Hints about Horror

Radio blood and thunder may be playing its last season in Canada. The Canadian Medical Association and the Toronto Board of Education have damned the blood-and-thunder programs as dangerous; a committee in the House of Commons has found the shows in "bad taste." Last week Dr. Augustin Frigon, general manager of the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., was certain that the shivers were on their way out of the shiver-shows--to the point where nary a hair of an innocent child would be stood on end.

CBC has the power to ban the hair-raisers outright, but a word to the wise should do as well. A word to the wise, from CBC, has already eliminated all pregnancy episodes from Canadian soap operas. "We expect no difficulty," says Dr. Frigon, who is now busy dropping hints about horror to Canadian stations.

Since virtually all the hair-raisers have been U.S. shows (The Green Hornet, The Shadow, et al.), the di-shivering will eventually be done in U.S. recording studios.

Meanwhile the Kingston, Ont. Whig-Standard has posed some fine questions. Exactly what is a horror, program--one capable of inspiring horror? Then will that keep off the air dramatizations of the tales of Edgar Allan Poe? Richard III? Othello? Macbeth?

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