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A Comedy of Danger - The Finger of God

A Comedy of Danger - The Finger of God

Broadcast: July 18, 1936
Added: Sep 15 2020

Before the stories Columbia Workshop dedicates itself to the purposes of familiarizing you with the story behind radio both in broadcasting as well as in aviation, shipping, communication and pathology.

Then you are presented with two well known short plays. Described as an unusual experiment in dramatic presentation

one has been written for the microphone and one for little theater presentation. In the radio play, A Comedy of Danger, written by Richard Hughes, the author created his setting for radio dimensions alone and would be almost impossible to present on a stage or screen. Here it is produced with every advantage of radio technique.

Then you will hear Christopher Wilde's one act play, The Finger of God, presented with a technique never attempted in radio before. It was staged in the studio  exactly as if it were being presented in front of a theater audience wth the performers paying no attention to the microphone and moving around on the stage.

 

 

 

 





A Comedy Of Danger," "The Finger Of God". Sustaining. The first show of the series. Two one-act plays, one written for radio, the other for the stage and performed with a set, just as on a stage, with actors moving about and their speeches picked up by a parabolic microphone. Except for poor acting, both come off surprisingly well. 1/2 hour.