{
  "title": "THE BELLS",
  "category": "[SHORT-STORY; STAGE-PLAY]",
  "article": "“The Bells was first produced at the Royal theater, London, November 25, 1871, and performed at\nthat theater for 151 consecutive nights.”",
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  "chronology": "THE WGY PLAYERS (WGY, SCHENECTADY)\n[Saturday—8:15-10:30 PM]\nDecember 13, 1924\n“The Bells”\n[“…The acting version of the late Sir Henry Irving will be used in this\nproduction… Act I—Time: December 24, 1833. Place: Interior of a village\ninn in Alsace, Christmas eve. (The inn is the residence of Mathias, the\nburgomaster.) Selection, ‘The Merry Widow’ (Lehar), orchestra. Act II—\nTime: The morning of December 26, 1833. Place: Best room in the\nburgomaster’s inn. Selection, ‘Valse Orientale’ (Joyce), orchestra. Act\nIII—Time: December 26, 1833—night. Place: Bedroom in the inn.\nSelection, ‘The Governor’ (Geibel), orchestra…”]\nMR. BRANSBY WILLIAMS (2LO, LONDON)\n[Friday—10:15-10:45 PM]\nAugust 28, 1925\n“The Dream Scene from ‘The Bells’”\nTHE PACIFIC RADIO PLAYERS (KLX, OAKLAND)\n[Friday—8:00-9:45 PM]\nSeptember 11, 1925\n“The Bells”\n[“…Made famous by the late famous actor, Henry Irving, the play\nconcerns itself with an intensely dramatic episode in the lives of the\nseveral characters. Under the direction of Etta Wilson Coleman the ‘lines’\nhave been especially adapted to radio presentation. Many rehearsals have\nbeen found necessary to more adequately fit the play to the\nmicrophone…”]\nPERSONNEL: Etta Wilson Coleman (director).\nCAST: Caryl Coleman (President of the court), Etta Wilson Coleman (Catherine),\nLeo Cunningham (Christian), Everett Gordon (Mathias), Elizabeth Hugus\n(Sozel), Rudolph Koslich (Hans), Dalton Rixon (Notary of the court), Madeliene\nSulik (Annette), Loran Thornton (Father Walter), Frank Young (Dr. Zimmer).\nTHE KLX RADIO PLAYERS (KLX, OAKLAND)\n[Wednesday—9:00-10:00 PM]\nMay 25, 1927\n“The Bells”\nCAST: Everett Gordon (Mathias, burgomaster), James Ingersoll (Dr. Zimmer, a\nphysician), Ethel Johns (Catherine, the burgomaster’s wife), Rudolph Koslich\n(Hans, a forest ranger / Mesmerist), Carlyle Partridge (Christian, French\nquartermaster), Harriette Romayne (Sozel, servant at the inn), Harry Uridge\n(Clerk of the court / Notary), Rose Wood (Annette, the burgomaster’s daughter),\nWilmot Wood (Father Walter, the village parson / President of the court).\n(WAAM, NEWARK)\n[Wednesday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nJune 22, 1927\n“The Bells”\nHANK SIMMONS’ SHOW BOAT (WABC, NEW YORK)\n[Saturday—10:00-11:00 PM]\nJune 13, 1931\n“The Bells, or The Polish Jew”\n[“…A three-act murder mystery revived from the old classics… Hank\nSimmons, in the role of Mathias, heads a role [sic] of ten players…”]\nCAST: Hank Simmons (Mathias), Happy Jack Lewis (Christian), Joe Carroll\n(Hans), De Witt Schuyler (Father Walter), F. Miller (The Doctor), George Morris\n(The Mesmerist), Ben Franklin (The Judge), Leo Spelvin (The Clerk of the Court),\nLettie Simmons (Catherine), Maybelle (Annette), Jane McGrew (Sozel).\nTHE RADIO GUILD (WJZ, NEW YORK)\n[Friday—4:15-5:15 PM]\nJuly 29, 1932\n“The Bells”\n(3LO, MELBOURNE)\n[Wednesday—9:00-    PM]\nSeptember 14, 1932\n“The Bells”\nTHE GEORGE EDWARDS PLAYERS (2UE, SYDNEY)\n[\nJanuary 15, 1933\n“The Bells”\nTHE RADIO GUILD (WJZ, NEW YORK)\n[Monday—3:00-4:00 PM]\nMay 8, 1933\n“The Bells”\n[“…‘The Bells’ tells the story of the ravages of a guilty conscience\nfollowing the murder, on a wintry road, of an innocent man. The bells of\nthe victim’s sleigh continue to haunt his murderer until they finally drive\nhim to his death…”]\nCAST: Peggy Allenby, Richard Gordon (Mathias), Florence Malone, Charles\nWebster.\nSTARS IN THEIR COURSES (NATIONAL PROGRAMME, LONDON)\n[Saturday—9:20-9:45 PM]\nMay 27, 1933\n“Sir John Martin Harvey”\nPERSONNEL: James Agate (speaker), Sir John Martin Harvey (speaker).\n[OG-NOTE: A recording of Sir John Martin Harvey’s 1933 appearance on Stars in Their\nCourses exists in the British National Archives; a portion of it was broadcast on The\nArchive Hour in 200?.]\nTHE GEORGE EDWARDS SUNDAY PLAYERS (2GB, SYDNEY)\n[\nJuly 2, 1933\n“The Bells”\n(CFR, PARIS)\n[???day—\nNovember 16, 1933\n“The Polish Jew”\nGREAT PLAYS IN HALF AN HOUR (2UW, SYDNEY)\n[\nFebruary 21, 1934\n“The Bells”\nCAST: Mayne Linton, Nancye Stewart, et al.