Show TUNE IN TOMORROW soan boap operas benefit society relax ladies dont feel eel guilty about listening to the he great and grievous trials of johns other every day at 1115 a m brought to you through the courtesy of ct Phil bottom a ossified sheep dip the news is now out that soap operas as presented interminably on the radio actually might do you some downright good an anthropologist prot prof W lloyd warner and a psychologist dr william E henry tuned in on a daytime radio serial over a long period and arrived at the ponderous solution that soap operas are of considerable value to our society the two scholars concu consultants for or a res research e arch organization which directed the study for columbia I 1 I 1 Broad broadcasting broadcasts castl ng system based their report on a detailed analysis ot of the serialized drama big sister women being the chief listeners it Is they them who derive the greatest benefits from these daytime dirges by having their e egos bol bolstered bolstein d and their spirits strength strengthened enid by hearing stories ot of fictional women going through problems and experiences that parallel their own the scientists pointed out the basic and primary theme to Is that good and noble women who are wives and mothers are invincible within their own arena of alifi life the american family said the report min men who are elsewhere a are re subordinate and abd dependent in the story on the wis dom of the wit wife this primary theme always timpas triumphs over the second theme which runs counter to it that family ties can be broken and a womans comans security threatened chiefly by the loss of the husband to other women and quite secondarily and obliquely by death moreover the soda social scientists said the program among other things provides its women listeners with moral beliefs values ind and techniques tor for solving emotional and interpersonal problems and makes them feel they are learning lethey listen in brief the report added up to a clear cut spiritual and moral victory of the soap opera over its hardened and blase critics |