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BEST ORIGINAL PLAY (COMMERCIAL)
Expert Opinion
by True Boardman From The Silver Theatre
The initial broadcast of the Silver Theatre was presented on Sunday, October 3, 1937. The story, “First Love,” an original written for Silver Theatre by Grover Jones and adapted by True Boardman, was a four-episode vehicle in which Rosalind Russell and James Stewart appeared for four successive Sunday afternoons. This was a definite departure in commercial radio programing. Half-hour dramatic broadcasts had, until then, either told one complete story in each thirty-minute period or projected one major story line throughout a series of at least thirteen weeks’ duration. It was felt that the Silver Theatre should allot to the telling of each story as much time as was needed to tell that story well. In other words, a complicated plot that could not be satisfactorily condensed into the half-hour format was presented instead as a continued story in two, three, or four parts. As a result of this thinking. Silver Theatre has been able to offer its listeners material of greater depth and scope than might otherwise have been possible, the additional time allowing for clearer characterization as well as for more detailed development of situation. Many stories, however, are ideally suited to the half-hour period, and more than fifty per cent of the scripts used on Silver Theatre are concluded in a single episode.
With the exception of an occasional magazine story. Silver Theatre presents original material specifically written for the program. Story ideas are purchased from both motion picture and radio writers and then adapted for the show by True Boardman, its staff writer. Mr. Boardman has also contributed a number of his own originals to Silver