Show RADIO DRAMA radio listeners may not bo be aware of it but lighting effect now play an important part in the production of the studio drama no Ick longer nger Is the dramatic studio brillia brilliantly antly lighted just two stand lamps casting a circle of light abou ten feet in diameter Is all that Is used within the circle sit the players ors in the center Is the microphone a mechanism no larger than a tomato can suspended in a small metat metal loop atop ot of a pedestal back and slightly above the micro microphone phane la Is thy the ignal box with one red and one gr groen oen light within the circle bounded in fri by darkness radio players have the feeling of b efing being alone with thu microphone every second of the time the play la Is being produced they are conscious of bf the microphone but in a fully lighted room players are conscious of oc each other and incidentally aware of the microphone for the best re results it has been found that players should ile strictly microphone conE conscious clous when keeping constantly tile the thought in fin and that the microphone Is the thing the players use intervals of silence with better effects that Is intervals between speeches or of between a 0 speech and tile the sound 1 of a door or some soma other object As aa tin example assuming that the scone of the play piny la 14 la in a room andi that ono of tho the characters ot of ohp story ig id lo 10 leave tho the room enough must elapse clapso to traverse tho the distance ds tance between his speech beford the microphone and tho the sound ot of the door opening and closing judg trient on we life part ot of the player la Is hero here required constantly lie ho must nl 11 s keep hoop in mind tho the re clit yu irod to do certain things which rado lahners estt beia are imagining one or two distractions during the course ot of a play la Is sufficient clent to cause many to lose interest or tall fall to keep the thread of 0 the story while not always co conscious nEcious ot of the troi trouble ibie listeners it has haa been found aru am aware ortho of tho slightest error in fix judgment of radio as aa to 16 intervals Inter vala t time the true psychology dutli underlying lei lying radio Ji Is that of eavesdropper I 1 real life Is being unfolded into his ears care from out of tho the mysterious somewhere liere audio players know this anci 10 keep constantly in mind the tha fact that the they V tire are not acabie their parts on oil a 1 stage they are simply characters come to life in the story acting out what tho the author requires of thom them the audio drama direct director oi in ma n flah fla h a red light lu in tile the face of a player when ho he Is too loud or a gren green one when he Is la too toft but bu it Is the aim of the director of the players placers to tench each one of her ra ra dlo dio actors to stand on his own ra before becore the microphone that the radio player must dc dota a lot of ng while he is acting to Is evident within the circle of light ight with its atmosphere of exclusiveness the actors before tho the microphones keep their minds free from all distract ting influences andl and are better able to do the right thinking tit at the right time not only fitly the distan distance ceat at which lie ho stands standa from the microphone must bo be kept in mind by the ahe player lie he must also remember how loud or how soft lie ho Is speaking and worst of all the technique of his speech in low tone parts up lip and mouth noises must be ba avoided sucking sticking of breath even so faintly between tho the teeth I 1 19 9 likely to crary the microphone actor acter off character making a vil lint out of nn an angel at a critical place in tha story |