Show PRODUCERS IN MILD FEAR OF BROADCASTING I I Radio Will Not Displace I Novel an and Spoken Drama NEW YORK TORK Jan 30 Dy The rho Associated Publishers Press And stage producers producer have hav little fear of the radio displacing the th novel and spoken drama as predicted by Cosmo Hamilton the J English novo nov but they are agree It has haji est established II a a definite place In the thc en- en ent entertainment t world Hamilton recently condensed his novel Paradise from words to o a n 12 minute play pt y which ho he broadcast from front V so sue sue- successfully that hundreds of ot com com- commendatory tory tory letters were ec received Then followed his prediction that the radio with the assistance of the movies movie eventually e would compel authors to adapt their stories storie for people to hear front from broadcasting stations and to see sec ec on oth the screen The The possibility that the radio play or novel noel will either cither substitute substitute tute for or supplement the theatre or the printed book bool seems even eVID more remote to us than the once prevalent opinion that the th movie would supplant the th legitimate stage said A Page Pace Cooper or of Doubleday Page Pace and company TO LIVE E As long lone ong as the reader finds fin pleasure In the th Authors Author's author manner or of style his skill In development of 0 character his Ills artistry In words their rhythms and their imagery all of which can not be savored sOo In Ina ina a 10 or 01 li 16 minute oral synopsis over o-er the radio so 80 long will the ie novel retain Its popularity as a form of art It It Is of course entirely possible te that the tho radio may develop a a form tonof of Its own distinct from the novel or the stage production and that it should hould have n a a stimulating effect ete upon both the stage stase and book pub pub- publishing put lishing DOdO allu company R T Bond Dond said he lis us listened toned ned to the broadcasting of Ham Ilam- HamIlton's Hamilton's ilton's play piny and that In his opinion I it was an excellent short story It was beautifully done he continued continue nut Cut It was Vas not a novel It was effective simply be- be be because cause It related a minimum of details de- de de tails centering centering- about a single dent cent I cannot conceive of ot a a radio audience listening to any type of novel except that In l which the plot Is predominant and and then the mere mechanical limitations limitation de- de demand de demand mand that tho the plot be reduced d to Its simplest elements INTEREST CREATED Ho Ito agreed with Miss Marlon Humble secretary of tho the National Do Book ok Publishers association that radio reviews rl of books have treated created more Interest In literature In comparison with the th radio ralIo Mies I Humble said anti that books are arc of Co a CoI amore I more enduring ing quality and that people eople like lice lik to 10 have them them constant constant constant- constantly ly Iy In their home homes Every ery since I I have been In the tho theatrical Luc ineas ess somebody has 1139 been burying the poor drama with the result that the number of legitimate In New York has tas doubled within the tho last 10 ars years ars Gilbert Miller managing director of Charles Frohman Inc asserted fore Dt Before the end of this year ear at least leat six more will be Whenever my taste In plays plas happens to coincide with a large multitude of the pub pub- public public lic our theatres will be full no mater how many splendid works Mr Hamilton contrives for the tho rA- rA rAlio radio ra radio dio lio In estimating the radl radio aa DI n competitor people always forget the simple human need of n a a civilized man or woman to get sit out of ot the house occasionally Nobody wants to stay home homo every evening and vegetate As for the thc movIes movies It should he ho obvious that so far far from killing the taste for tor the spoken drAma they are complementary If stimulating The v views ot of Crosby Gaige and ether producers were very sImilar to those of o Miller Galeo Gaige added that the radio would never be able ablo to substitute the atmosphere of the th spoken drama dram and the th personality ct cf the actors Another viewpoint however is b dispatch from Lon Lon- London London expressed sed In to a a Lon Lon-I don which says say that The rhe White Chateau Captain Reginald Berke ys y's I Itys Ity's ys y's play of ot the war which wasI wa I Ithe the feature of that city's broad broad- broadcasting casting on Armistice da day has ben been voted the most popular broadcast ot of InS 1925 In a contest conducted by bythe the tho London Evening News |