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Famed Los Angeles illustrator John Hix began penning his syndicated articles, 'Strange As It Seems' at the age of 19. This example is from the August 20 1929 edition of The Oakland Tribune

John Hix at the age of 27

February 12 1930 announcement of Hix's forthcoming regular Oakland Tribune Sunday magazine full-page color feature of Strange As it Seems

John Hix visits the Oakland Tribune on November 11 1932 and confers with his brother Ernest on John's latest Strange As It Seems article for the Tribune.

In addition to John Hix's daily syndicated cartoons and trivia Hix was prominently featured in Sunday comics sections--in color--throughout America (from the January 6 1935 edition of the Oakland Tribune)

1931 book compilation of Strange As It Seems stories

1932 compilation of Strange As It Seems stories

1937 United Airlines pamphlet of Strange As It Seems articles to entertain cross-country passengers

1939 Promotional book from Ex-Lax.

Gilmore Oil Company half page ad promoting the premiere of Strange As It Seems from March 18 1935

Premiere spot ad for Strange As It Seems from March 22 1935

Billboard magazine obituary for John Hix from June 17 1944

John Hix's brother Ernest H. Hix continued writing Strange As it Seems for the United Features Syndicate beginning in 1944 with various artists providing the graphics and illustrations.

Ernest Hix's widow Mrs. Elsie Hix began syndicating Strange As it Seems for the United Features Syndicate in 1949 after the tragic death of her husband in September of 1948.

Strange As It Seems No. 33

Background

The Golden Age of Radio emerged on the heels of a modern renaissance of sorts in the Print media of the era. That renaissance included a number of famous syndicated newspaper illustrators who delighted morning readers across America with their pointed editorial cartoons and illustrated trivia, history, humor and sports features. One of the most gifted of these illustrators was young John Hix who, at the age of 18, began inking illustrations for all manner of news articles for the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.

From the Monday, May 20, 1929 edition of Time Magazine:

The Press: Hix v. Ripley

For nine years Robert L. Ripley has been producing a newspaper feature (TIME, March 26, 1928). At the head are the words "Believe It or Not--by Ripley." Below are cartoons and descriptions of astounding freaks, seeming impossibilities. At the bottom appears the legend: "On request Robert L. Ripley will send proofs and details of anything depicted by him." Recently a volume of selections from the series was produced by mass-production-publishers Simon & Schuster.

Last week, McClure Newspaper Syndicate put out a "new" feature. At the head are the words "Strange as It Seems--by John Hix." Below were cartoons and descriptions of astounding freaks, seeming impossibilities. At the bottom appears the legend, "If you doubt this, write for proof to the author."

Cartoonist Hix does not seem quite so able with his pencil as Cartoonist Ripley. Astounder Ripley, after nine years, does not seem quite so astounding as fresh Astounder Hix.

We're inclined to agree with Time Magazine's comparisons between Ripley and Hix. We found the strips by Ripley to be of a more dubiously sensational nature during the period. And though the Ripley features were possibly inked better than 19-year-old John Hix, we found Hix's scholarship and research to have been a cut above that of Robert Ripley--a man of twice John Hix's age and experience.

Quickly becoming a local favorite, by 1929, 19-yr old Hix had caught the attention of McClure-syndicated readers across America--including Time Magazine--with his own syndicated feature, "Strange As It Seems." The feature was an instant success.

John Hix at drawing board circa 1930

The popularity of John Hix's fascinating print novelties caught the eye of famed short film director Jerry Fairbanks and Universal Studios. Universal launched a series of at least thirty-nine fascinating, 10-minute Strange As It Seems short films between 1931 and 1934 which soon became popular second and third featured shorts in movie houses across America. Popular Stage, Screen and Radio actor Gayne Whitman acted in several of them.

"Strange As It Seems" comes to Radio

By 1935, Hix's features--now both in print and film--had become so popular and compelling that they inspired a Radio feature of the same name. From the March 22, 1935 edition of the Oakland Tribune:

HIX' CARTOON
FEATURE TO GO
OVER NETWORK

'Strange As It Seems' to Be
Offered Dialers in Drama
Form, Starting Tonight

By K.L. ECKSAN

"Strange As It Seems," long familiar to Tribune readers as a cartoon feature by John Hix, is destined to become equally famous before long as a radio feature. The Hix feature will provide the theme for a series of dramatizations of stories of strange events, people and places, to be presented over the Columbia-Don Lee network beginning tonight. With Gayne Whitman as narrator these "Strange As It Seems" radio adaptations of the John Hix cartoons, will be heard every Friday, Sunday, and Wednesday night from 7:45 to 8. Local release will be through KFRC. Whitman, the narrator, won radio fame in the roll of "Chandu the Magician." He is also well known for his stage and screen ability. Owing to the wide diversity of material John Hix gathers for his cartoons, a different cast of characters will be heard in each episode of the series. Felix Mills, gifted young composer and arranger, has written a special theme song for the series. He will also conduct the orchestra in playing his own atmospheric music for these strange, and in many cases almost incredible, stories. Cyril Ambrister, radio director and dramatist, will direct and cast each presentation. Raymond R. Morgan is the producer.
Tonight's program will be made up of three episodes. The first will be the story of the author who ate his own book, the second, that of the world's largest family, and the third, the story of a woman who kept a lamp burning in her window for 70 years.

Young John Hix sits at his drawing table as he prepares his daily 'Strange As It Seems' feature (from the September 9 1935 edition of the Oakland Tribune)

From the September 16, 1935 edition of the Oakland Tribune:

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 16.--The largest loads of fan mail delivered in Hollywood are not addressed to popular screen stars, but to a quiet, unassuming 28-year-old genius who presents unusual and little-known facts by means of pictures and brief texts to millions of people daily. And many of these millions are constantly endeavoring to catch him in errors.

This genius is John Hix. He is the author of the "Strange As It Seem" feature that appears daily and Sunday in the Oakland Tribune and some 300 other newspapers, and on the radio program under the same title.

On one occasion Hix received 27,000 letters demanding proof of one of his statements.

Following his twice-weekly radio broadcasts the postman serving his office is invariably loaded down with demands for proof. His daily newspaper drawings bring similar letters by the thousands. In addition to these countless skeptical letters, Hix receives other thousands relating strange facts suggested by the writers as subjects for future programs and cartoons.

From the November 11, 1932 edition of the Oakland Tribune:

No Longer A Stranger

      John Hix, author of "Strange As It Seems," the cartoon feature that has carried his fame to many lands, dropped in for a visit to The TRIBUNE art department last night between planes, and dashed off one of his pen and ink creations. His brother, Ernest Hix, watched over his shoulder as John worked. The artist penned a P.S. to Aunt Else Club members on his cartoon, which appears in The TRIBUNE sports pages today.---TRIBUNE photo.
      "Strange as it seems," John Hix is only 26, he started as a printer's devil, worked as a newspaper carrier boy, and counts among his best friends now the members of Aunt Elsie's TRIBUNE club.
     Hix stepped off a plane in Oakland yesterday, bound from Hollywood to New York, and jogged up to The TRIBUNE to dash off his daily contribution of phenomena that readers marvel at.
     With bold strokes he drew his newest cartoon--just like the one appearing in The TRIBUNE today--and then added a sort of "P.S." especially for the Aunt Elsie club members.
     Here it is: "P.S. Dear Aunt Elsie and your Pals--Thanks for all the nice letters. Keep up the good work. John Hix"
     You see, Aunt Elsie's Pals admire Hix and his contributions, and they've sent him hundreds of letters. He is grateful for their interest and wants them to know it.
     Hix accompanied on his visit here by his brother, Ernest, who is 30 and serves as business manager for the "Strange As It Seems" creator. They hopped off for New York last night, where the artist plans to perfect arrangements for the more extensive European release of his daily and Sunday feature in various languages. The cartoons appear in England, China and Japan now. Six thousand theaters in America flash them on their screen, and foreign versions are appearing in movies abroad.
     Hix couldn't resist the artistic impulse, even while serving as a printer's devil on a newspaper in the South. So he contributed a cartoon from time to time. Before the devil's job, he carried newspapers.
     The managing editor thought his contributions had something necessary to make Hix popular and soon Hix began making a regular strip. It wasn't long before he started his "Strange As It Seems" feature, which today is one of the nation's most popular cartoons.

As might be readily discerned from the sidebar, by the time Strange As It Seems premiered over Radio, John Hix's entertaining Strange As It Seems franchise had blossomed into a full-blown multimedia sensation, with Strange As It Seems short films, magazines, books, and full-page Sunday supplement features in full color--in addition to Hix's amazing output of daily syndicated cartoons and historical oddities.

From the March 3, 1936 Arcadia [California] Daily Tribune:

STRANGE AS IT SEEMS, HIX IS
FLATTERED WHEN DOUBTED; WILL
SOON BE FEATURE OF THIS PAPER

John Hix is flattered when you doubt him. He doesn't mind it at all when people pester him with the question of where he gets all his material. The answer is no great secret--the best answer is "everywhere." He doesn't have time to marvel at the strange things that appear in his column. He leaves that to the millions of fans who read and wonder at "Strange As It Seems" every day.

Hix is too busy to think about yesterday's cartoons. He is shuddering at the thought of tomorrow. Sometimes he sits all day at his drawing board and all night reading forgotten books in search of new oddities and marvels.

Other times he runs around to strange places asking strange questions of strange people.

It sounds kind of crazy, but the results certainly justify the means. For, "Strange As It Seems," the daily cartoon and Sunday page distributed by the McNaught Syndicate and appearing more than a hundred newspapers in this country, is an established success because of the intense effort John Hix puts into the feature.

The success of "Strange As It Seems" is not a hit-or-miss accident. It is the outcome of a careful study of the workings of the human mind. John Hix asked himself, "What makes a thing seem strange." and the answer to that question is the foundation on which the feature was built.

Strange as it seems, old Father Time makes many things seem strange. Tamerlane, as he rode his shaggy Mongolian pony toward Delhi in 1398, at the head of an army which left in its wake 100,000 murdered prisoners, had no idea that he was material for a newspaper cartoon, to be published centuries later. If he had been permitted to look that far into the future, Tamerlane would have been puzzled. Puzzled to think that in the twentieth century men would think his career strange. In 1398, Tamerlane was a normal product of his times. Today, he is an oddity of the past.

Viewpoint is another thing that makes things seem strange. To the man on the street, it is a strange fact that one out of every 87 births result in twins; and that one out of 87 times 87 births in triplets. But to the statistician or physician, this fact is the logical outcome of the laws of probability and chance. To them, it would be strange if this were not true--if, for example, the ratio were to change suddenly.

The things that seem strangest to most people are those things that contradict a general belief or dispute a fact which has long been accepted as true.

Calvin Coolidge was never governor of a state! When this statement appeared in"Strange As It Seems," a flood of denials swamped the Hix office in Hollywood. But, Calvin Coolidge never was governor of a state, despite the indignant denials coming from all parts of the country. Calvin Coolidge was governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

People hate to change their ideas, you can win money betting that peacocks never lay eggs.

Most everybody likes to read about a personal eccentricity of another. It makes them feel superior. John Doe, who spends his days weighing sugar and butter at the corner grocery store, is intrigued by the thought that Louis XIV never took a bath until he was 65 years old, and that Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States, was a hangman.

Every strange fact appearing in a "Strange As It Seems" is based on definite and positive law of psychology. That is why John Hix never misses and never fails to interest every one of his millions of readers.

"Strange As It Seems" is another feature soon to be added to the columns of the Arcadia Daily Tribune.

At this point one might well ask, "How is it that this gifted artist's incredible outpouring of talent, humor, artistry, research and marketing innovation aren't more widely known?" The answer is a tragic one. Young John Hix was forced to all but cease his prodigious output of daily articles and illustrations by the time he was only 32. At the age of 36, John Hix passed away from complications of a life-long battle with a weak heart. Virtually bed-ridden for the last four years of his short life, John Hix's legacy epitomizes the proverb that "A candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long." During his short, thirteen-year career John Hix penned and inked some 5,000 syndicated articles by his own hand for newspapers across America. His articles were syndicated on and off, under either his own byline, that of his brother Ernest H. Hix, his sister-in-law Elsie Hix, or ultimately Phyllis Hix and Ernest Hix, Jr. from 1928 to 1970.

John Hix's short life wasn't the only tragedy during the Strange As It Seems franchise. In September 1948 his brother Ernest, who'd continued on with the daily Strange As It Seems feature after John's death, was killed in an airplane crash. Ernest's widow, Elsie, continued the syndicated features after Ernest's death, beginning in 1949.

From the March 12, 1954 edition of the Redwood Journal - Press Dispatch:

'Strange As It Seems' In the Journal Is a Very Strange Subject in Itself

Caption -- Elsie Hix and Helper. Elsie Hix and artist George Jahns prepare another of the thousands of Strange As It Seems features.
Elsie Hix and artist George Jahns prepare another of the thousands of Strange As It Seems features.

