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BEST DAYTIME SERIAL
Pepper Young’s Family
by Elaine Sterne Carrington
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In coming to the first, and perhaps the last, example of a daytime serial that I will reprint, several things need to be mentioned before the actual mechanics of this form of radio writing can be properly comprehended and appreci¬ ated by the layman. It is commonly supposed that, because the daytime serial is so often trashy, its writer is likewise a trashy writer. This is true in only a very few cases. Most of the serials of the sort that we are discussing are not only the literary products of definitely professional writers but are the products of writers who were very definitely pro¬ fessional long before they were doing anything of this sort.
It is important to know people and to know how to record what they do and say, if the desired effect of such record is to bring the reader into a close and sympathetic partici¬ pation with the people whose lives are unfolded before him. This cannot be done by amateurs. It can be accomplished only by the man or woman who has done a great deal of watching and listening and a great deal of recording, too, and who has printed it and watched for the effect on his own readers of what he has printed.
Let us take the case of our present author as an illus¬ tration. She is Elaine Sterne Carrington, one of the most prolific and highly paid writers in radio today. Almost all her income during the past few years has been derived from radio. Almost none of it was derived from radio when she was making her living as a fiction writer in the magazine world. Her stories have appeared in Harper's, Collier's, Good Housekeeping, Saturday Evening Post, Woman's Home Companion, Pictorial Review, and Red Book. She has published collections of her own short stories and has written a play or two for Broadway.
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