Category: Novels

You're on the Air

Then he remembered that this was Saturday. Nothing but orchestras, and singing and the Woman’s Club program. Yesterday the _City Boy_ program, with Sonny Baker in the lead, had gone off the air for the summer. He turned a button and the radio was still.

Chapters

11. CHAPTER 10

Tony chuckled. “Vic should be glad of that; he’d go broke. Besides, Vic’s a free agent; we’re salaried employees. We have just so many hours to spend on a show. If Vic doesn’t l...

5. CHAPTER 5

Radio lay in its cocoon of summer coma. Most of the chain serials and most of the local dramatic programs were off the air until September, and no new shows, chain or local, ste...

10. Chapter Eight offered a scene tense and climactic. But the action called

for four characters. Four were too many—a twenty-dollar cast. There was a scene in Chapter Two between the lead and the heavy. Was it strong enough? He walked the floor of his r...

8. CHAPTER 8

Joe Carlin thought he knew the harsh exactitude of Vic Wylie’s demands. Hadn’t he already rehearsed for Wylie? But those rehearsals had been for the _Sue Davis_ show at a time w...

3. CHAPTER 3

Ambrose Carver, freshly shaved and barbered, sat in the Carlin living-room and talked about Ambrose Carver. Tom Carlin held a cold pipe between his teeth; Kate Carlin was quiet,...

4. CHAPTER 4

“The name,” Joe Carlin said bitterly, “is sucker. My name, Amby.” He knew now that he should have asked what FKIP paid for cutting a platter. “I shouldn’t have taken fifty dolla...

7. CHAPTER 7

Labor Day saw the end of radio’s coma. Overnight Stations FKIP, FFOM, and FWWO stirred with new life; overnight the unofficial players’ club that had lounged away the summer in...

9. CHAPTER 9

Monday Joe Carlin kept away from the world of radio. Sonny Baker was shooting at the Larry Logan part he had expected to play and at the Dick Davis part he had been playing—and...

2. CHAPTER 2

Please bring with you to read for us two or three excerpts from plays. The selections need not exceed fifteen or twenty lines in length and should be varied in type.

1. CHAPTER 1

Then he remembered that this was Saturday. Nothing but orchestras, and singing and the Woman’s Club program. Yesterday the _City Boy_ program, with Sonny Baker in the lead, had...

6. CHAPTER 6

In the broadcasting studios, along Royal Street, or in the office of Vic Wylie Productions, Joe Carlin would have tried to greet disaster lightly and to put up a front. But the...