     STRANGE AS IT SEEMS, which will appear in every issue of the Redwood Journal beginning Monday, "could easily be a "strange" subject in itself.
     Its production, which resembles that of major moviemaking, requires a producer, director, research and editorial staffs, artists and secretaries. Since its origination by the late John Hix in 1928, more than 24,000 separate items have been presented in the feature—or enough factual material to fill volumes of standard encyclopedia. In addition, there are some 50,000 separate items on file, meticulously collected by staff researchers and submitted by persons from all over the globe.
     Every fact must be verified before use, with supporting evidence, plus, passing rigid editorial standards.
     The feature on many occasions has caused heated educational controversy with its amazing revelations—usually in contesting established historical facts and events. For example: "Teddy Roosevelt's 'Rough Riders' were not organized by Roosevelt. He was not first in command. It was not the first cavalry group so called. The famous 'charge on Kettle Hill was made on foot and—the battle was started by mistake when a substitute bugler got his signals mixed."
     Indisputable proof that this and other items are true is on file in the Strange As It Seems studios and can be viewed personally by doubting readers, should they choose to do so.
     Ever since "Strange As It Seems" was started in 1928, it has carried the byline of "Hix." First credit was Artist John Hix, creator of the feature. After his death in 1944, his brother Ernest, who had assisted with the production of the feature, became the byliner.
     Ernest Hix was killed in a plane crash Sept. 18, 1948. During the interim since, "Strange" had been credited only to "Hix." But releases now carry the full name of the present director—Ernest's widow.
     Tiny Mrs. Elsie Hix, vivacious with greying hair and dark eyes, pitched into the job of producing the man-sized feature soon after her husband's death.
     "John and Ernest talked about the feature a lot. I heard about it so much my mind seems to work the same way theirs did," she said in explaining her easy adjustment to the job of directing and producing one of the lending newspaper features today.

As must be obvious from the program logs below, Strange As It Seems over Radio was one of the era's most popular features, easily rivaling--if not often surpassing--the popularity of the Ripley's Believe It or Not features in the print media and radio during the same period.

Produced by Raymond R. Morgan and directed by Cyril Armbrister, the series often attracted some surprisingly famous Stage, Screen and Radio talent throughout its three year run of original broadcasts. Among the featured actors were Lionel Barrymore, Barbara Jean Wong, Brett Morrison, Cy Kendall, Ted Osborne, Lou Merrill, Eric Snowden, and True Boardman. Famed Stage, Screen and Radio actor Gayne Whitman narrated the series through the first 130 episodes, at which point Carleton KaDell took over the narrator duties.

After its initial run the series traversed four other networks between 1937 and 1949, even airing as late as 1957 in some markets--a tribute to the timeless appeal of the series. The long-running popularity of the print feature undoubtedly contributed to the Radio feature's almost equally long-running popularity.

Series Derivatives:

Genre:

Anthology of Golden Age Radio Retrospective Human Interest Dramas

Network(s):

Columbia-Don Lee [KFRC]; Columbia [KSFO]; NBC; CBS; NBC/ABC; MBS

Audition Date(s) and Title(s):

Unknown

Premiere Date(s) and Title(s):

35-03-22 01 Opens with The Author Who Ate His Own Book

38-01-09 01 Title Unknown

39-08-17 01 Opens with 28 Quadrillion in Unclaimed Gold

45-04-15 01 Title Unknown

46-10-06 01 Title Unknown

47-02-12 01 Title Unknown

48-01-03 01 Title Unknown

Run Dates(s)/ Time(s):

35-03-22 to 37-01-29; CBS; Two Hundred Six, 15-minute programs; Begins airing on Wednesday, Friday and Sunday, then Wednesday and Friday, and ultimately on Tuesday and Friday.

38-01-09 to 38-12-25; NBC-Red; Fifty-one, 15-minute programs; Sunday afternoons

39-08-17 to 41-01-02; CBS; Seventy-three, 25-minute programs; Thursday Evenings

46-10-06 to 47-01-12; ABC; Fifteen, 15-minute programs; Sunday afternoons

45-04-15 to 46-03-31; NBC [KDYL]; Fifty-four, 15-minute programs; Sundays, 9:30 p.m.

47-02-12 to 47-10-22; MBS; Thirty-seven, 15-minute programs; Wednesday evenings

48-01-03 to 48-05-30; MBS; Nine, 15-minute programs;

Syndication:

NBC; CBS; ABC; World Broadcasting Features

Sponsors:

Gilmore Oil Company; Ex-Lax; Palmolive Shave Cream; Fisher's Bread

Director(s):

John Hix [Creator/Host]
Cyril Armbrister [Director]
Raymond R. Morgan [Producer]

Principal Actors:

Barbara Jean Wong, Gayne Whitman, Brett Morrison, Vangy Beilby, Forest Taylor, Wyndham Standing, Robert Frazier, Emerson Treacy, Nigel De Bruliere, Gay Seabrook, Cy Kendall, Josef de Stefani, Sharlie Simpson, Eric Snowden, Lou Merrill, Carleton Kadell, Ted Osborne, Hamlin Garland, Princess Alexandra Kropotkin, Alan Hale, Guinn Williams, Lionel Barrymore, True Boardman, Clarence Green, Captain Gilbert Tyndale-Rae

Recurring Character(s):

None

Protagonist(s):

None

Author(s):

John Hix, Ernest Hix, Sr.

Writer(s)

Music Direction:

Felix Mills [Composer/Conductor]

Musical Theme(s):

Unknown

Announcer(s):

Gayne Whitman, Carleton Kadell, Alois Havrilla [Narrators]

Estimated Scripts or
Broadcasts:

444 (estimated scripts)

Episodes in Circulation:

50+

Total Episodes in Collection:

Provenances:

radioGOLDINdex, Hickerson Guide.

Notes on Provenances:

The most helpful provenances were newspaper listings. No other traditionally available Vintage Radio resources were even remotely helpful or accurate regarding this canon.

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Neither Dunning, Hickerson, Goldin, The Vintage Radio Place--nor any other OTR venue of note--has ever previously cited a 1935 to 1937 run of Strange As It Seems.

Putting aside the fact that the 1935-1937 run of Strange As It Seems was the original run--and the longest, continguous run, ever--it remains indisputable that the OTR community simply 'pronounced' Strange As It Seems as a '1939 and later canon' and that was that. We've seen this innumerable times as we've undertaken our own series of 500 'Definitive' logs over the past three years.

John Hix and his family were a genuine American treasure, in spite of the tragic, premature loss of two of the family's most creative contributors to popular American culture. Strange As It Seems was--and remains--an historic waypoint in American Print media and Radio. That's the very reason we undertook our Strange As It Seems article in the first place. Every bit the rival of any of Robert Ripley's 'Believe It or Not' vehicles, the Hix family and its Strange As It Seems franchise compiled and produced an unprecedented volume of historical facts, trivia, oddities, and cultural factoids that served to ignite the wonder, interest and amazement of literally hundreds of millions of readers and listeners over a span of almost forty years. Their contribution to popular American and International culture deserves far better than an afterthought. We hope we've been able to correct that long-standing oversight

Our efforts to do the Hix Family justice in documenting their amazing output of fascinating information over the years simply underscores our own continuing mantra--and as the Hix Family so amply demonstrated--'History Is Immutable'. It wants to be rediscovered and revealed and it will be rediscovered and revealed.

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The Strange As It Seems Program Log [Original 1935-1937 CBS series]
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
35-03-22	1	Opens with The Author Who Ate His Book	Y	35-03-14 Oakland Tribune Before long dialers will be able to hear "Strange As It Seems" oddities over the air lanes as well as see pictures and read text about them in the John Hix cartoon feature which appears regularly in The Tribune. A series of broadcasts based upon the John Hix feature will go on the air in dramatic form, beginning Friday, March 22. The extraordinary happenings, strange characters, and other weird and unusual items that John Hix gathers from the four quarters of the globe to make up his cartoons, will be woven into these programs, each of which will be a complete dramatic unit. This program will be heard locally over KFRC. 35-03-22 Oakland Tribune Tonight's program will be made up of three episodes. The first will be the story of the author who ate his own book, the second, that of the world's largest family, and the third, the story of the woman who kept a lamp burning in her window for 70 years. Announces The Man Who Called the NY Times from Long Island--but the message went via The South Pole as next
35-03-24	2	Opens with The World's Loudest Noise Opens with The Man Who Ate A Fortune	N	35-03-24 Oakland Tribune KFRC—(7 :45) "Strange as It Seems."
35-03-27	3	Title Unknown	N	35-03-27 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-03-29	4	Opens with The Human Pill-Box	N	35-03-29 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-03-31	5	Opens with The World's Largest Diamond	Y	35-03-31 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-04-03	6	Opens with The Web of Gold	N	35-04-03 Oakland Tribune Three oddities will be dramatized as separate units during the "Strange As It Seems" program tonight. They are "The Web of Gold" which baffles its maker and defies all attempts to dissolve it, a close-up of "Uncle Sam's Oddest Mail-Carrier" and the story of "The Man Who Set the World Afire." These features, based on the John Hix cartoon feature which appears regularly in the Tribune, will be heard over KFRC from 7:45 to 8.
35-04-05	7	Title Unknown	N	35-04-05 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-04-07	8	Title Unknown	N	35-04-07 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-04-10	9	Opens with Living Jewels	N	35-04-10 Oakland Tribune "Living Jewels" and "The Human Pyramid" will be the themse of the "Strange as It Seems" dramatic offerings tonight, to be hard over the Columbia Don Lee network and KFRC from 7:45 to 8. Gayne Whitman will be hard as narrator on this broadcast. A cast of outstanding Pacific Coast radio dramatic artists under the direction of Cyril Armbrister, will be heard in each episode. The original atmospheric music of Felix Mills will also be a feature of the presentation.
35-04-12	10	Opens with Rome Transplanted	N	35-04-12 Oakland Tribune "Rome Transplanted," "Mrs. Bloomer," and "The City of the Blind" are the titles for the dramatizations on the "Strange As It seems" program over the Columbia Don Lee network and KFRC, from 7:45 to 8 tonight. Modern harmonies, rendered and composed by Felix Mills serve as a musical background for these programs which are produced and directed by Cyril Armbrister. Gayne Whitman, of "Chandu" fame, is heard in the role of narrator.
35-04-14	11	Title Unknown	N	35-04-14 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-04-17	12	Opens with The Elephant That Ran a Zoo	Y	35-04-17 Oakland Tribune The "Strange As It Seems" program, broadcast over the Columbia-Don Lee network and KFRC tonight between 7:45 and 8, will consist of a dramatized account of "The Phantom Flower" and "The Elephant That Ran a Zoo."
35-04-19	13	Title Unknown	N	35-04-21 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-04-21	14	Title Unknown	N	35-04-07 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-04-24	15	Title Unknown	N	35-04-24 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-04-26	16	Title Unknown	N	35-04-26 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-04-28	17	Title Unknown	N	35-04-28 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-01	18	Opens with The Mysterious River	N	35-05-01 Oakland Tribune John Hix borrows some of the charm and romance of his own Southland for "The Mysterious River" episode tonight on the "Strange As It Seems" program, which will be heard over radio station KFRC at 7:45 o'clock. Around the Pascagoula River in Mississippi, Hix has built a dramatization in which the eerie phenomena of this river are explained. For the second episode another page is borrowed from the dim and picturersque annals of history as the dramatic story of "The King Who Died to Save His Life" is unfolded. In this stirring chronicle is told the strange and poignant story Charles VII, King of France.
35-05-03	-	Pre-Empted	N	35-05-03 Oakland Tribune 7:30 P.M. KFRC--Derby Eve Broadcast from Louisville.
35-05-05	19	Title Unknown	N	35-05-05 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-08	20	Title Unknown	N	35-05-08 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-10	21	Title Unknown	N	35-05-10 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-12	22	Title Unknown	N	35-05-12 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-15	23	Title Unknown	N	35-05-15 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-17	24	Title Unknown	N	35-05-17 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-19	25	Title Unknown	N	35-05-19 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-22	26	Title Unknown	N	35-05-22 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-24	27	Title Unknown	N	35-05-24 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-26	28	Title Unknown	N	35-05-26 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-29	29	Title Unknown	N	35-05-29 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-05-31	30	Title Unknown	N	35-05-31 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-05	31	Title Unknown	N	35-06-05 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-07	32	Title Unknown	N	35-06-07 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-09	33	Title Unknown	N	35-06-09 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-12	34	Title Unknown	N	35-06-12 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-14	35	Title Unknown	N	35-06-14 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-16	36	Title Unknown	N	35-06-16 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-19	37	Title Unknown	N	35-06-19 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-21	38	Title Unknown	N	35-06-21 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-23	39	Title Unknown	N	35-06-23 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-06-26	40	Opens with The Lost Art	N	35-06-26 Oakland Tribune Diminutive Barbara Jean Wong, Chinese child-actress, returns to the cast of John Hix' "Strange As It Seems" broadcasts to play a leading role in the episode entitled "The Lost Art," which will be presented by the Columbia network today from 7:45 to 8 p.m. Announces For Whom Was Pennsylvania Named as next (in a later run)
35-06-28	41	Opens with The Queen and the Slave	N	35-06-28 Oakland Tribune Cyril Armbrister, director and produlcer of the popular "Strange As It Seems" radio series tonight at 7:45 will "team" with an actress with whom he played many years ago in "stock" appearances during a tour of Canada. Her name is Vangy Beilby, and she will be heard in the principal role of the episode entitled, "The Queen and the Slave," on station KFRC. For the second chapter of the program, Armbrister has chosen to present a seldom-told tale of one of America's most famous history characters, "Patrick Henry." Forest Taylor will be heard in the leading role of this presentation which is entitled, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death."

