The rape of radio (c1941)

Q2 RAPE OF RADIO drivel of the serial. They will stand for light skits like "Vic and Sade" to help them view their own domestic problems. The American family, according to Mrs. Elaine Sterne Carrington, has five big problems in common. And they are here set down, because they are based on the mail she received from all parts of the country: 1. Should the sixteen or seventeen year old boy or girl be permitted to use the family automobile? 2. Should children be given an allowance or be paid for chores, such as cutting the grass, shoveling snow or milking the cow? 3. Should youngsters be given a latchkey or should the family sit up and wait for Johnny to come home? 4. How late should the sixteen or seventeen year old Mary stay out in the evening? 5. Why cannot a boy decide for himself whether he is to go to college or go to work? For example, if a young man wants to be an airplane pilot why should his parents insist that he follow another career? The Radio Debut of Poetic Drama The failure of the average poet as a poetic dramatist arose from his isolation in his Ivory Tower, far removed from the lives and language of the masses. Radio compelled the dramatist to get down to earth, because it deals with mass entertainment. It remained for Archibald MacLeish to create the first play in verse for air productions. Produced in the spring of 1937 under the direction of Irving Reis of the Columbia Workshop, "The Fall of the City" was acclaimed as the first real dramatic classic of the air. The plot of the play is significant. It portrays the coming of a dictator to a free city and his enslavement of its population. A dead woman speaks from her tomb to warn of the coming of the conqueror. An announcer from a high