CHLOE
[MOTION-PICTURE]
“During its day on the NBC Southeastern Revue, WSUN, St. Petersburg, Fla., scored what it calls a
‘scoop’ in broadcasting several scenes from ‘Chloe,’ a film being made on location in a suburb of
St. Petersburg by a Hollywood company headed by Marshall Nielan, directing Olive Borden,
Molly O’Dea and others.” [Broadcasting, June 15, 1933]
Around this time Georgette Harvey was getting typecast in this sort of role. In the 1931
Broadway play Savage Rhythm (co-authored by Norman Foster) she played one of a group of
conjur-women who gather together to call back a dead woman’s soul from the beyond so that she
can identify her killer. And she was at it again in 1934’s Dance With Your Gods, a dark
melodrama set in superstition-ridden New Orleans and featuring in supporting roles Rex Ingram
and a very young Lena Horne. Harvey was cast as old Mother Bouche, a legendary sorceress who,
it was claimed, “has the power to put a voodoo curse on practically anybody.” During a tense
scene in a house in the swamps she works her magic, transferring the soul of a recently executed
murderer into the body of a living being, a young white woman who will be forced to commit acts
of evil.
[CHRONOLOGY]
SOUTHEASTERN REVUE—“CHLOE” (WSUN, ST. PETERSBURG—NBC-BLUE)
[Thursday—3:30-4:00 PM]
May 25, 1933 “Chloe”
[ST. PETERSBURG TIMES: “…There will be a five-minute skit from the
motion picture ‘Chloe’ being made on Weedon’s Island… George
Henninger, WSUN music director, will direct a 20-piece orchestra
featuring ‘Chloe’ music…”]
PERSONNEL: Carl Fritz (announcer), George Henninger (music director), Louis
J. Link (announcer), Marshall Neilan (guest speaker).
CAST: Olive Borden (Chloe), Jess Cavin (Hill), Georgette Harvey (Old Mandy),
Reed Howes (Wade Carson), Richard Huey (Ben), Frank Joyner (Colonel
Gordon), Philip Ober (Jim), Molly O’Day (Joyce), Gus Smith (Mose).
CHRISTABEL
[NARRATIVE POEM]
Readings of the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge…
[CHRONOLOGY]
(THIRD PROGRAMME, LONDON—BBC)
[Monday—11:00-11:35 PM]
July 4, 1949 “Christabel”
[Sunday—10:05-10:40 PM]
July 10, 1949 “Christabel”
[RADIO TIMES: “…Read by Rachel Gurney… Production by Frank
Hauser… (The recorded broadcast of July 4)… (Rachel Gurney is
appearing at the Westminster Theatre, London, in the play ‘Black
Chiffon’)…”]
[Saturday—9:45-10:20 PM]
February 20, 1960 “Christabel”
[THE TIMES: “…Reading of Coleridge’s ‘Christabel’…”]