Best broadcasts of 1938-39 (1939)

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NEW HORIZONS Of hardly less importance is the function in the script of Helen Lyon. To the reader her presence might at first appear superfluous, even irritating. To the child listener, however, she has great value, for she represents the average inquisitive intelligent person and spends her time asking Dr. Andrews and his guests the questions the listener himself might wish to ask if he or she had the chance. In other words, it is through Miss Lyon that the audience has participant access to the show. “New Horizons” is the Friday series of the American School of the Air, and it deals with adventures, exploration in research, and progress in natural science. The programs originate from the various exhibit halls in the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Dr. Roy Chapman Andrews, world-famous explorer and author, is host and commentator for the program and in these capacities has been enormously efficient and likable; he is a natural radio personality. The scripts for the series are written by Hans Christian Adamson, assistant to the President of the American Museum and the director of its Public Relations. Adamson, a Dane by birth, began his activities as a newspaperman and is well known to American readers as the author of any number of books and magazine articles on aviation and exploration. His great skill as a writer for programs directed to juvenile audiences is explained by the simplicity of his writing and his capacity for the visual phrase or sentence. Here is the broadcast of April 26, 1939. 303