{
  "title": "THE BAT",
  "category": "[STAGE-PLAY]",
  "article": "The play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood premiered on Broadway on August 23,\n1920 and had recently completed its run of 867 performances at the time of this broadcast.\nCHECK THIS: None of the actors appearing in the broadcast were from the original stage cast.",
  "origination": "WOR, New York City, New York; 2FC, Sydney (ABC).",
  "duration": "November 20, 1922 (WOR); March 2, 1934 (2FC).",
  "personnel": "Unknown.",
  "extant_recordings": "None.",
  "chronology": "(WOR, NEW YORK)\n[Monday—6:30-     PM]\nNovember 20, 1922\n“Scene from ‘The Bat’”\nCAST: Ursula Ellsworth, Robert Gleckler, Arthur J. O’Keefe, Norma Phillips,\nJulia Stuart.\n(2FC, SYDNEY)\n[Friday—          PM]\nMarch 2, 1934\n“The Bat”\n[“…a mystery play…”]\n[SUBJECT FOR FURTHER RESEARCH]\nBATS IN THE BELFRY (KTAB, San Francisco)—Cited in the 1937/38 edition of the Variety Radio\nDirectory; two broadcast dates, at least, are confirmed—March 28 and April 4, 1934—but the slant of the\nshow remains unknown. Judging from the slangy levity of the title, this could have been either a\nhorror/mystery series or a zany comedy program in the manner of Raymond Knight’s Cuckoo Hour or Brad\nBrowne’s Nit Wits. I suspect the latter to be true.",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}