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The Columbia Experimental Dramatic Laboratory - Season One Radio Program Log
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Avail. |
Notes |
30-12-26 |
1
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Behind the Words |
N
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[ Premiere of Columbia Experimental Laboratory; Season 1]
30-12-22 Cumberland Evening Times
Three experimental plays, arranged to determine just what can be done with drama on the air, are billed for WABC and stations within the next several weeks. The first at 10:30 p.m. (EST) December 26, is to be the previously announced "Behind the Words," which will consist of asides in addition to the regular lines. It will be followed on at 10 p.m., December 29 with "Evidences," a mystery play, and at 10 p.m. January 7, with "The Threshold." a psychological play.
30-12-26 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
860K.---WABC---349M.
10:30--Behind the Words. A Drama of Thoughts, an experiment in Radio Drama, directed by Georgia Backus.
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30-12-29 |
2
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Evidences |
N
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30-12-29 The Brooklyn Daily Eagle
860K.---WABC---349M.
10:30--Evidences. A Psychological Play written and directed by Georgia Backus.
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31-01-07 |
3
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The Threshold |
N
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31-01-07 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Fast Freight
31-01-07 The Marion Star
"The Threshold." third of a series of experimental dramas sponsored by the Columbia Broadcasting System will be presented Wednesday from 10 to 10:30 p.m. The cast includes Larry Grattan, Frank Readick and Georgia Backus.
31-01-07 New York Times - WABC 10:00--The Threshold--Play
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31-01-14 |
4
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Doctor By Compulsion |
N
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31-01-14 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--"Doctor by Compulsion," a play.
31-01-14 Charleston Gazette
WABC New York (CBS Chain) 10:00--Doctor by Compulsion.
31-01-18 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Airy Chats
By BILL SCHUDT JR.
A windowless room 20x20, four chairs, a grand piano, two microphones, six people, three huddled around each microphone. The scene is radio's latest achievement, Columbia's experimental laboratory for radio plays. Perhaps you've heard the announcer say on Wednesday nights at 10 that another experimental play will now be broadcast. Perhaps not. During the next six months every conceivable type of drama will be unfolded and enacted before these two microphones by an able cast under the personal direction of Georgia Backus, Columbia's chief of dramatics. Just as certain types of drama are best fitted for motion picture work, so, believes Miss Backus, should there be an individual type of drama for radio. Her ultimate goal is to determine it.
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31-01-21 |
5
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Crescendo |
N
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31-01-21 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Crescendo
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31-01-28 |
6
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Murder In the Studio |
N
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31-01-28 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Murder In the Studio.
31-01-28 Mason City Globe-Gazette
"Murder in the Studio," another of the experimental radio plays on WABC and hookup at 10.
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31-02-04 |
7
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An Untold Tale |
N
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31-02-04 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--An Untold Tale.
31-02-04 Rhinelander Daily News - "An Untold Tale" presented with "apologies to Charles Dickens" will be heard at 9 p.m., over CBS stations.
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31-02-11 |
8
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Medicine Show |
N
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31-02-11 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Medicine Show.
31-02-11 Edwardsville Intelligencer - CBS (KMOX)--9 Columbia Experimental Laboratory, Medicine Show.
31-02-11 Daily Star
The first "Medicine Show," a reproduction of an old time wagon show, will be heard over WABC from 10 to 10:30 tonight. This program, a presentation of the Columbia Experimental Laboratory, has been adopted for the radio by Dave Elman and represents something new in radio dramatic material and microphone technique. Elman and Dale Wimbrow, assisten by Billy Dauscha, Martin Malloy, Frank Readick, Fred Hall and a group of "hillbilly" singers, will put on the show, which includes the sales talk, a wedding for the prize-winners and the usual minstrel finish.
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31-02-18 |
9
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Split Seconds |
N
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31-02-18 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Experimental Laboratory
31-02-18 Daily Star
"Split Seconds" is the title of the play to be presented tonight by the Columbia Experimental Laboratory over WABC at 10 o'clock tonight. This is one of two plays developed for experimentation with new microphone techniqes. It was written by Irving Reis, a member of the Columbia Engineering Staff and revolves about the psychological reaction of the human mind in danger.
31-02-18 New York Times
WABC 10:00--SKetch--Split Seconds.
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31-02-25 |
10
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I Put Away Childish Things. |
N
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31-02-25 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Columbia Experimental Laboratory.
31-02-25 Alton Evening Telegraph
WABC 9, Experimental Drama.
31-02-25 New York Times - WABC 10:00--Sketch--I Put Away Childish Things.
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31-03-04 |
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Pre-Empted |
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31-03-04 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Address by Prof. Albert Einstein, from the American-Palestine Foundation Dinner.
31-03-04 New York Times
WABC 10:00-- American Palestine Campaign Dinner, Hotel Astor; Speakers, Prof. Albert Einstein, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, Felix M. Warburg and Others
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31-03-11 |
11
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Death On the Fate Line |
N
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31-03-11 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Experimental Laboratory
31-03-11 New York Times - WABC 10:00--Sketch--Death on the Fate Line.
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31-03-18 |
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31-03-25 New York Times
WABC 10:00--Vitality Orchestra: Bella Baker, songs: Male Quartet
31-03-18 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Talk on First Aid. |
31-03-25 |
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31-03-25 Washington Post
WMAL 10:00 p.m.--Personalities
31-03-25 New York Times - WABC 10:00--Vitality Orchestra: Bella Baker, songs: Male Quartet
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The Columbia Experimental Dramatic Laboratory - Season Two Radio Program Log
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Avail. |
Notes |
32-06-05 |
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32-06-04 Binghamton Press
Stockton Tale
Will Go on Air
in Experiment
"Lady or the Tiger" to Be
Broadcast in Effort to
Develop Technique
New York, June 4--(Associated Press)--Radio drama isn't all it can be made, broadcasters believe.
So WABC-CBS is going to revive its experimental dramatic laboratory series of a year ago.
Under the guidance of Don Clark, continuity chief, an effort will be made to ferret out new technique looking toward an increase in realism.
The first play is to be an adaptation of Frank R. Stockton's story, "The Lady or the Tiger," a week from Sunday night.
32-06-05 New York Times
WABC 8:00--William Vincent Hall, Baritone; Women's Trio; Rich's Orch.
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32-06-12 |
1
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The Lady Or the Tiger |
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[ Premiere of Columbia Experimental Laboratory; Season 2]
32-06-11 Joplin News Herald Sunday's Program. WABC-CBS--6--Opening of experimental dramatic series.
32-06-12 Sandusky Register - The experimental dramatic series in which new types of microphone productions are tried out is to be revived on WABC-CBS at 7 with "The Lady Or the Tiger" as the play.
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32-06-19 |
2
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A Night In An Elevator |
N
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32-06-19 New York Times
The second in the WABC-CBS experimental dramas at 7 is to be "A Night in an Elevator."
32-06-18 Lowell Sun
Sunday Programs - 8:00 p.m.--Columbia Experimental Dramatic Laboratory. WABC-CBS 8--Experimental drama, "Night In An Elevator."
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32-06-26 |
3
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Romeo and Juliet |
N
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32-06-26 Indiana Evening Gazette
7:00 P.M. WJAS, Columbia Experimental Dramatic Laboratory.
32-06-26 New York Times
8:00--Experimental Dramatic Laboratory--Romeo and Juliet.
32-06-26 Brooklyn Eagle
'Romeo and Juliet' In Modern Setting
Will Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet," in a modern paraphrase, depicting what might have happened had the couple loved and lived in 1932, will be offered over WABC tonight from 8 to 8:30 p.m.
How Modern youth, bold and without inhibitions, would meet the situation that confronted the son and daughter of the feuding Monagues and Capulets will be depicted by Nila Mack, Columbia actress-writer, and produced by Don Clark, continuity chief.
Miss Mack ahs indicated she does not believe the modern girl would take an overdose of sleeping powder merely becuase of prospective in-laws. Nor does she admit that today's youth would summarily do away with himself at the sight of a sleeping beauty without first calling the coroner.
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32-07-03 |
4
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Title Unknown |
N
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32-07-03 New York Times
WABC 10:30--Dramatic Sketch
32-07-03 Brooklyn Eagles
WABC 10:30--Dramatic Laboratory
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32-07-10 |
5
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1986 A.D. |
N
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32-07-09 Lowell Sun
What Sunday offers: WABC-CBS 10:30, experimental drama, "1986 AD."
32-07-10 Lima News
The WABC-CBS experimental drama is to be "1986 A.D." at 9:30.
32-07-09 The Evening Review
Realism will mark another in the series of WABC-CBS dramatic experiments. A week from Sunday, the actors will be taken to the lobby and grill of a Broadway hotel to present probably the first microphone "on-location" show in three scenes. The play is entitled "Transient." The new lapel microphones are to be used for the pickup, including natural sound effects.
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32-07-17 |
6
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Transient |
N
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32-07-16 New York Times WABC 10:30--Dramatic Sketch--Transient |
32-07-24 |
7
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Death Says It Isn't So |
N
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32-07-24 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
"Death Says It Isn't So," Heywood Broun's magnificent fantasy produced by the Columbia Dramatic Laboratory at 10:30 p.m. over WABC.
32-07-24 New York Times
WABC 10:30--Dramatic Sketch--Death Says It Isn't So
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32-07-31 |
8
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The Biography Of A Book |
N
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32-07-31 New York Times
WABC 10:30--German Election Returns--F.W. Wile; 10:45--Gauchos Orch.; Tito Guizar, Tenor; 11:00--The Biography of a Book--Sketch
32-07-31 Washington Post
10:00 p.m.--Dramatic Laboratory.
32-07-31 San Antonio Light
Still lingering in the mind of ye radio editor are the two fantasies by Heywood Broun that were presented in a masterly manner by Columbia's dramatic laboratory the past Sunday evening. It has been a long, long time since, we have heard a program as effective as that of the past Sunday.
This series of dramatic sketches one of which is to be heard over KTSA at 9 o'clock this evening, is produced by Columbia for experimental purposes. The network is seeklng to develop the full possibilties of radio for dramatic expresslon. Recently Columbia presented a skit from tlie lobby of the New York hotel.
32-07-31 Hutchinson News
SUNDAY, July 31
8:30 p. m.Walton Butterfield,
'The Biography of a Book," WIBW, KMOX.
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32-08-07 |
9
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Metro |
N
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32-08-07 New York Times
WABC 10:30--Dramatic Sketch--Metro
32-08-07 Zanesville Signal
COLUMBIA CHAIN
9:30 P. M.--Columbia Dramatic Laboratory
32-08-05 Brookyn Daily Eagle
"Metro," a series of six modernistic playlets depicting flashes of life in a great city, will be offered by the Columbia Dramatic Laboratory this Sunday at 10:30 p.m.
32-08-07 San Antonio Light
The Columbia dramatic laboratory sketch will return'to its former hour of 8:30 o'clock on KTSA this evening. It is our opinion these experiments in utilizing the peculiar advantages of radio for dramatic purposes can be classed as highly successful-thus far.
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32-08-14 |
10
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Metro |
N
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32-08-14 New York Times
WABC 10:30--Dramatic Sketch--Metro
32-08-14 Zanesville Signal
COLUMBIA CHAIN
9:30 P. M.--Columbia Dramatic Laboratory
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32-08-21 |
11
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Four To Seven |
N
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32-08-21 New York Times
WABC 10:30--Dramatic Sketch--Four to Seven |
32-08-28 |
12
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News |
N
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32-08-27 Freeport Journal-Standard
The vital part newspapers play in the every-day life of readers will be dramatized in a half-hour playlet entitled "News," written and directed by Don Clark for presentation by the Columbia Dramatic laboratory over KMOX at 6.
32-08-28 New York Times
WABC 8:00--Dramatic Sketch--News |
32-09-04 |
13
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Tent Show |
N
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32-09-04 New York Times
WABC 9:00--Dramatic Sketch--Tent Show |
32-09-11 |
14
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Class Of 1912 |
N
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32-09-11 New York Times
WABC 9:00--Dramatic Sketch--Class of 1912 |
32-09-18 |
15
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The Inanimate Percy and Susie |
N
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32-09-17 Freeport Journal-Standard
A young playwright who believes that inanimate objects play important roles in human lives--such as the carpet one stumbles over and the brick that falls on heads--will introduce a new idea in radio drama when his sketch concerning "The Inanimate Percy and Susie" is presented by the Columbia Dramatic laboratory over KMOX at 7.
32-09-18 New York Times
WABC 9:00--The Inanimate Percy and Susie--Sketch |
32-09-25 |
16
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Sound Proof |
N
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32-09-25 New York Times
WABC 9:00--Dramatic Sketch--Sound Proof |
32-10-02 |
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Pre-Empted |
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32-10-02 New York Times
WABC 9:00--Dedication of New WCAU 50,000-Watt Transmitter; Speakers, Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Colonel Thad Brown, Federal Radio Comissioner, and Others; Mucis by Kate Smith, Morton Downey, Four Mills Brothers, and Others |
32-10-09 |
17
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Squirrel Cage |
N
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32-10-08 Freeport Journal-Standard
"Squirrel Cage," an unusual bit of English drama concerning a man who abides by all the "dont's" of life, will be presented by the Columbia Dramatic laboratory over KMOX at 8.
32-10-09 New York Times
WABC 9:00--Dramatic Sketch--Squirrel Cage
32-10-09 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
Dramatic Laboratory To Give English Play--"Squirrel Cage," an unusual bit of English concerning a man who abides by all the "don'ts" of life, will be presented by the Columbia Dramatic Laboratory over WABC tonight from 9 to 9:30 p.m. The playlet is an impressionistic sketch written especially for the microphone by Tyrone Guthrie, one of the most successful radio playwrights of Great Britain. It originally was produced by the the British Broadcasting Company and is being introduced in the C.B.S. experimental series by Don Clark, director, because of its novel form. The scenes shift with interludes of speaking choruses, giving voice to the progressive "don'ts." They begin with those of the nursery, such as "Don't taste that' don't touch that; don't do that." In the end the man turns out to be a most conventional being.
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32-10-16 |
18
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Title Unknown |
N
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32-10-16 New York Times
WABC 9:00--Dramatic Sketch
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32-10-23 |
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32-10-23 New York Times
WABC 9:00--Katzman Orch.; Fred Allen, Comedian; Queenie Smith, Songs; Sheila Barrett, Impersonator; Roy Roy Atwell; Helen Morgan, Songs, and Others
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The Columbia Workshop Radio Program Log
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Avail. |
Notes |
36-07-18 |
1
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'A Comedy of Danger' and 'The Finger of God'
A Comedy Of Danger - Dance Below |
Y
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[Series 1 Debuts]
36-07-18 Sheboygan Journal
A new series of radio dramas to be broadcast under the general title of "Columbia Workshop", in which Irving Reis will be given an opportunity to attempt anything new and unusual in voice and sound effect, will be broadcast over CBS network beginning Saturday, July 18. The "Workshop" series will consist of half-hour presentations on Saturdays from 6:30 to 7:00 p.m. Reis, as producer, will be given a free hand and all new talent and tools he may require. The first drama to be offered under the Reis system will be "A Comedy of Danger", a harrowing tale of workers trapped in a rapidly flooding Mine. As the story begins, the miners' voices echo and re-echo through the vast tunneling system of the mine, but as the water creps up and they resound less and less until the muffling of sound fortells their doom. This will occupy the first half of the program. The second half of the broadcast period will be given over to the one-act play "Dance Below", in which the actors wil give their lines and move about the studio just as they would if it were being acted on the stage.
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36-07-25 |
2
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Broadway Evening |
Y
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36-07-25 Syracuse Herald
A Dramatic production without a plot, entitled "Broadway Evening," during which listeners will be given a voice and sound impression of a stroll along the famous thoroughfare, will be given as the second in the experimental series, "Columbia Workshop," over CBS-WFBL at 7:30.
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36-08-01 |
3
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Cartwheel |
Y
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36-08-01 Syracuse Herald
"Columbia Workshop," over CBS-WFBL at 7:30.
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36-08-08 |
4
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'Experiment' & 'Highway Incident' |
Y
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36-08-08 Syracuse Herald
"Columbia Workshop," over CBS-WFBL at 7:30.
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36-08-15 |
5
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Case History |
Y
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36-08-15 Syracuse Herald
"Columbia Workshop," over CBS-WFBL at 7:30.
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36-08-22 |
6
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'March of The Molecules' and 'There Must Be Something Else' |
Y
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[Announces itself as the 5th in the series]
36-08-22 - Syracuse Herald
"There Must Be Something Else," a one-act psychological play dealing with the thwarted art ambitions of a successful business man, together with a talk on radio technique by Dr. O'H. Caldwell, will be presented in the "Columbia Workshop" program over CBS-WFBL at 7:30.
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36-08-29 |
7
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1986 A.D. |
N
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36-08-29 - Syracuse Herald
A Fantasy of the future, titled "1985 A.D.," will be presented by the Columbia Workshop players over CBS-WFBL at 7:30.
36-08-29 New York Times
8:30-WABC--1986 A. D.--Sketch
36-08-29 San Antonio Light
A, fantasy of the future, "1986 A. D.", will be the Columbia. Workshops
presentation (KTSA-6:30).
36-08-29 Benton Harbor News-Palladium - WABC-CBS--7:30 Columbia Workshop presents "1986 A.D."
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36-09-05 |
8
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The San Quentin Broadcast [of Jan. 16, 1935] |
Y
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[Announces itself as the 7th in the series]
36-09-05 Sheboygan Journal
6:30 Columbia Workhop -- dramatization of San Quentin jail break, WBBM. |
36-09-12 |
9
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A Voyage To Brobdingnag |
Y
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[Announces itself as the 8th in the series]
36-09-12 Syracuse Herald
A dramatization of a portion of "Gulliver's Travels," entitled "A Voyage to Brobdingnag," will be presented in the Columbia Workshop program over CBS-WSBL at 7:30. |
36-09-19 |
10
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Hamlet Acts 1 and 2 |
Y
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[Announces itself as the 8th in the series]
36-09-19 Wisconsin State Journal
Columbia Workshop will offer a condensed version of "Hamlet" through WBBM.
36-09-19 Arcadia Tribune - At 4:30, Columbia workshop--the experimental program that seems to be good--and loud--presents a condensed version of "Hamlet," with KHJ releasing the broadcast.
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36-09-26 |
11
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The Dream Maker and The Sound Microscope |
Y
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[Announced as 9th program]
36-09-25 Harrisburg Telegraph
NOISE VS. NERVES Demonstrations of a variety of noises and their effects on the nervous systems of human beings will be made during the broadcast of "Columbia Workshop," radio experimental series, over the WABC Columbia network Saturday from 7:30 to 8 p.m. Both mechanical and electric sound creating devices will be used.
