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and Robbins, Irving. SchoolWide Use of Radio.

Washington,

D. C., Federal Radio Education Committee, U.S. Office of Education, 1941.

Describes experiment in a Zanesville, Ohio, high school, with a CBS School of the Air program. Outlines step-by-step procedures in selecting program and results of school-wide listening.

and Tyler, I. Keith. Radio and

the School. Yonkers, N. Y., World Book Co., 1945.

Represents the combined intelligence and judgment of the staff members of the Evaluation of School Broadcasts research project at Ohio State University on the problems of radio and the school curriculum. Not merely a textbook for teachers and administrators, but rather a general volume on the education aspects of American radio. Points out the advantages and disadvantages of current programs.

Scripts, Books, and Plays

Axelrod, Donald. See Lass-Plays Carmer, Carl. See Van Doren-Amer

from Radio.

Barnouw, Erik, ed. Radio Drama in Action. New York, Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1945.

A collection of 25 radio plays dealing with problems of a changing world. Leading dramatists in the field of public service are contributors, and editor Barnouw has written an introduction to each play along with production directions.

Bauer, W. W., and Edgley, Leslie. Your Health. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., 1939.

Contains selections of prize-winning scripts from a series on health education for junior and senior high schools designed to correlate the health program with other curricular subjects.

Benet, Stephen Vincent. They Burned the Books. New York, Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1942.

Script of the program which NBC presented in 1942.

We Stand United and Other Radio Scripts. New York, Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1945.

This book of radio plays is the final volume of published works of the late Stephen Vincent Benet. These plays serve as models of writing for radio broadcasts.

Boyd, James, ed. The Free Company Presents. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1941.

A volume of 10 complete radio plays written by a group of America's outstanding writers. Valuable production notes are included. Brewer, Fred A. See Skornia-Creative Broadcasting.

Byrne, John Joseph. Great Composers: Six Radio Dramatizations. New York, Benton & Bowles, Inc., 1942. Radio scripts presented on The Family Hour and selected for school use by George H. Gartlan, Director of Music, Board of Education, New York City. Short biographical notes of the composers are included.

ican Scriptures.

Connery, Robert H., ed. The Land of the Free. Washington, D. C., Catholic University Press, 1941.

Six 30-minute radio scripts by Richard McDonagh with "study club notes," questions, and selected bibliography. Also chapter on how to adapt the scripts for school use. Corwin, Norman. Thirteen By Corwin. New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1942. Just what the name implies,-a collection of 13 radio plays.

More by Corwin. New York, Henry Holt & Co., 1944.

Among the 16 radio dramas included in this volume are the justly famous We Hold These Truths, excerpts from the "This Is War" series, and others.

On a Note of Triumph. New York, Simon & Shuster, 1945. Edited script of the famed CBS broadcast immediately after VE-day.

They Fly Through the Air. Weston, Vt., Vrest-Orton, 1939.

A poetic radio drama based on the air raids on civilians during the Civil War in Spain, 1936-39.

This Is War. New York, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1942.

A collection of 13 radio plays about America on the march, as produced over the four major networks in 1942.

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Biographical narratives of pathfinders in electronics and television.

Eaton, Walter Prichard. See Welch

Yale Radio Plays: The Listeners'
Theatre.

Edgley, Leslie. See Bauer-Your
Health.

Educational Radio Script Exchange Catalog. Washington, D. C., U. S. Office of Education, 6th Ed., 1950.

A descriptive list of 1,400 educational radio scripts available free on loan from the circulating library of the Educational Radio Script Exchange. Most of the scripts are dramatic in form, varying in length from 10 to 30 minutes. A limited number of television scripts available for reference.

Erekson, R. B., and Ziebarth, E. W. Six Classic Plays for Radio and How to Produce Them. Minneapolis, Minn., Burgess Publishing Co., 1940. Contains adaptations for radio of six classic plays as follows: Elizabethan Drama, Macbeth and Othello; Social Problem Play, Camille; Realism and Naturalism, A Doll's House, and The Cherry Orchard; Comedy, Lady Windemere's Fan. It also contains 36 pages of practical directions for production, with hints about the use of sound, glossary of studio terms, and illustrations of microphones.