35-07-03	42	Opens with Yankee Doodle	N	[Begins airing on Wednesdays and Fridays only] 35-07-03 Oakland Tribune Independence Day will be glorified on the "Strange as It Seems" program when Cyril Armbrister, producer and director of the series offers two episodes planned as fitting dramatizations for a special pre-Fourth of July broadcast. The John Hix feature will be released over KFRC and the Columbia network from 7:45 to 8 p.m. tonight. In the first episode, entitled "Yankee Doodle" and telling the rollicking but dramatic story of what heppened to the British when they taught the American troops the song. Wyndham Standing, distinguished English actor famed for his appearances both on stage and screen, plays the leading role. Standing will be heard portraying the British Major Pitcairn. For the second chapter of the program, another famous actor, an American this time, will be starred. "The Man Who Financed the Revolution" is the title of the dramatization, and Robert Frazer, well known as a stage, screen and radio celebrity, plays the part of Robert Morris, the "man behind" the Revolution.
35-07-05	43	Title Unknown	N	35-07-05 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-07-07	44	Title Unknown	N	35-07-09 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-07-10	45	Title Unknown	N	35-07-10 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-07-12	46	Title Unknown	N	35-07-12 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-07-14	47	Title Unknown	N	35-07-14 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-07-17	48	Opens with One Cent Reward For Kit Carson	N	35-07-17 Oakland Tribune Emerson Treacy, celebrated young stage, screen and radio star, was assigned one of the finest parts of his career when John Hix signed him to play the title role in "One Cent Reward for Kit Carson," which will be presented on another "Strange as It Seems" program tonight at 7:45 o'clock, over KFRC. Treacy will be heard in the role of the ambitious and adventurous lad who left his job as a harnessmaker and ran away to make history in the West, despite the fact that a strange reward was posted for his return to his job. Hix, whose cartoons appear regularly in The Tribune, also signed another brilliant actor for this same program. Nigel De Bruliere, noted stage and screen actor, now playing the same role in talking pictures that he played in the silent version of "The Three Musketeers," will appear in "Temple of the Sacred Tooth." He will be heard as the High Priest who discovered a strange and embarrassing thing about the Sacred Tooth his people had been worshipping for so many years--a fact that would have been perplexing to the temple custodians. This will be the third time in as many months that De Bruliere has been secured by Hix to appear on "Strange as It Seems" programs.
35-07-19	49	Title Unknown	N	35-07-19 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-07-21	50	Title Unknown	N	35-07-21 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-07-24	51	Title Unknown	N	35-07-24 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-07-26	52	Title Unknown	N	35-07-26 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-07-31	53	Title Unknown	N	35-07-31 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-08-02	54	Opens with The Riddle Of the Pacific	N	35-08-02 Oakland Tribune Producer Cyril Armbrister presents two episodes in "Strange As It Seems," over the Columbia Don Lee network and KFRC tonight from 7:45 to 8. One of the stories is highly dramatic, while the other is comical. The titles are "The Riddle of the Pacific," a tale of the mysterious Easter Island, and "Zach Taylor Wouldn't Play Postoffice," telling how Taylor came near losing the letter announcing his nomination for the presidency because he wouldn't play postoffice. Felix Mill's original music will weave a background for these stories.
35-08-07	55	Opens with The Stage Coach Is Still With Us	N	35-08-07 Oakland Tribune John Hix, creator of "Strange as It Seems," has again secured Gay Seabrook and Cy Kendall, popular on many of his past episodes, to play important roles in his new program which will be offered tonight at 7:45 p.m., over KFRC. Miss Seabrook, fresh from her film and stage successes, will play the role of a dashing young lady of the rollicking nineties, who routs a bunch of bandits because she didn't want to jump from a fleeing stage coach and ruin her trousseau. This episode, called "The Stage Coach Is Still With Us," is laid in both modern and old-time Banning, Calif., where Hix declares stage coaches are still in use today, as they were back in the days when a man's life depended on his trigger finger.
35-08-09	56	Title Unknown	N	35-08-09 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-08-14	57	Opens with Dr William K. Roentgen	N	35-08-14 Oakland Tribune Two highly dramatic and human episodes from the life of famous scientists--Dr. William K. Roentgen, discoverer of the X-ray, and George Washington Carver, the greatest Negro contribution to the world of science--will be presented by John Hix in his new "Strange as It Seems" radio program at 7:45 tonight over KFRC. The two episodes will bring back to "Strange as It Seems" two of its most popular actors, Josef de Stefani as Dr. Roentgen and Cy Kendall as George Washington Carver.
35-08-16	58	Title Unknown	N	35-08-16 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-08-21	59	Opens with The Gay Nineties Airplane	N	35-08-21 Oakland Tribune Proof that a working flying airplane was invented by two California men 35 years ago--before the Wright brothers had met with success in their experiments with heavier-than-air craft--will be offered on John Hix's "Strange As It Seems" program, broadcast over the Columbia-Don Lee network and KFRC from 7:45 to 8 tonight. Entitled "The Gay Nineties Airplane," this dramatic episode reveals the story of Charles and Lyman Gilmore of Grass Valley, Calif. Producer Cyril Armbrister, for the second dramatization on tonight's bill, turns from the tragic to the humorous in presenting "The Living Music Stand," a story of an old sailor who had his favorite song tattoed on his chest so he could always have it played when homesick. An even stranger story, "The Neck Verse," completes the broadcast, telling of an old medieval England custom whereby a man could save his neck from the gallows if he could read the first verse of the 51st Psalm.
35-08-23	60	Title Unknown	N	35-08-23 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-08-28	61	Opens with The Actors' Riot	N	35-08-28 Oakland Tribune An actors' riot in New York which caused the death of 34 persons and injury to hundreds, will be dramatized on "Strange As It Seems" to be heard over KFRC tonight from 7:45 to 8. John Hix, creator of "Strange As It Seems" will then turn the pages of history back to the World War period to present in dramatic form a story of extraordinary good fortune, titled "The Jumping Torpedo.
35-08-30	62	Title Unknown	N
35-09-04	63	Title Unknown	N	35-09-04 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-09-06	64	Opens with The Ship That Came Home	N	35-09-06 Oakland Tribune - The stirring story of the British ship "The Resolute" will be enacted as one of the episode in John Hix' "Strange As It Seems" programs, which will be presented from KFRC tonight at 7:45. Gayne Whitman, the voice of "Strange As It Seems," will turn actor again in this episode and enact the role of the captain of the ship, which, after being abandoned at sea, finally showed up at port after drifting for months. The episode is called "The Ship That Came Home. The story of the world's largest ...--and the effect it had on history and the saving of the town of Rothenburg, in Bavaria, is told in the second episode, The Drink That Saved A Town."
35-09-11	65	Title Unknown	N	35-09-11 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-09-13	66	Title Unknown	N	35-09-13 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-09-18	67	Opens with The Martyr To Etiquette	N	35-09-18 Oakland Tribune Death, rather than a violation of etiquette. Such was the dramatic and unusual decision made by King Philip III of Spain, who lost his life rather than commit a breach of the code of good manners. This story will be dramatized under the title of "The Martyr to Etiquette," during the broadcast of "Strange As It Seems" over the Columbia Don Lee network and KFRC from 7:45 to 8 tonight.
35-09-20	68	Opens with The Devil Tracks Of Devonshire	N	35-09-20 Oakland Tribune "STRANGE AS IT SEEMS" With dramatizations ranging from mystery, spooks and eery happenings to a startling disclosure concerning the famous French Anthem, "The Marseilles," another broadcast of "Strange As It Seems will be presented over the Columbia-Don Lee network and KFRC from 7:45 to 8 tonight. In the opening episode, John Hix, creator of the series, will tell of "The Devil Tracks of Devonshire," mysterious tracks in the snow that have caused recurring uneasiness since 1855. Debotees of creepy stories will be in their element as Sharlie Simpson and Eric Snowden enact the leading roles in this weird dramatization. Turning to their business of contradicting history, Producer Cyril Armbrister will next offer "The Ironic Anthem," the true story of France's great national Song, "The Marseilles." Brett Morrison, well-known radio actor, will be heard as star of this story. As usual on "Strange As It Seems" programs, Gayne Whitman will serve as narrator, with the special musical score composed and directed by Felix Mills.
35-09-25	69	Opens with The World's Strangest Check	N	35-09-25 Oakland Tribune Bankers, legislators and writers are slated to hear unusual facts about their professions in John Hix's "Strange as It Seems" program to be broadcast from 7:45 to 8 on KFRC tonight. In "The World's Strangest Check" Theodore Osborn is cast as a wealthy prospector of California gold-rush days, who has to adopt exceptional methods to get his money from the bank. "The Old Fashioned Cure for Rabies" brings Lou Merrill to the mike in the role of a quack medico who actually persuades a dignified State Legislature to require the use of his amazing concoction in the pre-Pasteur days. The forefunner of the modern rejection slip is related in "The Mausoleum of Knowledge" wherein Siam found an ingenious method of handling the works of ambitious authors who never found readers. Nigel de Brulier plays the leading role in this portion of the program. Gayne Whitman again serves as "The Voice of Strange as It Seems," and Felix Mills conducts the orchestra in his original music written especially for this program.
35-09-27	70	Opens with Echo Prison	N	35-09-27 Oakland Tribune Cyril Armbrister, producer of the John Hix "Strange As It Seems" programs, has no gray hairs at present, but he should have an ample supplly by the time he gets done staging "Echo Prison" as one of two episodes to be broadcast by stations of the Columbia Don Lee network and KFRC from 7:45 to 8. Most of the dialogue is in the forma of echoes, and Armbrister is faced with the problem of making the words of his players re-echo time and again in an underground cavern as rapid-fire conversation is carried on. From the depths of this subterranean prison to the lofty heights of a wartime aerial battle, this program jumps in the second episode. "The Lucky Penny" is a thriller of the American air forces during the World War that culminate in a real "Strange As It Seems" denouement. Carleton Kadell portrays the air ace in this one. As usual, Felix Mills composes and conducts the music and Gayne Whitman appears as the narrator.
35-10-02	71	Title Unknown	N	35-10-02 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-10-04	72	Title Unknown	N	35-10-04 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
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35-10-11	74	Title Unknown	N	35-10-11 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-10-16	75	Title Unknown	N	35-10-16 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-10-18	76	Title Unknown	N	35-10-18 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-10-23	77	Title Unknown	N	35-10-23 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-10-25	78	Title Unknown	N	35-10-25 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
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35-11-27	87	Title Unknown	N	35-11-27 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-11-29	88	Opens with The Herald of The Skies	N	35-11-29 Oakland Tribune One of his strangest strange facts has been dramatized by John Hix for the 1OOth anniversary of the birth of Mark Twain. The "Strange As It Seems" program to be broadcast from KFRC at 7:45 tonight, eve of the Mark Twain centennial, will feature "The Herald of the Skies," an amazing tale of coincidences involving the great writer and Halley's comet. Cy Kendall, who rapidly is gaining a name as one of radio's most versatile actors, will portray Mark Twain
35-12-04	89	Title Unknown	N	35-12-04 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-12-06	90	Title Unknown	N	35-12-06 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-12-11	91	Title Unknown	N	35-12-11 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-12-13	92	Opens with The Founding of the Smithsonian Institution	N	35-12-08 Oakland Tribune The strange slory of the founding of the SmithsonianInstitution will be revealed in "Strange As It Seems" as one of the dramatizations on that program, to be presented over KFRC from 7.45 to 8 o'clock tonight
35-12-18	93	Title Unknown	N	35-12-18 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-12-20	94	Title Unknown	N	35-12-20 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
35-12-25	95	Opens with Strange and Unusual Christmas Facts	N	35-12-22 Oakland Tribune Strange As It Seems, dealing with odd and unusual facts relating to Christmas, KFRC, 7:45 to B
35-12-27	96	Title Unknown	N	35-12-27 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-01-01	97	Opens with Unusual Observances of New Year	N	36-01-01 Oakland Tribune "Strange As It Seems," featuring weird and unusual observances of New year'; KFRC, 7:45 to 8:
36-01-03	98	Opens with The Wolf Month	Y	36-01-03 Oakland Tribune STRANGE AS IT SEEMS Do you know that January was once known as the Wolf Month, and how its name came to be changed? Would you have suspected that Dr. Gtllllotln did not invent the lethal device which bears his name, but was merely the sales agent? These are two of the strange stories to be told by John Hlx on his "Strange as It Seems" dramatization, broadcast by the Columbia Don Lee .network and KFRC from 7:45 to 8 this evening.
36-01-08	99	Title Unknown	N	36-01-08 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-01-10	100	Title Unknown	N	36-01-10 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-01-15	101	Title Unknown	N	36-01-15 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-01-17	102	Title Unknown	N	36-01-17 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-01-22	103	Title Unknown	N	36-01-22 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-01-24	104	Title Unknown	N	36-01-24 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-01-29	105	Title Unknown	N	36-01-29 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-01-31	106	Title Unknown	N	36-01-31 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-02-05	107	Title Unknown	N	36-02-02 Oakland Tribune ADDED TO CAST Playing the role of an Arab who heaps additional fuel on the fires of mystery, Gayne Whitman will join the cast of "Drums," the adventure serial which stars William Farnum. This episode, fourth in the series, will be broadcast over the Don Lee network and KFRC tonight from 7 to 7:30. Whitman's role is somewnat remindful of his part as "Chandu" in the "Chandu, the Magician" series. Noted as one of western radio's leading exponents of excellent dialect, Whitman appears twice weekly as "The Voice of 'Strange as It Seems' " on the program of that title and frequently as narrator or announcer on other major programs. 36-02-05 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-02-07	108	Title Unknown	N	36-02-07 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-02-12	109	Title Unknown	N	36-02-12 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-02-14	110	Title Unknown	N	36-02-14 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-02-19	111	Title Unknown	N	[Carleton Kadell takes over as narrator] 36-02-18 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-02-21	112	Opens with George Washington's Birthday Party	N	[Stars Lionel Barrymore as Ben Jonson in the second feature] 36-02-21 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems." The story that John Hix regards as the most sensational of all of his thousands of "Strange As It Seems" oddities will be dramatized on that program from KFRC at 7:45 tonight under the title of "George Washington's Birthday Party." The facts which Hix will reveal and prove about George Washington, supposed first President ot the United States, and whose birthday is supposedly tomorrow, are the acme of the "debunking" programs which frequently feature these broadcasts. For good measure, a second dramatization will be presented entitled "The Bones of Ben Jonson," a surprising disclosure about the celebrated English dramatist. Among other things the reason why this great writer asked for only 18 inches of spaces in Westminster Abbey as his burial place will be revealed. Director Cyril Armbrlster has signed the veteran Lionel Barrymore to portray Ben Jonson on the Gilmore Oil Company program.
36-02-26	113	Title Unknown	N	36-02-26 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems." 36-02-26 Oakland Tribune MIKE BECOMES FAITHFUL ECHO OF ALL NOISES Today's Column Topped by Carlton Ka Dell, 'Strange As It Seems' Voice on CBS By K.L. ECKSAN ...Carlton KaDell, whose photo tops this column today, is the new "Voice of Strange As It Seems." He assumed the role of narrator on this popular John Hix feature a week ago. Now a leading figure in West Coast radio, KaDell laid a thorough groundwork of stage experiences before entering the radio field. He has played in every type of stage show except burlesque. His theatrical experiences included lyceum, chautauqua, tent repertory, stock and an extensive career in support of many famous stage stars. He made his radio debut at WJJD in Chicago in 1931. A year later he joined NBC. He went to Los Angeles in 1932 and since then he has made a further bid for fame in "Hollywood Hotel," "Strange as It Seems," and with Leslie Howard and Eddie Cantor. He recently announced some of the Grace Moore programs...
36-02-28	114	Title Unknown	N	36-02-26 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-03-04	115	Title Unknown	N	36-03-04 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-03-06	116	Title Unknown	N	36-03-06 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-03-11	117	Title Unknown	N	36-03-11 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-03-13	118	Title Unknown	N	36-03-13 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-03-18	119	Title Unknown	N	36-03-18 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-03-20	120	Title Unknown	N	36-03-20 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-03-25	121	Title Unknown	N	36-03-25 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-03-27	122	Title Unknown	N	36-03-27 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-04-01	123	Opens with The Ghost March	N	36-04-01 Oakland Tribune Strange stories about John Phillips Sousa; a long-shot race horse and a dog with amazing regard for his health comprise the trio of dramatizations scheduled for John Hix "Strange As It Seems" broadcast of KFRC at 7:45 o'clock tonight. True Boardman undertakes to portray the great bandmaster in an epsode entitled "The Ghost March" which reveals the startling origin of the Sousa composition "The Stars and Stripes." "The Worthless Winner," second dramatization, discloses the strange reason why no one profited by the victory of a long-shot race horse that paid $1380 on a $2 mutuel ticket "The Dog That Enjoyed Poor Health" is an amusing tale of a particularly sagacious bulldog who preferred to take up matters of health directly with his veterinary without human interference. Felix Mills' original incidental and background music will, as usual, be an important feature of this latest broadcast of dramatized odd facts.
36-04-03	124	Opens with The Overnight Champion	N	36-04-03 Oakland Tribune STRANGE AS IT SEEMS The trapshooting enthusiasts, hitherto somewhat neglected by radio, come into their own on John Hix's "Strange As It Seems" program on the Columbia Don Lee network and KFRC) from 7:45 to 8 tonight. A dramatization, "The Overnight Champion," graphically presents the strange story of Rufus King, boy marksman, who emerged from trapshooting obscurity to win the great annual classic of that sport at Vandalia, Ohio. His subsequent exit from the championship picture was even stranger than his entrance. Clarence Green will play the role of the unusual title-winner. The second episode on this program, "The Obliging Thunderbolt," is the story of James Otis, great American patriot, whose fiery urgings figured prominently in bringing about the Revolutionary War. Otis had always hoped for a certain favor from a bolt of lightning, and how it was accorded him is the thrilling subject of this story. Lou Merrill comes to "Strange As It Seems" to portray the part of Otis.
36-04-08	125	Title Unknown	N	36-04-08 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-04-10	126	Title Unknown	N	36-04-10 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-04-15	127	Title Unknown	N	36-04-15 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-04-17	128	Title Unknown	N	36-04-17 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-04-22	129	Title Unknown	N	36-04-22 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-04-24	130	Title Unknown	N	36-04-24 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-04-29	131	Title Unknown	N	36-04-29 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-05-01	132	Title Unknown	N	[Moves to 6:45, Wednesdays and Fridays] 36-05-01 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-05-06	133	Title Unknown	N	36-05-06 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-05-08	134	Title Unknown	N	36-05-08 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-05-13	135	Title Unknown	N	36-05-13 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-05-15	136	Title Unknown	N	36-05-15 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-05-20	137	Title Unknown	N	36-05-20 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-05-22	138	Title Unknown	N	36-05-22 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-05-27	139	Title Unknown	N	36-05-27 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-05-29	140	Title Unknown	N	36-05-29 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-06-03	141	Title Unknown	N	36-06-03 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-06-05	142	Title Unknown	N	36-06-05 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-06-10	143	Title Unknown	N	36-06-10 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-06-12	144	Title Unknown	N	36-06-12 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-06-17	145	Title Unknown	N	36-06-17 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-06-19	146	Opens with The Lincoln-Douglas Rivalry	N	36-06-19 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-06-24	147	Title Unknown	N	36-06-24 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-06-26	148	Title Unknown	N	36-06-26 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-07-01	149	Title Unknown	N	36-07-01 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-07-03	150	Title Unknown	N	36-07-03 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-07-08	151	Title Unknown	N	36-07-08 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-07-10	152	Title Unknown	N	36-07-10 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-07-15	153	Opens with Who Invented The Telephone	N	36-07-17 Oakland Tribune WRONG NUMBER AGAIN Disillusionment is in store for you on the "Strange As It Seems" program tonipht . . Here we've gone on all these years crediting the bewhiskered, benevolent looking Alexander Graham Bell with inventing the telephone and now John Hix comes along with some upsetting information on the subject.. .The title of tonight's "debunking story" is "Who Invented the Telephone?" ...This will be one of four dramatic offerings on this program. (Spot: 6:45 to 7, KFRC).
36-07-17	154	Opens with The Lincoln-Douglas Rivalry	N	[Repeated due to the previous airing having been broadcast while the Louis-Schmeling fight was in progress -- June 19, 1936] 36-07-17 Oakland Tribune HIX DRAMA TO BE REPORTED ON AIR TONIGHT 'Strange As It Seems' Play To Have Second Airing To Meet Popular Demand by K.L. ECKSAN The heavyweight championship debate which ended when Joe Louis hit the canvas and stayed there without offering any fistic arguments by way of rebuttal crowded the drama of a more historic rivalry off the air . . . As a result there will be a repeat performance tonight, not of the Louis-Schmeling encounter, but of the "Strange as It Seems" show which was on the air while the fight was being broadcast. . . The historic rivalry which provides the theme for one of the dramatic offerings on this program was that between Lincoln and Douglas. . . Research by Cartoonist John Hix has disclosed that their historic debates were but one phase of a life-long rivalry between the two statesmen . . . The program will also offer a dramatization titled "Ten Thousand Years of Glory." (Spot: 6:45 to 7, KFRC.)
36-07-22	155	Title Unknown	N	36-07-22 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-07-24	156	Title Unknown	N	36-07-24 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-07-29	157	Title Unknown	N	36-07-29 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-07-31	158	Title Unknown	N	36-07-31 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-08-05	159	Title Unknown	N	36-08-05 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:00) "Strange As It Seems." Strange As It Seems moving ahead to 7 o'clock to make room for a talk by Mrs. Wm. Curtis Bok at 6:45.
36-08-07	160	Title Unknown	N	36-08-07 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-08-12	161	Opens with How Tom Thumb Felled A Man 5 Times His Size	N	36-08-12 Oakland Tribune How Tom Thumb once caused the death of a man five times his size will betold in one of the sketches in tonight's "Strange As It Seems" broadcast to be heard on KFRC from 6:45 to 7
36-08-14	162	Title Unknown	N	36-08-14 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-08-19	163	Title Unknown	N	36-08-19 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-08-21	--		--	[Preempted by Democratic Nat'l Cmte.] 36-08-21 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) Democratic Nat'l Cmte.
36-08-26	164	Title Unknown	N	36-08-26 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-08-28	--		--	[Preempted by Senator Robinson address] 36-08-28 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) Senator Robinson
36-09-02	165	Opens with The 75-Year Old Soup	N	36-09-02 Oakland Tribune Dial offerings to please various tastes will be found in the following KFRC high spots: Strange As It Seems (ever hear of soup 75 vears old?), 6:45 to 7.
36-09-04	166	Opens with The Miser Who Became A Spendthrift	N	36-09-04 Oakland Tribune 6:45—Strange As It Seems (ever hear of a miser who turned spendthrift?) (KFRC).
36-09-09	167	Opens with How Cleveland Got Its Present Name	N	36-09-09 Oakland Tribune 6:45—Strange As It Seems did you know Cleveland gots its present name because its former one was too big to fit into a newspaper head?) (KFRC).
36-09-11	168	Opens with How Bismarck Changed A Telegram to Start A War	N	36-09-11 Oakland Tribune 6:45—Strange as it Seems; John Hix says Bismarck changed a telegram and started a War (KFRC).
36-09-16	169	Title Unknown	N	36-09-16 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-09-18	170	Opens with The 500 Dollar Fine for Owning A Rabbit	N	36-09-18 Oakland Tribune 6:45--Strange As It Seems; ever get fined $500 for owning a pet rabbit? (KFRC).

