{
  "title": "THE ADVENTURE OF THE GERMAN STUDENT",
  "category": "[SHORT-STORY]",
  "article": "Story by Washington Irving…\n“This story, one of a number of tales and sketches collected in Tales of a Traveller (1824), is\nnarrated by an old man to a group of listeners. The story concerns a young student from the\nGerman university town of Gottingen. The student, Gottfried Wolfgang, is described as a man of\ngood family but also as one given to intense speculation on the dark, mystical side of existence.\nIndeed, he is shown to have dedicated himself to these studies to such an extent that both his\nphysical health and his imagination have become ‘diseased.’ As the narrator tells his…”",
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  "chronology": "THE WITCH’S TALE (WOR, NEW YORK)\n[Thursday—10:15-10:45 PM]\nJune 18, 1931\n“The Lady of the Guillotine”\nPERSONNEL: Alonzo Deen Cole (scriptwriter, director).\nCAST: Alonzo Deen Cole, Adelaide Fitz-Allen, Marie O’Flynn, Mark Smith, et al.\n[Monday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nJune 13, 1932\n“The Lady of the Guillotine”\nTALES OF THE SUPERNATURAL (CJRC, WINNIPEG)\n[Wednesday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nCirca 1940\n“The Lady with the Velvet Collar”\nPERSONNEL: Neil LeRoy (producer), Mercer McLeod (narrator),\nTHE HERMIT’S CAVE (WORLD TRANSCRIPTION)\nCirca 1940s\n“The Black Band”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\nWE KNOW A STORY (WONS, HARTFORD)\n[???day—10:00-10:15 PM]\nNovember 14, 1948\n“The Lady with the Velvet Collar”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\n[RADIOGOLDINDEX: “The program was recorded November 10, 1948.”]\nCAST: Guy Hedlund, Dolores Murphy, John Storm.\nTHE DIAL PLAYERS (WHMA, ANNISTON)\n[Tuesday—4:15-4:30 PM]\nJanuary 11, 1949\n“The Lady with a Velvet Collar”\n[“…The Dial Players of the Masque and Wig Guild of Jacksonville State\nTeachers College will present a series of 15-minute plays… Washington\nIrving’s supernatural story is set in the time of the French Revolution…”]\nPERSONNEL: Lawrence Miles (director).\nCAST: John Cathey (The Gendarme), Harry Howell (The Narrator), Pat\nWhisenant (The Lady).\nTHE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATRE (WRVR, NEW YORK)\n[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]\nSeptember 17, 1979\n“The Guillotine”\n[EXTANT RECORDING]\n[“…Gottfried, brooding and lonely, turns to his friend Karl for solace.\nKarl suggests a trip to Paris. Gottfried agrees, arriving there at the start of\nthe Revolution when hundreds of people are being guillotined. In his\nloneliness, he creates a woman he tells Karl ‘exists only in my mind.’\nNevertheless, he meets her one stormy night—in the flesh—when he is\ninexplicably drawn to the site of the guillotine. He invites her to his\nroom, but the next morning finds her dead, a victim of the giant blade…”]\nPERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-director), Elspeth Eric (scriptwriter).\nCAST: Paul Hecht (Gottfried), Bryna Raeburn (The Woman), Don Scardino\n(Karl).\nRADIO TALES—“TALES OF AMERICAN MASTERS” (NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO)\nOctober 6, 1998\n“The German Student”\nPERSONNEL: Winifred Phillips (reader, composer).\nEXTANT RECORDING",
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}