Copyright 2010 J. David Goldin
These are all the examples of this program in the radioGOLDINdex database. These listings are accurate as of July 20, 2010. The programs are listed chronologically, partial dates appear first, unknown dates appear last.
90069. Great Plays. February 26, 1938. Program #1. NBC net. "The Birds". Sustaining. Before the play, the description of the Greek theatre at showtime is fascinating. Aristophanes (author), Blevins Davis (adaptor), Alfred N. Williams (director), Luis Van Rooten, Burford Hampden, John Brewster, William Shelley, , Charles Webster, Ralph Locke, Mark Smith. 57:58. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
90070. Great Plays. March 12, 1938. Program #3. NBC net. "The Great Magician". Sustaining. A commedia dell'arte play. Lawrence Kara (writer), Blevins Davis (adaptor), Graham McNamee ("Florentine Commentator"), Joseph Bell (director), Louis Hector, Mark Smith, William Shelley, Jerry Macey, John McGovern, John Brewster, Junius Matthews, Alfred Shirley, Peter Donald, Barbara Weeks, Lucille Wall, Peggy Allenby, Barbara Bruce, Charles Webster, Joseph Vitale, Al Oakes, Harold McGee, Brad Barker, Francesca Lennie (?), Elizabeth Adams, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Jack Costello (announcer). 58:00. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90071. Great Plays. March 19, 1938. Program #4. NBC net. "Tamerlane". Sustaining. A visit-by-radio to the Globe Theatre in London, during the 16th century. Christopher Marlowe (author), Blevins Davis (adaptor), Albert N. Williams (director), Richard Kollmar, Kay Strozzi, Richard Shelley, Burford Hampden, Mark Smith, Charles Webster, Dennis Hoey, Ralph Locke (doubles), Herbert Deans, Carl Eastman, Earle Larrimore (doubles), Stanley Waxman, John Wooster, Florence Malone, Douglas Ferguson, Ruth Warrick, Milo Boulton, Bernard Lenrow (prologue), Luis Van Rooten, Peter Bovay, Jack Costello (commentator). 57:40. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
90072. Great Plays. April 2, 1938. Program #6. NBC net. "The School For Husbands". Sustaining. The play was first performed in 1661. Moliere (author), Lawrence Langner (adaptor), Arthur Gatemann (adaptor), Blevins Davis (adaptor for radio), James Church (director), Neal O'Malley, Manden Hooley, Earle Larrimore, William Sweatland, Irene Tedrow, Waldemar Capell, Turney Walker, Tom Gorman, Stanley Waxman, James Van Dyke, Charles Webster, Selena Royle, Carol Dice (? soprano), Latina Brenner (? pianist), Max Kahn (violinist), Jack Costello (announcer). 57:49. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
90073. Great Plays. April 9, 1938. Program #7. NBC net. "Love For Love". Sustaining. The play was first performed in 1695. This adaptation includes portions of another Congreve play, "The Way Of The World." William Congreve (author), Lawrence Langner (adaptor), Charles Warburton (director), Blevins Davis (radio adaptor), Louis Hector, Burford Hampden, John Moore, Earle Larrimore, John Kane, William Podmore, William Shelley, John McGovern, Mary Michaels, Elaine Dumont, Beatrice Pons, Phyllis Langner, Kenneth Faceta (?), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Jack Costello (announcer). 58:00. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
90074. Great Plays. April 16, 1938. Program #8. NBC net. "The School For Scandal". Sustaining. The play was first presented in 1777, at the Drury Lane Theatre, London. Richard Sheridan (author), Blevins Davis (adaptor), Charles Warburton (producer), Louis Hector, Charles Webster, Kenneth Faceta (?), Alfred Shirley, Burford Hampden, William Shelley, Harry Nevil, William Podmore, Joseph Granby, John McGovern, Fred Baron, Selena Royle, Jacqueline DeWitt, Jan Owen, Lorraine Wing (?), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Jack Costello (announcer). 59:17. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
90075. Great Plays. April 23, 1938. Program #9. NBC net. "The Silver King". Sustaining. A melodrama first performed in the 1882, at the Princess Theatre in London. Arthur Wallach is mentioned as listening today; the only living founder of the Lambs Club. Mr. Wallach arranged for the New York production of the play in 1883. For his 91st birthday, this performance is dedicated to Mr. Wallach. Henry Arthur Jones (author), Henry Herman (author), Lucille Wall, Harry Cooper Cliff (who appeared in the original run, as did his father), Joseph Bell (adaptor, director), Blevins Davis (research), Charles Webster, Peggy Allenby, Richard Gordon, William Shelley, George Gaul, Eustace Wyatt, Harry Nevil, John McGovern, William Podmore, Barbara Weeks, Marilyn Erskine, Eric Dressler, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Jack Costello (announcer). 59:30. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
90076. Great Plays. April 30, 1938. Program #10. NBC net. "The Playboy Of The Western World". Sustaining. This folk-comedy was first produced in 1907. Alan MacItyre (?), John Kane, Clement O'Loughlin, Florence Malone, Ralph Calliman (?), Eileen Curran, Sarah Floyd, Dorothy Knowland, Rose Flynn, Walter Kinsella, Mary Michael, James Church (director), The Norseman Quartet, Jack Costello (announcer), John Millington Synge (author), Whitford Kane. 48:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Apparently complete.
