{
  "title": "THE ALTAR OF HATE",
  "category": "[RADIO-SCRIPT]",
  "article": "Alonzo Deen Cole’s radio script borrows heavily from Balzac’s story “The Executioner,” but\ntransposes the story from the Napoleonic campaigns in Spain to the French Revolution and\nimposes a supernatural denouement.\nCole himself maintained descent from an aristocratic family that was uprooted by the French\nRevolution and the Reign of Terror. This motif of revolutionary bloodshed and cruelty informs a\nnumber of his scripts, including “The Lady of the Guillotine” and “Physician to the Dead.”",
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  "duration": "",
  "personnel": "",
  "extant_recordings": "",
  "chronology": "THE WITCH’S TALE (WOR, NEW YORK)\n[Wednesday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nNovember 8, 1933\n“The Altar”\nPERSONNEL: Alonzo Deen Cole (scriptwriter, director).\nTHE WITCH’S TALE (KHJ, LOS ANGELES)\n[Friday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nOctober 11, 1935\n“The Altar”\n[“…A story of the French Revolutionary period… In it you will be told\nabout a son who was given his life but at the expense of becoming his\nparents’ executioner.”]\nTHE WITCH’S TALE (WOR, NEW YORK)\n[Thursday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nJanuary 13, 1938\n“The Altar of Hate”\nTHE WITCH’S TALE (MACQUARIE, SYDNEY)\nCirca 1941\n“The Altar of Hate”                                                     [EXTANT RECORDING]",
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  "images": []
}