Fitelson, H. William, ed.

Theatre Guild

on the Air. New York, Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1947.

Twelve radio adaptations of famous stage plays. Introductions by radio writers describing problems of adaptation.

Garrigus, Frederick, and Johnson, Theodore, ed. You're On The Air. Boston, Baker's Plays, 1946.

A collection of eight plays adapted for radio with individual production notes. Gassner, John. A Treasury of the Theatre. New York, The Dryden Press, Inc., 1951.

An anthology of plays from Ibsen to Arthur Miller, with modern translations written in the idiom of our time.

Gaver, Jack, and Stanley, Dave, eds. There's Laughter in the Air. New York, Greenberg Publishers, Inc., 1945.

Twenty-one edited scripts of radio's top comedians and their best shows.

Gleason, Marion N. See Thorne-The Pied Piper Broadcasts.

Goodman, Robert, comp. and ed. Masterpieces for Radio and Declamation. Portchester, N. Y., Liberty Publishing Co., 1943.

Includes national anthems of different countries, poems, stories, speeches, and letters for dramatic adaptation to radio.

Grannan, Mary. Just Mary Stories. Toronto, Ont., W. J. Gage & Co., Ltd., 1942.

A series of 13 original stories written especially for broadcasting to small children.

Just Mary and Just Mary Again. Toronto, Ont., W. J. Gage & Co., Ltd., 1942.

Combines original volume of Just Mary Stories and 16 additional stories for children. aged 5 to 7. All stories have been broadcast by the author over the Canadian Broadcasting Company.

Maggie Muggins Stories. Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co., 1947.

A collection of the Canadian radio stories as broadcast by the author to her very young listeners.

Hackett, Walter. Radio Plays for Young People. Boston, Mass., Plays, Inc., 1950.

A collection of radio script adaptations of stories from the usual junior and senior high school reading lists of great literature. Henry, Robert D., and Lynch, James M., Jr. History Makers. Evanston, Ill., Row, Peterson & Co., 1941.

A series of eight radio plays on the American story suitable for classroom use.

Huber, Louis J. Short Radio Plays. Minneapolis, Minn., The Northwestern Press, 1938.

A collection of nine short plays for radio. Amateurs may use the plays without payment of royalty for purposes of entertainment. For commercial purposes a royalty fee of $5 is charged.

Irvin, Lee. The School Radio Club. Minneapolis, Northwestern Press, 1941.

Eleven scripts intended for use by highschool students. Also contains directions for forming high-school radio clubs or guilds.

Johnson, Theodore. See GarrigusYou're on the Air.

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Appropriate for Washington's and Lincoln's birthdays, Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Columbus Day, St. Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, and Mother's Day.

Lee, Robert H. See Skornia-Creative Broadcasting.

Let Freedom Ring! Washington, D.C., Script and Transcription Exchange, U. S. Office of Education.

Thirteen scripts dramatizing the century. old struggle for freedom and civil liberties as originally broadcast by the U. S. Office of Education.

Lomax, Alan. See Lomax-Folk Song, U.S. A.

Lomax, John Avery, and Lomax, Alan. Folk Song, U.S.A. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947.

A collection of the 111 best American ballads, as edited by Alan Lomax with Charles and Ruth Crawford Seeger as music editors.

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Story. New York, Duell, Sloan &
Pearce, Inc., 1944.

Contains 10 of the scripts which were introduced in 1943 to the radio listeners of NBC's University of the Air. Purpose of the broadcasts was to bring together from the old chronicles, the narratives, the letters, and from the pages written by those who saw with their own eyes part of the American record. McGill, Earle L. See Lass-Plays from Radio.