90077. Great Plays. May 7, 1938. Program #11. NBC net. "Valley Forge". Sustaining. The last show of the season. The length of the program indicates the program might have been allowed to run over its time period, or may have been a rehearsal. Maxwell Anderson (author), William Johnstone, Edward Fevor (?), Carl Benton Reads (?), Selena Royle, Eustace Wyatt, James Church (adaptor, director), Jack Costello (announcer). 63:37. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
66540. Great Plays. October 16, 1938. Program #1. Blue Network. "The Trojan Women". Sustaining. The first show of the second series. A production of the famous anti-war drama, based on the fall of Troy. Burns Mantle (host), Blevins Davis (series arranger), Harry McFadden (adaptor, director), Frank Black (arranger, conductor), Kay Strozzi, Florence Malone, Selena Royle, Carl Vincent Reid, Terry Mustare (?), Jerome Lessor, Euripides (author), Edith Hamilton (translator). 61:04. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
66539. Great Plays. October 23, 1938. Program #2. Blue Network. "Everyman". Sustaining. An anonymous English morality play from 1529. The play was subsequently used on Great Plays on October 29, 1939 (see cat. #90079). Blevins Davis (supervisor), Jay Jostyn, William Shelley, Alan Reed (billed as "Teddy Bergman"), Edmonia Novis, Audrey Love, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Alfred Shirley, Louis Hector, Anthony Kimball-Cooper, Earle Larrimore, Ian MacAllaster, Sirella Dorn (?), Burns Mantle (host), Albert N. Williams (producer, director), Selena Royle, Charles Webster, Flora Campbell, Florence Malone, Mary Morris. 59:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
83605. Great Plays. November 6, 1938. Program #4. Blue Network. "The Tragical History Of Doctor Faustus". Sustaining. The play was subsequently heard on Great Plays on December 8, 1940 (see cat. #90087). Carl Benton Reid, Charles Webster, William Thornton (chorus), Christopher Marlowe (author), James Church (adaptor, director), Burns Mantle (host, commentator), Joseph Hauntie (arranger, conductor), Blevins Davis (supervisor). 59:38. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66356. Great Plays. November 13, 1938. Program #5. Blue Network. "A Midsummer's Night's Dream". Sustaining. H. Leopold Spitalny conducts the score by Mendelssohn. William Thornton, Joseph Curtin, Burford Hampden, Stanley Waxman, Alan McIntieu (?), William Shakespeare (author), Burns Mantle (host), Adele Harrison, H. Leopold Spitalny (conductor), James Church (director), Whitford Kane, Ian Martin, Robert Strauss, J. Malcolm Dunne, Irene Tedrow, Carleton Benton Reid, Helen Walpole, Blevins Davis (series arranger), Katherine Squire. 58:08. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66359. Great Plays. December 4, 1938. Program #8. Blue Network. "Le Cid". Sustaining. A play written in 1637, set in Spain. The story of a conflict, love, honor and duty. The play was subsequently heard on Great Plays on December 8, 1940 (see cat. #90088). Pierre Corneille (author), Burns Mantle (host), Joseph Hauntie (arranger), Albert N. Williams (translator, producer), Richard Kollmar, Charles Webster, Florence Malone, William Podmore, Alan Reed (billed as Teddy Bergman), Burford Hampden, William Shelley, Anthony Kimball Cooper, Joy Hathaway, Jan Owen, Selena Royle, Marcel Journay. 59:00. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66357. Great Plays. December 11, 1938. Program #9. Blue Network. "Life Is But A Dream". Sustaining. A story about a king of Poland who learns that his son will be a rival for the throne. The king imprisons his own son. Race Dovier (? writer), Van Cleve (composer, conductor), Tom Tully, Maurice Dolbeay (? writer, of WABI, Bangor, Maine), Al Di Caprio (engineer), Charles Range (? sound), Jim Rogan (? sound), Max Miller (sound), Jim Backus, Henriette Kaye, Roy Fant, Tom Lewis, Howard Smith, Perry Lafferty (director, host), Harry Clark (announcer), Eddie Mayehoff, Winfield Honie, Sandy Strauss. 58:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66340. Great Plays. December 18, 1938. Program #10. Blue Network. "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme". Sustaining. Perhaps the first musical comedy, definitely one of the first great French comedies. "The would-be gentleman" aspires to a higher station in life. The program leaves the air until January 8, 1939. Harry McFadden (adaptor, director), Beatrice Miller, Carl Benton Reed, Selena Royle, Burford Hampden, Richard Gordon, Jerry Lesser, Blevins Davis (series arranger), Joseph Hauntie (music arranger, conductor), Charles Webster, Florence Malone, Ellen Maher, Raymond Bromley, William Shelley, Harry Mastair (?), William Thornton, Moliere (author), Burns Mantle (host), Don Morrison, Junius Matthews. 59:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66353. Great Plays. January 8, 1939. Program #11. Blue Network. "She Stoops To Conquer". Sustaining. "The Godfather" of all mistaken identity comedies. Joseph Hauntie (arranger, conductor), Alfred Shirley, Harry Cooper Cliffe, Oliver Goldsmith (author), Burns Mantle (host), Lillian Tonge, Mark Smith, Charles Webster, Eustace Wyatt, Kay Strozzi, William Podmore, Harry Neville, Ivy Scott, Blevins Davis (series arranger), Margalo Gillmore, William S. Rainey (adaptor, director). 58:29. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
67838. Great Plays. January 15, 1939. Program #12. Blue Network. "School For Scandal". Sustaining. Parts two and four only. Richard Sheridan (author), Burns Mantle (host), James Church (producer, director), William Podmore, Alfred Shirley, William Shelley, Joseph Granby, Helen Walpole, Joseph Hauntie (music director), Blevins Davis (adaptor), Selena Royle, Charles Webster, Phillip Tong, Burford Hampden, Harry Neville, J. Malcolm Dunne, Paul Porter, Jan Owen, Ann Starrett. 28:32. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
66341. Great Plays. January 22, 1939. Program #13. Blue Network. "Mary Stuart". Sustaining. Jane Cowl, Edmond Wolf (adaptor, director), Jean KaDell (?), Friedrich Schiller (author), Burns Mantle (host), Alice John, Earle Larrimore, William Podmore, James Creagar, Kenneth Danio, Joseph Hauntie (conductor). 58:49. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66326. Great Plays. January 29, 1939. Program #14. Blue Network. "Ernani". Sustaining. The love of a bandit hero and intrigue in the court of Charles V. Thomas L. Riley (adaptor, dirctor), Joseph Hauntie (orchestra conductor), Neal O'Malley, William Thornton, George Gaul, Selena Royle, John Brewster, William Shelley, John McGovern, Luis Van Rooten, Joseph Curtin, Harriet Sterling, Burns Mantle (host), Victor Hugo (author), Charles Webster. 59:07. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
66339. Great Plays. February 5, 1939. Program #15. Blue Network. "Richelieu". Sustaining. Intrigue in the court of Louis XIII, as the wily Cardinal becomes the power behind the throne. The program may be dated February 2, 1939. Louis Hector, Henry Herbert, Clayton Hamilton (narrator), John Barclay, Francis Compton, Burford Hampden, Alfred Shirley, T. Coffin Cooke, Ian MacLaren, Ernetta LaSelve (?), William Shirley, Henry Gerbey (?), John McGovern, Percival Vivian, Eustace Wyatt, William Podmore, John Hewitt, Franz Bendtsen, Herbert Ranson, David Vivian, John Brewster, Jeanette Nolan, Jay Clark. 58:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66544. Great Plays. February 12, 1939. Program #16. Blue Network. "The Octaroon" or "Life In Louisiana". Sustaining. A play written in 1859 about slavery and the South. The play offers highly melodramatic portraits of life before the Civil War. Parker Fennelly appears in an atypical serious role. William Shelley, Joseph Bell (adaptor), Joseph Hauntie (arranger, conductor), Reed Brown, Jane Huston, William Edmonson, Roger De Koven, William Pringle, Florence Pendleton, Blevins Davis (series arranger), James Kirkwood, Harry McFadden (director), Burns Mantle (commentator), Joseph Granby, Ethel Everett, Arthur Breuse, Laura Bowman, Frederick Lewis, Jane Wyatt, Parker Fennelly. 59:36. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66355. Great Plays. February 19, 1939. Program #17. Blue Network. "Redemption". Sustaining. A very Russian tragedy about a husband who feigns suicide so that his wife can marry her lover, only to "return to life" ten years later, apparently complaining of her bigamy! William S. Rainey (adaptor, director), Joseph Hauntie (arranger), Kay Strozzi, Arthur Maitland, Leo Tolstoy (author), Burns Mantle (host), James Kirkwood, Harry Neville. 58:42. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
