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  "title": "DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE",
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  "article": "Various broadcasts from the 20s to the 50s.\n[McNally & Florescu] “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, printed in time for the\ngenerally booming Christmas market of 1885, at first met with indifference on the part of\nbookstore owners.”\nAndrew Lang reviewed in Saturday Review, January 9, 1886: “…every Jekyll among us is\nhaunted by his own Hyde… We would welcome a specter, a ghoul, or even a vampire gladly,\nrather than meet Mr. Edward Hyde…”\nThe Times, Jnuary 25, 1886: “finished study in the art of the fantastic…”\n“Within six months, from January to June of the year 1886, Stevenson’s book blossomed into a\nbestseller with some forty thousand copies sold in England alone and two million in American\nsales, often pirated, where the story was extremely popular. Overnight Stevenson became a rich\nman… He became one of the first self-sustaining writers capable of living solely on the income\nfrom his book royalties.”\n“…in 1888, Stevenson began negotiating with the Boston playwright Thomas Russell Sullivan to\nwrite a theatrical version of his Jekyll and Hyde novella… The play had already opened at the\nMadison Theater in New York City with the then relatively unknown Richard Mansfield playing\nthe dual role… [i]natal production on December 12, 1887… [t]he play went on to become a success\nin America and to carry Jekyll and Hyde beyond literature into pop culture…”\n“Only four months after [it] was published, a parody was performed at L. C. Toole’s Theater in\nLondon on May 18, 1886, under the title The Strange Case of a Hyde and Seekyl…”\n“Sullivan… first staged at the Boston Museum from May 9 through 13 in 1887, and at the\nMadison Square Theater in New York City from September 12 through October 1 of that year.\nAudiences reputedly went away from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde so frightened that they were afraid\nlater to enter their homes alone. Some also could not sleep in the dark, and some often had\nnightmares based on the play.”\n“On October 3, 1887, another satire entitled Dr. Freckle and Mr. Snide appeared on stage at\nDockstadter’s Minstrel Hall in New York City.”\n“The Sullivan also enjoyed an American tour from October 3, 1887, to June 25, 1888… At the\noutset of the Sullivan play, Agnes Carew, daughter of Sir Danvers Carew, is seen as the fiancée of\nthe nervous Dr. Jekyll. Jekyll confronts his fiancée, Agnes and Hyde’s landlady… Hyde slips into\nthe Carew household and demands to see Agnes Carew. When Sir Danvers refuses, Hyde chokes\nhim to death… Agnes spurs Jekyll on to help Utterson in his pursuit of Hyde after the death of her\nfather…\n“In the second act, a drunken Hyde, confronted by the ghost of Sir Danvers, escapes from the\nLondon police. Hyde enters Jekyll’s laboratory but is confronted by Utterson. In the third act,\nHyde swallows the potion and transforms into Jekyll in Dr. Lanyon’s house. The last act has\nJekyll pleading with Lanyon to bring Agnes to him. Involuntarily changing into Hyde, however,\nhe is forced to commit suicide when discovered by Utterson and the London police.”\n“During the late summer of 1888, Mansfield took his company to England, where Sullivan’s\nJekyll and Hyde play was produced by Howard Poole at Croyden’s Theater Royal on July 26,\nattracting little attention. On August 4, 1888, the play moved to the Lyceum Theater, where it\nfared somewhat better… [t]he play was temporarily closed down by the authorities, because it was\nthought to have inspired the contemporary Jack the Ripper murders in the London slum of\nWhitechapel in 1888. Even Mansfield himself was one of the many persons suspected of being\nJack the Ripper.”\n“Mansfield continued to play in the Sullivan version until his final curtain call as Jekyll and\nHyde on March 21, 1907, at New York’s New Amsterdam Theater.”",
