A Husband-Wife Radio Team

BEHIND the scenes of Tales of Fatima, the Basil Rathbone radio show, is a rare species of director, one who gets along beautifully with the program's writer. Harry Ingram Jr. '34 is such a man primarily because the author of his production is his wife, Gail.

He dove into radio six years ago at Young & Rubicam, New York advertising agency, where he formed an all-Dartmouth team with Harry Ackerman '35. The production staff of Foote, Cone, and Belding's radio department beckoned next. There he produced The Big Story and made a real-life one for himself by marrying the girl who edited the show. Mrs. Ingram is Vassar '45, Phi Beta Kappa, and highly photogenic.

A Big Story broadcast several years ago spelled Dartmouth '34, backwards and forwards. Stan Silverman, one-time Jacko editor, authored the script; Alan Hewitt, former thespian of the Hanover stage, played the leading man; Harry Ingram directed; and Gail Ingram edited.

Occasionally the Ingrams collaborate on the writing of a show. Crime Photographer and Inner Sanctum figure among the works of their combined typewriters. There are many others which they have both written and directed: The Reader'sDigest, Two On A Clue, Highways inMelody, Kate Smith Sings, to mention a few.

Before he found his place on the air waves, Ingram ran the gamut of jobs. Free lance playwriting and then radio script writing began to fill his working day. This experience provided a good foundation for directing and producing when he branched out into these phases of radio. Simultaneously, it presented him with an introduction to Gail and the beginning of radio's youngest husband and wife writer-producer-director team.

HARRY INGRAM '34 AND WIFE GAIL CHECK OVER A RADIO SCRIPT