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  "title": "MACABRE",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "[Montreal Gazette, December 15, 1978—“Tuned In” by Thomas Schnurmacher] “They should\nhave called the series The Tom Rack Good-time Hour. Rack is a brilliant actor who deserves the\nrecognition. I remember him in Shakespeare class during my salad days at McGill University.”\nMACABRE (C??, MONTREAL—CBC)\n[Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday—2:04-     PM]\nDecember 18, 1978\n“Trilby” [PART 1]\n[MONTREAL GAZETTE: “…CBC radio is re-discovering George du\nMaurier’s famous story Trilby, the tragic tale of a young artist’s model\nwho becomes a famous singer under the influence of the sinister\nmesmerist Svengali… When Trilby was first published in the 1870s, many\nreaders felt the hypnotic evil genius Svengali was based on a true\ncharacter. Even today, Montreal writer Arthur Samuels, who has\ndramatized the story for CBC radio, confesses he thought Svengali was a\nreal person. Samuels says he has taken a few liberties with the story,\neliminating several characters to create a ‘sharper intimacy’ with the\nthree main characters—Svengali, played by Tom Rack, Trilby by Kathleen\nFlaherty, and Gecko by Griffith Brewer, a Centaur perennial…”]\nDecember 19, 1978\n“Trilby” [PART 2]\nDecember 20, 1978\n“Trilby” [PART 3]\nDecember 21, 1978\n“The Black Cat”\n[MONTREAL GAZETTE: “…one of Edgar Allan Poe’s well-known horror\nstories… Dramatized by Ernesto Cuevas, the story is set in the here and\nnow—contemporary Montreal. Major parts are played by Joan Heney\nand Terrence Labrosse. Other parts are by Victor Desy—except for the\nCat, played by Tom Rack…”]\nDecember 26, 1978\n“Frankenstein” [PART 1]\n[MONTREAL\nGAZETTE:\n“…Mary\nShelley’s\nclassic\nhorror\nstory…\nDramatized by Bob Duncan, it stars Robin Gammell as Victor\nFrankenstein and Tom Rack as the Monster…”]\nDecember 27, 1978\n“Frankenstein” [PART 2]\nDecember 28, 1978\n“The Cask of Amontillado”\n[MONTREAL GAZETTE: “…Poe’s medieval horror tale…starring Ian Devoy\nas Fortunato and guess who as Montresor? Tom Rack…”]",
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