67839. Great Plays. February 26, 1939. Program #18. Blue Network. "A Doll's House". Sustaining. Parts two and four only. Henrik Ibsen (author), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Burns Mantle (host), Thornton Wilder (translator), James Church (adaptor, producer, director), Ruth Gordon, Vincent Price, Octavia Kenmore, Waldemar Capell (?), Ellen Marr, Earle Larrimore. 29:32. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
66536. Great Plays. March 5, 1939. Program #19. Blue Network. "Patience". Sustaining. The famous operetta. Harold Sanford (musical director), William S. Rainey (producer), Gilbert and Sullivan (composers), Brooks Atkinson (commentator), Muriel Dickson. 57:01. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66351. Great Plays. March 12, 1939. Program #20. Blue Network. "Camille" ("The Lady Of The Camelias"). Sustaining. Jane Cowl, Edmond O'Brien, George Gaul, Staats Cotsworth, Dennis Hoey, Burford Hampden, Selena Royle, Florence Edney (?), H. Cooper Cliff, Joseph Hauntie (music director), Blevins Davis (series arranger), Harry McFadden (adaptor, director), Jean Owen, Ellen Maher, Alexandre Dumas (author), Brooks Atkinson (host). 58:50. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66350. Great Plays. March 19, 1939. Program #21. Blue Network. "Cyrano de Bergerac". Sustaining. The well known story of unrequited love by the daring soldier with the very long nose. The script was subsequently used on Great Plays on February 16, 1941 (see cat. #90091). Edmond Rostand (author), Brooks Atkinson (host), Martha Scott, Wesley Addy, Joseph Hauntie (music director), Staats Cotsworth, Joanna Russe, Lester Vail (adaptor, producer), Reese Williams, Burford Hampden, William Thornton, Catherine Anderson, Horace Braham, William Post. 58:10. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66325. Great Plays. March 26, 1939. Program #22. Blue Network. "Peter Pan". Sustaining. An excellent dramatization of the classic fantasy for children and adults as well. Joseph Hauntie (orchestra conductor), Katherine Squire, Ian Martin, Earle Larrimore, Marion Evansen, Madeleine Pierce, Tommy Donnelly, Don Russell, Nancy Peterson, Ronald Liss, Lawrence Robinson, Adele Harrison, Eustace Wyatt, Burford Hampden, J. Malcolm Dunne, Stanley Harrison, Burns Mantle (host), James Barrie (author), Robert Strauss, Bess Fraleigh, Harry Breuer, Blevins Davis (producer), Eva Le Gallienne, James Church (adaptor, producer, director). 58:30. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66358. Great Plays. April 2, 1939. Program #23. Blue Network. "The Bluebird". Sustaining. A delightful fantasy about two children and their search for an elusive bird. Joseph Hauntie (music arranger, conductor), Burns Mantle (host), Kingsley Colton, Pattee Chapman, Agnes Moorehead, Barbara Weeks, Eric Dressler, Donald MacDonald, John McGovern, Ian Martin, Burford Hampden, Catherine Anderson, Harry Neville, Charles Webster, Arthur Hughes, Maurice Metterlinck (author), Ireene Wicker, Alan Reed (billed as Teddy Bergman). 59:30. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66541. Great Plays. April 9, 1939. Program #24. Blue Network. "Justice". Sustaining. An interesting courtroom drama about a young clerk convicted of forgery. After three years in prison, he returns to his old job, finally paying his debt to society in a harsh way. Morgan Farley, Ruth Yorke, Eustace Wyatt, Charles Warburton (director), Horace Braham, H. Cooper Cliff, Alfred Shirley, Burford Hampden, Harry Neville, Joseph Hauntie (arranger, conductor), Blevins Davis (series arranger), William Podmore, Peter Donald, Harold DeBecker, Dennis Hoey, Charles Webster, J. Malcolm Dunne, John Hewitt, John Galsworthy (author), Burns Mantle (host). 59:09. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66545. Great Plays. April 16, 1939. Program #25. Blue Network. "Back To Methusaleh". Sustaining. A fascinating portrait of the Garden Of Eden and the inhabitants therein. The play ends thirty thousand years in the future! The play is adapted for radio by George Bernard Shaw. George Bernard Shaw (author, adaptor), Selena Royle, James Meighan, Irene Tedrow, George Gaul (narrator), Helen Claire, Tom Bennett (composer), Louis Hector, Joseph Hauntie (conductor). 