Listen To The People, Independence Day, 1941, Stephen Vincent Benét, NBC radio
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Listen To The People, Independence Day, 1941, by Stephen Vincent Benét, published by LIFE, New York, NY — Sponsored by the Council for Democracy, Inc., and performed over NBC's Blue Network on Friday, July 4, 1941 — 8 pages — illustrated by John Alan Maxwell — 10 7/16" x 14" Herein is found Stephen Vincent Benét's dramatic poem, presented over the National Broadcasting Company's Blue Network, at 4:15 p.m. EST on Friday, July 4, 1941. LIFE herewith prints the full radio script in order that its readers may follow the performance at that time. The Editors believe that Benét is one of America's great poets. The program had famous actors who performed the different Voices: Henry Hull, Narrator Howard Lindsay, Conservator Voice Otto Preminger, Totalitarian Voice Robert Gray, Radical Voice Accompanying the performers was an original musical score composed for a 40-piece orchestra, by Vaclav Moravan.