36-09-22	--		--	[Moves to Tuesdays and Fridays, weekly] 36-09-22 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(6:45) Studio
36-09-25	171	Title Unknown	N	[Moved to 9:15 due to Sec. Of Agriculture Wallace address] 36-09-25 Oakland Tribune 6:45—Strange As It Seems (KFRC). KFRC--(9:15) "Strange As It Seems."
36-09-29	172	Title Unknown	N	36-09-29 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems."
36-10-02	173	Title Unknown	N	36-10-02 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:00) "Strange As It Seems."
36-10-06	174	Title Unknown	N	36-10-09 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:45) "Strange As It Seems:" proving that anything can happen somewhere (KFRC).
36-10-09	175	Title Unknown	N	[Moves to 7:30 p.m.] 36-10-09 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems."
36-10-13	176	Opens with The Museum Specimen That Came to Life	N	36-10-16 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange As It Seems; note the new time for this and for Male Chorus Parade, which follows; keep this in mind, otherwise, strange as it seems, you may be expecting to hear a Bach number and find yourself listening- to the story of The Museum Specimen That Came to Life (KFRC).
36-10-16	177	Title Unknown	N	36-10-16 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems."
36-10-20	178	Opens with Was Poe's Raven Actually a White Owl	N	36-10-20 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange As It Seems., suggesting, among other strange things, that perhaps Poe's "Raven" was a white owl (KFRC).
36-10-23	179	Opens with A Sailor Who'd Been in 24 Shipwrecks	N	36-10-23 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems." If you were a ship's captain would you hire a sailor who had been in 24 shipwrecks? . . . An answer to this one is promised tonight on the "Strange As It Seems" program on KFRC
36-10-27	180	Title Unknown	N	36-10-27 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems."
36-10-30	181	Title Unknown	N	36-10-30 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange As It Seems; nothing seems strange to us any more—not since the day we lost our all on the Schmeling-Louis bout (KFRC)
36-11-03	182	Opens with Election Music and Oddities	N	36-11-03 Oakland Tribune ELECTION WILL BE THEME OF AIR PROGRAM Strange As It Seems to Try To Match Election Music And Election Oddities By K.L. Ecksan Strange as it seems, the program which bears that name will depart from its usual routine tonight. . . . The program is to be largely an "adlib'' affair... The only advance tabulation of a host of oddities concerning past elections and the arrangement of music typical of the various states and sections of the country. . . Election returns, the latest available, will be read during the broadcast and Felix Mills and his ork will, according to advance notices, "hastily seize the proper music and play appropriate backgrounds, while Director Cyril Armbrister and his cast will with equal haste, select and relate brief oddities about past elections in that part of the country." . . . And if Felix grabs the wrong music and if Cyril grabs up an armful of the wrong oddities it will probably sound like and old-fashioned election riot. . .We're willing to bet somebody will slip somewhere in the broadcast. . . What odds are we offered on election oddities?
36-11-06	183	Opens with The Flip of A Coin	N	36-11-06 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange As It Seems; "The Flip of a Coin"; first get your coin (KFRC).
36-11-10	184	Opens with The Story of 'In Flanders Fields'	N	36-11-10 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange As It Seems. Captain Gilbert Tyndale-Rae will reenact the strange role he played in a Flanders shell hole during the World War when Bruce Mc-Rae wrote "In Flanders Fields" in a neighboring shell hole and tossed Captain Tyndale-Rae the poem, stanza by stanza. (KFRC).
36-11-13	185	Opens with The Woman Admiral	N	36-11-13 Oakland Tribune 7:30— Strange As It Seems: in which "The Woman Admiral" makes Tugboat Annie look like mere castaway adrift on a raft (KFRC).
36-11-17	186	Title Unknown	N	36-11-17 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems."
36-11-20	187	Title Unknown	N	36-11-20 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems."
36-11-24	188	Opens with Mahatma Ghandi's Sartorial Tastes	N	36-11-24 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange as It Seems, in which it is revealed that Mahatma Gandhi used to go in for top hats, ' canes, and all that goes with a full-dress suit: KFRC.
36-11-27	189	Opens with Thanksgiving Oddities	N	36-11-24 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange As It Seems; dramatizing Thanksgiving Oddities (KFRC).
36-12-01	190	Title Unknown	N	36-12-01 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems."
36-12-04	191	Title Unknown	N	36-12-04 San Mateo Times KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems."
36-12-08	192	Title Unknown	N	36-12-08 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange as It Seems
36-12-11	193	Opens with Character Analysis of Mrs. Wallis Simpson	N	36-12-11 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems." 7:30—Harry H. Balkin. character analyst, will offer a character analysis of Mrs. Wallis Simpson (KFRC).
36-12-15	194	Opens with Not To Get Personal, But . . .	N	36-12-15 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange as It Seems; "Not to Get Personal, But ": John Hix will debunk the dialers for a change this time; here's a chance for us to tune in and hear ourselves as others hrar us (KFRC).
36-12-18	195	Opens with How Frankenstein was Inspired by a Nightmare	N	36-12-18 Oakland Tribune KFRC--(7:30) "Strange As It Seems." How "Frankenstein" was inspired by a nightmare will be told during Strange As It Seems
36-12-22	196	Opens with The Land of the Unwritten Law	N	[Moves to Tuesdays at 7:30, weekly] 36-12-22 Oakland Tribune 7:30--Strange As It Seems; KFRC Land of The Unwritten Law will be the subject of one of tonight's "Strange As It Seems" dramas
36-12-29	197	Opens with The Curse of The Comstock	N	[Announces the 20oth presentation of Strange As It Seems over Radio] 36-12-29 Oakland Tribune 7:30—Strange as It Seems, KSFO. "Strange As It Seems" offers its 200th presentation tonight . . . "The Curse of the Comstock" will be the hightlight of tonight's group of dramatized oddities. Radio fans attention, please! Startling changes in the radio world are on tap tonight and unless you take careful note you may miss one of your favorite programs, or at least tune in late while trying to find out where it is. First, tune in KSFO from now on for all Columbia Broadcasting company programs. KSFO is the new Northern California outlet for CBS, replacing KFRC. So tonight, in order not to miss out on such programs as the Caravan, Strange As It Seems, Al Jolson, Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians and other top-notch programs be sure and dial 550 kilocycles for KSFO. Next on the list of changes is the use of KFRC by the Mutual Broadcasting system,-- which will offer hitherto unheard features on the Coast. Thus KFRC, 610 kilocycles, becomes a member of this eastern broadcasting company, now making its debut here. Third important change is the formation and introduction of the new California Radio system, made up of six stations. The key outlets will be KYA, San Francisco, and KEHE, Los Angeles. The affiliation is completed by the four stations of the McClatchy Broadcasting company. They are KFBK, Sacramento; KMJ, Fresno; Kern, Bakersfield, and KWG, Stockton. A dedication program is scheduled on these stations between 7:30 and 9 o'clock tonight, when the National Broadcasting company salutes its new affiliations. Fans will benefit by the changes, as announced by broadcasting company officials. With Columbia owning and operating KSFO, the company is now prepared to release eastern programs which KFRC was unable to handle because of Don Lee network tieups. With the addition of the third big network, the Mutual Broadcasting system, more and varied programs will be offered.
37-01-01	198	Title Unknown	N	37-01-01 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Strange as It Seems.
37-01-05	199	Opens with Norton I, Emperor of America	N	37-01-05 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Strange as It Seems. ...How a bridge, across San Francisco Bay was "ordered' many years ago by the selfstyled "Norton I, Emperor of America" will be told in one of the Strange as It .Seems dramas tonight
37-01-08	200	Opens with California's Rising Industry	N	37-01-08 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Strange as It Seems. California's rising industry provides the theme for one oe the dramatized oddities on the "Strange as It Seems" program
37-01-12	201	Opens with Lord Nelson Planned Battle of Trafalgar on a Table Cloth	N	37-01-12 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Strange as It Seems. How Lord Nelson mapped out his plans for the Battle of Trafalgar on his host's table cloth, will be one of tonight's "Strange As It Seems" drama themes.
37-01-15	202	Opens with The Real Story Behind Paul Revere's Ride	N	37-01-15 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Strange as It Seems. In one of tonight's Strange As It Seems playlets, John Hix disagrees with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow concerning Paul Revere
37-01-19	203	Opens with One of the Strangest Duels On Record	N	37-01-19 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Strange as It Seems. One of the strangest duels on record will be the theme of one of the playets on the "Strange As It Seems" program.
37-01-22	204	Title Unknown	N	37-01-22 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Strange as It Seems.
37-01-26	205	Title Unknown	N	37-01-26 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Strange as It Seems.
37-01-29	206	Title Unknown	N	37-01-29 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Strange as It Seems. With tonight's presentation, "Strange As It Seems," the John Hix serial bows out as a CBS feature

