATION (SERIOUS)
A Trip to Czardis
by Edwin Cranberry Adapted for radio by Elizabeth and James Hart
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Determining the best broadcast in the classification of serious short story adaptations presented one of the severest problems met with in the preparation of this anthology. The short story adaptation is one of radio’s most common dramatic types, and it has been estimated with reasonable accuracy that over thirty thousand programs for this division alone are broadcast every year. Four hundred and fifty were examined for this book. Many fine pieces were rejected as candidates for inclusion and the final choice was arrived at only by making the criteria of qualification so severe as to render ineligible, on one claim or another, most of the disputed properties. In the final judgment the following factors were taken into account :
I. Literary merit of the original.
2. Difficulty of the adaptation problem.
3. Artistic integrity of the adapter’s inventions.
4. Adherence to the pattern, mood, and intention of the original.
5. Recognition and use of expansible suggestion.
6. Playing power.
In the degree to which each story adaptation met these tests, it was given its independent rating. “A Trip to Czardis” was deficient in no category. The original story is the work of Edwin Cranberry, published in Forum in 1932. The piece was adapted by Elizabeth and James Hart for the Columbia Workshop and has been printed in its broadcast version in the anthology, Columbia Workshop
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