Nov. 2.
When Father Knox, in 1926, gave a fanciful bwoadeast description of a raid on the Art Gallery in London, and the mamiting of Big Ben, alarm was momentar~ lly created, but apparently not sufficient to} Seve as q warning against the type of entertainment which has been evolved in the Shape of the broadcast in the U.S. of a dramatized version of H. G. Wells's "War of the World." Those familiar with that stirring] nek, will understand how, with the manner in which broadcasting technique has im-His "ed, a version could be-launched into the ait which might very well serve to spread rather than amusement.. 'The Mercury, Tait Group in the United' States, under Ihe dieetion of Mr. Orson Welles, localized mame t0 America, gave American place which' '2d generally reared an atmosphere, statenfontesbite the fact of four separate Struc tts that the emission was mere fiction, such a note of reality that a wave of
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