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  "chronology": "(WNYC, NEW YORK)\n[???day—10:35-10:50 PM]\nApril 24, 1925\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[“…discussed by Professor J. O. C. Troop…”]\nMUSIC DRAMAS (WGBS, NEW YORK)\n[Sunday—9:30-      PM]\nOctober 31, 1926\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[NEW YORK ????: “…A dramatic version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s\nclassic story, ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’ will be the next in the series of\nDailey Peskman [sic?]—WGBS Music Dramas that are broadcast\nalternate Sunday evenings from the studio of WGBS… This series of\ndramatic presentations, adapted for radio and directed by Mr. Peskman,\nDirector of WGBS, with Howard Kyle, prominent actor,\nMr. Kyle will have the dual role of the scientist, whose probing into the\nunknown leads him into fantastic terrors brought about through the evil\npersonality that he names Mr. Hyde…”]\nSCRIPT: Dailey Paskman.\nPERSONNEL: Dailey Paskman (director).\nCAST: Howard Kyle (Dr. Henry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde), et al.\n(WJZ, NEW YORK—NBC-BLUE)\n[Saturday—\nOctober 6, 1928\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[“…WJZ offers a four act play…”]\nTHE NIT WITS (WABC, NEW YORK—CBS)\n[Saturday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nMarch 22, 1930\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[“…Professor R. U. Musclebound will play a double role when ‘the dear\nlittle Nit Wits’ present their own version of ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’…\nBoth title roles will be taken by the professor, who has long been a\nfavorite in the dramatic club. Bradford Browne, chief of the Nit Wits, will\nbe master of ceremonies…”]\n(NATIONAL PROGRAMME, LONDON—BBC)\n[Thursday—7:45-9:00 PM]\nNovember 27, 1930\n“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSCRIPT: Barbara Burnham.\nPERSONNEL: Peter Creswell (producer).\nCAST: Leon M. Lion (Jekyll/Hyde), et al.\nLOOKING GLASS (KPO, SAN FRANCISCO)\n[Monday—7:00-8:00 PM]\nJune 8, 1931\n[“…Victor Rodman, the stage actor, will present the transformation scene\nfrom ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ with Charles Buck assisting him…”]\nSPOTLIGHT REVUE (KGO, SAN FRANCISCO)\n[Saturday—9:30-11:00 PM]\nSeptember 5, 1931\n[“…Walter Beban offers a ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’ burlesque…”]\nTHE WITCH’S TALE (WOR, NEW YORK)\n[Monday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nNovember 23, 1931\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSCRIPT: Alonzo Deen Cole.\nPERSONNEL: Alonzo Deen Cole (director).\nCAST: Alonzo Deen Cole, Marie O’Flynn, et al.\nBITS AND PIECES (2FC, SYDNEY—ABC)\n[Thursday—8:00-10:15 PM]\nMarch 31, 1932\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[“…in which the A.B.C. Players, the A.B.C. Octet, and the A.B.C.\nOrchestra appear. The Players will be heard in short episodes, including\n‘The Taming of the Shrew,’ ‘King for a Day,’ ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’\nand ‘Romance’…”]\nMASTER MYSTERIES (WJZ, NEW YORK—NBC-BLUE)\n[Monday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nApril 11, 1932\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSCRIPT: Finis Farr.\nREMINISCENCES (2BL, SYDNEY—ABC)\n[Wednesday—8:00-10:25 PM]\nMay 11, 1932\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[“…The [A.B.C.] players will be heard in short episodes, which will\ninclude ‘The Taming of the Shrew,’ ‘King for a Day,’ ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr.\nHyde,’ ‘Romance’…”]\nTHE RADIO GUILD (WJZ, NEW YORK—NBC-BLUE)\n[Friday—3:15-4:15 PM]\nSeptember 9, 1932\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSCRIPT: William Rainey.\nCAST: Richard Gordon (Jekyll/Hyde), et al.\nTHE NORTHERN DRAMATIC COMPANY (WOL, WASHINGTON D.C.)\n[Friday—7:30-\nDecember 30, 1932\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nTHE FLEISCHMANN HOUR (WEAF, NEW YORK—NBC-RED)\n[Thursday—\nFebruary 23, 1933\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[“…Others scheduled to take part in Rudy’s broadcast are Conway Tearle,\nstar in ‘Dinner at Eight’; Rose Hobart who recently played the lead in ‘I\nLoved You Wednesday’; and Harold Vermilyea, Theater Guild actor, who\nwill offer a radio version of ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’…”]\nEXTANT RECORDING\nTHE GEORGE EDWARDS PLAYERS (2GB, SYDNEY)\n[Sunday—8:45-9:30 PM]\nMay 28, 1933\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nTALES OF THE TITANS (WJZ, NEW YORK—NBC-BLUE)\n[Wednesday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nJune 14, 1933\n“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nTHE RADIO GUILD (WJZ, NEW YORK—NBC-BLUE)\n[Monday—\nSeptember 18, 1933\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[“…The dramatization of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr.\nHyde,’ which added much to the stage reputation of Richard Mansfield\nand did something also for the screen fames of John Barrymore and\nFredric March, will be presented by the Radio Guild… Vernon Radcliffe is\nthe director…”]\n[OG-NOTE: The script of this broadcast is archived, of all places, in the Canadian\nBroadcasting Company script collection at McMaster University in Ontario.]\nTHE SHELL SHOW (K??, LOS ANGELES)\n[\nJune 4, 1934\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nCAST: Boris Karloff (Jekyll/Hyde), et al.\nTHE RALPH CHESSE PLAYERS (KYA, SAN FRANCISCO)\n[???????\nJuly 9, 1934\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 1]\nJuly 16, 1934\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 2]\nJuly 23, 1934\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 3]\nTHE WORLD IS YOURS (KPO, SAN FRANCISCO)\n[Sunday—12:30-1:00 PM]\nJune 13, 1937\n“Plays and Costumes”\n[“…a dramatic panorama of the American theater during the transition\nperiod at the close of the 19th century… The dramatization will include\nthe triumphs scored by Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, E. H. Sothern, John\nDrew and Richard Mansfield at the turn of the century when the\nlegitimate stage underwent a change from crude romance and heavy\nmelodrama to modern realism. Scenes will be portrayed from such plays\nas ‘Pinafore,’ ‘Richard III,’ and ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’…”]\nTHE REPERTORY THEATRE OF THE AIR (WEVD, NEW YORK)\n[Sunday—10:00-11:00 PM]\nAugust 1, 1937\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nTHE WITCH’S TALE (WOR, NEW YORK)\n[Thursday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nAugust 19, 1937\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 1]\nAugust 26, 1937\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 2]\nTHEATER DIGEST OF THE AIR (WOR, NEW YORK)\n[Thursday—11:05-11:45 PM]\nDecember 30, 1937\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nGOOD NEWS OF 1938 (KFI, LOS ANGELES)\n[\nMarch 31, 1938\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSUNDAY EVENING THEATRE OF THE AIR (CJRC, WINNIPEG)\n[Sunday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nApril 23, 1939\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nPERSONNEL: Neil LeRoy (director).\nCAST: Lawrence Abremovitch, Stasia Coyle, Neil LeRoy, Tommy Tweed, Frank\nWade, George Waight.\n(WNYC, NEW YORK)\n[Friday—5:00-5:30 PM]\nOctober 31, 1941\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (GEORGE EDWARDS PRODUCTIONS)\nCirca 1942\n52 episodes\nTHE BURNS AND ALLEN SHOW (\n[\nJanuary 5, 1943\n[YOUNGSTOWN VINDICATOR: “…Running the gamut of emotions, Gracie\nAllen will attempt a strictly original interpretation of the gentle Dr. Jekyll\nand the horrific Mr. Hyde…”]\nTHE PLAYMAKERS’ LAB (WNOE, NEW ORLEANS)\n[Wednesday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nFebruary 10, 1943\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSTAR FOR A NIGHT (\n[Wednesday—\nJanuary 19, 1944\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[BERKELEY DAILY GAZETTE: “…Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic horror\ntale, ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’ is set for 8:30 p…. Laird Cregar will be\nguest star with four amateurs chosen from the studio audience playing\nsupporting roles…”]\n[“…To an announcement that film actor Laird Cregar will be\nWednesday’s Star for a Night is a postscript urging us to stress to radio\nlisteners that the show is strictly comedy and not drama. Such a\nreminder is unnecessary for anyone who heard either the program on\nwhich comedienne Patsy Kelly portrayed Cathy in Wuthering Heights or\nthe one on which Broadway comedian Willie Howard took the role of\nRochester in Jane Eyre… But it will be a more weighty matter when\nCregar, who is to Twentieth Century-Fox what Sydney Greenstreet is to\nWarner Brothers, comes to the microphone in a radio version of Dr.\nJekyll and Mr. Hyde, playing opposite amateurs, one of whom will\nreceive $1,001 for his performance. Fresh from his killer-diller role on\nthe Mystery Theater, Cregar should be in top form for Stevenson’s\nmasterpiece…”]\nEXTANT RECORDING\n[OG-NOTE: Only the first half of this broadcast is known to survive.]