36-09-26 Freeport Journal-Standard
Ghosts are in for a bit of debunking. A weird variety of perfectly natural sounds which human imagination often ascribes to unearthly sources will be demonstrated and explained to the audience during the Columbia Workshop program on WBBM at 6:30. The demonstration will be given after the presentation of a 15-minute fantasy entitled "The Dream Makers" and concerning nightmares.
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36-10-03 |
12
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St Louis Blues |
N
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[Moves to 8:00 p.m.]
36-10-02 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
When the Columbia Workshop presents "St. Louis Blues" tomorrow night on WABC it will be the fifth time on the air for this drama which first came along in 1932. One of these was a condensed version in the Rudy Vallee hour on NBC.
36-10-03 Lowell Sun
8:00--St. Louis Blues by Columbia Workshop, dramatization, direction of Irving Reis.
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36-10-10 |
13
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'Imperfect Reception' & 'The Remedy' |
N
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36-10-09 Winnipeg Free Press
Saturday P.M. 7:00--Columbia Workshop--"Imperfect Reception" and "The Remedy," WHAS, CFRB, CKAC.
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36-10-17 |
14
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Dauber |
Y
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36-10-16 Harrisburg Telegraph
David Ross, announcer-poet-author, will be featured on the "Columbia Workshope" broadcast in the radio version of John Masefield's poem, "Dauber," a poetic narrative of an artist who went to sea. Where the original lines best convey the story they will be ready by the radio-poet, however other parts will be presented in a manner, new to radio drama. Original background music has been especially composed for the broadcast. This program was first scheduled for October 10th, but will be heard tomorrow, Saturday, October 17, at 8:00 p.m., through WHP and the Columbia network.
36-10-17 Evening Gazette
8:00--Columbia Workshop under Direction of Irving Reis.
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36-10-24 |
15
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Letting the Cat Out Of the Bag |
N
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[15-Min program]
36-10-24 Syracuse Herald
8:00WFBL-- Columbia Workshop.
8:15WFBL-- "Roosevelt Progress."
36-10-24 Chicago Daily Tribune
7:00--W-G-N--Broadcast of a transcription of Senator Vandenberg's debate with President Roosevelt's voice of 1932.
36-10-24 Washington Post
8:00 Columbia Workshop; 8:15 Dem. Speaker.
36-10-24 New York Times
8:15-8:30P.M."Roosevelt Progress," M. W. Thatcher of Farmers' National
Grain Corporation--WABC
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36-10-31 |
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Pre-empted |
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[Pre-empted for political speeches and rallies]
36-10-31 New York Times
8-10:30 P.M.--President Roosevelt, Governor Lehman and Others. Democratic Rally. Madison Square Garden--WHN (8-9): (9-10:30--WOR): (9:30-10:30--WEAF, WABC).
36-10-31 New York Times
8:00-8:30 P. M.--Colonel Frank Knox, Republican Vice Presidential Nominee, at Chicago--WABC
36-10-31 Hamilton Daily News Journal
KWRC 8:00--Columbia Workshop.
36-10-31 Piqua Daily Call
CBS WABC 8:00 Columbia Workshop.
36-10-31 Washington Post
WJSV 8:00 Col. Frank Knox.
36-10-31 Harrisburg Telegraph
BEVERLY YOUNGER, Texas actress, who will make her New York dramatic debut on a future program of the "Columbia Workshop," the weekly experimental broadcast of CBS through WHP Saturdays, at 8:00 o'clock. Miss Younger, who has played stock in various parts of the country, has been added as a regular member of the "Workshop" troupe.
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36-11-07 |
16
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Music For Radio |
Y
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36-11-07 Syracuse Herald
A review of important changes brought about by radio in modern orchestration and in methods of employing musical instruments will be presented on the Columbia Workshop program over CBS-WFBL at 8 o'clock. |
36-11-14 |
17
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Hamlet Acts 3 thru 5 |
Y
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[Announces itself as the 15th in the series]
36-11-14 Winnipeg Free Press
Second half of "Hamlet" as a conclusion to the broadcast of the first part on September 19, during the Columbia Workshop broadcast at 7 p.m. (CBS). Orson Welles, 21-year-old Shakespearean actor and authorityh of the WLW staff, who has starred with Jane Cowl and Katharine Cornell, will again be heard in the rold of Hamlet. Further illustration of the intimacy of interpretation not possible in stage productions will be made in the half-hour adaptation.
36-11-14 Harrisburg Telegraph
New ventures into the field of radio technique will be made in novel winter features of the "Columbia Workshop," experimental series heard over WHP each saturday from 8 to 8:30 p.m. The presentations will include a half hour demonstration of radio's influence on music and dramatizations. Tonight's presentation will feature the second half of "Hamlet," as a conclusion to the broadcast of the first part on September 19. Orson Welles, 21-year-old Shakespearean actor and authority, who has starred with Jane Cowl and Katharine Cornell, will again be heard in the role of Hamlet. Further illustration of intimacy of interpretation not possible in state productions will be made in the half hour adaptations.
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36-11-21 |
18
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Electrical Demonstration and 200 Were Chosen
How Acoustical Science Overcomes Obstacles
Use Of Theaters For Broadcasts |
Y
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36-11-21 Washington Post
WJSV 8:00 Columbia Workshop.
36-10-31 New York Times
8:00-8:30 P. M.--Demonstration, How Acoustical Science Overcomes Obstacles, Dr. E. E. Free; Scene From "200 Were Chosen"--WABC
36-11-21 Harrisburg Telegraph
ELECTRICAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK TAKE PART IN WORKSHOP How acoustical science overcomes apparently insurmountable obstacles to assure noiseless broadcasting will be shown in a number of striking demonstrations on the Columbia Workshop program over WHP tonight at 8 o'clock. The second half of the program will be devoted to a scene from a forthcoming Broadway play, "200 Were Chosen," picked up by a revolutionary direction microphone which enables the actors to move about freely on the stage. The entire program will emanate from the stage of the new Columbia Radio Playhouse, formerly the Hammerstein Theater, whre 1100 members of the New York Electrical Society will hold their annual meeting. Dr. E.. E. Free, fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and one of the country's foremost sound experts, will demonstrate how the former legitimate theater was converted into a model broadcasting studio. Listeners will hear a musical selection under conditions which had to be overcome--the rumble of a subway, the rattlingof an elevated train, and the hum of a power house nearby. Then they will hear the same selection as it sounds in the acoustically treated theater. The directional microphone equipment to be employed in picking up the scene from the play, "200 Were Chosen," will be dramatized for the first time in an actual broadcast. An engineer off stage aims the new-type microphone at the actors by means of a peep-sight attachment, picking up their lines clear regardless of their distance from the instrument.
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36-11-28 |
19
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The History of the American Patent System |
Y
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36-11-28 Circleville Herald
Columbia Workshop to air a broadcast in cooperation with the U.S. Patent office at 8 o'clock.
36-11-28 New York Times
8:00 p.m.--WABC--Founding of U. S. Patent Office--Sketch
Announces Rhythm of The Jute Mill as next.
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36-12-05 |
20
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Rhythm Of the Jute Mill |
Y
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36-12-05 New York Times
8 :00-WABC-Rhythm of the Jute Mill--Sketch
36-12-05 Washington Post
8 :00-WJSV-Columbia Workshop
36-12-05 The Sault St Marie Evening News
WABC--8:00-Columbia Workshop
36-12-04 El Paso Herald-Post
Saturday--8:00--Columbia Workshop (CBS) KMOX
36-12-04 Winnipeg Free Press
Saturday 7:00 Columbia Workshop Dramas, "Rhythm of the Jute Mill," WHAS, CFRB.
36-12-04 Circleville Herald
Saturday, "Rhythm of the Jute Mill," by Columbia Workshop at 8 p.m.
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36-12-12 |
21
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The Half-Pint Flask |
N
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36-12-12 Kingston Daily Freeman
WABC-CBS-8- Columbia Workshop
36-12-12 New York Times
8:00--WABC--Dramatic Sketch
36-12-12 Washington Post
8:00--WJSV--Columbia Workshop
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36-12-19 |
22
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The Gods Of the Mountain |
Y
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36-12-19 Washington Post
WJSV 8:00 Columbia Workshop.
36-12-19 New York Times
8:00--WABC--Dramatic Sketch
Announces The Happy Prince as a special holiday presentation
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36-12-26 |
23
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The Happy Prince
Public Domain
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Y
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[Special Christmas Presentation]
36-12-26 Washington Post
WJSV 8:00 Columbia Workshop.
36-12-19 New York Times
8:00--WABC--Dramatic Sketch
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37-01-02 |
24
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Public Domain
The Happy Prince |
Y
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37-01-02 Freeport Journal-Standard
A Christmas fantasy entitled "The Happy Prince" will be presented on the Columbia Workshop program over the WABC-Columbia network at 7:30. The fairy tale by Oscar Wilde has been dramatized for radio presentation by Leopold Proder, radio playwright.
36-12-19 New York Times
8:00--WABC--Dramatic Sketch
37-01-02 Ottawa Journal
8:00--Columbia Worikshop: dramatizations "Public Domain."
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37-01-09 |
25
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Control and Mixing in Radio and 'A Voyage To Lilliput' |
Y
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[Moves to 8:30 p.m.]
37-01-09 Syracuse Herald
8:30 WFBL--Columbia Workshop. |
37-01-16 |
26
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'An Incident of the Cosmos' and Control Engineer Interview Pt 2 |
N
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[An Incident of the Cosmos was first printed in the journal, The Smart Set in 1923]
37-01-16 Syracuse Herald
8:30 WFBL--Columbia Workshop.
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37-01-23 |
27
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The Signalman
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Y
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37-01-23 Sandusky Register
8:30 WJR--Columbia Workshop. |
37-01-30 |
28
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The Evolution of the Negro Spiritual |
N
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37-01-30 Sandusky Register
8:30 WJR--Columbia Workshop. |
37-02-06 |
29
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner |
Y
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37-02-06 Sandusky Register
8:30 WJR--Columbia Workshop. |
37-02-13 |
30
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Pitch and Pitch Perception |
Y
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[Moves back to 8:00 p.m. ; Announced as the 31st in the series of broadcasts]
37-02-06 Lowell Sun
8:00 WEEI--Columbia Workshop.
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37-02-20 |
--
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Macbeth [Did not air] |
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37-02-20 Circleville Herald
"Macbeth" with Orson Welles, 8 p.m. EST, CBS, Columbia Workshop.
37-02-20 New York Times
8:00--WABC--Professor Quiz
37-02-20 New York Times
8:30--WABC--Morgan Orchestra: Phil Duey, Baritone: Mixed Ensemble: Sketch--It Might Have Happened to You: Talk--Major Charles E. Russell
37-02-20 Washington Post
8:00--WJSV--Professor Quiz
37-02-20 Washington Post
8:30--WJSV--Morgan Orchestra
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37-02-28 |
31
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Macbeth |
N
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[Moves to Sundays at 7:00 p.m.]
37-02-27 Sheboygan Journal
8 p.m., WBBM--Columbia Workshop will offer an unusual interpretation of "Macbeth" with Orson Welles playing the leading role. Welles will be supported by a cast of actors well known in Shakespearean stage roles.
37-02-27 Harrisburg Telegraph
Witches Flight
An unusual interpretaton of "Macbeth," with Orson Welles, author of the adaptation and director of the broadcast, playing the leading role, will be presented for the broadcast of the "Columbia Workshop" over WHP and a Columbia network tomorrow from 7.00 to 7.30. Welles will be supported by a cast of actors well known in Shakespearean stage roles. Advance technique in sound backgrounds, characteristic of "Columbia Workshop" productions will be employed, especially in such portions as the witches in flight. Background music, especially written by Benny Herman who has previously composed for the programs, will weave the dramatization together.
37-02-27 New York Times
8:00--WABC--Professor Quiz
37-02-27 New York Times
8:30--WABC--Morgan Orchestra
37-02-27 Washington Post
8:00--WJSV--Professor Quiz
37-02-27 Washington Post
8:30--WJSV--Morgan Orchestra
37-02-28 New York Times
7:00--WABC--Shakespeare's MacBeth, Dramatized
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37-03-07 |
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Pre-Empted |
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37-03-07 San Antonio Light
DEBATE ON COURT PLANS SCHEDULED OVER RADIO
Because of this special broadcast, a week's postponement was announced in the presentation of the first of a series of dramatic programs by the Columbia Workshop at this same hour.
37-03-07 New York Times
7:00'7:30-Debate: "The Supreme Court," Ferdinand Peoora, New York Supreme Coon Jeetire (Affirmative); Raymond Haley, Editor Toddy (Negative)-WABC.
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37-03-14 |
32
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Split Seconds |
Y
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[Series 2 Begins; Moves to Sundays at 7:00 p.m.; Announces itself as the 32nd broadcast]
37-03-14 Sunday Journal and Star
New Workshop Series. Columbia Workshop program opens a new series today over KFAB at 6 p.m. The program today, "Split Seconds" attempts to depict the thoughts of a man facing death.
37-03-14 New York Times
7:00--WABC--Workshop Dramatization
37-03-14 Lincoln Star
New Workshop Series. Columbia Workshop program opens a new series today over KFAB at 6 p.m. The program today, "Split Seconds" attempts to depict the thoughts of a man facing death.
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37-03-21 |
33
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Danse Macabre |
Y
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37-03-21 San Antonio Light
The Columbia Workshop is scheduled to present a dramatic interpretation of SAINT-SAENS' musical fantasy "Danse Macabre" (KTSA--6 p.m.).
37-03-21 New York Times
7:00--WABC--Workshop Dramatizations |
37-03-28 |
34
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Eve Of Saint Agnes |
Y
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37-03-27 New York Times
7:00--WABC--Workshop Dramatizations |
37-04-04 |
35
|
'Big Ben' & 'Crisis' |
Y
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37-04-03 Circleville Herald
Sunday "Eve of St. Agnes," by Keats. 7 p.m. EST, CBS, Columbia Workshop dramatization.
37-04-04 New York Times
7:00--WABC--Workshop Dramatizations
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37-04-11 |
36
|
The Fall Of the City |
Y
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37-04-10 Lincoln Star
6:00 p.m.--Columbia Workshop presents MacLeish's "The Fall of the City"--poetic drama written especially for radio.
37-04-10 Circleville Herald
Sunday "The Fall of the City" by Archibald MacLeish. 7 p.m. EST CBS, Columbia Workshop dramatization.
37-04-11 Washington Post
7:00--WABC--A. MacDonald, Grace Vitality
37-04-11 Chicago Tribune
6:00--WBBM--Columbia Workshop.
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37-04-18 |
37
|
R. U. R. |
Y
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[ Did Not Air. Announces the 36th Program in the series]
37-04-18 Charleston Gazette
7:00 WABC--Columbia Workshop.
37-04-18 New York Times
7:00--WABC--Courteous Colonels--Drama
37-04-18 Washington Post
7:00--WABC--A. MacDonald, Grace Vitality
37-04-18 Chicago Tribune
6:00--WBBM--Courteous Colonels.
Announces St. Louis Blues as next |
37-04-25 |
38
|
Saint Louis Blues |
Y
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37-04-24 Circleville Herald
Sunday "St. Louis Blues." 6 EST, CBS, Columbia Workshop dramatization.
37-04-25 New York Times
7:00--WABC--St Louis Blues--Drama
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37-05-02 |
39
|
Drums of Conscience |
Y
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37-05-02 New York Times
7:00--WABC--Dramatization
37-05-02 Charleston Gazette
7:00 WABC--Columbia Workshop.
37-05-02 Chicago Tribune
6:00--WBBM--Courteous Colonels.
37-05-02 Washington Post
7:00--WABC--Victor Moore, H. Broderick
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37-05-09 |
40
|
Supply and Demand |
Y
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37-05-09 Syracuse Herald - The new drama, "Supply and Demand," written especially for the radio by Irwin Shaw, will be presented by the Columbia Workshop over a CBS network at 6 P.M.
37-05-09 New York Times
7:00--WABC--Supply and Demand--Play
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37-05-16 |
41
|
Paul Revere |
Y
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37-05-16 Syracuse Herald
A whimsical folk tale heard on an episode of the American Revolution, "Paul Revere" by Stephen Vincent Benet will be dramatized in the Columbia Workshop program over CBS at 6 P.M.
37-05-16 New York Times
7:00-7:30--Drama--"Paul Revere," by Stephen Vincent Benét--WABC
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37-05-23 |
42
|
A Night At An Inn |
Y
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[Preceded by a news announcement of the death of John D. Rockerfeller]
37-05-23 Syracuse Herald
6:00 WFBL--Columbia Workshop.
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37-05-30 |
43
|
Discovery |
Y
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37-05-30 Syracuse Herald
6:00 WFBL--Columbia Workshop.
37-05-30 New York Times
7:00-Dramatization-WABC
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37-06-06 |
44
|
The Downbeat On Murder |
Y
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37-06-05 Chester Times - Sunday 7 P.M. WABC--Columbia Workshop, "Downbeat on Murder."
37-06-06 New York Times
7:00.7:30-Drama: "Downbeat on Murder"-WABC
37-06-06 Charleston Daily Mail
"Downbeat on Murder," a creepy melodrama written especially for the radio by Charles Tazewell, will be presented by the Columbia Workshop over the WCHS-CBS network Sunday, from 7 to 7:30 p.m., by a large cast under the direction of Irving Reis. The story revolves around a symphony orchestra conductor who is slowly driven mad by the heckling of his wife, mother-in-law and other grasping relatives.
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37-06-13 |
45
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The Young King |
N
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37-06-12 Chester Times - Sunday 7 P.M. WABC--Columbia Workshop, "The Young King," by Oscar Wilde.
37-06-13 New York Times
7:00-7:10-Drama: "The Young King"-WABC
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37-06-20 |
46
|
Red-Head Baker |
Y
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37-06-19 Chester Times - Sunday 7 P.M. WABC--"Red-head Baker," drama.
37-06-19 Oakland Tribune - The Columbia Workshop play for tomorrow, to be presented over the CBS-KSFO network from 3 to 3:30 p.m., is by Albert Maltz and bears the title "Red-Head Baker."
37-06-19 Freeport Journal-Standard
The sociological drama, "Red-Head Baker," by Albert Maltz, written exclusively for presentation over the WABC-Columbia network with a special eye toward microphone technique, will be presented by the "Columbia Workshop" under the direction of Irving Reis at 5 on WBBM.
37-06-20 New York Times
7:00-7:10-Drama: "Red-Head Baker"-WABC |
37-06-27 |
47
|
Babouk |
Y
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37-06-26 Oakland Tribune
A radio condensation of the stage play taken from Guy Endor's novel "Babouk" will be presented over CBS-KSFO tomorrow from 3 to 3:30 p.m., as the Columbia Workshop feature. The radio versionis by Lester Fuller, Paramount director.
