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A "square table" conference over the question of "Whodunit?" engages the attention of (L. to R.) Basil Rathbone, Thomas McNight, Nigel Bruce and Edith Meiser, adapter of the Sherlock Holmes scripts (NBC-Blue, Sundays, 8:30 p.m., EST). Rathbono is i-icirnci;; Bruce, Watson, and McKnight directs.
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Elolse Kummsr, who plays the vlllalness, Marcia Mannering, In NBC's Backstags Wife, first went on the air while a co-ed at the Universicy of Wisconsin, playing the part of a little boy. She thinks she has been playing parts, equally foreign to what she really is, ever since. Elolse weighs only 114, and is 5 feet 4 Inches tall.
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GANG BUSTERS CELEBRATE FIFTH AIR
CALUTED by barking machine guns, wailing sirens and tramping feet, Gang Busters celebrated its fifth anniversary on the air with the announcem.ent of its 1941 Roll oi Public Enemies over NBC on Friday, January 17.
Gang Busters, whose clues have helped apprehend 160 desperate criminals, makes a feature of its public enemies' list on each anniversary program. Each name on the roll represents a criminal outcast still at large.
Several members of previous rolls are still uncaught and therefore, are eligible for the 1941 nominations. They include Charles Irving Chapman, Maurice Denning and "Soup" Grey son. Other winners of the dubious distinction before this year — Bennie and Estelle Dickson, and Raymond Duvall — have been called to account.
Compilation of the annual roll is a 12month job for a part of the Gang Busters' staff. Cooperating with them are 750 lawenforcement bureaus and more than 400 specially selected trained field correspondents.
Week by v/eek their reports pour into the Gang Busters office in New York, there to be tabulated and analyzed by the staff. Criminal exploits are carefully watched and their developments noted. Police authorities throughout the country are repeatedly consulted.
Of the thousands of criminals reported every year. Gang Busters concentrates on those most eagerly sought by the police. Toward the end of the year the field is greatly reduced. Tough candidates — but not tough enough — are thrown off the tentative list. There follows rechecking of records, long distance telephone calls to local authorities and study of charges and indictments.
A final selection is made only 24 hours before the anniversary broadcast. The script that then grows out of the selections is carefully scrutinized by the program's attorneys, who also attend all rehearsals to see to it that the spoken word does not carry impressions not given by the written word.
Gang Busters are kept busy to the last minute with possible changes and additions. Only when the program actually goes on the air is its choice of the sour cream of unapprehended American criminals made known in these words of one police chief after another: "In my opinion, the most notorious public enemy at large in the United States today is . . ."
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