THE KEY NOTE
[STAGE-PLAY]
Another mystery extravaganza by husband-wife team Ted and Virginia Maxwell, who were
responsible for the horror-farce The Cross-Eyed Parrot, which Carlton Morse used as the basis
for his first radio mystery serial.
[Border Cities Star, October 21, 1931] “The story evolves briefly around Brandon Annixter, a
power in the financial world, who will stop at nothing to gain his desires… Mignon Stanley [is] an
unwilling tool of Annixter… Two Arabians enter into the story, Khalid and Ali, devotees of the
occult, who introduce mysterious tappings and spirit voices into the scenes… Ivy Daniels, ward of
Annixter, around whom romance settles in the form of Preston Enderly, an aspiring young
lawyer… Some snappy dialogue and rare comedy are thrown in by…Hepworth Fairweather, a
wealthy friend of Annixter, to whom Aggie Gwendolyn Jenkins (of uncertain age) has taken a
fancy…”
THE KLX PLAYERS (KLX, OAKLAND)
[Friday—8:00-9:30 PM]
August 19, 1927 “The Key Note”
[OAKLAND TRIBUNE: “…ACT I. Evening. Home of Brandon Annixter, San
Francisco, California. ACT II. After midnight. Same setting. ACT III.
Dawn. Same setting…”]
CAST: Violette Bristow (Aggie Gwendolyn Jenkins), Everett Gordon (Ali, Prince
of Hashim), Rudolph Koslich (Khalid, Sword of God), Carlisle Partridge (Brandon
Annixter), Harriet Romayne (Ivy Daniels), Wilfred Smith (Preston Enderly),
Adelaide Whittaker (Mignon Stanley), Frank Young (Hepworth Fairweather).