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RADIO DRAMA ADVANCES 83
listener's desire for adventure and the hope of taking part in scenes as unlike as possible his own dreary formula. The serials constantly unearth certain emotions of the listeners. They arouse and discharge these emotions in make-believe situations.
Mrs. Elaine Sterne Carrington is one of the outstanding serial script writers. "All my scripts," she confides, "are written so that listeners can imagine themselves in the same situations as the people in the cast. The daytime serials fill a tremendous hole in lonely people's lives. Listeners take the characters to heart and suffer, live, love and laugh with them."
Such synthetic sorrow and suffering pour from the microphone as to render the heart strings and loosen the purse strings for a wide variety of products. About the only thing missing is the moustasched villain who holds the mortgage "poipers." On a given day it is possible to hear the anguish of a crippled lad suffering a beating from a strong brat, the tearful pleas of a patient begging a doctor to operate on a hopeless case, and the hysterical cries of a woman on the verge of a nervous breakdown. Intermingled are shattered romances, innocents charged with murder and pitiful eternal triangles.
The serials constantly spur the emotions and the listener thus aroused discharges them in make-believe situations. Most listeners are worried about love, money and business. As a type of "escape fiction," the serial carries them out of the humdrum through the triumph of character in tight situations. The listener may shed tears and have his heart wrenched by the course of events, but always he will in some way feel appeased by the enactment of the episode.
Radio serials are the re-embodiment of the serials of silent films. They follow the same laws of interest and suspense. In the early screen days stalwart heroes such as Eddie Polo and Charles Hutchinson invariably triumphed over das