74:21. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66354. Great Plays. April 23, 1939. Program #26. Blue Network. "Oliver Cromwell". Sustaining. A "contemporary" drama about the famous reformer who led the armed forces of Parliament against the forces of King Charles I, defeated the king's men, and ruled England for five years. Charles Warburton (adaptor, director), John Drinkwater (author), Burns Mantle (host), Joseph Hauntie (arranger, music director), Blevins Davis (series arranger), William Podmore, Alfred Shirley, Florence Malone. 59:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66352. Great Plays. April 30, 1939. Program #27. Blue Network. "The White-Headed Boy". Sustaining. A play from the Abbey Theatre of Dublin, from 1916. The son of an Irish family has succeeded at nothing. Now, he must immigrate to Canada...and marry Delia! Burns Mantle (host), Ralph Cullinan, Harold McGee (adaptor, director), Jerry Buckley, Grace O'Malley, Grace Valentine, Rea Terry, Mary Carrol, Kay Meskill, Gertrude Flynn, Clement O'Laughlin, Peg Mayo, Joseph Hauntie (music arranger, conductor), Blevins Davis (series arranger), Liam Redmond, Lenox Robinson (author). 59:09. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
66361. Great Plays. May 7, 1939. Program #28. Blue Network. "Elizabeth, The Queen". Sustaining. The turbulent romance of the Queen and Lord Essex. The last show of the season. George Coulouris, Lester Vail (director), Mady Christians, Wesley Addy, Maxwell Anderson (author), Burns Mantle (host), Aileen Kent, Kent Smith, Frank Dodge, Robert Brooks, Joseph Hauntie (music director), Alexander Kirkland, Richard Jennifer (?), Howard Phillips. 59:01. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90078. Great Plays. October 15, 1939. Program #1. NBC net. "Antigone". Sustaining. The first show of the season, the third play of the "Oedipus" trilogy. The play has an unusual dramatized introduction. The last few seconds of the program closing have been deleted. Sophocles (author), Dudley Fitz (adaptor), Robert Fitzgerald (adaptor), Ara Jerrold (?), Dorothy Darling, Cheery Hardy (?), Alfred Shirley, Raymond Edward Johnson, George Lesoir (?), Mark Smith, William Shelley, Dennis Hoey (choral voice), Burford Hampden (choral voice), Horace Braham, Harry Join (?), Charles Warburton (arranger, director), Frank Black (musical arrangements), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Blevins Davis (series arranger). 60:38. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90079. Great Plays. October 29, 1939. Program #3. NBC net. "Everyman". Sustaining. The traditional morality play. The play was previously heart on Great Plays on October 23, 1938 (see cat. #66539). Alexander Kirkland, The NBC Concert Orchestra (augmented by a special chorus), Joseph Hauntie (conductor). 59:48. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
83607. Great Plays. November 5, 1939. Program #4. Blue Network. "Edward II". Sustaining. Alfred Shirley, Florence Malone, Raymond Edward Johnson, Rex O'Malley, Carl Benton Reid, Charles Webster, Harry Mestayer, William Shelley, J. M. Dunn, Neill O'Malley, Edmond O'Brien, Horace Braham, Harry Neville, Burford Hampden, Christopher Marlowe (author). 59:22. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
66360. Great Plays. November 12, 1939. Program #5. Blue Network. "Romeo and Juliet". Sustaining. The theatre's most famous love story. Frank Black (music arranger), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Henry Herbert, Michael Dine, Clifford Devereaux, Wesley Addy, Alfred Shirley, Burford Hampden, Horace Braham, William Podmore, John McGovern, John Hewitt, Samuel Glennister, J. P. Nelson, Harry Neville, Florence Malone, Florida Friebus, Blevins Davis (series arranger), Alice Cooper Cliff (possibly Gary Cooper's mother?), William Shakespeare (author), Charles Warburton (adaptor, director). 58:55. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
