[Blackwell Family] GENERAL CORRESPONDENCE [Hansl, Eva]
[Blackwell, Alice Stone]Tel: Murray Hill 5-6077 [Women??Ar?????]
EVA vB. HANSL
22 East 36th Street
New York
June 5, 1939
Mrs. Alice Stone Blackwell
1010 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, Mass.
My dear Mrs. Blackwell:
Here is a copy of the script "Freedom of Speech"
in the radio program series -
"WOMEN IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA"
in which you will find your mother, Lucy Stone
taking a very prominent part. This, as you know,
will be broadcast this Friday, June 9th over the
BLUE Network of the National Broadcasting Company
at 2:00 o'clock E.D.S.T.
Thank you for your prompt reply to my first
letter. [and] I am very happy to know that you put
the material of your book "Lucy Stone" at our
disposal and are willing that reporters should
come to interview you. We so notified the
United and Associated Press and by this time,
perhaps, they have already been to see you.
With best wishes.
Very sincerely yours,
[Eva vB. Hansl.]
Mrs. Eva vB Hansel
EvBH:RD
[* under separate cover.]Eva Hansel


[*World Center for Women's ?]
HALLIE FLANAGAN, Director
Federal Theatre Project 
EVAN ROBERTS, Director
Radio Division
FEDERAL THEATRE
RADIO DIVISION

MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT GUEST SPEAKER ON
PREMIERE OF "WOMEN IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA"

WOMEN IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA, a new series of half-hour dramatic
programs, will have Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as guest speaker
on its premiere over Station WJZ and the NBC Blue Network on Friday,
May 19th, at 2 P.M., EDST. The broadcasts are being produced by the
Federal Theatre Radio Division of the Works Progress Administration
in cooperation with the Women's Activities Department of the 
National Broadcasting Company.

At the recent dinner of the American Youth Congress, Mrs.
Roosevelt pointed out, "Tomorrow belongs, as it has always, to
the pioneer". In her book, "It's Up To The Women", she states,
"It is important that women think beyond the mere moment through
which we are passing and acquaint themselves with all phases of
life and conditions in our country". She also stresses the need
for continued pioneering and the untried opportunities for women
in America today.

WOMEN IN THE MAKING OF AMERICA is the story of the part women
have played in the building of the nation - securing the right of
life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness for themselves and
others.

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It is the story of three hundred years of pioneering - from
Anne Hutchinson, who was banished from the Massachusetts Bay
Colony because she dared to hold a meeting of women in her home
and criticized the stern Puritan ministers for their intolerance - 
to Amelia Earhart, who gave her life in the battle of human progress.
The first program of the series, "Cavalcade of American
Women", tells in a highly dramatic and striking manner, the
achievements of American women, both famous and unknown, during
the past three centuries.

Many of America's foremost women and representatives of
organization carrying on the work begun by the pioneers will be
interviewed at the end of the program by Mrs. Eva vom Baur Hansl,
well-known journalist, who originated the series. Jane Ashman
has written the scripts and the dramas will be directed by Harry
A. MacFayden, NBC director and former Broadway producer. The
Madrigal Singers, with Lehmann Engel conducting, will form part
of the musical background.

The historical material for this series has been made available
through the cooperation of the World Center for Women's 
Archives, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the American
Association of University Women, and other national women's 
organizations.
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DEPARTMENT OF RADIO INFORMATION
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ISSUED ON: 5/12/39