37-02-02	--		--	37-02-02 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Studio.
37-02-05	--		--	37-02-05 Oakland Tribune 7:30—KSFO--Dwight L. Moody Program.

The Strange As It Seems Program Log [1938 NBC-Red Run - 15-minute format]
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
38-01-02	--		--	38-01-09 Wisconsin State Journal 3:00 P. M. Romance Melodies, WMAQ.
38-01-09	1	Title Unknown	N	[Sunday afternoons; replaces Romance Melodies] 38-01-09 Wisconsin State Journal 3:00 P. M. Strange As It Seems, WMAQ.
38-01-16	2	Title Unknown	N
38-01-23	3	Title Unknown	N	38-01-23 Wisconsin State Journal 3:00 P. M. Strange As It Seems, WMAQ.
38-01-30	4	Title Unknown	N	38-01-30 Wisconsin State Journal 3:00 P. M. Strange As It Seems, WMAQ.
38-02-06	5	Title Unknown	N
38-02-13	6	Title Unknown	N	38-02-11 The Sheboygan Press SUNDAY--3:00 P. M. Strange As It Seems, WMAQ. 38-02-20 Oakland Tribune KGO--4:00--Prosperity Paths
38-02-20	7	Opens with Incidents in the Life of George Washington	N	38-02-20 Oakland Tribune KGO--4:15--Strange As It Seems 38-02-19 Freeport Journal Standard Sunday--The entire Strange As It Seems program on WMAQ at 3 will be devoted to dramatization of Incidents in the life of George Washington
38-02-27	8	Title Unknown	N	38-02-27 Oakland Tribune KGO--4:15--Strange As It Seems
38-03-06	9	Opens with The World's Strangest Check	N	38-03-06 Oakland Tribune KGO--4:15--Strange As It Seems 38-03-05 San Mateo Times TOMORROW--John Hix's "Strange As It Seems" brings San Francisco into the picture during a dramat!ration of "The World's Strangest Check." And, strange as it seems, my friends, John Hix does not write the radio version of "Strange As It Seems," (KGO, 4;15 p.m.) 38-03-07 Lawrence World Journal Glenn Cunningham who has been cracking track records like match sticks here of late appeared in person on John Hix's "Strange As It Seems" program yesterday. The Hix cartoon feature of the same name appears daily in the Journal-World. Glenn was quizzed generally by the announcers. Cunningham also appeared in person on another nation-wide broadcast yesterday.
38-03-13	10	Title Unknown	N	38-03-13 Oakland Tribune KGO--4:15--Strange As It Seems
38-03-20	11	Title Unknown	N	38-03-20 Oakland Tribune KGO--4:15--Strange As It Seems
38-03-27	12	Title Unknown	N	38-03-27 Nevada State Journal KSL(CBS)--6 :00— Strange as It Seems.
38-04-03	13	Title Unknown	N
38-04-10	14	Title Unknown	N
38-04-17	15	Title Unknown	N
38-04-24	16	Title Unknown	N	38-04-27 Logansport Press The life of the Strange as It Seems recorded program is in no way jeopardized by the lack of the material John Hix, its creator, has on hand. He explains that if another oddity never comes his way, he now has enough material on hand to continue the NBC program for the next 10 years.
38-05-01	17	Title Unknown	N
38-05-08	18	Title Unknown	N
38-05-15	19	Title Unknown	N
38-05-22	20	Title Unknown	N	38-05-21 Muscatine Journal Sunday--WHO--1:30--Strange As it Seems
38-05-29	21	Title Unknown	N
38-06-05	22	Title Unknown	N	38-06-03 The Sheboygan Press SUNDAY--2 P. M. Strange as It Seems, WMAQ
38-06-12	23	Title Unknown	N	38-06-10 The Sheboygan Press SUNDAY--2 P. M. Strange as It Seems, WMAQ
38-06-19	24	Title Unknown	N	38-06-17 The Sheboygan Press SUNDAY--2 P. M. Strange as It Seems, WMAQ
38-06-26	25	Title Unknown	N	38-06-24 The Sheboygan Press SUNDAY--2 P. M. Strange as It Seems, WMAQ
38-07-03	26	Title Unknown	N
38-07-10	27	Title Unknown	N	38-07-10 Carroll Daily Herald WHO--1:30— Strange as It Seems
38-07-17	28	Title Unknown	N	38-07-16 Mason City Globe-Gazette Sunday--WHO--1:30--Strange As it Seems
38-07-24	29	Title Unknown	N	38-07-23 Mason City Globe-Gazette Sunday--WHO--1:30--Strange As it Seems
38-07-31	30	Title Unknown	N	38-07-30 Mason City Globe-Gazette Sunday--WHO--1:30--Strange As it Seems
38-08-07	31	Opens with The 300 Thousand Dollar Fire at Leadville	N	38-08-07 Hutchinson News Herald 2:00— Strange as It Seems—The $300,000 fire at Leadvllle. WMAQ.
38-08-14	32	Title Unknown	N	38-08-13 Mason City Globe-Gazette Sunday--WHO--1:30--Strange As it Seems
38-08-21	33	Title Unknown	N	38-08-20 Mason City Globe-Gazette Sunday--WHO--1:30--Strange As it Seems
38-08-28	34	Title Unknown	N	38-08-27 The Sheboygan Press SUNDAY--2 P. M. Strange as It Seems, WMAQ
38-09-04	35	Title Unknown	N	38-09-03 The Sheboygan Press SUNDAY--2 P. M. Strange as It Seems, WMAQ
38-09-11	36	Title Unknown	N	38-09-09 The Sheboygan Press SUNDAY--2 P. M. Strange as It Seems, WMAQ
38-09-18	37	Title Unknown	N
38-09-25	38	Title Unknown	N
38-10-02	39	Title Unknown	N
38-10-09	40	Title Unknown	N	38-10-08 The Sheboygan Press SUNDAY--2 P. M. Strange as It Seems, WMAQ
38-10-16	41	Title Unknown	N
38-10-23	42	Title Unknown	N
38-10-30	43	Title Unknown	N	38-10-30 Oakland Tribune KGO--2:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems
38-11-06	44	Title Unknown	N	38-11-06 Wisconsin State Journal 3 p. m. — Strange As It Seems--WMAQ 38-11-06 Oakland Tribune KGO--2:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems
38-11-13	45	Title Unknown	N	38-11-13 Wisconsin State Journal 3 p. m. — Strange As It Seems--WMAQ 38-11-13 Oakland Tribune KGO--2:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems
38-11-20	46	Title Unknown	N	38-11-20 Wisconsin State Journal 3 p. m. — Strange As It Seems--WMAQ
38-11-27	47	Title Unknown	N	38-11-27 Wisconsin State Journal 3 p. m. — Strange As It Seems--WMAQ
38-12-04	48	Title Unknown	N	38-12-04 Wisconsin State Journal 3 p. m. — Strange As It Seems--WMAQ
38-12-11	49	Title Unknown	N	38-12-11 Wisconsin State Journal 3 p. m. — Strange As It Seems--WMAQ
38-12-18	50	Title Unknown	N	38-12-18 Wisconsin State Journal 3 p. m. — Strange As It Seems--WMAQ 38-12-18 Wisconsin State Journal 3 p. m. — Believe Jt or Not (WMAQ): Robert Ripley celebrates 20th anniversary in Bogota, Columbia.
38-12-25	51	Opens with Proof That Santa Claus Really Lived	N	38-12-23 Logansport Pharos Tribune Proof that Santa Claus really lived will be furnished to listeners who tuue in the recorded broadcast of Strange As It Seems. Sunday, December 25, at 3 p. m. CST, over Station WMAQ. Appropriate to the season, the broadcast will also dramatize the story behind "The Night Before Christmas." famous poem by Dr. Clement Clark Moore. 38-12-25 Wisconsin State Journal 3 p. m. — Strange As It Seems (WMAQ): proof that Santa Claus did live.
39-01-01				[Replaced by Say It with Music]