\nFAMOUS CLASSICS THEATER (WGN, CHICAGO)\n[Saturday—9:30-10:00 PM\nFebruary 5, 1944\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nBLUE RIBBON TOWN (KNX, HOLLYWOOD—CBS)\n[Saturday—\nMarch 11, 1944\n[MASON CITY GLOBE-GAZETTE: “…the dual personality of Groucho Marx\ncomes to the surface when [Miriam] Hopkins drops in for a visit in ‘Blue\nRibbon Town’… Miriam calls to have a look at the village dramatic\nsociety, and Groucho prevails upon her to re-enact her old screen\nsuccess, ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,’ with him. Groucho also threatens to\nsing an original ditty called ‘I’m Dr. Jekyll at the Office and Mr. Hyde at\nHome’…”]\nTHE WEIRD CIRCLE (NBC DISC SERIES)\nCirca 1945\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nTHE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (HOME SERVICE—BBC)\n[Sunday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nSeptember 10, 1944\n[PART 1]\nSeptember 17, 1944\n[PART 2]\nSeptember 24, 1944\n[PART 3]\nOctober 1, 1944\n[PART 4]\nOctober 8, 1944\n[PART 5]\nFAVORITE STORY (ZIV DISC SERIES)\nCirca 1946\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nCAST: William Conrad, et al.\nWINNIPEG DRAMA (WINNIPEG)\n[\nJan. 17, 1947\n“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSCRIPT: William Burgess.\nPERSONNEL: Archie MacCorkindale (producer)\n[\nOct. 8, 1947\n“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSTORY TIME (WOL, WASHINGTON, D.C.)\n[Monday-Friday—11:00-11:15 AM]\nDecember 15, 1947\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 1]\nDecember 16, 1947\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 2]\nDecember 17, 1947\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 3]\nDecember 18, 1947\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 4]\nDecember 19, 1947\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PART 5]\nHOLLYWOOD’S OPEN HOUSE (NBC SYNDICATION)\nCirca 1947\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” [PROGRAM NO. 5]\nCAST: Horace Braham, Luis Van Rooten, et al.\nFAVORITE STORY (ZIV)\nCirca 1947\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nTELL IT AGAIN (KNX, HOLLYWOOD)\n[\nJune 20, 1948\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nFROM THE BOOKSHELF OF THE WORLD (AFRS)\nCirca 1949\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nTHE THEATER GUILD ON THE AIR (\n[Sunday—\nNovember 19, 1950\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSCRIPT: Lesley Reed.\nPERSONNEL: Homer Fickett (director).\nCAST: Wesley Addy, Denise Alexander, Barbara Bel Geddes, Donald Buka, Jean\nCameron, Cathleen Cordell, Charles Francis, Carl Harbord, Berry Kroeger,\nFredric March, Hugh Williams.\nTHEATRE ROYALE (TOWERS OF LONDON TRANSCRIPTION SERIES)\nCirca 1952\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nFORD THEATRE (TORONTO, DOMINION NETWORK)\n[???day—\nJanuary 23, 1953\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSCRIPT: Len Peterson.\nPERSONNEL: Alan Savage (producer).\nWFUV PLAYHOUSE (WFUV, NEW YORK)\n[Sunday—3:00-3:30 PM]\nAugust 16, 1953\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n(WDR, BERLIN)\n[\nSeptember 18, 1956\n“Dr. Jekyll und Herr Hyde”\nSCRIPT: Walter Franke-Ruta.\nPERSONNEL: Heinz-Dieter Kohler (assistant director), Wilhelm Semmelroth\n(director).\nCAST: Rene Deltgen (Dr. Harry Jekyll / Mr. Edward Hyde), Hanns Olsen (Poole),\nWolfgang Schirlitz (Utterson), Friedrich Siemers (Richard Enfield), Rudolf\nTherkatz (Dr. Lanyon).\nSATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE (HOME SERVICE, LONDON—BBC)\n[Saturday—9:15-10:35 PM]\nApril 16, 1960\n“The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nDR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (BBC)\n[\nNovember 22, 1961\n[PART 1]\nNovember 29, 1961\n[PART 2]\nDecember 6, 1961\n[PART 3]\nTHE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE (W\nJune 18, 1974\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nSCRIPT: George Lowther.\nPERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-director).\nCAST: Court Benson, Ian Martin, Kevin McCarthy, Marian Seldes.\nATLANTA RADIO THEATRE COMPANY HALLOWEEN SPECIAL (PEACH STATE\nPUBLIC RADIO, ATLANTA)\n[\nOctober 31, 1995\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” / “The Island of Dr. Moreau”\nRADIO TALES (NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO)\nJanuary 18, 2000\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\nTHE SATURDAY PLAY (RADIO 4, LONDON)\n[Saturday—2:30-3:30 PM]\nFebruary 3, 2007\n“Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”\n[“…When a London lawyer studies the last will of his old friend Dr.\nJekyll, his suspicions are aroused. Why has respectable Dr. Jekyll left\neverything to sinister Edward Hyde?...”]",
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