Best broadcasts of 1939-40 (1940)

Record Details:

Title:
Best broadcasts of 1939-40
Date:
1940
Publisher:
New York : Whittlesey House
Volume:
Best broadcasts of 1939-40
Leaf #:
00061
Language:
English
Collection:
Broadcasting & Recorded Sound
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
March 21, 2024
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THE DARK VALLEY Woman. — And he will forgive them if they go astray or are lazy and look for light no longer. (Coop) For the All-Father is proud of his pretty world and takes her on his knees, Nana, as I take you now, and strokes her back, smiling, till she squirms with pleasure and feels with his fingers in her feathery neck and calls her his daughter and his dear darling, his treasure, his princess, his precious goose; and she looks into his eyes and is ever so happy for the sunset is beautiful and the bells are ringing, though she wonders a little why his loving hands are gripping so tightly that she gasps for air. “Father, why — what is the matter? What have I done? Father, why are you looking so fierce? Father, don’t you remember, I’m the world you made. Father, I’m so young and white, I don’t want to die. Father ...” Sound. — Church bells up and fade. Announcer. — You have been listening to the Columbia Work¬ shop’s presentation of “The Dark Valley” by W. H. Auden. Dame May Whitty spoke the lines of the old woman. The entire production was directed by Brewster Morgan. Special music was composed by Benjamin Britten and conducted by Bernard Herrmann. (Pause) Beginning next Sunday, the Workshop will be heard over many of these stations from 8 to 8:30 p.m. EDST. Next week’s drama will be called “No Complications,” by Louis Estes, a writer whose work is new to the Columbia Workshop. 43