\nTHE RADIO GUILD (WJZ, NEW YORK)\n[Monday—3:00-4:00 PM\nDecember 10, 1934\n“The Bells”\n[PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: “… ‘The Bells,’ an adaptation by Leopold\nLewis of ‘The Polish Jew,’ by Erckmann-Chatrian, will be the Radio Guild\npresentation… The play made memorable in dramatic history by the late\nSir Henry Irving, tells the story of Mathias, a burgomaster, haunted by\nthe consciousness of an undiscovered murder that he had committed…”]\nGREAT MOMENTS IN GREAT PLAYS (WOL, WASHINGTON D.C.)\n[Monday—8:30-9:00 PM]\nAugust 19, 1935\n“The Bells”\n[“…The Willard Players are going on the air with a series of ‘Great\nMoments in Great Plays’… Robert Pitkin will be starred. Directing will be\nJ. Forney Reese. A brief narrative will introduce each ‘moment’ pointing\nout how the scene contributed to the success of the play from which it is\ntaken. ‘The Bells,’ one of the most gripping of ‘horror plays,’ will be used\nfor the inauguration…”]\nTHE FLEISCHMANN HOUR (KFI, LOS ANGELES)\n[Thursday—5:00-6:00 PM\nFebruary 6, 1936\n“The Bells”\nCAST: Boris Karloff, et al.\nEXTANT RECORDING\n[OG-NOTE: An archival recording of this broadcast exists in the NBC Radio Collection\nat the Library of Congress.]\nTERROR BY NIGHT (WABC, NEW YORK)\n[Sunday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nMarch 22, 1936\n“The Bells”\nCAST: Ray Collins, Martha Scott, Orson Welles, et al.\nSARA LANGMAN’S PLAYS (KFWB, HOLLYWOOD)\n[Friday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nNovember 19, 1937\n“The Bells” [PART 1]\nNovember 26, 1937\n“The Bells” [PART 2]\n[“…The final episode of Sara Langman’s ‘The Bells’ is offered this\nevening… This is the gory Sir Henry Irving plaster of a bygone day, with\nNorman Fields as the inn-keeper who murders a Jewish peddler and\nthen suffers the strictures of an active conscience…”]\n(GSD, DAVENTRY)\n[Monday—7:00-7:30 PM]\nApril 4, 1938\n“Henry Irving: Man and Player”\n[“…Even to generations too young to remember the great days of Irving\nand Ellen Terry at the Lyceum Theatre in London, there is a glamour\nabout the actor’s name, and his ‘Hamlet’ and ‘Mathias’ in The Bells, have\npassed into theatrical history. The broadcast, which has been devised by\nErnest Short and produced by John Richmond, will include the story of\nthese two performances, but no attempt will be made to impersonate\nIrving in the characters…”]\nTHE RADIO GUILD (WJZ, NEW YORK)\n[Friday—3:00-4:00 PM]\nMay 13, 1938\n“The Bells, or, The Murder of the Polish Jew”\nPERSONNEL: Joseph Bell (director), Joseph Hawty (music), Robert Waldrop\n(announcer, narrator).\nCAST: Vivian Barry (Sozell), George Gaul (The Mesmerist), Richard Gordon (The\nJudge of the Court), Percy Helton (The Clerk of the Court), Junius Matthews (The\nDoctor), John McGovern (Christian), Beatrice Miller (Catherine), Harry Neville\n(Father Walter), Kay Phillips (Annette), William Shelley (Hans), Charles Webster\n(Matthias).\nEXTANT RECORDING\nEVERYMAN’S THEATRE—“IMMORTAL DRAMAS” (CKY, WINNIPEG)\n[Wednesday—10:00-10:30 PM]\nJune 7, 1939\n“The Bells”\n[“…a new series directed by Sheila Mariyatt of the CBC Western Regional\nstaff, with a cast headed by Mercer McLeod, popular Winnipeg player.\nThe opening broadcast will be the Erckmann-Chatrian play, made\nfamous by Sir Henry Irving. The moving drama of the Irving\ninterpretation has been retained in the radio version…”]\nSCRIPT: Gerald Rowan.\nGREAT TALES OF IMAGINATION (CBM, MONTREAL)\n[Monday—9:00-9:30 PM]\nAugust 11, 1947\n“The Bells”\nSCRIPT: Gerald Rowan.\nPERSONNEL: Rupert Caplan (producer).\nWINNIPEG DRAMA (CBW, WINNIPEG)\n[Thursday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nDecember 21, 1950\n“The Bells”\n[“…It concerns the burgomaster of an Alsace village, who is obsessed by\nfear because of a murder he committed five years previously…”]\nSCRIPT: Gerald Rowan.\n(GREENWICH OVERSEAS SERVICE—BBC)\n[Sunday—3:15-3:45 PM]\nAugust 18, 1957\n“The Bells”\nSCRIPT: H. A. L. Craig.\nPERSONNEL: R. D. Smith (producer).\n[Wednesday—10:30-11:00 AM]\nAugust 21, 1957\n“The Bells”\n(HOME SERVICE, LONDON—BBC)\n[Friday—8:00-9:00 PM]\nAugust 12, 1966\n“The Bells”\nSCRIPT: R. D. Smith.\nPERSONNEL: R. D. Smith (producer).",
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