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  "title": "GHOST STORIES",
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  "article": "The 1929 series…\nCHRONOLOGY\nTHE MACFADDEN RED SEAL HOUR—“GHOST STORIES” (WABC, NEW YORK)\n[Wednesday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nSeptember 4, 1929\n“The Clue of the Black Dragon”\n[MILWAUKEE JOURNAL: “…A cast of unusual excellence has been\nassembled for the first Red Seal hour broadcast…when a mystery of\nChinatown will be given…”]\nSCRIPT: Adapted from the story appearing in the ???? 1929 issue of Ghost\nStories.\nOctober 2, 1929\n“The Phantom of the Sawdust Ring”\n[PITTSBURGH PRESS: “…Admittedly the most superstitious branch of the\nshow business, the circus furnishes the locale of the story to be broadcast\nduring the MacFadden Red Seal Hour… This presentation will be given\nby a selected cast of Broadway players, with musical accompaniment by\nan augmented orchestra, and is built about a true story of the big top.\nThe loving young couple and the vicious stepfather of fiction are found in\nthis true story, with the important addition of the spectre of Daddy de\nSilva, for years a clown under the widespread circus tents. Nor is the\nspectre a mere figment of imagination, for de Silva protected his loved\nones in death as he had in life and the avenging shade of the beloved\nclown brings to a most unexpected and startling conclusion the career of\nthe villain of the piece…”]\nNovember 6, 1929\n“The Sign on the Throat”\n[PITTSBURGH PRESS: “…A spooky, creepy tale of the dread shadows that\nstalk abroad after dark… The superstitious peasants of Portugal crossed\nthemselves apprehensively when the master of the Castle de Menezes\nappeared on the roads about the grim structure. Few braved the roads at\nnight, for many dead were found, and on their throats were three\nsymbolic gashes. Jennings Holt, cousin of the present lord, Luis Menezes,\nattempted to discover the secret of the curse that hung over the house.\nThus, unwittingly, he inherited the family stigma and became a ghoulish\nfiend, preying by night on the peaceful inhabitants of the sleepy\nvillages…”]\nDecember 4, 1929\n“\n[ST. PETERSBURG TIMES: “…A weird and uncanny story of a ghost that\nsolves two puzzling murders will be broadcast tonight in the MacFadden\nRed Seal Hour… Within a week two men were murdered in a peaceful\nIllinois town with no clue to the mystery. After the local authorities had\nexhausted every resource, a ghost, arising from a tomb in the dark of the\nnight, enacted a promise from the friend of one of the murdered men.\nThe promise, to keep a midnight tryst in the house of the Widow Jones,\nresulted in a series of exciting events which reached an unexpected\nclimax…”]\nGHOST STORIES (4QG, BRISBANE)\n[Monday—9:30-9:45 PM]\nSeptember 9, 1935\n“The African Night”\n[BRISBANE COURIER-MAIL: “…told by Ion Maxwell…”]",
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