Radio: Let's Pretend

To parents distracted and alarmed by the Shadow and Superman, few radio programs are as welcome as CBS's Let's Pretend. Adapting fairy tales like Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rumpelstiltskin, Let's Pretend is an unsponsored show. More popular with children than many of its murder & mayhem rivals, it attracts some 1,000 letters weekly.

Scripteuse for Let's Pretend is blonde, broad-beamed Nila Mack, who used to be an actress, now lives with a Persian cat in Manhattan. Last week Storyteller Mack celebrated her tenth anniversary in radio by directing The Five Hundred Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins for the Columbia Workshop. It was the...

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