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37-07-04 |
48
|
Mr. Sycamore |
N
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37-07-04 Oakland Tribune
Greek mythology's Daphne fled from the arms of Apollo and was changed into a laurel tree as she prayed to be delivered from her unwanted suitor.
Robert Ayre's modern letter carrier becomes a sycamore tree when, after 30 years of walking, walking, walking, he yearned for a retired life of contrasting immobility.
This fantasy, entitled "Mr. Sycamore," which has been published in a national magazine, is to be dramatized under the direction of Irving Reis, the "Columbia Workshop" presentation-today over the CBS-KSFO network from 3 to 3:30.
Ayre is a Montreal newspaperman who was born in Manitoba in 1900 and relates that his life included "a long stretch of Manitoba prairie." The imaginativeness that produced "Mr. Sycamore" has no doubt sprung from this "long stretch" and from 10 years with the Winnipeg Press and seven years more in railroad work before he joined the Montreal Gazette. |
37-07-11 |
49
|
The Tell-Tale Heart |
Y
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37-07-11 Charleston Gazette
7:00 WABC--Columbia Workshop. |
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37-07-18 |
50
|
Fifty Grand |
Y
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[Columbia Workshop's 1st Anniversary presentation; States that it's the 52nd Columbia Workshop]
37-07-18 Oakland Tribune
The first anniversary of the "Columbia Workshop," the experimental drama series directed by Irving Reis, will be marked with the presentation over the CBS-KSFO network of an early story by Ernest Hemingway, which the famous author has given Columbia his personal permission to dramatize. It is "Fifty Grand" and it will be given today, in a one-hour broadcast beginning at 2:30 p.m. (P.S.T.) Reis wrote the radio version. "Fifty Grand" is the story of a heavyweight prizefighter who tried in vain to "throw" a fight. When it was first published about 12 years ago in a national magazine, Hemingway's style was considered so radical that many reader moved to cancel their subscriptions, according to Reis. Copies of that issue today, he pounted out, are worth $50 each. "Fifty Grand" is from a collection of Hemingway's short stories entitled "Men Without Women." Reis, in reviewing the first year of the "Workshop" said he feels it has accomplished in so many ways what it set out to do. This involved a minute examination of every possibility the microphone holds for new forms and methods of dramatization. The best examples of what has been attained are apparent in such successes as "The Fall of the City," the first dramatic poem for radio, which Archibald MacLeish wrote; "Supply and Demand"; "Downbeat on Murder"; Reis' own "Split Seconds" and others. Reis is at work on a book about the "Workshop" and is also planning a trip to England and Holland August 29 to study foreign radio drama methods.
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37-07-25 |
51
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A Matter of Life and Death |
Y
|
37-07-24 Oakland Tribune - Columbia Workshop, on CBS-KSFO tomorrow from 3 to 3:30 p.m., will present "A Matter of Life and Death," an adaptation of Paul de Kruif's book: "Why Let Them Live?" |
37-08-01 |
52
|
Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent |
Y
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37-08-01 Charleston Gazette
7:00 WABC--Columbia Workshop.
37-08-01 Syracuse Herald
WFBL--6:00--Columbia Work Shop
37-08-01 Lima News
CBS--WABC--5:00-6:00CBS W0rkshop--Dramatic |
37-08-08 |
53
|
'An Incident of the Cosmos' and 'The Last Citation' |
Y
|
[Announces itself as the 54th presentation; An Incident to the Cosmos is repeated by special request--from 37-01-16]
37-08-08 Syracuse Herald
A double bill will be offered in the Columbia Workshop program over CBS-WFBL at 6 o'clock tonight. The plays are "The Last Citation," the story of a general who finds in death a humilitating contrast with his life of war and conquest, and "An Incident to the Cosmos," a grimly appraising exposition of the vastness of the universe in relation to the earth and so man.
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37-08-15 |
54
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Escape Part 1 |
N
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37-08-15 Nevada State Journal
John Galsworthy's famous play, "Escape," will be presented this afternoon by the Columbia Workshop for the day's outstanding drama. |
37-08-22 |
55
|
Escape Part 2 |
Y
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37-08-22 Oakland Tribune
Orson Welles, brilliant young stage and radio actor, will be starred as Captain Matt Denant, the escaped convict, when the second part of John Galsworthy's famous play, "Escape," is presented today by the Columbia Workshop over the CBS-KSFO net, from 3 to 3:30 p.m. The drama originally was scheduled to be presented complete on August 15, but Director Irving Reis decided that in order to do full justice to Galsworthy's masterpiece it would be necessary to divide it into equal installments. It is interesting to note that Welles also was the star of Shakespeare's "Macbeth," the only other two-part drama to be produced by the Workshop, and that he will be featured over CBS on August 30 as the Duke in "Twelfth Night," eighth and final production in Columbia's Shakespeare Cycle. "Escape" is a study of man's perception of right and wrong with which its English aurhor projects through the character of Denant. The hero, a cultured gentleman, is convicted of murder after he accidentally causes the death of a policeman during a flight in which he tries to protect a woman. The captain eventually escapes from prison and in the description of his subsequent wanderings Galsworthy traces the attitude of man toward his erring fellow man. The play concludes with a dramatic scene during which a clergyman in whose church Denant has sought refuge from his pursuers is torn between his duty to give sanctuary to an outcast and his duty as a law-abiding citizen. |
37-08-29 |
56
|
The Half-Pint Flask |
N
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37-08-29 Nevada State Journal
The Columbia Workshop repeats "Half Pint Flask." |
37-09-05 |
57
|
S. S. San Pedro |
Y
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37-09-03 Logansport Pharos-Tribune - "S.S. San Pedro," a psychologiacal drama which revolves around the mystical relationshiop between an ailing captain and his sinking shiop, will be presented by the "Columbia Workshop" under the guest direction of Willilam N. Robson Sunday, September 5, from 5 to 5:30 p.m. CST, over the WABC Columbia network. |
37-09-12 |
58
|
Death Of A Queen |
Y
|
[Broadcast from the BBC Studios, London]
37-09-12 Oakland Tribune
London
Play to Be
Heard Here
The first broadcast from abroad to be given by the Columbia Workshop will be heard from London when a star cast enacts "Death of a Queen," adapted from Hilaire-Belloc's "Marie Antoinette " today from 3 to 3:30 p.m. over the CBS-KSFO network. Val Gielgud, drama director of the BBC, from whose studios the dramatization will be given, is to be guest director.
The cast will inc!iide Leon Quartermaine, Ronald Simpson, Robert Speaight, Frances Wolff, Hemione Hannen, Mary O'Farrell and Susan Taylor.
"Death of a Queen" is the first of two European Workshop broadcasts arranged by Irving Reis, director, who is now on a tour of England, Ireland and Holland to study their radio drama methods. The second presentation, which Reis himself will direct, is to be given from the Radio Athlone in Dublin when the famous Abbey Theater Playars perform in James Mmillington Synge's "Riders to the Sea." a one-act play, on Sunday, September 19
Announces Riders to The Sea as next.
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37-09-19 |
59
|
Riders To the Sea |
N
|
[Broadcast from Radio Athlone, Dublin, Ireland]
37-09-19 Syracuse Herald - A farewell to Dublin and an overseas salute to the United States will be made by the Abbey Players, famed Irish repertory group, when they are presented in the second of two foreign Columbia Workshop programs over WFBL at 6 o'clock tonight. Shortly after this broadcast, to be given from the studios of Radio Athlone in Dublin, the players will sail for New York City to open their first American tour in three years. In tonight's broadcast they will perform a radio version of "Riders to the sea," a one-act play by the famous Irish playwright, James Millington Synge. |
37-09-26 |
60
|
Alice In Wonderland Part 1 |
Y
|
37-09-26 Charleston Daily Mail - "Alice in Wonderland," Lewis Carroll's world-famous phantasy, will be dramatized by a huge cast of "Columbia Workshop" players under the direction of Bill Robson on Sunday, from 10 to 10:30 p.m., EST, over the WCHS-Columbia network. "Alice" is one of the "Workshop's" most elaborate undertakings, since it necessitates careful and extensive casting as well as challenging the ingenuity of the cast, director and sound effects man. |
37-10-03 |
61
|
Alice In Wonderland Part 2 |
Y
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37-10-03 San Antonio Light - Columbia Workshop's final presentation of "Alice in Wonderland." |
37-10-10 |
62
|
MEridian 7-1212 |
N
|
37-10-10 Wisconsin State Journal - 7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): seventh request performance of "MEridian 7-1212."
37-10-10 New York Times
8:00.8:30-Play, Irving Reis's "Meridian 7-1212"-WABC
37-10-10 Nevada State Journal
Irving Reis, who returned to New York September 30 after an extended study of the technique of radio dramatization as practiced by European stations, will resume his direction of the "Columbia Workshop" for the program of Sunday, October 10, from 5 to 5:30 p.m. over the Columbia network. The "Workshop" made history during Reis' trip when it presented two trans-Atlantic broadcasts under his supervision. The first, directed by Val Gielgud, well-known BBC dramatist, from London on September 12, was "Death of a Queen," adapted from Hillaire Belloc's "Marie Antoinette." The second, which Reis himself directed, was a production by the world-famous Abbey Players of James Millington Synge's "Riders to the Sea." This program originated from the Radido Athlone studios in Dublin, Ireland, on September 19.
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37-10-11 |
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Sweeps |
--
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[We have no idea what this entry represents in many other circulating logs. 'Sweep' aired on 37-10-31 with no announcement of it being a rebroadcast.]
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37-10-17 |
63
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'The Killers' & 'Illusion'
The Killers |
Y
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37-10-17 Charleston Daily Mail
"The Killers," Ernest Hemingway's famous sthort story which is credited with starting the "gangster cycle" in fiction, will be dramatized by "The Columbia Workshop" under the direction of Irving Reis over the WCHS-Columbia network Sunday, from 8 to 8:30 p.m., EST. The tale is a psychological study of the disintegration of a brave man under the relentless hounding of two gangsters who are bent on "taking him for a ride."
37-10-20 Hammond Times
Ernest Hemingway's short story "The Killers," done on CBS Workshop, last Sunday, was one of the best short plays on the air ever It was art-y and most sponsors would turn a cold shoulder, but we don't care, we liked it!
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37-10-24 |
64
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I've Got the Tune |
N
|
37-10-24 Charleston Daily Mail
"I've Got the Tune," a satirical opera written especially for radio by Mark Blitzstein, outstanding young American composer, is to be presented by the "Columbia Workshop" under the direction of Irving Reis over the WCHS-Columbia network Sunday from 8 to 8:30 p.m. Blitzstein's musical play, "The Cradle Will Rock," is to be produced on Broadway this fall.
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37-10-31 |
65
|
Sweep |
Y
|
37-10-31 Charleston Daily Mail - "Sweep," an original radio drama by Director Irving Reis, will be pressented by the "Columbia Workshop" over the WCHS-CGS network Sunday, from 8 to 8:30 p.m. The story deals with the Irish sweepstakes and some of the people who just missed winning prizes in the last drawing.
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37-11-07 |
66
|
The Horla
Come Of Age |
Y
|
[ Changed by airtime to The Horla]
37-11-07 Charleston Daily Mail
"Come of Age," Clarence Dane's famous verse play in jazz rhythms, will be produced by the Colulmbia Workshop under the direction of Irving Reis over the WCHS-CBS network Sunday, from 8 to 8:30 p.m., EST. The play, produced on Broadway several years ago, is a fantasy in which the main character is Thomas Chatterton, that strange English genius who became famous for "discovering" some splendid poems by 14th century authors.
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37-11-14 |
67
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Mr Justice |
N
|
37-11-14 Nevada State Journal
The "Columbia Workshop" will offer "Mr. Justice," an original biography in verse of Oliver Wendell Holmes, written and directed by Irving Reis.
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37-11-21 |
68
|
Georgia Transport |
Y
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37-11-21 San Antonio Light - The Columbia Workshop will be available for drama lovers (KTSA--7 p.m.). "Georgia Transport," a verse play about modern aviation by John William Andrews, will be presented.
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37-11-28 |
69
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The First Violin |
N
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37-11-28 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Workshop (WBBM): "The First Violin."
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37-12-09 |
70
|
Marconi, the Man and His Wireless |
Y
|
[ Series 3 Begins; Moves to Thursdays at 10:30 p.m.; Aired on the thirty-sixth anniversary of the first Trans-Atlantic radio message ]
37-12-09 Freeport Journal-Standard
"Marconi, the Man and His Wireless" a dramatization by Irving Reis and Orrin E. Dunlap, Jr., based upon the latter's book of the same name, will be presented by the "Columbia Workshop" over WABC-Columbia as first of a new series of programs to be heard every Thursday at 9:30.
37-12-16 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Marconi-Drama |
37-12-16 |
71
|
Metzengerstein
Mr. Justice |
Y
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37-12-16 Charleston Gazette
7:00 WABC--Columbia Workshop.
37-12-16 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Mr Justice-Drama |
37-12-23 |
72
|
Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass Part 1 |
Y
|
[William N. Robson takes over as Director; Announced as the first of the season's productions]
37-12-23 Charleston Daily Mail
The first half of a two-part dramatization of Lewis Carrol's immortal "Through the Looking Glass" will be presented as the premiere of a new series of "Columbia Workshop" programs under the direction of William Robson, heard over the WCHS-West Virginia and Columbia networks at 10:30 p.m. Thursday. |
37-12-30 |
73
|
Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass Part 2 |
Y
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37-12-30 Freeport Journal-Standard
The second half of Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" will be dramatized during the Columbia Workshop program over a WABC-CBS network at 9:30.
Announces that The Columbia Workshop will be heard in the New Year on Saturday evenings at 8:00 p.m., January 8th |
38-01-08 |
74
|
The Ghost Of Benjamin Sweet Part 1 |
Y
|
[Moves to Saturdays at 8:00 p.m.]
38-01-08 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet." |
38-01-15 |
75
|
The House That Jack Didn't Build |
Y
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38-01-15 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The House That Jack Didn't Build."
The closing announcement states that the program 'next week at this time' will be the first of two presentations by NYU students of its Radio Scripts and Continuity Writing Class. No announcement is made of a program airing 38-01-16. |
38-01-22 |
76
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Alexander the Great |
N
|
[Note: radioGOLDINdex cites 'Robert Owens' airing on this date. ]
38-01-22 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Workshop (WBBM): "Alexander the Great."
38-01-22 New York Times
8:00--WABC--Drama: Alexander The Great
38-01-22 Ottawa Journal
WABC--The Columbia System
8:00--Columbia Workshop. "Alexander the Great", direction of William N. Robson.
38-01-22 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
8:00 WABC--Columbia Workshop. "Alexander the Great"
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38-01-29 |
77
|
Madame Curie |
Y
|
38-01-29 Northwest Arkansas Times
7:00 Workshop drama, "Mme. Curie". |
38-02-05 |
78
|
Andrea Del Sarto |
Y
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38-02-05 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): N.Y.U. experimental program.
38-02-12 Radio Guide
CBS--Columbia Workshop. Plays written by members of the Radio Script and Continuity Writing Class of the Division of General Education of New York University, will be heard.
38-02-05 New York Times
8:00--WABC--Drama: Andrea Del Sarto |
38-02-12 |
79
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Be Prepared |
Y
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38-02-12 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Be Prepared." |
38-02-19 |
80
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The Well Of the Saints |
Y
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38-02-19 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Synge's "The Well of the Saints." |
38-02-26 |
81
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Night Patrol |
Y
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38-02-26 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Night Patrol." |
38-03-05 |
82
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The Ghost Of Benjamin Sweet Part 2 |
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38-03-05 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): ghostly "Benjamin Sweet" returns. |
38-03-12 |
83
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Hassan |
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[Moves to 7:30 p.m.]
38-03-12 Wisconsin State Journal
6:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Flecker's "Hassan," with Delius' music.
38-03-19 New York Times
7:30--WABC--Hassan--Drama |
38-03-19 |
84
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The Wedding Of the Meteors |
Y
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[Moves to 7:00 p.m.]
38-03-19 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Wedding of the Meteors."
38-03-19 New York Times
7:00--WABC--Wedding of the Meteors
Drama |
38-03-26 |
85
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J. Smith and Wife |
Y
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[Moves to 8:00 p.m.]
38-03-26 San Antonio Light
Dramatic Offering Will Be Aired Tonight--By RENWICKE CARY - Temporarily at least, the Columbia Workshop is being restored to station KTSA's Saturday night schedule. Although seldom heard locally of late, the workshop has been presenting radio plays for several years. They are much better than the run of the mill offerings on the airwaves, as you may tune in and see for yourself tonight (KTSA--7). William N. Robson, the youthful director of the Columbia Workshop, says "the workshop is pioneering in the field of entertainment, so to speak, and seeking to educate the vast radio audience in the matter of what's good theater. We're not going arty on our listeners, nor are we necessarily going to stress Skakespeare," Robson says. "Sound showmanship and good entertainment won't be overlooked either, but our most important aim is to put on good plays--not trash."
38-03-26 New York Times
8:00--WABC--Workshop--Dramatization |
38-04-02 |
86
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Seven Waves Away |
Y
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38-04-02 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Seven Waves Away," by Richard Sale. |
38-04-09 |
87
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The Broken Feather |
Y
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38-04-09 San Antonio Light - Again tonight the Columbia workshop offers something distinctly different in radio dramatics (KTSA--6:30). Michael Caroll's "The Broken Fether" will be presented, a legend of a land of discord, against a strange musical background. The "orchestra" will be composed of four sets of high and low chimes, four xylophones, two marimbas and two vibraphones. The story is that of a wandering rince who comes to this discordant country to woo a lovely princess. |
38-04-16 |
88
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The Terrible Meek |
Y
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38-04-16 Oakland Tribune
4:30 P.M. KSFO-CBS Workshop: "The Terrible Meek." |
38-04-23 |
89
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Never Come Monday |
Y
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38-04-23 San Antonio Light
Now being acclaimed for his role in "Shadow and Substance," current Broadway success, the famous English star, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, will come to the Columbia Workshop tonight (KTSA--6:30) in a 30-minute production titled "Never Come Monday." The play was written by Eric Knight, an Englishman, and an all-English cast has been engaged for the radio adaptation. Among the players will be Sir Cedric's wife, Lady Hardwicke, whose stage name is Helena Pickard; Whitfork Kane, the shoemaker in the current Mercury theater "Shoemaker's Holiday;" Victor Morley, Oswald York, Harold de Becker, Ralph Cullian and Stephen Fox. "Never Come Monday" reveals the story of a little Yorkshire village whose workers start their work-week every Monday morning by having "Cappy" Twambley tap on their windows. One Monday "Cappy," played by Sir Cedric decides not to wake the villagers, and startling results follow.