83599. Great Plays. December 3, 1939. Program #8. Blue Network. "Volpone". Sustaining. Carl Benton Reid, Horace Braham, Jack Roseleigh, Charles Webster, Harry Mestayer, Raymond Bramley, Selena Royle, Stephan Zweig (adaptor), Harry McFayden (adaptor), Ben Johnson (author), Ralph Locke, Clifford Stork, Sidney Cassell, Swain Gordon, Joseph Hauntie (arranger, conductor), Blevins Davis (who arranged for the series). 59:36. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
90080. Great Plays. January 28, 1940. Program #14. NBC net. "Rip Van Winkle". Sustaining. A performance of the 1859 drama. Washington Irving (author), Richard Gordon, Joseph Jefferson (original adaptor), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Harry McFadden (adaptor), Stefan Schnabel, Ruth Gates, Fred Irving Lewis, Tom Donnelly, Edward Trevor, Marilyn Miller, Katherine Rabner (?), Florence Pendleton, Ian Martin, Bob Strauss, Clifford Stalk, Basil Ruysdael (narrator), Blevins Davis (series arranger). 59:58. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
92824. Great Plays. February 11, 1940. Blue Network. "Peer Gynt". Sustaining. Henrik Ibsen (author), Ireene Wicker, William S. Rainey, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Blevins Davis (series arranger), Florence Malone, Richard Goren (? doubles), Burford Hampden, William Shelley, Junius Matthews, Horace Braham, Peter Donald, Alfred Shirley (narrator), Barbara Lee, Lily Valens (?), Harry Neville, Charles Warburton (adaptor). 59:05. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90081. Great Plays. March 3, 1940. Program #19. NBC net. "The Second Mrs. Tanqueray". Sustaining. Arthur Wing Pinero (author), Harry McFadden (adaptor), Florence Malone, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Horace Braham, Joan Warburton, Eustace Wyatt, Lillian Tong, Leslie Barrie, Alfred Shirley, Harry Nevil, Stanley Harrison, Cherry Hardy, J. P. Wilson, Florence Pendleton, Jerome Lesser, Blevins Davis (series arranger). 57:11. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
83606. Great Plays. March 10, 1940. Program #20. Blue Network. "Secret Service". Sustaining. The recording has noticeable noise-gating. Onslow Stevens, Helen Claire, Alice Frost, Harold Vermilyea, Ruth Gilbert, Robert Walker, Fred Irving Lewis, William Janney, Georgette Harvey, Wiley Adams, William Gillette (author), Lester O'Keefe (adaptor), Blevins Davis (arranger of the series), Lampart Hill, Kenneth Michael, Tom Gunn, Robert Dryden, John James, Joseph Hauntie (conductor). 59:31. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Complete.
90082. Great Plays. March 24, 1940. Program #22. NBC net. "Captain Jinks Of The Horse Marines". Sustaining. The 1904 comedy "that introduced a new star, Ethel Barrymore." Clyde Fitch (author), Lester Vail (adaptor), Audrey Christie, Guy Robertson, Harry Townes, Tommy Hughes, Gerald Henry, Joe White, Eric Dressler, Burford Hampden, Robert Tomes, Jay Seymour, Suzanne Jackson, Jean Owen, Abby Lewis, Charles Latour, Blevins Davis (series arranger). 57:52. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90083. Great Plays. April 21, 1940. Program #26. NBC net. "Liliom". Sustaining. The drama that was later made into the musical, "Carousel." Ferenc Molnar (author), Joseph Bell (adaptor), Arthur Kennedy, Hester Sondergaard, Templeton Fox, Ruth Gilbert, Milton Herman, Linda Watkins, Arthur Hughes, Ralph Locke, James Bell, John McGovern, Anne Elstner, Charles Webster, Walter Graves, John Donahue, Eric Dressler, Ann Bolie, Lotte Stavisky, William Litel, Blanche Gladstone, Jane Hamilton, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Tom Fent (? composer), Blevins Davis (series arranger). 59:17. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90085. Great Plays. April 28, 1940. Program #27. NBC net. "The Return Of Peter Grimm". Sustaining. The system cue has been deleted. David Belasco (author), Harry McFadden (adaptor), Richard Gordon, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Ned Wever, John Griggs, Ethel Everett, Clifford Stork, Raymond Bramley, John Wheeler, Kingsley Colton, Ellen Mahr, G. Swain Gordon, Jerry Macey, Junius Matthews, Wiley Adams, Jerry Lesser, Blevins Davis (series arranger). 61:18. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
