THE CONJURE DRUM
[RADIO-SCRIPT]
An original script written for Sir Cedric Hardwicke and his wife on their appearance on Rudy
Vallee’s program…
Through a long and distinguished career in the theater (he was George Bernard Shaw’s fifth
favorite actor—after the four Marx Brothers) and the cinema, Sir Cedric was not particularly
associated with the mystery or horror genres, but is remembered by aficionados for his roles in
two Universal films—as the villainous ??????? ??????? in The Invisible Man Returns (1940) and
as Ludwig, the “other son of Frankenstein,” in Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)—as well as the
solicitor Broughton in The Ghoul (1933) and the narrative voice of The Picture of Dorian Gray
(1945) and The War of the Worlds (1953). On the radio he appeared in several Inner Sanctum
broadcasts.
[Program information]
ORIGINATION: WEAF, New York City, New York (NBC-RED).
DURATION: April 22, 1937.
PERSONNEL: Rudy Vallee (host).
CAST: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Lady Hardwicke, et al.
EXTANT RECORDINGS: “The Conjure Drum” (The Royal Gelatin Program, 4/22/37).
[Program log]
THE ROYAL GELATIN HOUR (WEAF, NEW YORK)
[Thursday—
April 22, 1937 “The Conjure Drum”