THE DEVIL AND TOM WALKER

[SHORT-STORY]

Story by Washington Irving…

PERSONNEL:

Gordon Burwash (scriptwriter—1939,Winnipeg Drama), Norman Corwin

(scriptwriter—1940,The Pursuit ofHappiness).

CAST [1940,The Pursuit of Happiness]: Richard Bennett, Whitford Kane.

EXTANT RECORDINGS

: “The Devil and Tom Walker” (The Pursuit of Happiness, 1/28/40).

[Program log]

THE WITCH’S TALE (WOR, NEW YORK)

[Monday—9:30-10:00 PM]

October 26, 1931“The Devil and Tom Walker”

[Friday—9:00-9:30 PM]

September 21, 1934“The Devil and Tom Walker”

THE WITCH’S TALE (KHJ, LOS ANGELES)

[Friday—9:00-9:30 PM]

February 15, 1935“The Devil and Tom Walker”

[“…Boston before the Revolutionary war is the setting. In the cast will be

True Boardman as Tom Walker, Martha Wentworth as Lizzie, his wife,

Lindsay MacHarrie as Old Nick himself and Frank Nelson as Dolph…”]

(WLBL, STEVENS POINT)

[Friday—2:00-2:30 PM]

June 2, 1939“The Devil and Tom Walker”

[“…Short story feature…”]

WINNIPEG DRAMA (CBK, WINNIPEG)

[Monday—10:30-11:00 PM]

November 20, 1939“The Devil and Tom Walker”

[“…A man who robs a chest of gold coins is haunted by the Devil and

after a long and mean life his soul is finally taken and he vanishes…”

(CCBS Bibliography)]

THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS (WABC, NEW YORK)

[Sunday—4:30-5:00 PM]

January 28, 1940“The Devil and Tom Walker”

EXTANT RECORDING

EXPERIMENT IN DRAMA (CKRC, WINNIPEG)

[Friday—8:30-9:00 PM]

September 18, 1953“The Devil and Tom Walker”