The Strange As It Seems Program Log [1939 - 1941 CBS Run -- Half-hour episodes]
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
39-08-17	1	Opens with 28 Quadrillion in Unclaimed Gold	N	[Palmolive sponsorship] 39-07-29 Lima News Strange As It Seems, a weekly half-hour program based on the famous John Hix cartoon of the same name, will be launched over 54 stations of the CBS network, Thursday, Aug. 17. It will be broadcast as a regular Thursday evening feature at 7:30. Presenting real people whose bizarre and incredible experiences make news, as well as true facts gathered from the hidden pages of American history, the progrm marks the national radio debut of the Hix feature. A veteran at 31, John Hix has long been regarded as the boy wonder of the newspaper syndicate field. He started his daily oddities cartoon on March 26, 1928, when he was only 20 years old. Today, thru United Feature Syndicate, Strange As It Seems appears in over 200 newspapers. Hix, who is also active in motion picture writing, will supply material from Hollywood for the program, which will originate in New York. He carries on a constant correspondence with hundreds of persons, and his material, all verified before used, is gathered from world-wide sources. In eleven years, he has used more than 19,000 separate items in his newspaper feature, and has over 50,000 additional facts on file. 39-08-17 Wisconsin State Journal Gold Story Headlines Initial Broadcast of 'Strange As It Seems' A rare, almost unbelievable story about the existence of 28 quadrillion dollars-- $28,000,000,000,000,000 -- worth of unclaimed gold will headline the premiere broadcast of "Strange As It Seems" tonight at 6:30 p.m. over CBS-WBBM. The initial program also includes the true story of Paul Revere's ride, which differs greatly from the usual grammar school version.
39-08-24	2	Opens with Napoleon's Nemesis	N	39-08-24 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): Napoleon's Nemesis revealed to be a French woman who was captured by pirates and who later became empress of the Ottoman Empire. 39-08-24 Capital Times The Story of an aristocratic French woman, who after being captured by pirates and sold into the harem of the Sultan of Turkey, became virtual empress of the Ottoman Empire and helped bring about the downfall of Napoleon will be dramatized during the "Strange As It Seems" program, on WBBM at 6:30.
39-08-31	3	Title Unknown	N	39-08-31 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM
39-09-07	4	Opens with Great Pyramid of Egypt Prophecy	N	39-09-07 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): the Great Pyramid's prophecy of a European climax Nov. 27, 1939. 39-09-07 Capital Times The present world crisis will be climaxed on Nov. 27 according to the prophetic vision of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, the story of which will be dramatized on the "Strange As It Seems" program through WBBM at 6:30 tonight. 39-09-07 Lima News The present world crisis will be climaxed on November 27, 1939, according to tho prophetic "vision" of the Great Pyiamid of Egypt, the story of which will be dramatized on Strange As It Seems, Thursday at 7:30 p. m. This "Mystery of the Ages" has foretold the history of the world correctly for more than 4,000 years, including the Great Flood, the birth of Christ, the World War, the 1929 depression and the present period of world trouble, which purportedly will last until 1953. Alois Havrilla, master-of-ceremonies, also will present the true tale of two neighboring cities, divided by an international boundary line, that ignored a war between their respective countries; and the story of one of the weirdest oddities in the history of baseball—the scoring of a run by a dead ballplayer.
39-09-14	5	Opens with The Mystery of the Buried Crosses	N	39-09-14 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): Wisconsin's Hamlin Garland, with dramatization of parts of his "The Mystery of the Buried Crosses." 39-09-14 Capital Times Stories of buried relics that only "dead men" could locate and of an American woman who became an army sergeant, will be highlighted on the Strange As It Seems program through WIBA at 6:30 tonight
39-09-21	6	Opens with Timothy Dexter, The World's Best Salesman	Y	39-09-20 Logansport Pharos Tribune The true story of an "American Midas," who made a fortune shipping coal to Newcastle, England; the story of a man who was traded tor a race horse and the strangest duel in the world, highlight dramatizations on John Hix' "Strange As It Seems" on Columbia network. Thursday, Sept 21 (WABC-CBS. 6:30 to 7:00 p. m. CST. Rebroadcast at 10:30'p m CST. 39-09-21 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): a Midas who made a fortune shipping coal to Newcastle; a man who was traded for a race horse; the strangest duel in the world. Announces the Cobbler of Kiev as next
39-09-28	7	Opens with The Cobbler of Kiev	N	39-09-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): the cobbler of Kiev, who became a great surgeon.
39-10-05	8	Opens with The Three Grand Old Men of Sports	N	39-10-05 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): three "grand old men" of sports; facts about a beer gusher.
39-10-12	9	Opens with Columbus Day Oddities	N	39-10-12 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): Columbus day oddities.
39-10-19	10	Opens with Useless Books that Brought Fortunes	N	39-10-19 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): "useless" books that brought fortunes; a valley where time stands still; a song that changed a life. 39-10-19 Capital Times The guest appearance of Mr. and Mrs. Charles "Cannibal" Miller, who will describe their honeymoon visit to a valley forgotten by time, will feature the Strange As It Seems broadcast over WBBM at 7:30 tonight
39-10-26	11	Opens with Cavalcade of Strange Movie Events	N	39-10-26 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): a cavalcade of strange movie events; man who saw America "on the cuff."
39-11-02	12	Opens with A Milkman Who Put His Daughter's Photo on Every Bottle	N	39-11-02 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM 39-11-02 Lima News Hollywood oddities, including one about the milkman who got his child into pictures by delivering her photo with every milk bottle, and another about a man who won his place in the studios by his uncanny ability to train insects will be highlighted on the Strange As It Seems program Thursday at 8:30 p.m.
39-11-09	13	Opens with Benedict Arnold's Heroic Left Leg	N	39-11-09 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): Benedict Arnold's "heroic" left leg, the dream that inspired the sewing machine, the man who predicted snow for July.
39-11-16	14	Opens with Pyramid Expert's Dire Europe Prediction	N	39-11-16 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): pyramid expert predicts European climax Nov. 28.
39-11-23	15	Opens with Holiday On the Move	N	39-11-23 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): a holiday on the move.
39-11-30	16	Opens with Jacques Romano	N	39-11-30 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): Jacques Romano, a man purported to be able to control his entire body at will. 39-11-30 Capital Times Jacques Romano, a man who has never read a book but is recognized by medical societies as an authority on Iodine therapy and medical chemistry, will be heard on the Strange As It Seems program tonight, over WBBM at 7:30.
39-12-07	17	Opens with Miss Ruth Doyle, 10-Ton Truck Driver	N	39-12-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): woman truck-driver, poet-prognosticator, just for a horse-thief. 39-12-07 Capital Times The guest appearance of Miss Ruth Doyle, who drives a 10-ton truck for a living . . and the story of a poet who correctly foretold the tragic fate of six friends, will be features, on the Strange As It Seems program, on WBBM at 7:30 tonight.
39-12-14	18	Title Unknown	N
39-12-21	19	Opens with The Story of Silent Night	N	39-12-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): the story of "Silent Night."
39-12-28	20	Opens with The Story Behind Sightless Vision	N	39-12-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): the story behind "sightless vision."
40-01-04	21	Opens with Fred McCormick, Human Dynamo	N	40-01-04 Capital Times Fred McCormick, a human dynamo whose body can generate as much as 8,000 volts of electricity, will make a guest appearance on the Strange As It Seems program. tonight, through WBBM at 7:30.
40-01-11	22	Opens with Mormons' Miracle from the Skies	N	40-01-11 Wisconsin State Journal - 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): the Mormons' "miracle from the skies," original of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." The "Miracle from the Skies" that saved the Mormons from famine when their lielda were invaded by a black awarra of grasshoppers more than 90 jears ago, and the story of the incredible man who was immortalized by Robert Louis Stevenson, will be revealed during Strange As It Seems, tonight on WBBM at 7:30.
40-01-18	23	Opens with The Black Angel	N	40-01-18 Wisconsin State Journal - 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): How "black angel" saved train in Minnesota fog.
40-01-25	24	Opens with Ethelbert the Whale	N	40-01-25 Wisconsin State Journal - 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): the story of Ethelbert the whale, who got himself stranded 112 miles from the Pacific.
40-02-01	25	Opens with Lookalike Leavenworth Prisoners	N	40-02-01 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): two "look-alike" Leavenworth prisoners who brought about important development in criminal history.
40-02-08	26	Opens with Abraham Lincoln and the One-legged Negro	N	40-02-08 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): Abraham Lincoln encounters a one-legged Negro.
40-02-15	27	Opens with The Ship That was Sunk By Butterflies	N	40-02-15 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM 40-02-15 Capital Times Stories of a ship that was sunk by a deluqe of butterflies, how a grubstake of $17 won a cool million, and strange adventures of newspaper photographers, will be dramatized during the Strange As It Seems program tonight, through WBBM at 7:30.
40-02-22	28	Opens with George Washington Impersonator	N	40-02-22 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): with Laurance H. Hart, Washington impersonator, telling the first president's human side.
40-02-29	29	Opens with Women Debt Chasers	N	40-02-29 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): women debt chasers, rhyming bandit.
40-03-07	30	Opens with The Lost Continent, 'Mu'	N	40-03-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): story of the lost continent "Mu."
40-03-14	31	Opens with 'Virginia City'	N	40-03-14 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): including "Virginia City" premiere, with Alan Hale and Guinn Williams.
40-03-21	32	Opens with the 'Borrowed Timers'	N	40-03-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): members of the "Borrowed Timers" of Ellensberg, Wash.; truths hidden in Mother Goose rhymes.
40-03-28	33	Opens with The Story of Rasputin	N	40-03-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): the story of Rasputin as told by Author R.T.M. Scott.
40-04-04	34	Opens with The Story of Sir Henry Morgan	N	40-04-04 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange as It Seems (WBBM): story of Sir Henry Morgan.
40-04-11	35	Opens with Lazare Kaplan, who Split the Jonker Diamond	N	40-04-11 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): with Lazare Kaplan, who split Jonker diamond.
40-04-18	36	Opens with The Story of Butineau	N	40-04-18 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): tale of Butineau, who could see beyond horizon.
40-04-25	37	Opens with Tunes Played on Rhinoceros Fossil Bones	N	40-04-25 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): popular American tunes played on million-year-old fossil rhinoceros bones.
40-05-02	38	Opens with The Hermit who Met His Long Dead Wife	N	40-05-02 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): the hermit meets his "long dead" wife.
40-05-09	39	Opens with Tibetan Lama's Prophecies about Czar Nicholas II	N	40-05-09 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): Princess Alexandra Kropotkin describes Tibetan lama's fulfilled prophecies about Czar Nicholas II.
40-05-16	40	Opens with Liquid Air Expert	N	40-05-16 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): liquid air expert looks ahead.
40-05-23	41	Opens with The Curse of King Tut-Ankh-Amen	N	40-05-23 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): the curse of King Tut-Ankh-Amen.
40-05-30	42	Title Unknown	N
40-06-06	43	Opens with Roanoke Colony Disappearance	N	40-06-06 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): the Roanoke colony disappearance explained.
40-06-13	44	Opens with Death Highway	N	40-06-13 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): the highway police on "Death Highway" and safety.
40-06-20	45	Opens with Taynganyikan Tribe Who Live with Lions	N	40-06-20 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM 40-06-20 Lima News An amazing tribe of Tanganyika savages, who live and hunt in the company of fierce South African lions, will be described by Lewis Cummings, famed adventurer, when he appears on the Strange As It Seems program, Thursday, 7:30 p.m. over WABC. Cummings, whose fabled career includes fighting with Pancho Villa and hiking alone across Africa, is an old friend of Alois Havrilla, Emcee of the program.
40-06-27	46	Opens with A Woman Who Runs A Boxing Camp	N	40-06-27 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): woman who operates pugilists' training camp
40-07-04	--		--	40-07-04 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30--Dr. Christian--WBBM
40-07-11	48	Opens with Northwest Mounties Hunt A Killer	N	40-07-11 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): the northwest mounties hunt a killer in the Arctic.
40-07-18	49	Opens with 20-Year Search for Traffic Officer's Family	N	40-07-18 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): traffic officer's 20-year search for his family.
40-07-25	50	Opens with Winifred Moore, Blind Prodigy	N	40-07-25 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM 40-07-25 Lima News Winifred Moore, blind prodigy who reads a Braille music book with her feet while playing the piano, will be the guest personality of Strange As It Seems program, Thursday, WABC, 7:30 p.m. Accomopanied by her faithful guide dog, Miss Moore has flown to New York from her home in Hattiesburg, Miss.
40-08-01	51	Opens with The Far East's 'General Chan'	N	40-08-01 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): story of Bert Hall, the Far East's "Gen Chan."
40-08-08	52	Opens with White King of the Headhunters	N	40-08-08 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): the story of G. T.W. Ashburn, "White king of the headhunters."
40-08-15	53	Opens with The Hay Fever Association	N	40-08-15 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): Pres. Ed Gusweiler of Hay Fever assn; Tom Terriss, adventurer.
40-08-22	54	Opens with 41-Round Bout Fought in Flood and Snowstorm	N	40-08-22 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): 41-round fight that began in flooded ring, ended in snowstorm. 40-08-22 Lima News Strange As It Seems, the pageant of miracles and mysticism, prodigies and portents, will pass the one-year mark on the CBS network Thursday. The half hour dramatic show, based on the syndicated newspaper cartoons of John Hix, is heard each Thursday at 8:30 p. m. over WABC. Alois Havrilla, diction-perfect master of ceremonies, has piloted the program since it was launched oa Aug. 17, 1939. His weekly function is to astound the listening audience with dramatizations of various strange experiences and incredible historical events.
40-08-29	55	Opens with The 'Shipboard Mother' for Evacuated British Children	N	40-08-29 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): Mrs. Evelyn Turner, "Shipboard mother" for evacuated British children; Capt. Ray Delhauer, who camoflages carrier pigeons.
40-09-05	56	Opens with Bible Adventure from World War I	N	40-09-05 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): a Bible adventure from the first World war
40-09-12	57	Opens with First Abdominal Operation in History	N	40-09-12 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): first abdominal operation in medical history.
40-09-19	58	Opens with Ohio Mound-Builders	N	40-09-19 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): new discoveries about Ohio mound-builders.
40-09-26	59	Opens with The Case of Mary Ellen	N	40-09-26 Wisconsin State Journal 6:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): How a young girl, who has been horribly treated by her foster other, was once brought to court as an "Animal" will be revealed in the "Case of Mary Ellen," one of the law's most unusual cases on the "Strange as It Seems" program tonight at 6:30 through CBS-WBBM.
40-10-03	60	Opens with Patience Worth and her Return After Death	N	40-10-03 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): the story of Patience Worth, 17th century writer who "returned after death" to write stories and poetry.
40-10-10	61	Opens with Anna Ella Carroll, Advisor to President Lincoln	N	40-10-10 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): Anna Ella Carroll and her work as Civil war advisor to President Lincoln.
40-10-17	62	Opens with Mender of Men	N	40-10-17 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM 40-10-17 Lima News A large factory employing only persons with one or more artificial limbs will be described during a dramatization of the achievements of Ray Troutman, "Mender of Men," on the Strange As It Seems program, Thursday over WABC at 8:30 p.m.
40-10-24	63	Opens with The Ruse That Turned Back an Army	N	40-10-24 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): a ruse turned back the German army in 1918
40-10-31	--		--	40-10-31 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Wendell L. Willkie (WBBM).
40-11-07	65	Opens with How A Dog Helped Cover the 1938 New England Hurricane	N	40-11-07 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): Arthur Sullivan tells how his dog helped him cover the 1938 New England hurricane.
40-11-14	66	Opens with Man Commits Murder After Serving Time For It	N	40-11-14 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): the weird case of a man who committed a murder after he'd served time for it.
40-11-21	67	Title Unknown	N	40-11-21 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM
40-11-28	68	Opens with The Unfinished English Channel Tunnel	N	40-11-28 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): the unfinished tunnel between England and France.
40-12-05	69	Opens with Man Speaks After 6 Years of Silence	N	40-12-05 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): voiceless six years, man speaks
40-12-12	70	Opens with Studies in Mental Telepathy	N	40-12-12 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30 p.m.--Strange As It Seems (WBBM): Sir Hubert Wilkins and Harold Sherman reveal studies in Mental telepathy
40-12-19	71	Title Unknown	N	40-12-19 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM
40-12-26	72	Title Unknown	N	40-12-26 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM
41-01-02	--	Title Unknown	N	41-01-02 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30--Strange As It Seems--WBBM 41-01-02 Northwest Arkasas Times WABC-CBS--7:30-City Desk dramas replacing "Strange As It Seems"
41-01-09	--		--	41-01-09 Wisconsin State Journal 7:30--City Desk--WBBM WCCO KMOX