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38-04-30 |
90
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Fours Into Seven Won't Go |
Y
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38-04-30 Syracuse Herald
Val Gielbud, production director of the British Broadcasting Corporation, will direct a production of his own play, "Fours Into Sevens Won't Go," by the Columbia Workshop over CBS-WFBL at 6:30. |
38-05-07 |
91
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The Fisherman and His Soul |
Y
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[Moves back to 7:30 p.m.]
38-05-07 Syracuse Herald
Oscal Wilde's fantsasy, "The Fisherman and His Soul," will be presented by the Columbia Workshop over CBS-WFBL at 6:30.
38-05-07 New York Times
7:30--WABC--Fisherman and His Soul |
38-05-14 |
92
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Melodrames |
Y
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38-05-14 Panama City News Herald
5:30WCOA--(CBS) Columbia Workshop
38-05-14 New York Times
7:30-WABC--Concert Orchestra, Bernard Herrmann, Conductor |
38-05-21 |
93
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Ecce Homo: "Behold, the Man" |
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38-05-21 Syracuse Herald - A play written and produced by Pare Lorentz will be the Columbia Workshop's presentation over CBS at 6:30. Titled "Ecce Homo," ("Behold, the Man"), the drama concerns the unemployment situation in America Ceremonies attending the dedication of new studios of Station KYW artists will participate in the program. |
38-05-28 |
94
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Bury the Dead |
Y
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38-05-28 Panama City News Herald
5:30WCOA--(CBS) Columbia Workshop
38-05-28 New York Times
7:30-8:00 P. M.-Workshop Drama: "Bury the Dead"-WABC |
38-06-04 |
95
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Tranga Man, Fine Gah |
Y
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38-06-04 Syracuse Herald
Talking and singing drums of African natives will be used in a radio drama for the first time when "Tranga Man, Fine Gah," (Strong Man, Fine Girl), a drama of the west coast of the dark continent, is presented in the Columbia Workshop over CBS at 6:30.
38-06-04 New York Times
7:30-8:00 P. M.Drama: "Tranga Man, Fine Gah"--WABC. |
38-06-11 |
96
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Surrealism and From Ooh To Ahh
Surrealism |
Y
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38-06-11 Syracuse Herald
Surrealism treatment of drama, poetry and music will be featured in "From Ooh to Ah," drama to be presented by the Columbia Workshop over CBS at 6:30. |
38-06-18 |
97
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The Reunion |
N
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38-06-18 Northwest Arkansas Times
5:30 Workshop Drama, "The Reunion." |
38-06-25 |
98
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Courtroom Obbligato |
N
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38-06-25 Appleton Post-Crescent
"Courtroom Obligato," an original musical play, will be dramatized on Columbia Workshop program at 5:30 over WBBM. It tells the story of a group of ordinary citizens who are hailed into night court.
38-06-25 Freeport Journal-Standard The "Columbia Workshop" experiments with the rhythm of the American language in its production, "Courtroom Obbligato," which will be broadcast over WBBM at 5:30.
38-06-25 New York Times
7:30--WABC--Play, Never Come Monday
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38-07-02 |
99
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The Constitution of the United States |
N
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38-07-02 North Adams Transscript
7:30CBS Workshop, Reading of the Constitution, WABC
38-07-02 New York Times
7:30--WABC--Workshop Drama: The Constitution of The United States
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38-07-09 |
100
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The Red Badge Of Courage |
Y
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38-07-09 Wisconsin State Journal
7:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Red Badge of Courage." |
38-07-16 |
101
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The National Headliners |
Y
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38-07-16 San Antonio Light
Returning to station KTSA's schedule at 5:30 p.m. today, the Columbia Workshop will be broadcast from the National Headliner club's annual convention in Atlantic City. News events whose coverage won headliners awards for reporters and radio men will be dramatized.
38-07-16 New York Times
7:30--WABC--Recent World Events, Dramatized |
38-07-23 |
102
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Murder In the Cathedral |
Y
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38-07-23 Appleton Post-Crescent
T.S. Eliot's famous verse play, "Murder In The Cathedral," will be produced for the first time on radio on Columbia Workshop program a 5:30 over WBBM and WCCO. The play is the story, in psychological terms, of the murder of the Archbishop of Canterbury in the middle ages. |
38-07-30 |
103
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Tristram |
Y
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38-04-30 Freeport Journal-Standard
Edwin Arlington Robinson's Pulitzer prize winning epic poem, "Tristam," will be performed over WBBM this evening at 5:30 as another of the "Columbia Workshop" experiments in adaptation and dramatization. |
38-08-06 |
104
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The Devil and Daniel Webster |
Y
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38-08-06 Wisconsin State Journal
6:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): the production, "The Devil and Daniel Webster," will be broadcast.
38-08-06 New York Times
7:30-8:00 P. M.Workshop Drama: Bend's "The Devil and Daniel Webster"--WABC.
Announces the last program of the summer season and that it will return in the 'early Fall' |
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38-08-13 |
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38-08-13 New York Times
7:30-8:00 P. M.--Feld Orchestra-WABC. |
38-08-20 |
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38-08-20 Appleton Post-Crescent
Hilda Cole's "Joe Swing," a fantasy about a swing musician, will be dramatized on the Columbia Workshop program at 5:30 this afternoon over stations WTAQ, WBBM, WCCO, KMOX. The principal character, Joe Swing, will be heard only by the sound of his trumpet.
38-08-20 New York Times
7:30-8:00 P. M.--WABC-Music From St Louis-WABC. |
38-08-27 |
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38-08-27 Charleston Gazette
6:30CBS Workshop. Dramatic.
38-08-27 New York Times
7:30-8:00 P. M.--Feld Orchestra-WABC. |
38-09-03 |
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38-09-03 Charleston Gazette
6:30CBS Workshop. Dramatic.
38-08-27 New York Times
7:30-8:00 P. M.--Feld Orchestra-WABC. |
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38-09-15 |
105
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Outward Bound |
Y
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[Columbia Workshop returns for Season 4; Thursdays at 10:00 p.m.]
38-09-15 Wisconsin State Journal
8 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Outward Bound."
38-09-15 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Workshop Drama: Outward Bound,by Sutton Vane |
38-09-22 |
106
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He Doubles In Pipes |
Y
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38-09-22 Dunkirk Evening Observer
10:00 WABC--Columbia Workshop, "Joe Swing Retires"
38-09-22 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Drama: He Doubles In Pipes by Hilda Cole |
38-09-29 |
107
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The Lighthouse Keeper |
Y
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38-09-29 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Lighthouse Keeper," a French thriller.
38-09-29 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Comments From London
38-09-29 Logansport Phros-Tribune
For the first time in the history of that experimental theater of the air the "Columbia Workshop'' will attempt to sustain the interest of its listeners with the use of only two characters when it produces Paul Cloquemin's thriller. "The Lighthouse Keeper." over the Columbia network on Thursday, September 29, (WABC-CBS, 9 to. 9:30 p. m. CST). |
38-10-06 |
108
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Title Unknown |
N
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38-10-06 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM)
38-10-06 New York Times
10:00.10:30 P. M.--Assistant Secretary of State George Messersmith, at Dinner on S. S. Brasil, Pier 60--WABC
38-10-06 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.- Good Will Fleet (WBBM): George S. Messersmith, assistant secretary of state, and Admiral Emory S. Land.
38-10-06 The Chester Times
10:00 p.m.--WCAU,WABC--Columbia Workshop
38-10-06 Dunkirk Evening Observer
10:00 p.m.--WABC--Columbia Workshop
38-10-06 The Charleston Gazette
WABC-CBS10, Columbia Workshop drama
38-10-06 Arizona Republic
8:00 Columbia Workshop Drama CBS
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38-10-13 |
109
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The Brushwood Boy |
Y
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38-10-13 Appleton Post-Crescent
"The Brushwood Boy" by Rudyard Kipling, adapted by Eustace Wyatt will be dramatized on Columbia Workshop program at 9 o'clock over WBBM.
38-10-13 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Concert Orchestra, Howard Barlow, Conductor
38-10-13 Freeport Journal Standard
Rudyard Kipling's famous story about India. "The Brushwood Boy." will be presented by the "Columbia Workshop" over WBBM at 9. |
38-10-20 |
110
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The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden |
Y
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38-10-20 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Margalo Gillmore in Thornton Wilder's "The Happy Journey from Trenton to Camden."
38-10-20 New York Times
10:00-10:30 P. M.Play: "Happy Journey," Margalo Gilmore--WABC |
38-10-27 |
111
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Air Raid |
Y
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38-10-27 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Orson Welles, Aline McMahon in "Air Raid."
38-10-27 New York Times
10:00-10:30 P. M.--Play: Archibald MacLeish's "Air Raid"--WABC |
38-11-03 |
112
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Poetic License |
Y
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38-11-03 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Wilbur Daniel Steele's "A Drink of Water." The "Columbia Workshop" opens a three-program experiment with material hitherto thought unsuited for radio when it presents the first of Wilbur Daniel Steele's stories, "A Drink of Water," over WCHS on Thursday, 10 to 10:30 p.m. EST.
38-11-03 New York Times
10:00-10:33 P. M.--District Attorney Dewey, at Manhattan Opera House
Rally--WABC |
38-11-10 |
113
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A Drink Of Water |
Y
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38-11-10 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "A Drink of Water" by Wilbur Daniel Steele.
38-11-10 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Drama: A Drink of Water |
38-11-17 |
114
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Luck |
Y
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38-11-17 San Antonio Light
Wilbur Daniel Steele's "Luck," the story of a man who considered himself the most unfortunate person in the world, will be dramatized for C.B.S. listeners tonight at the Colulmbia Workshop (KTSA--9). This is the second of a series of three Steele stories being presented.
38-11-10 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Drama: Luck. |
38-11-24 |
115
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Beauty and the Beast |
Y
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38-11-24 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): premiere of Giannini's opera, "Beauty and the Beast," with Charles Kullmann, Genevieve Rowe. |
38-12-01 |
116
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The Giant's Stair |
N
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38-12-01 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Wilbur Daniel Steele's "Giant's Stair."
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38-12-08 |
117
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'Man With A Gun' and Musical Experiments |
Y
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38-12-08 San Antonio Light
Two presentations--"Man With a Gun" and "Fall of Jericho"--will be heard at the Columbia Workshop tonight (KTSA--9). The first will feature a single voice; the latter will combine musical effects with human voices. |
38-12-15 |
118
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A Trip To Czardis |
Y
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[Holiday presentation]
38-12-15 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "A Trip to Czardis".
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38-12-22 |
119
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Bread On The Waters
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Y
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[Christmas Program]
38-12-22 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Arch Oboler's "Bread and Water." |
38-12-29 |
120
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Crosstown Manhattan |
Y
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38-12-29 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Crosstown New York," picturing New York's 52nd st. from squalor to splendor. |
39-01-05 |
121
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Orphan Ego |
Y
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39-01-05 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--CBS Workshop (WBBM): "Orphan Ego" or "He Knew Something About Radio." |
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39-01-09 |
122
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Forgot In the Rains |
Y
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[ Series 4 Begins; Moves from Thursdays to Mondays at 10:30 p.m.]]
39-01-09 Charleston Daily Mail
"Forgot In the Rains," an original story about an air raid on Barcelona written by William Merrick, who has just returned from covering the Spanish civil war for the Associated Press will be the "Columbia Workshop's" presentation over WCHS Monday, 10:30 p.m. This is the "Workshop's" first production on its new time schedule. Heretofore the experimental theater had been heard of Thursdays, a half hour earlier.
39-01-09 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Play: Forgot in the Rains |
39-01-16 |
123
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Mr. Whipple Is Worried |
Y
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39-01-16 Charleston Daily Mail
Statues talk and do "Mr. Whipple" several good turns in James Frederick's original comedy fantasy, "Mr. Whipple Is Worrked," which the "Columbia Workshop" will present over WCHS Monday, 10:30 p.m. Whipople, in the story, is a customer's man in a brokerage house who is having trouble with both his girl and his boss. In the midst of all this gloom, he is startled one day by having his desk statue of "The Thinker" start talking to him. Whipple confides his difficulties with his sweetheart to the figurine and gets some sound advice in return, which, when followed, squares everything with the heartthrob. But there's still the matter of getting more accounts for the boss or losing his job. A talk with a statue of Washington, in a nearby park, takes care of that difficulty. |
39-01-23 |
124
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Prophecy
Sooth |
Y
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[No open]
39-01-23 Lima News
9:3010:30The Columbia Workshop Dramaeast: Eddie Cantorw. rpt
39-01-23 New York Times
10:30-11:00--Workshop Drama: "Sooth"--WABC
Announces Now Playing Tomorrow as next
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39-01-30 |
125
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Now Playing Tomorrow |
Y
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39-01-30 San Antonio Light
Try for the Columbia Workshop on short wave, 9:30 tonight. The production will be a comedy fantasy, "Now Playing Tomorrow." |
39-02-06 |
126
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Not to Be Opened for 5000 Years
Do Not Open For 5000 Years
Ten-Thousand Years |
Y
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39-02-06 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (KMOX): an original story with burial of the time capsule of the New York World's fair as the theme.
39-02-06 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Workshop Drama: Do Not Open for 5,000 Years |
39-02-13 |
127
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Nine Prisoners |
Y
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39-02-13 Lowell Sun
10:30WEEI--Columbia Workshop
39-02-13 Wisconsin State Journal
Short Wave Tonight - New York--9:30 p.m.--The Columbia Workshop W2XE, 31 m., 9.05 meg.
39-02-13 New York Times
10:30--WABC--National Republican Club, Lincoln Day Dinner, Waldorf-Astoria
39-02-13 Piqua Daily Call
CBS--WABC--10:30--Columbia Workshop
39-02-13 Joplin New Journal
9:30--Columbia Workshop--cbs
39-02-13 Portsmouth Herald
WEEI--Boston--10:30--Columbia Workshop
39-02-13 Rushton Daily Leader
9:30--Columbia Workshop--WBT
39-02-13 Lowell Sun
WEEI--10:30--Columbia Workshop
39-02-13 Charleston Daily Mail
What it feels like to shoot down a group of defenseless men is depicted in "9 Prisoners," the "Columbia Workshop's" presentation for the CBS network Monday, including WCHS, 10:30 p.m. The prisoners of the story have been captured in a skirmish. His company is about to take part in a new assault, and the officer can't square any guards for the prisoners. As the only solultion to the problem, he picks a firing squad and orders the prisoners executed. The soldiers hate the job. Talking among themselves, they bitterly assail war and the unfairness of having to kill these hapless prisoners in cold blood. The tale is from Willilam March's book, "Company K."
39-02-13 Washington Post
WJSV 10:30 Lincoln Victory Dinner
Announces Jury Trial as next |
39-02-20 |
128
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Nine Prisoners
Jury Trial |
Y
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39-02-20 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Drama: Jury Trial
39-02-20 Wisconsin State Journal
MITZI GOULD
Mitzi Gould wanted to be a French teacher. But that was before she was given a part in a New York university production. Now, her teaching attitude changed, she is heard Mondays on the "Columbia Workshop."
9:30 p. m.Columbia Workshop
(KMOX): "Jury Trial."
39-02-20 Dunkirk Evening Observer
10:30--WABC--Columbia Workshop: Nine Prisoners
39-02-13 Charleston Daily Mail
The possibilities of injustices in the courtroom are pointed out by "Jury Trial," the original "Columbia Workshop" presentation heard over WCHS Monday, 10:30 p. m. The story was written by Elizabeth and James Hart, whose adaptation of "A Trip to Czardis" was produced by the "Workshop" recently
39-02-20 Washington Post
WJSV 10:30 Columbia Workshop
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39-02-27 |
129
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Jury Trial |
Y
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39-02-27 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--CBS Workshop (KMOX): "Jury Trial," the wandering of jurymen's minds.
39-02-27 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Drama: Jury Trial |
39-03-06 |
130
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The Winged Victory |
Y
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39-03-06 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--CBS Workshop (WHAS, KMOX): "The Winged Victory." |
39-03-13 |
131
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In the Train |
Y
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39-03-13 Winnipeg Free Press
8.30Columbia Workshop (WABC).
39-03-13 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Drama: In the Train
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39-03-20 |
132
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A Letter From Home |
Y
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39-03-20 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--Workshop (KMOX): "A Letter from Home," satire on Hollywood.
Announces Pepito Inherits the Earth as next |
39-03-27 |
133
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Pepito Inherits the Earth
Flight From Home |
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39-03-27 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--Workshop (KMOX): "Flight from Home," depicting evacuation of Barcelona. 39-03-27 Charleston Daily Mail - Evacuation of Barcelona during the Spanish civil war is depicted by William Merrick in his original story, "Flight From Home," on Columbia Workshop, 10:30 p.m.
Announces Kit Carson as next |
39-04-03 |
134
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Rendezvous With Kit Carson
They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest Of Ease |
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39-04-03 Charleston Daily Mail
NORMAN CORWIN'S satire on the bombing of defenseless cities, "They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease," is to be repeated, this time on Columbia Workshop, over WCHS Monday, 10:30 p.m. Originally produced on Corwin's "Words Without Music" program Feb. 19, the war vignette aroused so much interest that it was decided to repeat the show on Workshop. Corwin again will direct.
39-04-03 New York Times
10:30-11:00--Workshop Drama: "Story of Kit Carson"--WABC
Announces a special reairing of They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease as next |
39-04-10 |
135
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They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest Of Ease |
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39-04-10 Charleston Daily Mail
By popular demand of thousands of radio listeners from all over the United States and Canada, Norman Corwin's "They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease" is to be repeated as a Columbia Workshop presentation over WCHS Monday, 10:30 p.m. The original radio verse drama was first aired on Corwin's Words Without Music program. Few programs have stirred up such interest in recent years as Corwin's ironic commentary on the bombing of defenseless civilian populations from the air. Several schools and colleges requested permission to stage the script in special peace programs or as part of commencement activity. So heavy was the demand for copies of the script that the poem-drama will shortly be published in an illustrated edition by Vrest Orlon's Countryside Press.
39-04-10 New York Times
i0:30-11:00Workshop Drama: "They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease"--WABC. |
39-04-17 |
136
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The Story of Radio
Highlights From CBS Musical Programs |
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['Wet Saturday' and Private Throgg' were originally scheduled for 39-04-17. The actual broadcast announces that Wet Saturday and Private Throgg will be heard at a later date. Wet Saturday eventually aired by itself on 39-05-01 and Private Throgg eventually aired with a special memorial service on 39-05-29]
39-04-17 Charleston Daily Mail
Radio Investigates Itself
In Workshop's Production
RADIO Investigates Itself in the documentary essay which William N. Robson is writing and which he will produce on Columbia Workshop over WCHS Monday, 10:30 p. m. The program is one of many Columbia is presenting in co-operation with the National Association of Broadcasters' campaign to inform the public of radio's methods and accomplishments.
