THE SILVER FLUTE
[RADIO-SERIES]
Early NBC fantasy series…
THE SILVER FLUTE (WJZ, NEW YORK—NBC BLUE)
[Saturday—8:30-9:00 PM]
April 19, 1930
[ROCHESTER DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE: “…The Silver Flute
episode…tonight will tell how Marco saves a youth ordered from home by
an unjust uncle. Marco tells the tale of two brothers who are the great
iron masters of a valley. The wealth of the mines keeps alive a seemingly
endless river of food, drink, and merriment. Through treachery relatives
sell guns to the enemy and suceed [sic] in having the flame fall upon the
brothers. The great mines are confiscated, and hunted and starved, the
brothers take refuge in the mountains…”]
SOME MUST WATCH/THE SPIRAL STAIRCASE
[NOVEL; MOTION-PICTURE]
THE HELEN HAYES THEATER (CBS)
[Sunday—
May 4, 1941 “Some Must Watch”
[MILWAUKEE SENTINEL: “…Helen Hayes is starred as Helen Kapel in a
radio adaptation of Ethel Lina White’s new psychological horror novel,
‘Some Must Watch,’ in the famous actress’ own radio theater…”]
[YOUNGSTOWN VINDICATOR: “…It is all about a homicidal maniac who
had been murdering young girls in the Maine woods…”]