The Strange As It Seems Program Log [1945-46 NBC Run -- 15-Minute episodes]
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
45-04-08	--		--	45-04-08 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Salute to Spring
45-04-15	1	Title Unknown	N	45-04-15 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-04-22	2	Title Unknown	N	45-04-22 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-04-29	3	Title Unknown	N	45-04-29 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-05-06	4	Title Unknown	N	45-05-06 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-05-13	5	Title Unknown	N	45-05-13 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-05-20	6	Title Unknown	N	45-05-20 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-05-27	7	Title Unknown	N	45-05-27 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-06-03	8	Title Unknown	N	45-06-03 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-06-10	9	Title Unknown	N	45-06-10 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-06-17	10	Title Unknown	N	45-06-17 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-06-24	11	Title Unknown	N	45-06-24 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-07-01	12	Title Unknown	N	45-07-01 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-07-08	13	Title Unknown	N	45-07-08 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-07-15	14	Title Unknown	N	45-07-15 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-07-22	15	Title Unknown	N	45-07-22 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-07-29	16	Title Unknown	N	45-07-29 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-08-05	17	Title Unknown	N	45-08-05 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-08-12	18	Title Unknown	N	45-08-12 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-08-19	19	Title Unknown	N	45-08-19 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-08-26	20	Title Unknown	N	45-08-26 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-09-02	21	Title Unknown	N	45-09-02 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-09-09	22	Title Unknown	N	45-09-09 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-09-16	23	Title Unknown	N	45-09-16 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-09-23	24	Title Unknown	N	45-09-23 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-09-30	25	Title Unknown	N	45-09-30 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-10-07	26	Title Unknown	N	45-10-07 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-10-14	27	Title Unknown	N	45-10-14 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-10-21	28	Title Unknown	N	45-10-21 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-10-28	29	Title Unknown	N	45-10-28 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-11-04	30	Title Unknown	N	45-11-04 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-11-11	31	Title Unknown	N	45-11-11 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-11-18	32	Title Unknown	N	45-11-18 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-11-25	33	The Slave Who Wrecked An Empire	N	45-11-25 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-12-02	34	Opens with The Dead Man Won A Battle	N	45-12-02 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-12-09	35	Title Unknown	N	45-12-09 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-12-16	36	Title Unknown	N	45-12-16 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-12-23	37	Title Unknown	N	45-12-23 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
45-12-30	38	Title Unknown	N	45-12-30 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-01-06	39	Title Unknown	N	46-01-06 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-01-13	40	Title Unknown	N	46-01-13 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-01-20	41	Title Unknown	N	46-01-20 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-01-27	42	Title Unknown	N	46-01-27 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-02-03	43	Title Unknown	N	46-02-03 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-02-10	44	Title Unknown	N	46-02-10 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-02-17	45	Title Unknown	N	46-02-17 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-02-24	46	Title Unknown	N	46-02-24 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-03-03	47	Title Unknown	N	46-03-03 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-03-10	48	Title Unknown	N	46-03-10 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-03-17	49	Title Unknown	N	46-03-17 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-03-24	50	Title Unknown	N	46-03-24 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-03-31	51	Title Unknown	N	46-03-31 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-04-07	52	Title Unknown	N	46-04-07 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-04-14	53	Title Unknown	N	46-04-14 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-04-21	54	Title Unknown	N	46-04-21 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--Strange As it Seems
46-04-28	--		--	46-04-28 Salt Lake Tribune KDYL (NBC)--9:30pm--The National Hour

The Strange As It Seems Program Log [1946 ABC Run -- 15-Minute episodes]
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
46-10-06	1	Title Unknown	N	46-10-06 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange as It Seems.
46-10-13	2	Title Unknown	N	46-10-13 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange as It Seems.
46-10-20	3	Title Unknown	N	46-10-20 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange as It Seems.
46-10-27	4	Title Unknown	N	46-10-27 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange as It Seems.
46-11-03	5	Title Unknown	N	46-11-03 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems.
46-11-10	6	Title Unknown	N	46-11-10 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems.
46-11-17	7	Title Unknown	N	46-11-17 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems.
46-11-24	8	Title Unknown	N	46-11-24 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems.
46-12-01	9	Title Unknown	N	46-12-01 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems
46-12-08	10	Title Unknown	N	46-12-08 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems
46-12-15	11	Title Unknown	N	46-12-15 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems
46-12-22	12	Title Unknown	N	46-12-22 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems
46-12-29	13	Title Unknown	N	46-12-29 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems
47-01-05	14	Title Unknown	N	47-01-05 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems.
47-01-12	15	Title Unknown	N	47-01-12 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Strange As It Seems
	--		--	47-01-19 Chicago Daily Tribune 1:30--WCFL--Xavier Cugat.

