Orgets

In Chicago last week the Society for the Improvement of Children's Programs was hopefully suggesting to neighbors' boys & girls that Bob Becker's Dog Chats and the Singing Lady are as entertaining as the thunderous radio exploits of Buck Rogers. In Columbus, Ohio the members of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education and the Institute for Education by Radio met in joint convention to wring their hands over the bloody adventures of Dick Tracy, the struggles of Little Orphan Annie, the blood-curdling mysteries of Chandn the Magician. Burden of the complaint was that Junior loses his play hours hanging over the radio, bolts his supper, gets so excited he cannot sleep.

The unhappy Columbus convention-goers had scarcely departed for their homes before an enterprising young socialite in Manhattan made them look foolish. Three months ago Mrs. Winthrop Neilson Jr., trim, dark-haired daughter-in-law of a vice president of Aluminum Co. of America, undertook to put on a series of radio programs for the New York Junior League, in order to publicize the League's children's plays. Mrs. Neilson wrote the scripts, Junior Leaguers took the parts, Station WINS gave them 15 minutes weekly. Soon National Broadcasting Co. took notice. Last week NBC signed Mrs. Neilson for a weekly program.

Mrs. Neilson's programs had apparently achieved the astonishing feat of pleasing both mothers and children. Chief characters are a tribe of invisible creatures, "very, very thin and streamlined," who are known as Orgets and come from The-Land-We-Know-Not-Of. Mrs. Neilson was a small girl in Philadelphia when she invented the original Orgets as companions. In those days Orgets lived in baubles on Christmas trees. Resurrected for Radio, they now flit about in airplanes too thin to be seen, slide under doors, squeeze into books. In each program they do a good deed. Sample:

Cow is unhappy because Jack & Jean, the farmer's children, dislike milk. Orgets Bee & Baw retire to a dell to ponder Cow's plight, come upon two starving baby foxes. Back to the farmyard they flit, persuade Cow to lumber off to the dell with milk for the foxes. On the way clumsy Cow catches a hoof in a railroad track, is nearly killed by a train. Jack & Jean, overcome by Cow's bravery, agree to love her, drink milk.

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