'The Editorial Department of a big modern news paper provides the setting for this new and original A.B.C. Musical Burlesque. The author has handled his subject with good-humored satire, and the presentation abounds with amusing situations. The newspaper production, with its ever recurring Problems of making much out of little, is wildly burlesqued and y hope is sufficiently akin to the real thing to bring an appreciative grin from the typical newspaperman. Topical allusions to current events are woven into the revue, and a number of songs, both solo and concerted, have been specially written. "Hot News" is a bright little number, which will set your toes a-tingling, while "Let's Go to Press" is a novelty duet in which sentiment and humor are cunningly combined. All the well-known features of a present-day newspaper are neatly burlesqued, such as "The Society Column," "The Stop Press" box, "Answers to Correspondents", and, of course the inevitable Competition, which in this case is a prize offered to the biggest Nit-Wit.'
Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 11 May 1934, p.52.
Presented by the ABC Revue Company and the Theatre Orchestra and Chorus, and broadcast on 2FC (relayed to 3LO, 2NC, and 2CO) on Monday 14 May 1934, from 8pm.
Producer: Humphrey Bishop.
Conductor: Fred Whaite.
Characters: The News Editor, Chief Sub-Editor, Society Editress, The Special Commissioner, The Dramatic Critic, The Secretary, A Reporter, A Compositor, A Photographer, Typists, Reporters, Readers, Printers, etc.
