Friday, April 23, 2010

Name and mention the significance of a radio programme aired in 1920s in which an Irish American widow acted ?

Name and mention the significance of a radio programme aired in the 1920s in which an Irish American widow and her daughter had a 15-minute conversation before they went off to their jobs at a hotel?

Name and mention the significance of a radio programme aired in 1920s in which an Irish American widow acted ?
In 1930, the manager of Chicago radio station WGN approached first a detergent company and then a margarine manufacturer with a proposal for a new type of program: a daily, fifteen-minute serialized drama set in the home of an Irish-American widow and her young unmarried daughter. Irna Phillips, who had recently left her job as a speech teacher to try her hand at radio, was assigned to write Painted Dreams, as the show was called, and play two of its three regular parts. The plots Phillips wrote revolved around morning conversations "Mother" Moynihan had with her daughter and their female boarder before the two young women went to their jobs at a hotel.





Basically, it is the precursor to the modern day Soap Operas


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