{
  "title": "THE COLUMBIA DRAMATIC GUILD",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIES]",
  "article": "This precursor to Irving Reis’ Columbia Workshop started out with an initial series that ran in the\nsummer of 1933. With most (if not all) of the scripts by Charles Tazewell, it had the avowed aim to\nsuccessfully adapt classics of the short story form into radio dramatizations. Although it was\nnever announced as such, the concentration of this first series was clearly on weird and spectral\nfiction, with no less than eight adaptations of Poe tales, plus Kisfaludi’s “The Invisible Wound”\n(which Alonzo Deen Cole would also dramatize on The Witch’s Tale the following year),\nWashington Irving’s “The Specter Bridegroom,” Hawthorne’s “The Devil in the Manuscript,”\nStevenson’s “The Body Snatcher,” and de Maupassant’s “The Horla.”\n[Program information]",
  "origination": "KGO and KPO, San Francisco, California.",
  "duration": "January 29, 1931; March 24, 1933.",
  "personnel": "Himan Brown (producer-director—1978, CBS Radio Mystery Theater), Gerald\nKeane (scriptwriter—1978, CBS Radio Mystery Theater).",
  "extant_recordings": "“Flash Point” (9/1/78, CBS Radio Mystery Theater).\n[Program log]\nINNER SANCTUM MYSTERIES (WJZ, NEW YORK)\n[Sunday—\n????????? ??, 1941\n“Man of Steel”\n????????? ??, 1942\n“Man of Steel”\nTHE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER (WRVR, NEW YORK)\n[???day—10:07-11:00 PM\nSeptember 1, 1978\n“Flash Point”\n[“…Writer John Roth is sent by his editor to a Pennsylvania steel town to\ncapture in words the ‘beauty’ of the place. While doing his research, he\nmeets and falls in love with Sarah Horrocks, wife of the man who runs\nthe blast furnaces. They don’t think her husband realizes what is\nhappening until he forces Roth to take a walk with him to the steel mill’s\ndangerous areas where many others have had fatal accidents.\nCAST: Court Benson (Mr. Horrocks), Felicia Farr (Sarah Horrocks),\nKevin McCarthy (John Roth).\nCONFESSION\n[SHORT-STORY]\nStory by Algernon Blackwood…",
  "chronology": "SHORT STORY (NATIONAL PROGRAMME)\n[Saturday—8:15-8:30 PM]\nJune 27, 1936\n“King’s Evidence”\nPERSONNEL: Algernon Blackwood (storyteller).\n(HOME SERVICE)\n[Tuesday—6:45-7:05 PM]\nDecember 24, 1940\n“King’s Evidence”\nPERSONNEL: Algernon Blackwood (storyteller).\nMYSTERY AND IMAGINATION (HOME SERVICE, LONDON)\n[Thursday—9:30-10:00 PM]\nJanuary 17, 1946\n“Confession”\nPERSONNEL:\nGraham\nDoody\n(narrator),\nWilfrid\nGrantham\n(producer), Robert G. Newton (scriptwriter).\nCAST: Robert Beattie (James O’Reilly), Howieson Culff (A Doctor),\nHilda Davies, Victor Fairley, Freda Falconer, Cyril Gardiner (Dr. Henry),\nStanley Groome, Mary Kenton (A Woman), Eric Lugg, Frank Partington,\nMolly Rankin (Nancy), Eddy Reed, Gladys Spencer.\nESCAPE (KNX, HOLLYWOOD—EAST COAST TRANSMISSION)\n[Wednesday—10:30-11:00 PM]\nDecember 31, 1947\n“Confession”\n[EXTANT\nRECORDING]\nPERSONNEL: John Dunkel (scriptwriter), William N. Robson\n(producer-director).\nCAST: William Conrad, Ramsay Hill, Peggy Webber.\nESCAPE (KNX, HOLLYWOOD—WEST COAST TRANSMISSION)\n[\nJanuary ??, 1948\n“Confession”\n[EXTANT\nRECORDING]\n(OVERSEAS PROGRAMME—ARABIC SERVICE)\n[Thursday—4:15-4:30 PM]\nDecember 26, 1974\n“King’s Evidence”\nPERSONNEL: Mr. Masri (reader).\nTHE CBS RADIO MYSTERY THEATER (WRVR, NEW YORK)\n[???day—10:07-11:00 PM]\nAugust 17, 1977\n“In the Fog”\n[“…Captain Terry O’Reilly is told by his doctor that he is well enough to\nvisit some friends on Boston’s Beacon Hill. Emerging from the subway,\nO’Reilly walks into a dense fog and meets a strange, beautiful woman.\nTogether they grope their way to Beacon Hill. She enters a house, and\nwhen O’Reilly hears a scream he follows her in, only to find her lying on a\nbed, stabbed to death. He rushes away in a panic, leaving his hat in the\nbedroom…”]\nPERSONNEL: Himan Brown (producer-directoR), Roy Winsor\n(scriptwriter).\nCAST: Gordon Gould (Captain O’Reilly), Martha Greenhouse (May\nCollard), William Griffis (Jeff Collard), Ian Martin (Dr. Henry).",
  "sources": "PERIODICALS: New York Sun, Brooklyn Times Union, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Brooklyn Daily\nEagle, New York Herald Tribune, Newark Evening News, New York World Telegram, New York\nEvening Post, San Francisco Examiner.\nCOME BECK’NING GHOST\n[RADIO-SPECIAL]\n“A feature on the classic British ghost story with contributions from practitioners of the genre.\nIncludes extracts from various ghost stories read by Joss Ackland and Avril Clark, and a recording\nof Dame Margaret Rutherford reading “The Listeners” by Walter de la Mare.” An installment of\nthe Kaleidoscope series.\nIncluded were extracts from works by Kingsley Amis, Susan Hill, Henry James, Walter de la\nMare, M. R. James, Edward Lucas White, Clive Barker, Sheridan Le Fanu, and Robert Aickman.\n[Program information]",
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}