The essay on radio is to picture operations of a big network, from early-morning opening to close, late at night. Effect of radio on the individual also is to be shown.
39-04-17 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--Workshop (KMOX): "Wet Saturday," a murder tale, and "Private Throgg," comedy.
39-04-17 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Workshop Dramas: Wet Saturday; Private Throgg ; Ear Essay on Broadcasting
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39-04-24 |
137
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Seems Radio Is Here to Stay |
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[Available only as a special rebroadcast from November 5, 1945, on the occasion of Radio's 25th Anniversary]
39-04-24 Kingston Daily Gleaner
WABCW2XB 31.09 M: 10.30 p.m. Columbia Workshop.
39-04-24 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Workshop Drama: Seems Radio's Here to Stay
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39-05-01 |
138
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Wet Saturday |
Y
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39-05-01 Chester Times
10:30 WABCColumbia Workshop.
39-05-01 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Workshop Drama: Wet Saturday; Private Throgg
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39-05-08 |
139
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Wild Man |
Y
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39-05-08 Charleston Daily Mail
David Redstone's original story, "Wild Man," about a criminal who can't go straight, is presented by Columbia Workshop over WCHS Monday, 9:30 p.m. |
39-05-15 |
140
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The Law Beaters |
Y
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39-05-15 Chester Times
10:30 WABCColumbia Workshop.
39-05-15 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Workshop Drama; Law Beaters |
39-05-22 |
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39-05-22 Chester Times
10:30 WABCColumbia Workshop.
39-05-22 New York Times
10 :30-WEAF--President Roosevelt, at Retailers National Forum Dinner, Hotel Mayflower, Washington; Introduced by Louis E. Kirstein, Chairman (Also WOR, WJZ, WHN, WABC; WHOM-1,450 kc |
39-05-29 |
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Private Throgg |
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39-05-29 Charleston Daily Mail
COLUMBIA WORKSHOP presents a pre-Memorial day program over WCHS Monday, 9:30 p.m.---a dramatization from New York and interviews with Confederate veterans from Richmond, Va. "Private Throgg," an original radio drama by Parker Finley, is a comedy based on the fantastic reminiscences of a veteran of the war between the states. From the Robert E. Lee camp, soldiers' home, Richmond, will be broadcast interviews with veterans of the Confederacy. Also scheduled is a talk with a woman whose relatives were friends of General Logan. She will tell of the origin of Memorial day.
Announces Highboy by Eustace Wyatt as next
39-05-29 New York Times
10:30-11:00--Workshop Drama: Private Throgg; Interviews With Confederate Veterans at Richmond, Va.--WABC |
39-06-05 |
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Highboy |
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39-06-05 Chester Times
10:30 WABCColumbia Workshop.
39-06-05 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Workshop Drama: Highboy |
39-06-12 |
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A Handful Of Dust |
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39-06-12 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.--Workshop (KMOX): Evelyn Waugh's "Handful of Dust," the story of a man's flight from his wife.
39-06-12 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Drama--Handful of Dust |
39-06-19 |
144
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Listen To A Story |
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[ Series 4 Ends]
39-06-19 Charleston Daily Mail
"Salesmanship," written by Mary Ellen Chase and adapted for radio by Norman Corwin, "Words Without Music" director, is one of the two Columbia Workshop productions listed for Monday over WCHS at 9:30 p.m. The second dramatization will be Mark Twain's "Journalism In Tennessee."
39-06-19 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Words Without Music
Announces that there will be no broadcast the following Monday due to coverage of the National Press Women's Award ceremonies. Also announces that the next Columbia Workshop will inaugurate the Summer Festival Series on July 6. |
39-06-26 |
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39-06-05 Portsmouth Herald
10:30 WEEIColumbia Workshop.
39-06-26 New York Times
10:30-11:00--National Federation of Press Wofnen's Awards Dinner,
Hotel Waldorf-Astoria--WEAF. WOR, WABC |
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39-07-06 |
1
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The Half-Pint Flask |
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[ First of Columbia Workshop Festival Summer Series]
39-07-06 Wisconsin State Journal
8 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): begins summer season with "The Half-Pint Flask," story of scientist on primitive island. |
39-07-13 |
2
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Never Come Monday |
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39-07-13 Capital Times
With nearly all of the original cast assuming the same roles, "Never Come Monday," an English comedy, will be aired tonight during the Columbia Workshop broadcast over WBBM at 8 o'clock.
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39-07-20 |
3
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John Brown's Body |
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[3rd in 'Festival Series' ; a one-hour presentation]
39-07-20 Charleston Daily Mail
The "Columbia Workshop Festival" drama, "John Brown's Body," will be presented over WCHS from 1 to 10 p.m. Thursday if the Charleston-Springfield baseball game is not played. If played, the game will be on the air. |
39-07-27 |
4
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A Trip To Czardis |
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[Fourth 'Festival Series' broadcast]
39-07-27 Wisconsin State Journal
8 p.m.--Columbia Workshop Festival (WBBM): "A Trip to Czardis."
39-07-26 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Characterized by its director, Brewster Morgan, as one of the finest plays radio has produced, "A Trip to Czardis" is to be revived on "Columbia Workshop Festival" over KGLO Thursday from 8 to 9 p.m. The regular 8 p.m. newscast will be heard at 7:45 p.m. The plot concerns two small farm boys who are thrilled at going to the city to see their father. They believe he has been ill. Driving in with their mother, they pass many of their neighbors. The mother tells them to hold their heads high, look straight ahead. They talk excitedly about the thrills they expect to have in the city. The boys do not suspect that the visit to their father will be the last--that he is to be hanged before the day ends. |
39-08-03 |
5
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The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet |
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39-08-03 Wisconsin State Journal
8 p.m.--Columbia Workshop Festival (WBBM): "The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet."
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39-08-10 |
6
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Radio Play |
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39-08-10 Wisconsin State Journal
8 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): revives William Saroyan's "Radio Play." |
39-08-17 |
7
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A Drink Of Water |
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39-08-17 Wisconsin State Journal
8 p.m.--CBS Workshop (WBBM): Alice Frost in a repeat presentation of Wilbur Daniel Steel's "A Drink of Water." |
39-08-24 |
8
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MEridian 7-1212 |
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39-08-24 Wisconsin State Journal
8 p.m.--Workshop (KMOX): "Meridian 7-1212," a drama based on correct time. |
39-08-31 |
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Apartment To Let |
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39-08-31 Charleston Daily Mail
A collaboration of Dorothy Parker and her husband, Allen Campbell, begun in Paris and finished five minutes before their boat docked in New York, is to be presented by "Columbia Workshop Festival" Thursday. (WABC-CBS, 9 to 9:30 p.m.) A fast-moving comedy, it is called Apartment to Let." Marie Wilson, screen star, has received the leading role from Director Brewster Morgan. "Apartment to Let" is the first play written especially for radio by Miss Parker, noted poet and author, to whom more "wisecracks" probably have been attributed than any woman in America. It was accomplished with such writing technique that virtually no changes were required in the original script. |
39-09-07 |
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So This Is Radio
They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest Of Ease
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[Announces that They Fly Through the Air with The Greatest of Ease would be "indefinitely" postponed due to the prosecution of the War. This was the fifth in the "Radio" cycle of Columbia Workshop, describing the technology and background of Radio]
39-09-07 San Mateo Times
6:00-6:30--KSFO, Columbia Workshop Festival Norman Corwin's "They Fly Through the Air," an indictment against air-raids.
39-09-07 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Drama: So This Is Radio
39-09-07 San Antonio Light
The Columbia Workshop (KTSA--8) will present, "They Fly Through the Air With the Greatest of Ease", Norman Corwin's poem depicting the horrors of air raids.
39-09-07 Circleville Herald
9:00 Columbia Workshop Festival, Drama. "They Fly Through the Air with the Greatest of Ease" is the title of tonight's play, WKRC |
39-09-14 |
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The Use Of Man |
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39-09-14 San Mateo Times
6:00-6:30--KSFO, Columbia Workshop Festival Lord Dunsany's radio play, "The Use of Man."
39-09-07 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Drama: The Use of Man, by Lord Dunsany |
39-09-21 |
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Now It's Summer |
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39-09-21 San Mateo Times
6:00-6:30--KSFO, Columbia Workshop Festival - "Now It's Summer" by Arthur Kobcr. |
39-09-28 |
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The Fall of the City |
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[ Final Columbia Workshop Festival Summer Series]
39-09-28 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Cast of 500 in "Fall of City." Virtually the entire Hollywood staff of Columbia directors and engineers have been enlisted for the spectacular production of "The Fall of the City," climaxing the "Columbia Workshop Festival" summer series which comes in over KGLO Thursday from 9 to 9:30 p.m. The directors are needed to supervise the cast of more than 500 and the engineers to direct 60 microphones at the Los Angeles Memorial coliseum for the impressive dramatization of Archibald MacLeish's famous poem. |
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39-10-05 |
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The Great Microphone Mystery |
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[ Series 5 is scheduled to begin]
39-10-05 Sandusky Star Journal
10:00-WJR-Columbia Workshop
39-10-05 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Neutrality--Henry L. Stimson, Former Secretary of State, Speaking From New York
39-10-05 Washington Post
Former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson lends his voice to the neutrality,debate--WJSV, 10 p. m.
39-10-05 Chicago Tribune
9--WBBM--Columbia Workshop.
39-10-05 Chicago Tribune
9--WBBM--Preston Bradley. |
39-10-12 |
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Wake Up and Die |
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[ Series 5 actually begins]
39-10-12 Wisconsin State Journal
8 p.m.--Workshop (KMOX): "Time to Get Up."
39-10-12 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Drama: Time To Get Up |
39-10-19 |
2
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William Ireland's Confession |
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39-10-19 Wisconsin State Journal
8 p.m.--Workshop (KMOX): "William Ireland's Confession," story of Shakespearean forger.
39-10-19 New York Times
10:00-10:30--Drama: "William Ireland's Confession"--WABC. |
39-10-26 |
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39-10-26 Syracuse Herald-Journal
10:00 P.M.--WFBL, WABC. Columbia Workshop. Original radio play, "A Letter From Above."
39-10-26 New York Times
10:00-10:30--"Progress of Communications," J. L. Fly, Chairman Federal Communications Commission-WABC. |
39-11-02 |
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Blennerhassett |
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39-11-02 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): world premiere of Giannini's opera, "Blennerhassett."
39-11-02 New York Times
10:00-10:30-Opera: "Blennerhassett," by Vittorio Giannini-WABC |
39-11-09 |
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39-11-09 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Col. Louis A. Johnson, assistant secretary of war, speaks over KGLO, via the Columbia network on "Peace in the Western Hemisphere" Thursday at 9 p.m. He will talk from the annual banquet of the New York Southern society at New York's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. His address cancels for that night only the broadcast of the "Columbia Workshop."
39-11-02 New York Times
9:30--WHN-The Immediate Future-Gov. Lloyd C. Stark of Missouri ; Peace in the Weslern Hemishpere-Louis A. Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War, at N. Y. Southern Society Ditmer, Hotel Waldorf-Astoria (Also
WABC at 10)
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39-11-16 |
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A Letter From Above |
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39-11-16 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia (KMOX): "A Letter from Above" (on WIND at 9:30). |
39-11-23 |
5
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A Circular Tour |
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[Announcer first announces "The Circular Tour', then closes announcing 'A Circular Tour']
39-11-23 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND,KMOX): W.W. Jacob's "A Circular Tour," story of a hypochondriac. |
39-11-30 |
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The Wonderful Day |
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39-11-30 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): "The Wonderful Day," a playlet which ncludes everything a boy loves--even a holiday from washing his ears. |
39-12-07 |
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As You Like It |
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39-12-07 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): "As You Like It," in strict 16th century simplicity. |
39-12-14 |
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Story in Dogtown Common |
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39-12-14 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): "Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk," by Mary Roberts Rinehart.
39-12-14 New York Times
10:00--WABC--Drama: Dogtown Comment
39-12-14 Ludington Daily News
WABC-CBS 10 Drama "Dogtown Common;" |
39-12-21 |
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Mr Cohen Takes A Walk |
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39-12-21 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): "Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk," by Mary Roberts Rinehart. |
39-12-28 |
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Higher Than A Kite |
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39-12-28 Wisconsin State Journal
9 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM, WIND): Brewster Morgan's "Higher Than A Kite," complications caused by a missent check.
Announces that the first Columbia Workshop performance of the new year will take place on January 11 at a new time, 10:15 - 10:45 p.m., E.S.T |
40-01-04 |
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40-01-04 Frederick New Post
CBS Workshop Dramaticcbs-wabc
40-01-04 New York Times
10:15-10:30-Lord Lothian, British Ambassador to United States, at Council on Foreign Relations Dinner, Chicago-WABC
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40-01-11 |
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My Heart's In the Highlands |
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[Moves to 10:15 p.m.]
40-01-11 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): William Saroyan's "My Heart's in the Highlands."
40-01-11 New York Times
10:15--WABC--Workshop Drama: My Heart's in the Highlands |
40-01-18 |
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Fanny Kemble |
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40-01-18 Wisconsin State Journal
"9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (KMOX): Elsa Lanchester in "Fanny Kemble."
40-01-18 New York Times
10:15-10:45--Drama: "Fanny Kemble"; Elsa Lanchester--WABC |
40-01-25 |
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Heavenly Rest |
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40-01-25 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND, KMOX): "Heavenly Rest," life in the hobo jungles. |
40-02-01 |
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Coals To Newcastle |
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40-02-01 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND, KMOX): "Coals to Newcastle," adaptation of Marquand's "Timothy Dexter."
Announces special programming for the following two weeks, and that Columbia Workshop will resume its broadcasts "three weeks from now on February 22 at 10:15p.m." |
40-02-08 |
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40-02-08 New York Times
10:15-WABC--To Be Announced |
40-02-15 |
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Double Exposure |
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[The Boston College Law School talk, announced for this week was postponed]
40-02-15 The Daily Mail
WABC-CBS -10:15 CBS Workshop drama.
40-02-15 New York Times
10:15-WABC--Play: Double Exposure
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40-02-22 |
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The Autobiography of An Egotist |
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40-02-22 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): "Autobiography of an Egotist."
Announces a special 'Leap Year Program' as next |
40-02-29 |
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The Great Microphone Mystery - The Case Of The Mysterious Leap-Year Broadcast
Leap Year Party |
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40-02-29 Appleton Post-Crescent
Columbia Workshop will present a special leap year program at 9:15 tonight over WISN and WIND. Usual procedures will be reversed--directors will act, commentators' wives will analyze the news, announcers will sing, singers will announce; Nila Mack will be mistress of ceremonies.
40-02-29 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): Leap year party, with announcers singing, directors acting, Raymond Scott battling with Beatrice Kay.
Announces My Client Curley as next
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40-03-07 |
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My Client Curley |
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40-Announces My Client Curley as next03-07 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): "My Client Curly," the story of a snake in show business. |
40-03-14 |
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'Dialogue With Music', 'Fraternity Meeting' and 'Outside This World' |
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40-03-14 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): three plays by employees of KNX, Hollywood.
40-03-14 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Studio Help at
KNX Gets "Break"
Three plays written, acted and produced by nobody you ever heard of, yet without whom radio wouldn't tick . . . .
Three plays, one of them a musical, by elevator operators, ushers, stenographers, tourist guides, receptionists, mail clerks and other young members of the Columbia network's KNX (Hollywood) staff.
"Columbia Workshop" gives these folk their "big break" by turning the entire coast-to-coast program over to them on Thursday.
It will be heard over KGLO from 9:15 to 9:45 p. m. The KNX junior staff makes its debut in this direction by staging a show with its own director, production manager, continuity chief, publicity writers, chief announcer, engineering and special events staff. As soon as the program goes off tlie air, they return to their regular jobs as elevator operators, ushers, stenographers, guides, receptionists and mail clerks.
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40-03-21 |
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Taming of the Shrew |
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40-03-21 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): musical comedy version of "The Taming of the Shrew," with Nan Sunderland. |
40-03-28 |
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40-03-28 Wisconsin State Journal
Dist. Atty. Thomas E. Dewey, New York, will start his midwest speaking campaign tonight in Chicago, with an address at 9:15 over stations WBBM, WGN, and WIND. Dewey will talk on the coming primary elections.
40-03-28 New York Times
10:15-10:45--"The Unpunished Crime," Thomas E. Dewey, Speaking at Chicago Stadium--WABC
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40-04-04 |
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My Client Curley |
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40-04-04 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): repeat performance of "My Client Curley."
40-04-11 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Return Engagement for Curly "Cat'
A flood of enthusiastic fan mail and critical applause brings delightful "Curly," the caterpillar, back for a repeat performance on the Columbia Workshop within five weeks of his triumphant bow to CBS listeners. The gay, mythical caterpillar whoin the sprightly imagination of Lucille Fletcher's short storymade Sally Rand look like a graven image when he cavorted to "Yes, Sir, That's My Baby," is to be starred again over KGLO Thursday from 9:15 to 9:45 p.m.
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40-04-11 |
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Title Unknown
My Client Curley |
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40-04-10 Huntingdon Daily News
For April 11:
WABC--10:15-10:45--Columbia Workshop: "A Day In Manhattan"
40-04-11 Huntingdon Daily News
WABC--10:15-10:45--Columbia Workshop: "A Day In Manhattan"
40-04-11 Appleton Daily Crescent
Lucille Fletcher's story, "My
Client, Curly." the story of a gay, cavorting caterpillar, will be reenacted on Columbia Workshop program at 9:15 tonight over WISN.
40-04-11 Los Angeles Times
7:15-KNX--Myrt and Marge--Sketch
40-04-11 New York Times
10:15-WABC--Columbia Workshop 1/2 hour
40-04-11 Washington Post
10:15-WJSV--Columbia Workshop
40-04-11 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND, WCCO): "A Day in Manhattan."
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40-04-18 |
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Three Strikes, You're Out |
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40-04-18 Wisconsin State Journal
9:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): "Three Strikes, You're Out." |
40-04-25 |
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America Was Promises |
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40-04-25 Appleton Post-Crescent
"American Promises", written by Archibald MacLeish will be dramatized in Columbia Workshop program at 9:15 over WISN and WIND.
