Show - 1001106- - ' t ' ' - k — ' t 0 i '' ' lt I ' ' ' ' ' e ' :ME SALT LAIE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING: JUNE — 1 — ' - 1937 20 — -- ' VfhtYoii s - :óWt- Hlecor - - 1 '' - -' P-- 04 ''' i 5 c k 0" ‘ e I° kt'S t 1' :A N 1: "Script-Squeeze- " V : f: C) oi- :::::: a I- p :: " ' ? i::::::1 t ::::::::!:1I:::r-:- 5 t ') ::::x:: ::r J44 J" ' r :':::::1 v):::414::::0:'i:: ij''':'':I:: d c'r "''' - "::::''": r i::i: '-- - ' "f the Air IT 4 IA t e s t 1 Good Reason :::'iii:::'!'::::!'' ::'::::::':': t 11v—firm 1 Jr ) t ': - t rail' ''''''''' 1):‘ - - ' ::4:‘ ''f:h s $:1 ::i Ti : : " Something Else That 'Wasn't Heard Over the Radio —Beautiful '' ::: It' i 4 '--' 111 P11371':'!"'HUSEH ::::i::4?: : 441:00---44- ' Gady and Waves a Closing or a Horse and Buggy Door casting Company the Simulation of Everyday Noises (1) The Surf Wash Machine (2) Police Siren (3) Fire Siren (1) Boat Whistle (5) Horse and Buggy and (6) Door Noises I By Martin J Paster 41' entertainment tabooers drew THE hunks of publicity When ' they hung up the red light on the strip-teas- e but nobody has ever said much about the radio regulators whose forte is putting on the script-squee- S i J ti' ze I 1 yes-ma- on n says "no" a thousand stooges don't mean maybe You can't do more things on the air than you can't do anywhere else on the performing platforms- - The kilocycle temples send more garbage out the back door every day than ten burlesque producers could think of in twenty years Radio must be and is kept clean even If it becomes foolish'and puerile in the process That's because Victorian as it may seem a great many home's are tilled with children who might but must not learn to appreciate a subtle or sophisticated gag with the same acumen of the yokel who signs the sucker list in 0 New York night club It's because some genius has it all 'figured out that the average mental age of the radio listener is 12 years and Q that the listener therefore is po- no-ma- I r' k tii ti - i - no-me- n I ‘ every- it 4 4 n — - ckvt‘roI: :: ) ':::' :'"":':: ' ir : r-?- "l l'::::1 ::'''1!'FF ' ''' ' k ' !rr: y ' - - for castiftg' The frrst pared " C l':477)' J''4 k V-- ' s :)0"- - c1 It' -- - "cV co-- tc' CD S6s) 1 " -- -- " " """-"- - -- " (Lii:':::f:::::::::::::':::::::::::::::::::-::W:::: o '''c CI 1S r) ccC ::: - : ''''''''''''''—'''' 071 - - i' - 'I' - 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guaranteed ':::' falls immediately into decay out the year and these include the Nevertheless radio must grow up i: major network taboos on the mention sometime and certain changes must of certain medicines physical ailbe made in the interpretation of good ments depilatories deodorants and taste The growth will he retarded as symptoms long tLs the censorship is placed in the These taboos were evolved to beat hands Sensible censoi- - UncleI Sam to the punch- First of all -ship ofwillsubordinates come only when it is censuch were items delto offensive many indarclized as it has tralized and icate souls listening in - been in the movies There are no state and secondly too many boards of review to supervise radio :1:::::::::i::: virtues were claimed for When radio finds its Will Hays it might come back some of them Occasion: Will lose its present haze and a censor with a word or two ally when undue claims will become- perhaps a person who about how well this ''''' -are made -makes sense- -Iowa family under— bobs up in the shape of stands Winchell but the Federal Trade ComThe mission or the Federal Communicagag will be rewritten with a wordy tions Commission and sais firmly: blueprint stuck in somewhere "Get off the air" In the realm of song the censorship One product which Claimed to re- Is most rigid It is so strict in fact '1' duce weight and which indeed did are even not imkr that many songs permitted to be included in a program There are other songs which may be played '' A st: ' ': but not sung Practically every love lime' ' song undergoes a whitewashing It's ': ' got so now that the music publishing' t k 1 houses when releasing a song publish lk 4 ) s f -- one version for general use and anili :A 01 r79-:7:-other for radio This obviates the old '14 ' t A ":"i custom of studio censors tossing in their own substitutions which were 2 1 ' ''s awfully stupid If even nowadays a ''''' studio revises the lyrics of a song the ' : revision must be approved by the pub":s!' he OWnS lishers—for after all the song: f41q1 ''k '' You mustn't sing for instance the e 7 '' — 4 :y::1:1!1-:::-::::- iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiffixpo ilvillifiligillgaiv (71 - 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seems an innocent bit of joshing about er about 24 such songs Jhat if prethe St Louis- Cardinals he kills the sented must be offered only Instrujoke immediately Mr Aliens sponsor mentally There are many many songs " fs‘ sk! sells toothpaste and laiative Sup-th- e which 'must be laundered before being – as one has Man River"–is pose the managersfsuniliesriends and admirers of the Cardinals should been pointed out "Limehouse Blues" ' ' :::!-1 I take offense at the innocent little gag is another because it contains the cf k What would happen then? Well in word "chink" "I Get a Thrill Out of 1 ' ' You" is a typical one for the laundry 11'' revenge they might Ko out and buy f some other laxative when they have a In its - lyrics normally occurs the '"::071 ‘ I it i ' tummy ache or they might revolt and word "cocaine" The singer before the t ' kk:')NkN switch to the toothpaste sold by Amos whitewashing would sing "Some get a 1 and Andy- - So the jokes-i- s yanked out- - - kick from cocaine"-- But on the radio-- I 1 t : and the writer told to be less geo- - he must warble "Some like perfume '! i Ek t from Old Spain" Sometimes only the 1 graphical '' Or if La joke is too subtle the titles are :changed because they are comedian will be advised that it's all suggestive On such occasions the c4 man in the studio is right to be subtle to New Yorkers and most Bostonians but heroust rememberthat an& ordered to make the located tho farm- - family out in Iowa- - hasn't - -- change- Om such individual decided Ibsen around to the Cotton Club lately - that the song title "Let's liave Break- No You Don't Actually Rear a Man Crashing Through the Underbrush That and is ehirbehincliou Its appreciation fast in Bed" wu subtly wicked On Was Only NBC's Sound Effects Engineer Robert S Stone Above Rubbing Two - Bundles of Straw Together Sharply of Broadway humbr-el- dr the air the song becomes merely Comedian - r : ' I s!! 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