COUGHING IS A “DRAMATIC ART” ON THE RADIO
NEW YORK. A well-modulated cough can now be worth about 2gns.
This is because the American Federation of Radio Artists has elevated coughing to a dramatic art.
A New York radio station wanted to introduce with a cough a programme about tuberculosis. The radiomen’s union ruled that a staff announcer should not give the cough, because a clause in the union contract with the station provided that a staff announcer should not try to add dramatic embellishments to the script he read. „
ff stations want coughs they will have to employ actors to give them, at normal rates.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22887, 5 March 1949, Page 5
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