40-04-25 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Workshop Plans Ambitious Show
Nicholas Nabokoff, Russian-American composer, educator and lecturer commissioned by the "Columbia Workshop" to set Archibald MacLeish's epic poem "America Was Promises," to music, has completed a cantata for it on bass and contralto with male chorus and orchestra and the the ambitious work is to receive its world premier over the Columbia Network Thursday evening, coming in over KGLO from 9:15 to 9:45 p.m. Nabokoff is head of the music department at Wells college, Aurora, N.Y., and has an imposing list of performed works to his credit.
Announces that the "next Columbia Workshop presentation will be Sunday, May 5th, at 10:30."
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40-05-05 |
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The Honest Captain |
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[Moves back to Sundays at 10:30 p.m.]
40-05-05 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.--Columbia (WBBM): "The Honest Captain" gets his religious freedom with a shotgun.
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40-05-12 |
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A Day in Manhattan |
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40-05-12 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop Country (WMAQ): perils facing cotton industry.
40-05-12 New York Times
10:30-WABC--Drama: Day in Manhattan |
40-05-19 |
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A Concert of Unusual Music
Mexican Music Concert |
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40-05-19 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): special program of Mexican compositions with Carlos Chavez, composer-conductor.
Announces The Dark Valley, starring Dame May Whitney [sic] on the "next Sunday evening at 10:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time." |
40-05-26 |
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40-05-25 Winnipeg Free Press
Sunday Play Stars Dame May Whitty
By PETER B. WHITTALL.
Dame May Whitty, currently in the Vivien Leigh-Laurence Olivier production of Romeo and Juliet, will be featured Sunday "on CBS at 8:30 p.m. in the Columbia Workshop presentation of a radio drama written by the British poet, W. H. Auden. Dame Whitty will be the only character in the drama, as yet, unbilled, but described as a political fable.
Columbia Workshop scored twice in the recent Ohio State Institute of Education, winning awards for its production of Johnny Got His Gun, an Arch Oboler adaption of Dalton Trumbo's story, in which James Cagney was starred; and for Norman Corwin's whimsical piece, My Client Curly, which was so enthusiastically acclaimed that it was immediately repeated. Other programmes to receive similar awards for their educational value were NBC's Town Meeting of the Air Series and the Meet Mr. Weeks series, now discontinued. Of the latter, Variety said, in reviewing it that it was "Woollcott with the meow left out."
40-05-26 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM, WCCO)
40-05-26 Dunkirk Evening Observer
WABC--10:30--Columbia Workshop
40-05-26 New York Times
10:30-11:00--President Rosevelt's "Fireside Chat on America's Defense Conditions and Needs," From White House--WEAF, WOR, WJZ, WABC, WMCA, WHN, WOV, WHOM, WQXR.
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40-06-02 |
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The Dark Valley
Dark Valley |
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40-06-02 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): with Dame May Whitty.
40-06-02 New York Times
10:30-WABC--Drama: Dark Valley, with Dame May Whitty
Announces that "Beginning next Sunday, the Workshop will be heard over many of these stations from 8 to 8:30 p.m., Eastern Daylight Savings Time," and that "next week's drama will be No Complications,." |
40-06-09 |
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No Complications |
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[Moves to 8:00 p.m., Sundays.]
40-06-09 Wisconsin State Journal
8:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM)
40-06-09 New York Times
8:00-9:00--Drama: No Complications
40-06-09 San Antonio Express
6:00--KTSA, Columbia Workshop
Announces the next production as Lucille Fletcher's The Man Who Ended Trains.
News Bulletin announces the withdrawal of King Haakon VII by Allied Troops as a consequence of the surrender of the Norwegian Army to Germany in Northern Norway.
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46-06-16 San Antonio Light
Senator Pat Harrison (D.-Miss.) will be heard in an address over the C.B.S. network today (KTSA--6 p.m.) on the subject "Providing Money for National Defense." The Columbia Workshop cancelled this week's presentation to allow the speaker a half hour on the airwaves.
40-06-16 New York Times
8:00-WABC--Providing Money For National Defense--Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi |
40-06-23 |
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In April Once |
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46-06-23 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Alexander Percy's poetic drama, "In April Once," a semi-religious study of medieval times.
Announces The Man with the One-Track Mind as next, "a week from tonight." |
40-06-30 |
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The Man With the One-Track Mind
The Man Who Ended Trains |
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40-06-30 Hammond Times
7:00--WBBM (77) Workshop drama, "The Man With The One Track Mind" fantasy by Lucille Fletcher, who wrote "My Client Curly." |
40-07-07 |
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The Cock-Eyed Wonder |
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40-07-07 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Cock-eyed Wonder," a story of a baseball miracle. |
40-07-14 |
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Fish Story |
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40-07-14 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Fish Story," mixing music with drama.
Announces the first broadcast of CBS Forecast, beginning the following night, Monday, July 15, 1940 |
40-07-21 |
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The Canvas Kisser |
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40-07-21 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Canvas Kisser," sports saga. |
40-07-28 |
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Carmilla |
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40-07-28 Kingsport Times
Experimental Columbia Workshop will produce the spine-tingling Sheridan Le Fanu's "Carmilla" at 7 p.m. today.
Announces two poems, 'Nightmare At Noon by Stephen Vincent Benet and A Birth Sequence by E.B. White as next. |
40-08-04 |
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Nightmare At Noon and Radio In the Rain |
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40-08-04 Charleston Daily Mail
"Columbia Workshop" (WCHS-CBS, 7:00 p.m.)
40-08-04 New York Times
8:00-WABC--Drama: Benet's Nightmare at Noon; Others
40-08-04 Oakland Tribune
4:00 P.M. KSFO-Columbia Workshop.
40-08-04 Salt Lake Tribune
5:00--CBS--Columbia Workshop.
40-08-04 Wisconsin State Journal
6:00--Master Works--WBBM
Announces The 500 Hats Of Bartholomew Cubbins as next |
40-08-11 |
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Nightmare At Noon and Radio In the Rain |
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40-08-11 Charleston Daily Mail
"Columbia Workshop" (WCHS-CBS, 7:00 p.m.)
40-08-11 New York Times
8:00-WABC--Workshop Drama
40-08-11 Oakland Tribune
KSFO--4:00 p.m.--Columbia Workshop
40-08-11 The Lima News
7:00 p.m.--Columbia Workshop--cbs-wabc
40-08-11 Wisconsin State Journal
6:00--Master Works--WBBM
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40-08-18 |
38
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The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins |
Y
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40-08-18 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Howard Lindsay in "The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins."
Announces I Followed the Seals as next |
40-08-25 |
39
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I Followed the Seals
I Follow the Seals |
Y
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40-08-25 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Ed Gardner and Beatrice Kay in "I Follow the Seals," story of vaudeville troupers.
Announces Alf, The All-American Fly as next |
40-09-01 |
40
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Alf, the All-American Fly |
Y
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40-09-01 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): introducing "Alf, the All-American Fly," the first of "radio animated cartoons."
Announces Big Boy Blue as next
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40-09-08 |
41
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The Major Goes Over the Hill
Big Boy Blue |
Y
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[Though Big Boy Blue was announced as the 'third Shane McCoy installment in his series, The Major Goes Over the Hill was substituted in its place (also by Shane McCoy) ]
40-09-08 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM):
40-09-08 New York Times
8:00-WABC--Drama |
40-09-15 |
42
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Mr. Charles |
Y
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40-09-15 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Donald Hough's "Mr. Charles," character study of World war veteran. |
40-09-22 |
43
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Well, Look Who's Here |
Y
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40-09-22 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p.m.--CBS Workshop (WBBM): "Well, Look Who's Here," a lover for money alone.
Announces The Pussycat; and the Expert Plubmer Who Was A Man
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40-09-29 |
44
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The Pussy Cat and The Expert Plumber Who Was A Man |
Y
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[Moves back to 10:30, Sundays]
40-09-29 The Lima News
10:30Columbia Workshop Playcbs-wabc
40-09-29 New York Times
10 :30-WABC-Workshop Players-Pussy Cat and Plumber
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40-10-06 |
45
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The Age of the Fish -- They Also Serve |
Y
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40-10-06 The Lima News
10:30Columbia Workshop Playcbs-wabc
40-10-06 New York Times
10 :30-WABC-Workshop Dramas
Announces next progam on October 20th.
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40-10-13 |
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Pre-Empted |
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40-10-13 The Lima News
10:30Columbia Workshop Playcbs-wabc
40-10-13 New York Times
10 :30-WEAF--President Roosevelt--Annual Community Mobilization for Human Needs (Also WOR, WABC, WHOM-1450 kc) |
40-10-20 |
46
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A Man's House |
Y
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40-10-20 The Lima News
10:30Columbia Workshop Playcbs-wabc
40-10-20 New York Times
10 :30-WABC-Workshop Players-A Man's House
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40-10-27 |
47
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Fulton's Fish Market
Fulton Fish Market |
Y
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40-10-27 The Lima News
10:30Columbia Workshop Playcbs-wabc
40-10-27 New York Times
10 :30-WABC-Workshop Players-Fulton Fish Market
Announces An Experiment in Sound and Symptoms of Being 35 |
40-11-03 |
48
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The Constitution of The United States
or . . . Sections from The Constitution of The United States |
Y
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[Preempts the previously announced two playlets due to the impending Elections for 1940]
40-11-03 The Lima News
10:30Columbia Workshop Playcbs-wabc
40-11-03 New York Times
10 :30-WABC-Workshop Players-The Constitution
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40-11-10 |
49
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Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
Piano Recital |
Y
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[Radio premiere of Béla Bartók's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion]
40-11-10 The Lima News
10:30Columbia Workshop Playcbs-wabc
40-11-03 New York Times
10 :30-WABC--Workshop: Bela Bartok, Hungarian Composer-Pianist. and Ditta Pasztory Bartok, Pianist
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40-11-17 |
50
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I Get the Blues from Revues |
Y
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40-11-17 The Lima News
10:30Columbia Workshop Playcbs-wabc
40-11-17 New York Times
10 :30-WABC-Workshop Players-I Get the Blues from Revues, Bloch Orch
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40-11-24 |
51
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The Dynasts |
Y
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40-11-24 Charleston Daily Mail
"Columbia Workshop" (WCHS-CBS, 10:30 p.m.) will present Thomas Hardy's great epic, "The Dynasts," with its prophetic Napoleonic parallel to the current invasion attempts against England. The play was produced in London during the first World war and had a long and successful run. |
40-12-01 |
52
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And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street |
Y
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40-12-15 Charleston Daily Mail
10:30 p. m."Columbia Workshop"
40-11-03 New York Times
10 :30-WABC-Workshop Players-To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street
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40-12-08 |
53
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The Trojan Women |
Y
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40-12-07 Huntingdon Daily News
10:30 Columbia Workshop: "The Trojan Woman." |
40-12-15 |
54
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Symptoms Of Being 35 and The Electric King |
N
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40-12-15 Charleston Daily Mail
10:30 p. m."Columbia Workshop" presents to 15- ... minute dramas, Ring Lardner's " "Symptoms of Being 35" and Milton Geiger's "In the Fog."
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40-12-22 |
55
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The Plot To Overthrow Christmas

Humble announcement of the first airing of The Plot to Overthrow Christmas from the December 25 1938 edition of the San Antonio Light
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Y
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[Rebroadcast of Corwin's Words Without Music broadcast of 38-12-25]
40-12-22 Kingsport Times
10:30 p.m., Columbia Workshop, a special Columbia Christmas Caravan presentation, picked as one of the best broadcasts of the year.
40-12-22 New York Times
10:30--WABC--The Plot To Overthrow Christmas
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40-12-29 |
56
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Dr. Johnson In Scotland |
Y
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40-12-29 Capital Times
"Columbia Workshop" is to present an original radio drama, "Dr. Johnson In Scotland," written by James Fleming, CBS announcer and former WIBA announcer, and based upon the Great Lexicographer's visit to Edinburgh in his late years, as related in Boswell's "Life of Johnson," tonight at 9:30 over WBBM. Fleming is a btother of Ed Fleming on the staff of WIBA. This is Fleming's first radio drama and affords him an excellent opportunity to apply his extensive college studies in English literature. He has been a Columbia network announcer more than two years and has been heard on special news events, political conventions and elections, as well as on daytime serial dramas. |
41-01-05 |
57
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Love In Thirty-Two Bars |
Y
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41-01-05 Charleston Daily Mail
The Columbia Workshop has chosen for presentation over WCHS-CBS at 10:30 tonight Perry Lafferty's play about popular music, "Love in 32 Bars," directed by the author-composer. |
41-01-12 |
58
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Cassidy and the Devil |
Y
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41-01-12 Charleston Daily Mail
"Columbia Workshop" presents a comic variant of the Faust legend, based on an old Irish folk tale, titled "Cassidy and the Devil" over WCHS-CBS at 10:30 p.m. The play is a dramatization of a story written by Basil Heatter, son of Gabriel Heatter, master of ceremonies of CBS's "We, the P eople." This is young Heatters first play to be presented by "Columbia Workshop." |
41-01-19 |
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Pre-Empted |
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40-11-03 New York Times
10:30-WEAF-Inauguratlon Concert From Consiltution Hall, National Sym-
Phony Orchestra, Direction Hans Kinciler- Nelson Eddy. Robert Sherwood, Charlie Chaplin, Others
(Also WOR. WABC)
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41-01-26 |
59
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This Is From David |
Y
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41-01-26 Charleston Daily Mail
"Columbia Workshop" is to present the tender story of a little boy neglected by his parents, in a dramatization of the magazine story, "This Is From David," tonight at 10:30 over CBS-WCHS. |
41-02-02 |
60
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Help Me, Hannah |
Y
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41-02-02 Charleston Daily Mail
A rollicking farce with a Southern accent and a pink-coated hero who puts fox-hunting before romance, is to be presented by "Columbia Workshop" in a radio adaptation of Charles S. Monroe's story, "Help Me, Hannah," over CBS-WCHS tonight at 10:30. |
41-02-09 |
61
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Dress Rehearsal |
N
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41-02-08 Mason City Globe-Gazette
An original plot based upon events and happenings immediately preceding the rising of the curtain on a stage play is to be presented by "Columbia Workshop" in its productionof a radio drama titled "Dress Rehearsal" to be heard over KGLO Sunday from 7 to 7:30 p.m. Charles Jackson, who wrote the radio drama, has had five productions on "Columbia Workshop" giving him the distinction of having had more of his plays produced by the "Workshop" than any other author. In "Dress Rehearsal," the action takes place on a stage behind a lowered curtain. None of the actors has ever before appeared in a stage part. This leads to numerous complications and a surprising denouement.
41-02-09 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Workshop Players: "Dress Rehearsal"
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41-02-16 |
62
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A Crop Of Beans |
Y
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41-02-15 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Marjorie Kinman Rawlings' short story, "A Crop of Beans," has been adapted for radio by Draper Lewis for presentation on the "Columbia Workshop" Sunday over KGLO-CBS from 7 to 7:30 p.m. The story concerns a married man, employed by a wealthy widow, and his efforts to win financial independence by growing a large crop of beans. He finally succeeds in growing the cherished crop, only to lose the money he gets for the beans when a bank closes. The dialogue is in quaint Florida "Cracker" dialect. |
41-02-23 |
63
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Wings For An Eagle |
Y
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41-02-23 San Antonio Light
The Columbia Workshop attraction will be "Wings for an Eagle" (KTSA--7 p.m.).
41-02-23 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Wings for an Eagle," escape from prison. |
41-03-02 |
64
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Roadside |
Y
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41-03-02 San Antonio Light
The Columbia Workshop will present Lynn Riggs' "Roadside" as adapted by A.M. Fishbein (KTSA--7 p.m.). |
41-03-09 |
65
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The Still, Small Voice |
Y
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41-03-09 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Still, Small Voice," based on the conflict of a man's actions and his conscience. |
41-03-16 |
66
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Cassidy and the Devil |
Y
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[Special St Patrick's Day rebroadcast by request]
41-03-16 Long Beach Independent
"Cassidy and the Devil," comic variant of the Faust legend based on an old Irish folk tale, is to be presented over Columbia network KNX 5 to 5:30 p.m. today. The radio drama was broadcast on the "Columbia Workshop" program January 12 and is being repeated by request for the evening of St. Patrick's day. This play is the dramatization of a story written by Basil Heatter, son of Gabriel Heatter. |
41-03-23 |
67
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Out Of the Air |
Y
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41-03-23 Charleston Daily Mail
"Out of the Air," radio comedy in which the principal character is a winner of large cash prizes on radio quiz shows, to be presented by the Columbia Workshop at 10:30. |
41-03-30 |
68
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'The Creation' and 'The Congo' |
Y
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41-03-29 Mason City Globe Gazette
A unique rhythmic treatment for percussion instruments has been arranged by Lynn Murray for the Columbia Workshop production of "The Congo" over KGLO-CBS Sunday from 7 to 7:30 p.m. The Golden Gate quartet will sing spirituals as part of the general pattern, and Craig MacDonald will act as narrator, while Lynn Murray directs the musical background in which the haunting beat of voodoo drums contributes to the striking story of the African Negro. The second half of this Columbia Workshop program will consist of another poetic dramatization of Negro life, "The Creation." It is a reverent paraphrase of the First Chapter of Genesis, from James Weldon Johnson's book of Negro sermons and verse, "God's Trombones." The Juanita Hall Singers are featured, with choric speaking and vocal sound effects devised by Miss Hall. The soloist narrator in this production will be Kenneth Spencer, the Negro bass who was discovered by Paul Robeson. |
41-04-06 |
69
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The Rocking-Horse Winner |
Y
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41-04-06 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Rocking Horse Winner," a charming mother plus a gambling father spells misery. |
41-04-13 |
70
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'The House,' 'The Glory Machine' and 'The Brooklyn Cantata' |
N
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41-04-12 Mason City Globe Gazette
Columbia Workshop is to present a dramatization of Andre Maurois' short story, "The House;" an original, whimsical radio paly by Eric Arthur, titled "The Glory Machine;" and a musical saga of baseball, "The Brooklyn Cantata," over KGLO-CBS Sunday from 7 to 7:30 p.m. "The House" is a supernatural story involving a strange dream and its realization in an unusual climax. The radio adaptation was written by Draper Lewis and Jacques Fink.
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41-04-20 |
71
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The Reluctant Dragon |
Y
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41-04-20 Charleston Daily Mail
10:30--"The Reluctant Dragon" on Columbia Workshop. |
41-04-27 |
72
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Jason Was A Man |
Y
|
41-04-20 New York Times
"Battle for Democracy In Asia," Former Ambassador Bullitt-WABC,
10:30-11.
41-04-06 Wisconsin State Journal
6 p. m. C B S Workshop presents the classical story of Jason and the Golden Fleece.
