{
  "title": "THE CROOKED HOUSE",
  "category": "[RADIO-SERIAL]",
  "article": "[from Broadcasting, March 15, 1937: “...the Chairman of the Board of Radio Events, Inc., Georgia\nBackus, one of the keenest minds in radio, watches over its Editorial Department.”\n“The Script Library...pays tribute to Tom Devore who in order to convince the sales staff of WBNS\nof the possibilities of The Crooked House, made himself up like a corpse, doused the lights in the\nstudio, and as the program started with the announcement, “I am Alfred Drummond, dead for\neighteen years”, had a baby spot light hit his face to bring an added touch of startling realism to as\nchilling a radio program as ever serialized.”\nCarlton Morse was in the vanguard of the mystery serial genre that blossomed in 1930, and no\none else brought as macabre a tone to the genre as he did.\n[Press release] “The Cross-Eyed Parrot has been performed by stock companies in all parts of\nthe United States. Maxwell himself appeared in the juvenile lead with his own company in\nOakland. He wrote the play about eight years ago. Carlton E. Morse is writing the radio\nadaptation in ten episodes.”\n[K. L. Ecksan, Oakland Tribune] “’The Cross-Eyed Parrot’ has got us all cross-eyed trying to\nkeep one eye on the present and the other on the future, in an effort to see what the villain is up to\nnow, and to figure out what he’s going to do next.”\n“Presented over the air for the first time last summer, the serial created a sensation with NBC\naudiences and was the forerunner of a series of mystery plays which have been written by Morse\nduring the past year.”\n[Program information]",
  "origination": "WABC, New York City, New York (CBS).",
  "duration": "????, 1932.",
  "personnel": "Nigel Bryant (director), Sally Hedges (scriptwriter).\nCASTS: Adjoa Andoh, Sandra Berkin, Carolyn Backhouse, Janet Dale, Stella Gonet, Kathryn\nHunt, Michael Lumsden, Peter Meakin, Mary Jo Randle, Elizabeth Spriggs, Angela Thorne, Kim\nWall.",
  "extant_recordings": "None.\n[Program log]\nENO CRIME CLUB (WABC, NEW YORK)\n[\n???? ??, 1932\n“The Curse of the Reckaviles” [PART 1]\n[\n???? ??, 1932\n“The Curse of the Reckaviles” [PART 2]\nThis document was created with the Win2PDF “Print to PDF” printer available at\nhttps://www.win2pdf.com\nThis version of Win2PDF 10 is for evaluation and non-commercial use only.\nVisit https://www.win2pdf.com/trial/ for a 30 day trial license.\nThis page will not be added after purchasing Win2PDF.\nhttps://www.win2pdf.com/purchase/",
  "chronology": "",
  "sources": "",
  "gallery": "",
  "images": []
}