90084. Great Plays. May 4, 1940. Program #28. NBC net. "Winterset". Sustaining. The last show of the season. Maxwell Anderson (author), James Church (adaptor), Myron McCormick, Inge Adams, Harold Vermilyea, James Meighan, Joseph Curtin, Luis Van Rooten, Edward Trevor, Jerry Macey, Alan MacItyre, Elmer Laire, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Blevins Davis (series arranger), Robert Waldrop (announcer). 59:28. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90086. Great Plays. October 13, 1940. Program #1. NBC net. "A Cavalcade Of Drama: From Ancient Greece To Modern Broadway". Sustaining. The first show of the season. A change in format for this program only. Excerpts from many great plays, instead of an adaptation of just one. Aristophanes ("The Frogs"), Ranald MacDougall (adaptor, writer), Louis Hector, Neal O'Malley, Alan MacItyre, Parker Fennelly, Harold Vermilyea, Burford Hampden, Maurice Wells, Elmer Laire, Stanley Harrison, Alfred Shirley, Norman Stuart, Clifford Stark, Peter Capell, Elspeth Eric, Mitzie Gould, Kay Strozzi, Katherine Squire, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Blevins Davis (series arranger). 59:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90087. Great Plays. November 3, 1940. Program #4. NBC net. "Doctor Faustus". Sustaining. A "modernized" version of the play. The play was previously heard on Great Plays on November 6, 1938 (see #83605). Christopher Marlowe (author), Raymond Edward Johnson, Ranald MacDougall (adaptor), Tom Bennett (composer), Bartlett Robinson, Peter Capell, Sanford Meisner, John Griggs, Kermit Murdock, Jean Ellen, Ian MacAllaster, Ann Shephard, Helen Warren, Paula Truman, William Watts, Martin Wolfson, Elliott Reid, Paul Dubov, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Blevins Davis (series arranger). 59:25. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
83604. Great Plays. November 24, 1940. Program #7. Blue Network. "The Tempest". Sustaining. Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy, Louis Hector, Ireene Wicker, William Podmore, Horace Braham, Carleton Young, John Abbott, John Moore, J. P. Wilson, William S. Rainey (narrator), William Shakespeare (author), Gail Kubik (composer), Charles Newton (adaptor), Joseph Hauntie (conductor). 59:40. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90088. Great Plays. December 8, 1940. Program #9. NBC net. "Le Cid". Sustaining. The French play of 1637. The script was previously used on the series on December 4, 1938 (see cat. #66359). Pierre Corneille (author), Albert N. Williams (translator, adaptor), Tom Bennett (composer), Richard Kollmar, Blevins Davis (series arranger). 56:57. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90089. Great Plays. December 15, 1940. Program #10. NBC net. "The Imaginary Invalid". Sustaining. After the play, Charles Webter stays in character as Moliere to speak of the faith and courage to make Paris a free city again. Well done! The system cue has been deleted. Moliere (author), Richard MacDonald (adaptor), Florence Malone, Linda Watkins, Marjorie Clark, Stanley Harrison, Winston O'Keefe, Harry Nevil, William Thornton, Maurice Wells, Clinton Sundberg, G. Albert Smith, Charles Webster. 59:38. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete as above.
90090. Great Plays. December 22, 1940. Program #11. NBC net. "The Second Shepherd's Play" and "The Wakefield Nativity". Sustaining. Two of the famous nativity plays of Chester, England. Ranald MacDougall (adaptor), William S. Rainey, Elliott Reid, Charita Bauer, Alfred Shirley, Kingsley Colton, Stanley Harrison, Burford Hampden, J. Malcolm Dunne, Ian Martin, William Shelley, Ian MacAllaster, Sean Dylan, Vincent Donahue, Mary Michael, Blevins Davis (series arranger). 59:27. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
83600. Great Plays. February 2, 1941. Program #17. Blue Network. "The Thunderbolt". Sustaining. The first radio performance of the play that was written in 1909. The recording is noticeably noise-gated. Part of the program closing and the system cue have been deleted. Edward Jefferson, Stanley Harrison, William Podmore, Ara Gerald, Eustace Wyatt, Joan Warburton, Patricia Calvert, Philip Tongue, Alfred Shirley, Arthur Wing Pinero (author), Charles Newton (adaptor), Blevins Davis (who arranged for the series). 58:45. Audio condition: Very good to excellent. Incomplete.