41-04-27 Long Beach Independent
An all-negro cast will present a radio dramatization of the classical story of Jason and the Golden Fleece as the Columbia Workshop presentation today, KNX-CBS, 4 p.m.production to be without music and somewhat in the manner of "Green Pastures." |
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41-05-04
to
41-11-09 |
1
to
26
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Radio Primer
to
Psalm For A Dark Year |
Y
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[26 By Corwin Airs between 41-05-04 and 41-11-09]
41-05-05 Mason City Globe Gazette
"Radio Primer," Will Be Presented Sunday on Columbia Workshop
Norman Corwin has written a whimsical drama in which the elemental workings of radio production are exposed, as the first of Columbia Workshop's "26 By Corwin" series to be presented over KGLO Sunday from 6 to 6:30 p. m.
The title of his first production in the Workshop series is "Radio Primer," and Corwin has drawn upon his varied experience for a series of revealing incidents which he has combined into an entertaining drama to take listeners behind the scenes of radio.
An unusual alphabetical construction--radio from A to Z--makes it possible for the drama to deal with everything from announcers to the subject of zoology and its sound effects.
Corwin explained that the production is designed to "let the listeners in on just what the radio business is all about."
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41-11-16 |
1
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Gator Boy |
Y
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[ New Series Begins]
41-11-15 Mason City Globe Gazette
Columbia Workshop Starts New Series on Sunday Nights - The conflict of two freedoms is dramatized on"Gator Boy," an original radio story presented by Columbia Workshop over KGLO Sunday at 7 p.m. "Gator Boy," by Betti Lane Yerza, introduces that little known grouop of Americans living deepwithin the mysterious and cypress-studded Florida Everglades, where freedom is an intensely personal thing, jealously guarded. Broadcast of the radio drama is scheduled for the Sunday designated by President Roosevelt as "Freedom Day," the final day of Civilian Defense Week. With "Gator Boy," Columbia Workshop resumes its general function as radio's experimental theater following conclusion of the "26 By Corwin" series. It also introduces the Workshop spokesman, a commentator who explains why the show is being presented and tells about the authors, composers, actors and directors involved.
41-11-16 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Gator Boy," a story of the Florida everglades and two freedoms. |
41-11-23 |
2
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Sound Track of the Life of A Careful Man |
Y
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41-11-22 Mason City Globe Gazette
Columbia Workshop presents a satirical comedyh in light verse by E. and E. Spitzer titled "Sound Track of the Life of a Careful Man" over KGLO Sunday at 7 p.m. Virgil Thompson, eminent American composer and music critic of the New York Herald-Tribune, has composed original music for the production. |
41-11-30 |
3
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Double Ugly |
Y
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41-11-30 Long Beach Independent
BECAUSE Isabel Jewell is a particularly fine actress today's Columbia Workshop presentation "Double Ugly," should prove to be one of the best in the series, 5 p.m., KNX. It is the story of a man so unattractive that he refused to believe anyone could love him. |
41-12-07 |
4
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The Fish On the Bathroom Floor |
N
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41-12-06 Mason City Globe-Gazette
The Columbia Workshop presents an original farce by Thomas Collins titled "The Fish on the Bathroom Floor" over KGLO-CBS Sunday at 7 p.m. The story was written by Collins after he had heard Columbia Workshop productions over a long period and is his first script submitted for Workshop consideration. Davidson Taylor is producer, and Howard Barnes directs
.
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41-12-14 |
5
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Citizen For Tomorrow |
Y
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41-12-14 Long Beach Independent
Colulmbia Workshop, 5 p.m., KNX, presents the story of a Negro preacher who explains the Bill of Rights to his congregation, written by Paul Green.
41-12-14 New York Times
10 :30-WABC-Play-Citizen for Tomorrow |
41-12-15 |
Spcl
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We Hold These Truths
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Y
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[Special program, over all networks, produced by the Columbia Workshop as an independent broadcast celebrating the 150th Anniversary of The Bill of Rights; The program was heard by 70 million American and Canadian listeners--the largest audience in Radio history for a single broadcast]
41-12-15 New York Times
President Roosevelt and Others, Celebrating 150th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights--WEAF, WOR, WJZ, WABC, WQXR, WNEW, WHN, WBNX, WBYN, WHOM, WWRL, 10-11.
41-12-15 Washington Post
10, ALL STATIONS-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is. heard ._. hour-long, all-network dedication to Bill of Rights Day. He is introduced by former. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Charles Evans Hughes. Leopold Stokowski leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in"The Star-Spangled Banner," Helen Hayes reads the "Bill of Rights" and Norman Corwin's playlet, "We Hold These Truths" is acted by Lionel Barrymore, Walter Huston,' Edward G. Robinson and Bob Burns |
41-12-21 |
6
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Miracle In Manhattan |
Y
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[Christmas Presentation]
41-12-20 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Sunday 7:00 p.m.--"Columbia Workshop," Christmas play, "Miracle In Manhattan," starring Ed Gardner. Music by Lyn Murray. |
41-12-25 |
Spcl
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The Plot to Overthrow Christmas |
N
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[Second repeat presentation of The Plot to Overthrow Christmas]
41-12-21 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Thursday, Dec. 25
3:00 p. m."The Plot to Overthrow Christmas." Norman Corwin's famous radio play, first presented in 1938, Is again repeated.
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41-12-28 |
7
|
Who Wants To Be Born These Days?
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Y
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[New Year's Presentation]
41-12-28 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Fish on the Bathroom Floor."
41-12-28 Chicago Daily Tribune
7:00 p.m.--WBBM--The Columbia Workshop, "The Fish on the Bathroom Floor."
Announces The Fish On the Bathroom Floor as next |
42-01-04 |
8
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The Fish On the Bathroom Floor |
Y
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42-01-04 Wisconsin State Journal
7:00 CBS Workshop--WBBM.
42-01-04 San Antonio Light
Columbia Workshop, the experimental theater of the Columbia network, presents a dramatization of an original story (KTSA--7:00). Davidson Taylor is the producer.
42-01-04 Chicago Daily Tribune
7:00 p.m.--WBBM--The Columbia Workshop, "Fish on the Bathroom Floor." |
42-01-11 |
9
|
Free Speech |
Y
|
[Announces that Free Speech was first produced 'a few weeks ago' on the CBS network]
42-01-11 Wisconsin State Journal
7:00 CBS Workshop (WBBM): Carl Sandburg's "Freedom of Speech."
42-01-11 New York Times
10:30--WABC--Play--Freedom of Speech |
42-01-18 |
10
|
At The Sign Of the Lark
The Sign Of the Lark |
Y
|
42-01-18 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "the Sign of the Lark." |
42-01-25 |
11
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The Man Without A Shadow |
Y
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42-01-25 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Workshop (WBBM): "The Man Without a Shadow," based on Chamissot's "The Miraculous Tale of Peter Schlemihl."
42-01-25 Chicago Daily Tribune
7:00 p.m.--WBBM--Colulmbia Workshop, "Man Without a Shadow." |
42-02-01 |
12
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Jenny, The Bus Nobody Loved |
Y
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42-02-01 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Bus That Nobody Loved." |
42-02-08 |
13
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Portrait Of Jennie |
Y
|
42-02-08 San Antonio Light
The Columbia Workshop offering is an adaptation of the novel by Robert Nathan, "Portrait of Jennie." (KTSA--1:30) |
42-02-15 |
14
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Opus For Lute and A Liar
Opus for Flute and Lyre |
Y
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42-02-15 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): a fantasy, "Opus for Flute and Lyre." |
42-02-22 |
15
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The Plot of Mr Greenberg |
N
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42-02-22 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--CBS Workshop (WBBM): "The Plot of Mr. Greenberg," a road in a cemetery is disturbing.
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42-03-01 |
16
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When the Bough Breaks
You Never Know

The CBS-owned Mason City Globe-Gazette
article on the CBS-announced prize fight
drama,'You Never Know' from
February 28 1942
|
Y
|
[Originally announced and extensively promoted as 'You Never Know,' by airtime, the title was changed to 'When the Bough Breaks.']
42-03-01 Chicago Daily Tribune
1:30 p.m.--WBBM--Columbia Workshop: "You Never Know."
42-03-01 New York Times
2:30 p.m.--WABC--Play: You Never Know.
42-03-01 San Antonio Light
1:30 p.m.--COLUMBIA WORKSHOP: "You Never Know," a story of the prize ring by Henry W. Denker and Ralph Berkey.
42-02-28 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Workshop to
Offer Prize
Fight Drama
Columbia Workshop delves into the psychological Sunday over KGLO at 1:30 p.m., when it presents "You Never Know," a story of the prize fight ring written by Henry W. Denker and Ralph Berkey. "You Never Know" is a moving piece of radio literature put into the language of fight rings and sidestreet gymnasiums by two writers comparatively new to radio. It traces the rise and fall of Sharpshooter Smith, one time light heavyweight champion of the world, pushed to the top by love for his wife--and dragged down to a punch-drunk bum by that same love.
42-03-01 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--Workshop (WBBM): "You Never Know," the rise and fall of a prize fighter.
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42-03-08 |
17
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The Test |
N
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42-03-08 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--CBS Workshop (WBBM): "The Test," misunderstandings. |
42-03-15 |
18
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A Child's History Of Hot Music |
N
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42-03-15 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--Workshop (WBBM): "A Child's History of Hot Music." |
42-03-22 |
19
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The Green Receipt |
N
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43-02-22 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Green Receipt." |
42-03-29 |
20
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Solomon and Balkis |
N
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42-03-29 Wisconsin State Journal
1:00 p.m.--"Solomon and Balkis" (WBBM): world premiere of Randall Thompson's opera, with Mona Paulee, Nadine Connor, John Gurney, and Carlo Corelli.
42-03-29 Long Beach Independent
11:00--KNX--World Premiere of "Solomon and Balkis." 11:30--KNX--Columbia Workshop. |
42-04-05 |
21
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The Miracle Of the Danube |
N
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42-04-05 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Joseph Schildkraut in "The Miracle of the Danube." |
42-04-12 |
22
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He Should Have Stood In Elba |
Y
|
42-04-12 Wisconsin State Journal
1:00 Spirit of '42--WCCO WBBM.
42-04-12 Hutchinson News Herald
1:00 Spirit of '42 (Nat'l Defense) 1:30 Columbia Workshop (Drama)
42-04-12 New York Times
2 :30-WABC-Play-He Should Have Stood In Elba
Announces Play Ball! as next |
42-04-19 |
23
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Play Ball! |
Y
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42-04-19 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Play Ball!"
Announces Looking For Susie as next
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42-04-26 |
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Postponed |
--
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42-04-26 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Looking for Susie."
42-04-12 New York Times
2 :30-WABC-Play-Looking for Susie
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42-05-03 |
24
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Looking For Susie |
Y
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42-05-02 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Postponed because of a speech by Paul V. McNutte, the Columbia Workshop production, "Looking For Susie," announced for last Sunday is heard instead this Sunday from 1:30 to 1:55 p.m. Correspondingly, the Columbia Workshop dramatization of chapter I of "Flight to Arras," by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, announced for May 3, has been postponed until the following Sunday.
42-05-03 New York Times
2 :30-WABC-Play-Looking for Susie
Announces Chapter 1, Flight to Arras as next
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42-05-10 |
25
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Flight To Arras Chapter 1 |
N
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42-05-10 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): Chapter 1 of "Flight to Arras."
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42-05-17 |
26
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Good Morning Mr Crumm |
Y
|
42-05-17 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 CBS Workshop--WCCO WIND
Announces Midnight Blue as next
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42-05-24 |
27
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Midnight Blue |
Y
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42-05-24 Wisconsin State Journal
1:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WIND): "Midnight Blue," story of swing band.
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42-05-31 |
28
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The City Wears A Slouch Hat |
Y
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42-05-31 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Workshop (WBBM): "The City Wears a Slouch Hat."
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42-06-07 |
29
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The Little One |
Y
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42-06-07 Oakland Tribune
11:30 A.M. KQW-Columbia Workshop
42-06-07 New York Times
10:30-WABC-Workshop Drama: The Little One
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42-06-12 |
30
|
'Richie, the Great' or 'Tour of A Small Dome In 30 Minutes' |
Y
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42-06-12 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Ritchie the Great," or "Tour of a Small Dome in 30 minutes."
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42-06-19 |
31
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It Couldn't Happen To A Nicer Kid |
N
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42-06-19 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--Workshop (WBBM): "It Couldn't Happen to a Nicer Kid."
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42-06-26 |
32
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Broadcast From The Year 1812 |
Y
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42-06-26 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Year 1812," with Lililan Hellman, playwright, as commentator.
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42-07-03 |
34
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Tag Number 1-184-463 |
Y
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42-07-03 Wisconsin State Journal
9:30 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Tag No. 1,184,163," story of soldier in World war I.
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42-07-06 |
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Broadcast from the Year 1812 |
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42-07-10 |
35
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Let Me Tell You About My Operation |
N
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42-07-10 Altoona Mirror
7:30 WABC--Columbia Workshop--"Let Me Tell You About My Operation."
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42-07-13 |
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Let Me Tell You About My Operation |
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42-07-20 |
36
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Someone Else |
Y
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42-07-20 The Capital
10:30--WABC--Columbia Workshop
42-07-20 New York Times
10:30-WABC-Play-Someone Else
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42-07-27 |
37
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Reveille Pass |
N
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42-07-27 The Capital
10:30--WABC--Columbia Workshop
42-07-27 New York Times
10:30-WABC-Play-Reveille Pass, With Chester Stratton and Colleen Ward
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42-08-03 |
38
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Laughter For the Leader |
N
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42-08-03 Altoona Mirror
10:30-WABC--Workshop--"Laughter For the Leader."
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42-08-10 |
39
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The Music of Mountains |
Y
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42-08-10 Altoona Mirror
10:30-WABC--Workshop--"Music of the Mountains."
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42-08-17 |
40
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All Out For Comedy - Vaudeville |
Y
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[First of the four, All Out for Comedy cycle presentations]
42-08-17 The Daily Mail
10:30--Columbia Workshop-cbs-east
42-08-17 New York Times
10:30-WABC-Play-Vaudeville Show
Announces Hold''em Yale as next
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42-08-24 |
41
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All Out For Comedy - Hold `Em Yale |
N
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[Second of the four, All Out for Comedy cycle presentations]
42-08-24 Altoona Mirror
10:30-WABC--Workshop: "Hold 'Em Yale" by Damon Runyon.
42-08-24 New York Times
10:30-WABC--Workshop Drama: Hold 'Em Yale
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42-08-31 |
42
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All Out For Comedy - The Columbia Sketchbook
Time Out For Comedy - Columbia Sketchbook |
Y
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[Third of the four, All Out for Comedy cycle presentations]
42-08-31 The Daily Mail
10:30--Columbia Workshop-cbs-east
42-08-31 New York Times
10:30-WABC-Workshop Drama
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42-09-07 |
43
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All Out For Comedy - Cafe Society Stars |
N
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[Last of the four, All Out for Comedy cycle presentations]
42-09-07 Charleston Gazette
10:30Columbia Workshop Dramacbs-east
42-09-07 New York Times
10:30-WABC-Workshop Drama: Cafe Society Stars
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42-09-14 |
44
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Proclaim The Morning
Portrait Of Jennie |
N
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42-09-14 Charleston Gazette
10:30Columbia Workshop Dramacbs-east
42-09-14 New York Times
10:30-WABC-Workshop Drama: Proclaim the Morning |
42-09-21 |
45
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My Kid Brother |
N
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42-09-21 Charleston Gazette
10:30Columbia Workshop Dramacbs-east
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42-09-28 |
46
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Florrie and the Country Green |
Y
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42-09-28 Charleston Gazette
10:30Columbia Workshop Dramacbs-east
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42-10-05 |
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Pre-Empted |
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42-10-05 Daily Mail
NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (Wide World) -- President Roosevelt's broadcast to the nation at 10:30 tonight in opening the 1942 mobilization for human needs, which this time combines war and community chests, is to be carried by the more than 500 stations which make up the four networks. In addition to the President, brief messages are to come from Tom K. Smith of St. Louis, chairman of the mobilization, and Mayor F.H. LaGuardia of New York. As had been planned, entertainment is to include the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Blondie and Dagwood cast.
42-10-05 New York Times
President Roosevelt, Opening 1942 Human Needs Campaign; Philadelphia
Orchestra; Mayor La Guardia; Others-WEAF, WOR, WJZ,
WABC, WNEW, WBNX, WHOM, WHN, WQXR, WAAT, 10:30-11 |
42-10-12 |
47
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Rebirth In Barrow's Inlet |
Y
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42-10-12 Indiana Evening Gazette
10:45 P.M. WJAS--Columbia Workshop.
42-10-26 New York Times
10:30-WABC-Workshop Drama: Rebirth in Barrow's Inlet |
42-10-19 |
48
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Remodeled Brownstone |
Y
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42-10-19 Amarillo Daily News
9:30--Columbia Workshop Drama--CBS-east
42-10-19 New York Times
10:30-WABC-Workshop Drama: Remodeled Brownstone |
42-10-26 |
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Pre-Empted |
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42-10-26 Amarillo Daily News
9:30--Columbia Workshop Drama--CBS--east
42-10-26 New York Times
10:30-WEAF Wendell Willkie, Discussing His World Tour (Also WOR, WJZ, WABC, WMCA, WAAT, WBNX, WHN. WBYN. WNEW, WOV, WQXR) |
42-11-08 |
49
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Proclaim the Morning |
Y
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42-11-08 Wisconsin State Journal
7 p.m.--Workshop (WBBM): "Proclaim The Morning."