Morris, James M. Radio Workshop Plays. New York, The H. W. Wilson Co., 1943.

An anthology of 26 radio plays written especially for radio. This is a revision and enlargement of the first volume published in 1940.

Murrow, Edward R. This Is London.
New York, Simon & Schuster, 1941.
Selected from the weekly broadcasts from
London during wartime.
National Education Association. Wash-
ington, D. C., 1201-16th St., N.W.

A collection of radio scripts suitable for school public relations programs; also specially written scripts each year for use during American Education Week.

National Scholastic Radio Guild. New York 10, Scholastic Magazines, 351 Fourth Ave.

A membership organization of high-school radio workshops. Provides scripts, books, and equipment information.

Oboler, Arch. Fourteen Radio Plays. New York, Random House, Inc., 1940. Fourteen original plays written especially for radio and produced by NBC. Foreword by Lewis H. Titterton.

New Radio Plays. New York, Random House, Inc., 1941.

A collection of plays that scored the greatest successes in one of Mr. Oboler's weekly radio series.

Oboler Omnibus: Radio Plays and Personalities. New York, Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1945. Fourteen radio plays.

New

Plays for Americans. York, Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1941 and 1942.

Thirteen nonroyalty radio plays concerning the American people during World War II.

This Freedom. New York, Random House, Inc., 1942.

Contains 13 original nonroyalty radio plays and an introduction by Mr. Oboler offering advice to aspiring radio actors and directors.

and Longstreet, Stephen, ed. Free World Theatre. New York, Random House, Inc., 1944.

Nineteen radio plays written especially to aid in the war effort.

Prescott, Herbert, ed. Radio Players' Scriptbook. Portland, Maine, J. Weston Walch, 1949.

A collection of radio scripts of professional caliber, carefully selected so as to be within the production and acting range of high-school and college groups.

Radio and Television

Bibliography.

New York, Columbia Broadcasting System, 1941.

A bibliography of books, pamphlets, and reports.

Radio Manual. Oral Hygiene Committee of Greater New York, 1947.

Contains 50 talks broadcast over WNYC by outstanding members of the dental and allied professions. Also an appendix of suitable material for radio broadcasting.

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An annotated review of nearly 1,000 books, articles, and pamphlets on radio and television, classified under a dozen subject headings.

Sauer, Julia L., ed. Radio Roads to. Reading. New York, H. W. Wilson Co., 1939.

Scripts of 20 successful library book talks selected from 5 years of broadcasting by the Rochester Public Library.

Skornia, H. J.; Lee, Robert H.; and Brewer, Fred A. Creative Broadcasting. New York, Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1950.

A practical text for beginners in radio training. Each chapter concludes with pertinent questions and answers. Part II contains 12 scripts cleared for broadcast. Appendix includes list of books and glossary of radio terms. Stanley, Dave. See Gaver-There's Laughter in the Air.

Swing, Raymond. In the Name of Sanity. New York, Harper & Bros., 1946.

Raymond Swing's broadcasts in 1945 devoted to the implications of the release of atomic energy.

Thompson, Dorothy. Listen, Hans.

Boston, Houghton-Mifflin Co., 1942. Twenty-four weekly talks by Dorothy Thompson as short-waved by CBS to Germany early in World War II. Also some of her observations of the German people based on personal experiences.

Thorne, Sylvia, and Gleason, Marion N. The Pied Piper Broadcasts. New York, H. W. Wilson & Co., 1943.

A collection of seven scripts produced originally over Station WHAM, Rochester, N. Y. Those responsible for planning programs for young children should welcome this addition to the scant amount of published material present available for their use.

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Tooley, Howard. Radio Guild Plays. Minneapolis, Minn., Northwestern Press, 1941.

A collection of radio scripts suitable for broadcast on special holidays and historical occasions.

Treasury Star Parade. New York, Rinehart & Co., Inc., 1942.

Twenty-seven of the best plays which were broadcast in 1942-48 in the radio series of the same name.

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