SHOUT RADIO PLAYS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20086, 25 October 1928, Page 7

SHOUT RADIO PLAYS.

COMPANY OFFERS PRIZES. 'ln order to oneounige local woukl-be playwrights, the Broadcasting Company is offering prizes of £5 ss, £2 2s and £1 Is for sketches on playlets suitable for broadcasting, the awards to he made by the IYA Musical and Dramatic Committee. Tho sketches submit ted may be either humorous or dramatic, and should not take more than 25 minutes to perform, 20 minutes being preferable. It is suggested that a New Zealand setting be adopted, and that the writers depend upon aptness of dialogue rather than upon " situation" for purposes of effect. Three is considered the best number of characters, though up to five may be included. Com petitors will be asked to give a guarantee of originality.- The company is to. have the sole broadcasting rights for New Zealand, the authors to retain all other rights. The competition is an excellent idea, and sustains the reputation of IYA for encouraging broadcast drama more than any other New Zealand station. Possibly the company may have taken some action in tho way of obtaining the manuscript of radio plays and sketches from Britain and America, but if it has not done so it certainly should. No doubt it might rely upon getting the fullest possible help from the 8.8.C, and from the National Broadcasting Company in the United States,