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ILLUSTRATED PRESS Editwor EDWARD G. ROBINSON
KINGSLEY COLTON, BOY CHARACTER ACTOR (Below) on the Big ROBINSON (BELOW) SITS ALL AFTERNOON on his stool and Town series, avidly studies his part before stepping up to the doesn’t budge once during rehearsal. Characters move in and out inner circle around the microphone. An “inner circle” it really is of range of the microphone, but Robinson perches there, taking a with the “master’’ (Robinson) and the supporting cast about the mike. drink now ond then—and dropping ashes into the tray on the floor.
WHILE BIG TOWN IS PRODUCED by Crane Wilbur, not a script is selected, or a scene interpreted, or a line deleted, unless it carries E. G. B.'s stamp of approval. Hour after hour, he works patiently with the cast inside the “inner circle’’“—with no interruptions—and there better not be any, as some people have already sadly learned.
THE PROGRAM BOASTS the only man and wife announcing team in radio. Ken and Nadia Niles’ (Left) portrayal of home-life scenes for the sponsor has proved an innovation.
Big Town, according to Mr. Robinson, is purely entertainment, but if the listeners learn anything, then it has served a purpose. In no sense of the word does it set out to crusade or moralize. LISTEN CAREFULLY TO the musical themes of Big Town—and see how deftly they're woven into the sound oi a prisoner's footsteps walking his last mile or the beat of a frightened child's heart. All due to Leith Stevens (Below), musical director of the program.
JUST BEFORE the “dress” rehearsal, the “inner circle” is cleared of all but three— Ona Munson, Wilbur and Robinson (Leit).
THE ILLUSTRATED PRESS has the support of ministers, chiefs of police, politicians and citizens, among cthers. As long as this is so Edward G. Robinson is secure in his job as editor.