Experienced Radio Men Form Team
For New Social Service Air Series
Two men of radio who made a hit as a writer-director team
in a dramatized series on the problems of everyday American
families over WJZ, New York, early in 1949, are doing it again
in "Family Closeup" which made its debut over WXYZ and the
American Broadcasting Company, Sept. 11. The series is being
heard weekly over WXYZ, Tuesdays at 8 p. m.
The writer is Abram S. Ginnes,
whose climb to' an important ily Closeup," with its micro-
place in radio and television scopic examination of tensions
writing was preceded by a var- and conflicts within the family
ied career as student, waiter, Circle, their mutual interest is
entertainer, publicity man, fund given full play.
raiser and social worker. The
director is Martin Andrews—the
"man at the wheel" for many
of ABC's stellar dramatic and
documentary productions, in-
cluding last year's "V. D."
Ginnes, who has been de-
scribed by Variety and the New
York Times as one of radio's
"mature" writers and Andrews,
STRASBOURG (JTA) — T h e
who is frequently tagged as
"flamboyant," are teamed up for European Consultative Assembly
a series on network radio for recommended the establishment
the first time. Their prior col- of an international supreme
laboration in "Family Closeup," court to guarantee human rights
when it was presented for New and fundamental freedoms, just
York audiences only, won such before it concluded its first ses-
praise that ABC was induced to sion here. The original sugges-
extend it in a 12 week series for tion that the Council of Europe
guarantee human rights was
the whole network.
This time the weekly family made by Winston Churchill and
episodes, based on true stories a group of delegates from vari-
of family conflict (but without ous countries.
The vote in favor of the reso-
the real family identifications)
are sponsored by the Public Af- lution was 65 to 1, with 17 ab-
fairs Department of ABC in co- stentions. The lone opposition
operation with the Family Serv- vote was cast by a member of
ice Association of America and the British Labor delegation, as
its 250 member agencies were eight of the abstainers.
throughout the country. Here, The remainder of the abstain-
in Detroit, the series is pre- ing group was composed of Con-
sented by 1/1, TXYZ in cooperation servative and Catholic repre-
with the Jewish Social Service sentatives.
Before the court carr be
and the Family Service Society.
established,
the Council of Eu-
In five years, Ginnes has
written almost every possible rope, of which the Assembly is
type of radio show. In 1948. he the lower house, must approve
was winner of an award from the resolution. The upper house,
the National Conference of the Council .of Ministers, on
Christians and Jews for one of which are represented the For-
the best 10 programs of 1947. eign Ministers of the twelve na-
This dramatization, "The Fury tions composing the Council of
of Man," featuring Paul Lukas Europe, will begin to discuss all
and centered on the theme of the recommendations of the
race hatred, Was an Easter Assembly in about six to eight
broadcast and brought eulogies weeks.
and comments from even the
Napoleon instituted the French
most. remote sections of the
country. For almost one solid Legion of Honor in 1802.
year now, Ginnes has been
writing and producing his own
television show on the Dumont
network.
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Andrews might. have been an
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actor . or an opera singer. - He
aspired to both and through-
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thern widened his preparation
for radio. •
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He entered radio with the
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singer and actor on a Holly-
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sociated with Stations KROD,
El Paso, and ITSA, San Anto-
nio, where he was promoted to
program director.
The radio team of Ginnes and
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Martin are men of differing
Between Tyler & Waverly
personalities but they manifest
one strong common trait—a
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simple and unaffected liking
for people and a studious inter-
est in their behavior. In "Fain-
THE JEWISH NEWS-25
Friday, September 23, 1949
Jewish Writers Send Four to PEN Assembly
ROME, (JTA) — Four Jewish
delegates are attending the in-
ternational assembly of PEN
Clubs which opened during the
week-end in Venice. Represent-
ing the poets, essayists and nov-
elists of Israel are Yaakov Ca-
han and Reuven A v in c am
(Grossman). Jacob Glatstein is
attending as delegate of the
Yiddish PEN Club of America
while I. Efroykin is a delegate
from France, representing Jew-
First Chemical Plant
In Operation in Israel
ish writers of Europe.
Mayor Daniel Auster of Jeru-
salem paid a call on Mayor L.
Rabecchini of Rome and was
presented with an album of
phr tographs of the city. Along-.
side his name in the municipal-
ity's visitors' book, Mayor Auster
wrote: "With heartiest greetings
from one Eternal City to an-
other, the Mayor of Jerusalem
to the Mayor of Rome."
European Assembly
Asks Establishment of
Eighty-Three Years
of Continued
Service
Human Rights Court
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This is part of the installa-
tion at Fertilizers and Chemi-
cals, Ltd., a chemical plant
that recently began operations
near Haifa in Israel. The only
enterprise of its kind there, it
will reduce the country's im-
ports of chemicals by millions
of dollars annually. To date
$1,350,000—about $250,000
of it American funds invested
and lent by the Palestine Eco-
nomic Corporation—has been
put into the new company.
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