The Strange As It Seems Program Log [1947 Mutual Run -- 15-Minute episodes]
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
47-0x-xx		The Dog That Saved 400 Lives	Y	[Audition?; Recorded in New York; Sponsored by The Olson Company (Est. 1903) ; WOR address; Olson Budget Book promotion; Announces "The Symbol That Was Sabotaged' as next]

47-02-12	1	Title Unknown	N	47-02-12 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-02-19	2	Title Unknown	N	47-02-19 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-02-26	3	Title Unknown	N	47-02-26 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-03-05	4	Title Unknown	N	47-03-05 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-03-12	5	Title Unknown	N	47-03-12 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-03-19	6	Title Unknown	N	47-03-19 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-03-26	7	Title Unknown	N	47-03-26 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-04-02	8	Title Unknown	N	47-04-02 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-04-09	9	Title Unknown	N	47-04-09 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-04-16	10	Title Unknown	N	47-04-16 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-04-23	11	Title Unknown	N	47-04-23 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-04-30	12	Title Unknown	N	47-04-30 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-05-07	13	Title Unknown	N	47-05-07 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-05-14	14	Title Unknown	N	47-05-14 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-05-21	15	Title Unknown	N	47-05-21 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-05-28	16	Title Unknown	N	47-05-28 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-06-04	17	Title Unknown	N	47-06-04 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strangs As It Seems
47-06-11	18	Title Unknown	N	47-06-11 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-06-18	19	Title Unknown	N	47-06-18 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-06-25	20	Title Unknown	N	47-06-25 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-07-02	21	Title Unknown	N	47-07-02 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-07-09	22	Title Unknown	N	47-07-09 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-07-16	23	Title Unknown	N	47-07-16 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-07-23	24	Title Unknown	N	47-07-23 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-07-30	25	Title Unknown	N	47-07-30 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-08-06	26	Title Unknown	N	47-08-06 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-08-13	27	Title Unknown	N	47-08-13 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-08-20	28	Title Unknown	N	47-08-20 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-08-27	29	Title Unknown	N	47-08-27 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-09-03	30	Title Unknown	N	47-09-03 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-09-10	31	Title Unknown	N	47-09-10 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-09-17	32	Title Unknown	N	47-09-17 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-09-24	33	Title Unknown	N	47-09-24 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-10-01	34	Title Unknown	N	47-10-01 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-10-08	35	Title Unknown	N	47-10-08 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-10-15	36	Title Unknown	N	47-10-15 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-10-22	37	Title Unknown	N	47-10-22 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Strange As It Seems
47-10-29	--		--	47-10-29 New York Times 7:30-WOR--Carey Longmire, Comments

The Strange As It Seems Program Log [1948 Mutual Run -- 15-Minute episodes]
Date	Episode	Title	Avail.	Notes
48-01-03	1	Title Unknown	N	48-01-03 New York Times 9:00 a.m.-WOR--News; Strange As It Seems
48-01-10	2	Title Unknown	N	48-01-10 New York Times 9:15 a.m.-WOR--Strange As It Seems
48-04-10	3	Title Unknown	N	48-04-10 New York Times 10:30 a.m.-WOR--Strange As It Seems
48-04-17	4	Title Unknown	N	48-04-17 New York Times 10:30 a.m.-WOR--Strange As It Seems

48-04-25	5	Title Unknown	N	48-04-25 New York Times 10:45-WOR--Strange As It Seems
48-05-02	6	Title Unknown	N	48-05-02 New York Times 10:45-WOR--Strange As It Seems
48-05-09	7	Title Unknown	N	48-05-09 New York Times 10:45-WOR--Strange As It Seems
48-05-16	8	Title Unknown	N	48-05-16 New York Times 10:45-WOR--Strange As It Seems
48-05-23	9	Title Unknown	N	48-05-23 New York Times 10:45-WOR--Strange As It Seems
48-05-30	--		--	48-05-30 New York Times 10:45-WOR--Incredible But True

The Strange As It Seems Radio Program Biographies

Gayne Whitman [ a.k.a. Alfred Vosburg, Albert Vosburgh, Alfred D. Vosburgh, Alfred Vosburgh, Al Vosburgh, Fred Vosburgh, Harold Vosburgh, Alfred Whitman, Al Whitman, Fred Whitman] (Narrator) Stage, Screen, Radio and Television Actor, Writer, and Director; Announcer, Narrator (1890-1958) Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Radiography: 1932 Chandu the Magician 1934 The Royal Hawaiian Hotel Show 1937 John Barrymore Theatre 1940 Community Mobilization For Human Needs 1941 Cavalcade Of America 1942 Eyes Aloft 1943 This Is My Story 1943 The Westinghouse Program 1943 The Pacific Story 1946 Theatre Guild On the Air 1949 NBC University Theatre 1950 Lassie 1950 Screen Director's Playhouse 1951 Stars Over Hollywood 1951 Short Story 1951 Bell Telephone Hour 1952 Let George Do It 1954 Lux Radio Theatre Trobriand the Adventurer (Audition) Thrills The Greatest Of These	Gayne Whitman circa 1937 Gayne Whitman (as Alfred Vosburgh) in Jealousy's First Wife (1916) Gayne Whitman's Telephone Hour broadcast featured in Pacific Telephone announcement of new microwave service	Alfred D. Vosburgh was born in Chicago, Illinois. Moving to Hollywood in the early 1910s, Vosburgh soon found himself appearing in character roles in some of the earliest silent films of the 20th century. From the April 19, 1925 Davenport Democrat and Leader: Gayne Whitman to Do Pictures From the stage to pictures, then, to the stage and again back to pictures is the somewhat colored experience of Gayne Whitman, handsome young leading man, who has recently been signed by Warner Bros, to be featured in several of their forthcoming pictures. For the last four years. Mr. Whitman has been leading man of the famous Morosco Theatre in Los Angeles and the Warners have had their eye on him. As soon as his contract was finished at the Morosco this season, the motion picture producers signed him for a term of years. Whitman is only following the footsteps of Douglas McLean, David Butler, Richard Dix, Warner Baxter and a score of others who have graduated from the Los Angeles playhouse to the screen. Several years ago Whitman left the stage to become a member of the old Thomas Ince stock company at the time they were making one, two, and three reel features. He was later with Vitagraph supporting Corinne Griffith and other stars so that picture work is no novelty to him. Warner Bros. intend to put him out in productions made from the best selling novels and plays. In 1913 the Los Angeles Morosco Theatre (later the Globe) opened with weekly changes of plays, a new format for Broadway. By the late 20s Oliver Morosco lost control of the theatre to the Henry Duffy Players group. This is not to be confused with the Morsoco Theatre in New York. New York's Morosco Theatre opened February 5, 1917. It was owned by Lee and J.J. Shubert and given over to Oliver Morosco to manage as a reward for helping the Shuberts break the Charles Frohman-led Theatrical Trust. Morosco managed the house until 1924. Alfred Vosburgh legally changed his name to Gayne Whitman during World War I, in response to the prejudice associated with German sounding surnames during the era. On radio, Gayne Whitman played the title role in Chandu the Magician (1932), acting, directing and writing much of the series. He also wrote the screenplays for many of the Chandu The Magician films starring Edmund Lowe and Bela Lugosi. During a Radio career spanning some 28 years, Gayne Whitman lent his voice and acting talent to virtually every genre of Radio drama imaginable. As he grew older, he began to appear more often as an announcer or narrator in Radio. But Whitman's Film career was truly his most staggering accomplishment. Appearing in some 300 feature films and shorts, from the Silent era, to the 1960s, Gayne Whitman demonstrated a durability and versatility rarely matched in Film. Not only an actor, Whitman was also a prolific screenwriter and Radio writer. Whitman also directed several Stage plays and community theatre productions. When Television beckoned, Gayne Whitman embarked on a third career as both dramatic actor and host/announcer/narrator for another ten successful years. As remarkable a career as Gayne Whitman enjoyed, there remains all too little in the way of a worthy biography of this multi-faceted, multi-talented actor and his amazing career. We hope this article will spark further interest in this great actor's amazing contribution to the Performing Arts.

Carlton KaDell (Performer, Narrator) Stage, Radio, Television and Film Actor; Writer (1904-1975) Birthplace: Danville, Indiana, U.S.A. Radiography: 1932 Hello Marie! 1933 Headlines 1934 Mystery Drama for Rocket Gasoline 1934 Tarzan and the Diamond of A'Sher 1935 Grace Moore 1936 Hollywood Hotel 1936 Strange As It Seems 1936 Tarzan 1937 Thrills 1937 The Chase and Sanborn Hour 1937 Amos 'n' Andy 1937 Music From Hollywood 1937 Big Town 1938 Silver Theatre 1940 Wings of Destiny 1941 Kay Fairchild, Stepmother 1941 Backstage Wife 1942 Melody Tours 1943 In Time To Come 1943 This Is My Story 1943 The Al Jolson Program 1944 The Life Of Riley 1943 Treasury Star Parade 1944 Lux Radio Theatre 1945 Mail Call 1944 Jack Carson Show 1945 Cavalcade Of America 1946 Studebaker Tours 1946 The Amos 'n' Andy Show 1947 The Cases Of Mr Ace 1948 Your Movietown Radio Theatre 1948 Family Theatre 1948 Let George Do It 1948 Sealtest Variety Theatre 1950 A Life In Your Hands 1950 Armstrong of The SBI 1951 Destination Freedom 1952 A Life In Your Hands 1952 Hello Sucker 1954 Case Dismissed 1954 Sky King Concert Hall Personal Album Great Music Program Thrills	Announcement of Hello Marie from 1932. Carlton KaDell circa 1934 Carlton KaDell circa 1936 April 3 1937 Carlton KaDell article. Carlton KaDell article from September 1937 Carlton KaDell circa 1938 KaDell emceed United Air Lines' In Time To Come in 1943 Carlton KaDell's ''wide-stance'' moment from Jan 15 1949 Announcement of A Life In Your Hands episode of July 31 1952	Carlton KaDell was born, raised and educated in Indiana. While still a child he was reportedly already appearing in tent shows and Chautauqua repertory shows. Leaving school for the stage, KaDell was working steadily in vaudeville, lyceum productions, tent shows, repertory stock companies and had returned to the above mentioned Chautauqua repertory productions. While still in his teens he was working with later Radio star Tim Ryan in his Ryan and Noblette stage troupe. By 1927 and 1928 Carlton KaDell was appearing regularly in legitimate stock company productions throughout the Midwest. KaDell debuted over Radio over Chicago's WJJD in 1931, beginning a Radio career that would eventually extend to twenty-five years. After approximately a year doing local radio in Chicago, NBC hired him for its West Coast Network operations (referred to internally as the 'Orange' Network.) Soon after arriving in Los Angeles, Carlton KaDell was hired by Carl Laemmele, Jr. to work as a contract player for Universal Pictures. When not actively involved with a picture, KaDell coached Summer Stock presentations on the West Coast. By 1934, Carlton KaDell had already established himself as a reliable announcer and dramatic co-star. He had his chance to debut as a Radio lead twice in 1934: First in Mystery Drama for Rocket Gasoline and then as Tarzan in Tarzan and The Diamond of A'Sher for Signal. 1935 and 1936 found him announcing for Grace Moore, Hollywood Hotel, Strange As It Seems, and Tarzan. 1937 brought Carlton KaDell another opportunity to co-star in Thrills, an adventure anthology. 1937 was also the year that KaDell would begin a nine-year, on-again, off-again gig announcing for Amos 'n' Andy. KaDell wasn't just acting, announcing and coaching during this period. 1937 also found him collaborating with another announcer over his first published book--"Stars of The Antennae"--which was to recount their personal and professional impressions of the famous Radio stars with whom they'd already worked on coast-to-coast programs. Continuing to announce several programs during the late 1930s, KaDell was by then working on The Chase and Sanborn Hour (1937), Amos 'n' Andy, Big Town (1937), Silver Theatre (1938), and both coaching and performing in Summer stock. Carlton KaDell found another lead opportunity in Wings of Destiny (1940), starring as Steve Benton, the heroic pilot of the series. This would seem to be a recurring theme in KaDell's career since, if we skip ahead thirteen years, we find KaDell portraying Radio's last Sky King (1953). As it was, during the intervening 1940s, Carlton KaDell found himself very busy as an announcer on some of Radio's most popular programs. Kadell announced Kay Fairchild Stepmother (1941), Backstage Wife (1941), both Melody Tours and Studebaker Tours (1942), In Time To Come (1943), This Is My Story (1943), The Al Jolson Program (1943), the American Meat Instutute season of The Life of Riley (1944), Mail Call (1945), The Jack Carson Show (1944), The Cases of Mr. Ace, Your Movietown Theatre (1948), and Sealtest Variety Theatre (1948). He also appeared in acting roles throughout the same period, notable among them, Family Theatre (1948) and Let George Do It (1948). The 1950s found KaDell venturing into other lead roles in adventure programs, such as Armstrong of The SBI (1950) and, as mentioned above, Radio's last Sky King (1953) . KaDell was also tapped to lead Erle Stanley Gardner's 'other' mystery program A Life In Your Hands (1951) in the role of Jonathan Kegg. From the October 27 1953 Brownwood Bulletin: To Carlton Kadell packing a bag comes naturally, be it in real life or as new star of KBWD-Mutual's "Sky King" adventures (Tuesdays-Thursdays, 5:30-5:55 p.m.). His non-fiction pattern of migration fits him well for the many trips he's taking in the role of the Arizona rancher - crime fighter. Starting in Los Angeles in a radio series, he moved to Chicago with a road play. A year in the Windy City as an announcer and singer and Kadell was back on the coast where he stayed in radio for several years. Then it was on to Chicago again for three years before returning west. Now he's in Chicago anew. Actually, Kadell likes moving about since he has a hobby of rebuilding old houses, always picking quarters needing repair or reconstruction. He's yet to select an igloo for a residence, but strangely enough one might be more appropriate since he also collects miniature penguins. When not sawing, hammering, announcing or acting, Kadell takes part in summer stock or plays a round of golf, a game of tennis or goes swimming. Hair-raising experiences in "Sky King" will do little to equal one Kadell had many years ago in Los Angeles. When an earthquake hit the studio, Kadell kept on acting, ducking falling plaster, until a power failure halted the broadcast. KaDell rounded out his Radio career by returning to his Radio career's roots in Chicago. During that period he performed in--or announced--Destination Freedom (1951), Hello, Sucker! (1952), and Case Dismissed (1954).

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