Best broadcasts of 1938-39 (1939)

Page scan 000547 from Best broadcasts of 1938-39

Record Details:

Title:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Date:
1939
Publisher:
New York : Whittlesey House
Volume:
Best broadcasts of 1938-39
Leaf #:
000547
Language:
English
Collection:
Books and Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
May 30, 2024
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Air Raid* OOOOQOOQOOOOOOQQQOQOOQQOQnOOOaOgaflOOQOCflfifl-gJLajLfl Announcer. — The Columbia Workshop presents “Air Raid,” a play for women, by Archibald McLeish. Sound. — Cut in transmission tone . . . fade under following. Voice. — When you hear the gong sound . . . The time will be. . . . Ten seconds past 2 a.m. precisely. . . . Sound. — Gong. Voice. — WABC . . . New York. . . . Sound. — Transmission tone cuts. Announcer. — {In sub control) Ladies and gentlemen! You have only one thought tonight, all of you . . . You who fish the fathoms of the night With poles on rooftops and long loops of wire . . . Those of you who, driving from some visit, Finger the button on the dashboard dial Until the metal trembles like a medium in a trance And tells you what is happening in France Or China or in Spain or some such country. You have one thought tonight and only one: Will there be war ? Has war come ? Is Europe burning from the Tiber to the Somme? You think you hear the sudden double thudding of the drum You don’t, though. . . . Not now. . . . But what your ears will hear within the hour No one living in this world would try to tell you. We take you there to wait it for yourselves. Stand by: we’ll try to take you through. . . . * Copyright, 1938, by Archibald MacLeish. Permission to perform or to reprint all or any part of this broadcast must be had from Archibald MacLeish, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 523