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42-12-24 |
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The Plot to Overthrow Christmas
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Y
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42-12-24 Raleigh Register
C. B. S. 8 Norman Corwin's "Plot to Overthrow Christmas" |
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[The Columbia Workshop undertakes a three-year hiatus. During the interim, Norman Corwin, one of Columbia Workshop's most prolific contributors presented Columbia Presents Corwin for two seasons:
Season One - 44-03-07 to 44-08-15
Season Two - 45-07-03 to 45-08-21. ] |
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45-12-24 |
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The Plot to Overthrow Christmas |
Y
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[Special presentation of Corwin's The Plot to Overthrow Christmas]
45-12-24 Mason City Globe-Gazette
10:30 The Plot to Overthrow Christmas, CBS |
46-02-02 |
1
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Homecoming |
Y
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[ Final Series Begins]
46-02-02 Mason City Globe-Gazette
"THE COLUMBIA WORKSHOP," one of the earliest and best-known proving grounds for development of new concepts, techniques and personalities in radio as a creative art, will resume its weekly broadcasts beginning Saturday, over KGLO at 10:30 p.m. Norman Corwin, the Workshop's most distinguished alumnus, has agreed to postpone a West Coast commitment to direct the first broadcast. The new series, under the supervision of Robert J. Landry, Director of CBS' Division of Program Writing, will welcome original material from unknown writers of promise, as well as from established ones. The range of subject matter will be virtually without limit, as was the earlier Workshop's, giving free scope to original dramas, adaptations, novelties, verse drama, fantasy, comedy, and other literary forms adaptable to radio. The premiere program, "Homecoming," was written by a 23 year old Canadian, Norman Williams. "Home coming" is the story of a returned veterand and his family's reaction to his return. |
46-02-09 |
2
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Anniversary |
Y
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46-02-09 Emporia Gazette
ONE of radio's early landmarks comes back into its own this week, (KMBC-Tuesdays, 8:30 p.m.) when the "Columbia Workshop" presents a Joseph Ruscoll Drama, "Anniversary." First heard on July 18, 1936, the workshop stimulates dramatic writing for radio. "Unknowns" are encouraged to submit scripts and to take part in the production of scripts selected for broadcast. To the workshop in 1938 came Norman Corwin, then 27 and a beginner in radio. |
46-02-16 |
3
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Just A Plain Blue Suit |
Y
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46-02-16 Morning Herald
"Just a Plain Blue Suit," the Columbia Workshop's play at 2:30. |
46-02-23 |
4
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Hard Luck Story |
Y
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46-02-23 Post-Standard
2:30 WFBL--Columbia Workshop.
46-02-23 New York Times
2:30-3--Columbia Workshop: "Hard Luck Story"--WABC. |
46-03-02 |
5
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Slim |
Y
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46-03-02 Morning Herald
A former busboy at the Essex House in New York City has written Saturday's play for "Columbia Workshop." "Slim," the drama of a hobo's reactions as he goes over "the Great Divde" in a freight train was written by John H. Lovelace. |
46-03-09 |
6
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Thanks For the Memories |
Y
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46-03-09 Post-Standard
2:30 WFBL--Columbia Workshop.
46-03-09 New York Times
2:30-WABC--Columbia Workshop: Thanks for the Memories |
46-03-16 |
7
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Four Quartets of T.S. Eliot |
Y
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[Two sections from Four Quartets Of TS Eliot]
46-03-16 Post-Standard
2:30 WFBL--Columbia Workshop.
46-03-16 New York Times
2: 30-WABC--Columbia Workshop;
Four Quarters |
46-03-23 |
8
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Act Of Faith |
Y
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46-03-23 Post-Standard
2:30 WFBL--Columbia Workshop.
46-03-23 New York Times
2:30-WABC--Columbia Workshop; Act of Faith |
46-03-30 |
9
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A Very Honorable Guy |
Y
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46-03-30 Post-Standard
2:30 WFBL--Columbia Workshop.
46-03-30 New York Times
2:30-WABC--Columbla Workshop:
A Very Honorable Guy |
46-04-06 |
10
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The Last Speech -- A Cantata |
Y
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46-04-05 Wisconsin State Journal
Saturday 2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Last Speech," specially commissioned cantata drawn from the late Pres. Roosevelt's undelivered Jefferson Day speech. |
46-04-13 |
11
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Joe Peabody's Dream |
Y
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46-04-13 The Morning Herald
2:30--Workshop Experimental Showscbs
46-04-13 New York Times
4:30-5--Columbia Workshop: "Joe Peabody's Dream," With Minerva Pious--WABC. |
46-04-21 |
12
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The Playroom - A Modern Allegory |
Y
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46-04-20 Freeport Journal
Standard
Sunday 3:00--WBBM, Columbia Workshop. |
46-04-28 |
13
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'A Study In Bells' and 'The House' |
Y
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46-04-27 Freeport Journal
Standard
Sunday 3:00--WBBM, Columbia Workshop. |
46-05-05 |
14
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Sam Small's Better Half |
Y
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46-05-05 Port Arthur News
2:00--Columbia Workshop, "Sam Small's Better Half," CBS |
46-05-12 |
15
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No Children At Play |
Y
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46-05-12 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Paul Henreid and Ona Massen in drama about food crisis, "No Children at Play;" Clinton P. Anderson, secretary of agriculture, speaks. |
46-05-19 |
16
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The Trial |
Y
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46-05-19 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Franz Kafka's "The Trial," which foreshadowed the advent of Naziism and European chaos. |
46-05-26 |
17
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The Fisherman and the Genie |
Y
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46-05-26 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): presents an original drama.
46-05-26 New York Times
4:00--WABC--Columbia Workshop |
46-06-02 |
18
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The Tragedy of King Richard III

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Y
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46-06-02 Wisconsin State Journal
1 p.m.--Old Vic Theater Company (WBBM): Laurence Olivier in title role of Shapespeare's "Richard III." Laurence Olivier and Ralph Richardson, members of London's world famous Old Vic Theater Co., currently performing for six weeks in New York, are the stars of two Old Vic broadcasts on CBS. Olivier plalys the title role in Shakespeare's "Richard III" to be heard at 1 p.m. today on WBBM, and Richardson stars in Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" next Sunday at the same time. These broadcasts are Old Vic's first in America and the only ones the company will make during its current stay.
46-06-02 The Paris News
2 p.m. -- WBBM--Columbia Presents |
46-06-09 |
19
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Peer Gynt |
Y
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46-06-09 Wisconsin State Journal
1 p.m.--Old Vic Theater Co. (WBBM): Ralph Richardson in Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." (90 min)
46-06-09 Racine Journal Times
2 p.m. -- WBBM--Columbia Workshop |
46-06-16 |
20
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Sometime Every Summertime |
Y
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46-06-16 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Sometime Every Summertime." |
46-06-23 |
21
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How Radar Saved Democracy |
Y
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46-06-23 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Cecil McGivren's "How Radar Saved Democracy." |
46-06-30 |
22
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This Is Singing Country |
Y
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46-06-30 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "This Is Singing Country," pre-Independence day story. |
46-07-07 |
23
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The Day That Baseball Died |
Y
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46-07-07 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Day Baseball Died." |
46-07-14 |
24
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Three's Company |
Y
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46-07-14 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Three's Company," trio of short plays by Canadian writer, Fletcher Markle, dealing with marital crisis of three couples of different cultural backgrounds. |
46-07-21 |
25
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The Pied Pied Piper Of Hamelin

Billboard Magazine October 12 1946 announcement of Shaw's Pied Piper for release as a children's album
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Y
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46-07-21 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): radio adaptation of Robert Browning's poem, "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," with Artie Shaw in capacity of script writer, composer or original score, and conductor of the orchestra. |
46-07-28 |
26
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Legend In Brocade |
Y
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46-07-28 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Legend in Brocade," based on Lord Chesterfield's letters. |
46-08-04 |
27
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'Comfort' & 'Laughter'
Happy Thoughts For A Hot Afternoon |
Y
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46-08-04 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Happy Thoughts for a Hot afternoon," consisting of two essays in dramatic form, "Comfort" and "Laughter." |
46-08-11 |
28
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Wilbur, the Psychoneurotic Automobile |
Y
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46-08-11 Salt Lake Tribune
1:00 COLUMBIA WORKSHOP "Wilber, the Psychoneurotic Automobile," is today's whimsical, lalughable farce. |
46-08-18 |
29
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Modern Exhibit
Ebony Concerto |
Y
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46-08-18 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Conductor-Composer Igor Stravinsky will conduct and band-leader Woody Herman will be clarinet soloist in a presentation of "Ebony Concerto," which Stravinsky composed expressly for Herman on the "Columbia Workshop" today. |
46-08-25 |
30
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The Path In the Door, A Psychological Experiment |
Y
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46-08-25 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Path in the Door," psychological study.
Announces that the following airing of Columbia Workshop will be preempted by National Air Races |
46-09-01 |
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Pre-Empted |
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46-09-01 Lima News
3:00 Columbia Workshop cbs
46-09-01 New York Times
4:00--WABC--National Air Races |
46-09-08 |
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Pre-Empted |
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46-09-08 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Archibishop of Canterbury (WBBM): first radio address since arrival in United States, on "Brotherhood of Man," before convention of National Council of Protestant Episcopal Church at Philadelphia. |
46-09-15 |
31
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The Last Delegate |
Y
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46-09-15 Wisconsin State Journal
2 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Last delegate," shows veteran's responsibility in trying to maintain peace. |
46-09-21 |
32
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The Midnight Town Is Full Of Boys |
Y
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[Moves to Saturdays, 6:15 p.m., EST]
46-09-21 Wisconsin State Journal
8:15 p.m.-Columbia Workshop (WBBM): new time and day: "The Midnight Town is Full of Boys," dealing with juvenile delinquency. |
46-09-28 |
33
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The Day That Baseball Died |
Y
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[Repeated in honor of The World Series]
46-09-28 Wisconsin State Journal
8:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Day That Baseball Died." |
46-10-05 |
34
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Studies In Jealousy |
Y
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46-10-05 Wisconsin State Journal
9:45 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Studies in Jealousy." three short stories. |
46-10-12 |
35
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Brewsie and Willie |
Y
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46-10-12 Olean Times-Herald
WABC (CBS) 6:15 Columbia Workshop Brewsie and Wilile |
46-10-19 |
36
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Moby Dick Part 1 |
Y
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46-10-19 Wisconsin State Journal
10:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Melville's "Moby Dick." |
46-10-26 |
37
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Moby Dick Part 2 |
Y
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46-10-26 Wisconsin State Journal
10:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop WBBM |
46-11-02 |
38
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Lee Fountain Comes Of Age |
Y
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46-11-02 Wisconsin State Journal
10:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Kenny Delmar in "Lee Fountain Comes of Age" by Joseph Ruscoll. |
46-11-09 |
39
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Farewell To Altamont |
Y
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46-11-09 Wisconsin State Journal
10:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): Thomas Wolfe's "Farewell to Altamount." |
46-11-16 |
40
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The Man Who Could Bring Pictures To Life and The Sounds of Peace |
Y
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46-11-16 Wisconsin State Journal
10:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Man Who Could Bring Pictures to Life." |
46-11-23 |
41
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The Tin Whistle |
Y
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46-11-23 Wisconsin State Journal
10:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Tin Whistle" by Richard Burdick. |
46-11-30 |
42
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It Shouldn't Happen To A Man |
Y
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46-11-30 Wisconsin State Journal
10:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "It Shouldn't Happen to a Man." |
46-12-07 |
43
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The Parade |
Y
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46-12-07 Wisconsin State Journal
10:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Parade" by Margaret Lewerth. |
46-12-14 |
44
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Alice and the Echo |
Y
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46-12-14 Wisconsin State Journal
10:15 p.m.--Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Alice and the Echo." |
46-12-21 |
45
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The Day They Gave Babies Away |
Y
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[Special Christmas Program]
46-12-20 Wisconsin State Journal
Saturday 5:15 p.m. Columbia Workshop WBBM
46-12-21 New York Times
6:15-6:45--Colulmbia Workshop: "The Day They Gave Babies Away;"--WCBS. |
46-12-28 |
46
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Rain, Rain, Go Away |
Y
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46-12-27 Wisconsin State Journal
Saturday 5:15 p.m. Columbia Workshop (WBBM): fantasy, "Rain, Rain, Go Away." |
47-01-04 |
47
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Tongues Of Fire |
Y
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47-01-03 Wisconsin State Journal
Saturday 5:15 p.m. Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "Tongues of Fire," original script by Barbara Woodward of Sydney, Australia. |
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47-01-05 |
1
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Tugboat Danny

December 28 1946 Billboard announcement of Once Upon A Tune for a proposed 25 programs.
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[The initial three installments of Once Upon A Tune begin airing on the Sunday following the remaining Columbia Workshop presentations (see below); Contemporaneous references to this episode cite the protagonist as a young tugboat named Danny, with far greater aspirations]
46-12-xx Corning Evening Leader
Sunday--CBS 2:30 p.m., Once Upon A Tune, new music comedy series, previously heard in Canada.
47-01-04 Sandusky Register
Sunday -- CBS, 2:30 p. m. Once Upon A Tune: new music comedy series, preeviously heard in Canada.
47-01-04 Gloversville and Johnstown Morning Herald
CBS believes there should be a bit of excitement around its network at exactly 2:30 Sunday afternoon. Reason therefore is the introduction of a new musical comedy series bearing the listed title of "Once Upon a Tune." A sort of fairy story set to music, it is the work of two Canadians, Ray Darby and Morris Surdin. As a matter of fact it has been a Canadian radio reature for a couple of years.
47-01-05 New York Times
2:30--Once Upon a Tune
(Premiere)
47-01-05 Washington Post
WTOP--2:30--Once Upon a Time
47-01-04 Times-Recorder
Sunday--2:45--WJR--Once Upon A Tune
47-01-05 San Antonio Express
KTSA--1:30--Once Upon A Tune
47-01-05 Canton Repository
"Once Upon A Tune" at 2:30 (CBS): Premiere broadcast of a new type of radio show. Featured player will be "Tugboat Danny" who is just what his name implies, a tugboat.
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47-01-11 |
48
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The Surreal Marriage |
Y
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47-01-10 Wisconsin State Journal
Saturday 5:15 p.m. Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "The Surreal Marriage."
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47-01-18 |
49
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My Life With Ernest Rule |
Y
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47-01-17 Wisconsin State Journal
Saturday 5:15 p.m. Columbia Workshop (WBBM): "My Life With Ernest Rule," story of cockney girl's marriage to bigamist and murderer.
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47-01-25 |
50
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The Natural History Of Nonsense |
Y
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47-01-24 Mason City Globe-Gazette
(Sat.. 5:15 p. m.) A free hand adaptation of Bergen Evans' famous book. "The Natural History of Nonsense." is presented by the "Columbia Workshop." "Nonsense" deals with man's inveterate devotion to myth, folklore find pseudo-science.
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47-02-01 |
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[Once Upon a Tune replaces Columbia Workshop]
47-01-31 Wisconsin State Journal
Saturday
5:00 Country Hour WBBM
47-01-31 Canton Repository
TOMORROW
"Once Upon A Tune" at 6:15 (CBS): Formerly heard on Sundays, the show now replaces "Columbia Workshop." The fantasy play will be the "The Sentimental Locomotive."
47-01-31 Mason City GLobe-Gazette
SATURDAY HIGHLIGHTS
LOVE-SICK TRAIN (5:15 P.M.) A brand new kind of original music-comedy series titled "Once Upon A Tune" makes its debut with "The Sentimental Locomotive." Designed for listeners from 6 to 60, the program has been called "radio's nearest thing to Disney films," "fairly-tales, but for grown-ups too," "a concoction with a dash of Gilbert and Sullivan, Aesop and George Ade, Rogers and Hart," "utterly charming."
47-02-01 New York Times
6:15--WCBS--Once Upon a Time
47-02-01 Nevada State Journal
KSL--3:15 Columbia Workshop
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The Columbia Workshop Radio Program [Specials and Rebroadcasts] Log
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Avail. |
Notes |
40-12-22 |
56
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The Plot To Overthrow Christmas

Humble announcement of the first airing of The Plot to Overthrow Christmas from the December 25 1938 edition of the San Antonio Light
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[Rebroadcast of Corwin's Words Without Music broadcast of 38-12-25]
40-12-22 Kingsport Times
10:30 p.m., Columbia Workshop, a special Columbia Christmas Caravan presentation, picked as one of the best broadcasts of the year.
40-12-22 New York Times
10:30--WABC--The Plot To Overthrow Christmas |
41-12-15 |
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We Hold These Truths |
Y
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[Special program, over all networks, produced by the Columbia Workshop as an independent broadcast celebrating the 150th Anniversary of The Bill of Rights; The program was heard by 70 million American and Canadian listeners--the largest audience in Radio history for a single broadcast]
41-12-15 New York Times
President Roosevelt and Others, Celebrating 150th Anniversary of the Bill of Rights--WEAF, WOR, WJZ, WABC, WQXR, WNEW, WHN, WBNX, WBYN, WHOM, WWRL, 10-11.
41-12-15 Washington Post
10, ALL STATIONS-PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is. heard ._. hour-long, all-network dedication to Bill of Rights Day. He is introduced by former. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Charles Evans Hughes. Leopold Stokowski leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in"The Star-Spangled Banner," Helen Hayes reads the "Bill of Rights" and Norman Corwin's playlet, "We Hold These Truths" is acted by Lionel Barrymore, Walter Huston,' Edward G. Robinson and Bob Burns |
41-12-25 |
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The Plot to Overthrow Christmas |
Y
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[Rebroadcast]
41-12-22 Mason City Globe-Gazette
Thursday, Dec. 25
3:00 p. m."The Plot to Overthrow Christmas," Norman Corwin's famous radio play, first presented in 1938, Is again repeated |
42-12-24 |
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The Plot to Overthrow Christmas |
Y
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[Second rebroadcast] |
45-05-13 |
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On A Note of Triumph |
Y
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45-08-15 |
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Fourteen, August |
Y
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45-08-19 |
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God and Uranium |
Y
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45-11-05 |
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Seems Radio Is Here To Stay |
Y
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[A special rebroadcast from April 24, 1939, on the occasion of Radio's 25th Anniversary]
45-11-05 Sandusky Register Star
NEW YORK, Nov. 5 (A/P)
Broadcast anniversary shows; TonightCBS 10:30 Third repeat of Norman Corwin's "Seems Radio is Here to Stay" |
45-12-24 |
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The Plot to Overthrow Christmas |
Y
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[Seventh Anniversary rebroadcast] |
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AFRS 'This Is The Story' Program Log
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Date |
AFRS No. |
Title |
Avail. |
Notes |
44-05-16 |
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A Tapestry for Radio |
Y
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44-06-13 |
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An American Trilogy...Thomas Wolfe |
Y
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47-xx-xx |
115
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The Last Speech, A Cantata |
Y
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46-06-30 |
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This Is Singing Country (1776-1864) |
Y
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AFRS Program Log [Other Programs and Specials]
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Date |
AFRS No. |
Title |
Avail. |
Notes |
47-02-01 |
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Once Upon A 'Toon - Head in The Clouds |
N
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Six By Corwin [NPR]
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Avail. |
Notes |
84- |
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84- |
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84- |
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84- |
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84- |
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84- |
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Thirteen By Corwin [NPR] (From the Columbia Workshop canon)
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Date |
Episode |
Title |
Avail. |
Notes |
96-xx-xx |
02
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The Odyssey of Runyon Jones |
Y
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96-xx-xx |
03
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'Untitled' |
Y
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96-xx-xx |
04
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Descent of the Gods |
Y
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96-xx-xx |
05
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They Fly Through the Air with The Greatest of Ease |
Y
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96-xx-xx |
07
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My Client Curley |
Y
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96-xx-xx |
08
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Mary and the Fairy |
Y
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96-xx-xx |
13
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Radio Primer |
Y
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