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RECORDING NOTE: While audible there is a lot of hiss on this 1930 recording.  This playlet is offered as a tribute to the men who served in World War I. It is a story of a reunion of friends who served together at Dunkirk. It brings a picture of what actually happened along the many miles of frontline trenches when word was received that the World War was over. It was written by an American a...

Blackstone’s newest addition to his magic studio is an organ and of course there’s a story behind its acquisition. Helen was a friend of Rhoda’s and when her husband was shot she asked Blackstone if there was anything he could do. . .   Duration: 12:41  Starring: Ed Jerome  Broadcast Date: 21st November 1948

There is no summary for this play: so we are getting some background history of the Mercury Theater. Mercury Theatre. The Mercury Theatre was an independent repertory theatre company founded in New York City in 1937 by Orson Welles and producer John Houseman. The company produced theatrical presentations, radio programs and motion pictures. The Mercury Theatre began with a groundbreaking, critical...

 The proverbial "Little Old Lady" reports a little old knife killing that never really gets solved. An elderly widow calls the police to report the murder of her female lodger.  Quality – Good - sound drops slightly at 5:15  Duration: 29:08  Starring: Staats Cotsworth, Lesley Woods, John Gibson, Eva Condon  Broadcast Date: 7th March 1947

The French artillery officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris, initiating a political scandal that rocks the Third Republic. ---- Important Information ---- The Dreyfus Affair was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. "L'Affaire", as it is known in Fren...

When Miss Van Allan’s aunt Emma dies she leaves her entire estate to her beloved cat Stanley with a weekly stipend of $500 to be paid to a distance niece Mrs Bird from Brooklyn whom she referred to as the only member of her family who never asked her for money in return for her for taking care of the cat. Mrs Bird will only receive the money whilst Stanley is in her care and Miss Van Allan is none...

“Frontier Town eh? Yes, I guess that’s what most folks would call Dos Rios, a frontier town, loud and lusty, tough and tumbling like a score of other frontier towns, El Paso, Cheyenne, Tombstone. The only difference probably is the name of the town, Dos Rios, Spanish for two rivers. My name is Remington, Chad Remington, born in Dos Rios twenty odd years ago, reared there until I went upstate to sc...

It was early on January morning and Detective Danny Clover had not even had time for his coffee or paper before a call came in to get down to St Anthony’s Hospital. Sister Angela was waiting to see him; it appeared that her patient Jimmy Hunt had committed suicide with a steak knife from his dinner plate. However, further inspection confirmed that it was murder.  Duration: 29:00  Starrin...

The first three expeditions to Mars left Earth in a mushroom of flames arched through the atmosphere and finally dwindled to tiny specks on the big eye of mount pelimars telescope and then were lost to the eye altogether. Prearranged landing signals flashed back to Earth and the radios went dead. One after the other ships had disappeared and were never heard of again. But still the rockets came. T...

Let Me Do The Talking is based on the novel by Richard Mayland. It is a behind the scenes inside the agents portrait of the literary business and its main concern is the young man who came to be known as the agent Gabriel. Charles Gabriel Bachelor moves with the speed of light through publishing and promotional circles.  Duration: 58:41  Starring: John Garfield, Mercedes McCambridge&nbsp...

Henry is walking down his street on his way home when the police stop him. It seems that a murderer has been hiding out in the boarding house next to their apartment and the police have the whole area surrounded. Henry goes to phone his wife and son Johnny to tell them why he is late home and to tell them to stay safe at home but something in her voice worries him. He fears that the murderer Roy J...

Gildy has won a canary named Napoleon in a raffle, but for some reason the bird won't sing. Gildy and Leroy head to the library to find a book on canaries and get into trouble. Duration: 29:50  Starring: Harold Peary  Broadcast Date: 30th November 1941

My Man Godfrey is the comedy story of an eccentric rich family and all begins with a game of “scavenger hunt” in which you have to find something that nobody wants. Miss Irene, flighty socialite heiress finds Godfrey a down-and-out “forgotten man” at a dump and feeling sorry about the way her family ridiculed him she hires him as the family butler. His humility, honesty, directness and outlook hav...

Coney Island Nocturne is the very absorbing story of fingers that were nailed by death. When Mike Donahue brought Helen O’Malley to Coney Island for an evening of fun he had only the best intentions, naturally, he was an officer of the law, a detective and she was his fiancee. ´ But three hours later as they stood in the middle of a crowded noisy carnival street they were faced with a crisis of ca...

The FBI was after four men and one woman in the vicinity of Park Dale after they abandoned their getaway car following a hold-up. Meantime tension is building between the gang members.  Duration : 28:06  Starring: Larry Haines Broadcast  Date: 14th September 1950

The Randolph’s are having a party with a difference, It’s a come as you are party. The rules dictate that when they receive the phone call sometime in the afternoon from Joe Randolph they have to drop everything and come as they are even if they have their old clothes on or just their underwear. Ozzie decides he’s not getting caught out in his old pyjama’s like last year and is going to put on his...

 Bill Stern brings you the 340th edition of the Colgate Shave Cream Sports Newsreel featuring strange and fantastic stories, some legends others mere hearsay but all so interesting. Guest tonight in person is the famous football star of the Washington Redskin’s Sammy Baugh.  Duration: 14:03  Starring: Bill Stern  Broadcast Date: 10th May 1946

When David Grant passes Miss Newton a neighbor of his that morning and greets her by saying Good morning and good luck and shortly afterwards she is bestowed with good luck she decides to make a business proposition to him. She has a hunch that if he buys a sweepstake ticket with her they’d be lucky partners and could stand to win $150,000.  Duration: 29:16  Starring: Herbert Marshall, J...

As Pat Novak leaves his office an old man is mowed down by a car on the corner of the street. Pat bent over the old man and turned him on his back. He was breathing heavily and asked Novak to help him. He has two envelopes one is money which he offers to Novak the other is to be kept sealed and given to John St. John but before the man can explain any more he takes his last breath of air and dies....

Charles Sylvester Braden II, a rich boy from New York, falls in love with a not so rich young lady who lives in a rooming house on New York’s west side. His father does not approve and when she rebuffs his proposal of marriage he shoots her and then commits suicide. An unethical photographic journalist is the first to the scene and captures the dead bodies on film, but by the time he gets back to...