90091. Great Plays. February 16, 1941. Program #19. Blue Network. "Cyrano de Bergerac". Sustaining. The script was previously used on Great Plays on March 19, 1939 (see cat. #66350). Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, Edmond Rostand (author), Tom Bennett (composer), Ranald MacDougall (adaptor), Lester Vail (adaptor), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Ian Martin, Bertram Tamswell, Alan Hewitt, Eric Dressler, Whitner Bessel (?), Phillip Tong, Sidney Smith, Harold Vermilyea, Ted Osborne, Catherine Anderson, John Cherry, Blevins Davis (series arranger). 58:54. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90093. Great Plays. February 23, 1941. Program #20. Blue Network. "Curtain Calls For The Queen". Sustaining. "A fantasy on the drama in England during the reign of Queen Victoria." Scenes from, "The Lady Of Lyons," "London Assurance," "Caste," "The Bells," "Pygmalion and Galatea" and "Michael, and His Lost Angel." Edward Bulwar Lytton (author), Dion Boucicault (author), T. W. Robertson (author), Leopold Lewis (author), W. S. Gilbert (author), Henry Arthur Jones (author), Welborn Kelly (writer), Estelle Winwood, Alfred Shirley, Stanley Harrison, Phillip Tong, Kay Strozzi, Jean Muir, Marjorie Maude, George Coulouris, Barry Jones, J. P. Wilson, Elizabeth Raller (?), Blevins Davis (series arranger). 59:20. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90092. Great Plays. March 2, 1941. Program #21. Blue Network. "The Climbers". Sustaining. Marjorie Clark, Morgan Farley, G. Albert Smith, Florence Malone, Charles Webster, Virginia Campbell, Nan Dorland (?), Ruth Gates, Catherine Mescal, Ian Martin, Clifford Stork, Clyde Fitch (author), Richard Morenus (adaptor), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), George Putnam (announcer). 55:34. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90094. Great Plays. March 9, 1941. Program #22. Blue Network. "The Well Of The Saints". Sustaining. John Millington Synge (author), James Church (adaptor), Richard McDonough (adaptor). 58:59. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90095. Great Plays. March 16, 1941. Program #23. Blue Network. "The Swan". Sustaining. Ferenc Molnar (author), Richard Morenus (adaptor), Aragh Jerrold, Florence Williams, Ian Martin, Richard Gordon, Alfred Shirley, Peggy Allenby, Evelyn Barden, William Podmore, Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Blevins Davis (sereis arranger). 59:15. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90096. Great Plays. March 23, 1941. Program #24. Blue Network. Sustaining. A review of the the American theatre: 1920 to 1940. "In the last two decades, more good plays were written than in all the 150 years that had gone before." Scenes from, "What Price Glory," "The Show-Off" and "Abe Lincoln In Illinois." Maxwell Anderson (author), Laurence Stallings (author), George Kelly (author), Robert Sherwood (author), Raymond Edward Johnson, Fred Irving Lewis, Jeff Davis, Paul Dubov, Billy Lee, Gerald Holland (writer), Walter Kinsella, Ted de Corsia, John Griggs, Raymond Edward Johnson, Spencer Bentley, Joe Helgeson. 58:53. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90097. Great Plays. March 30, 1941. Program #25. Blue Network. "Robert E. Lee". Sustaining. The program has a studio audience. John Drinkwater (author), Gordon Nugent (adaptor), Neal O'Malley, G. Albert Smith, Peter Donald, Raymond Bramley, Joseph Curtin, Winfield Honie, Dorothy Sands, Ted Jewett, Charles Webster, Nancy Marshall, William Pringle, Elliott Reid, Tom Bennett (composer), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), George Putnam (announcer). 53:50. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90098. Great Plays. April 6, 1941. Program #26. Blue Network. "The Beggar On Horseback". Sustaining. A 1924 comedy based on dreams. George S. Kaufman (author), Alexander Kirkland, Jean Muir, Tom Bennett (composer), Joseph Stopak (conductor). 53:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90099. Great Plays. April 13, 1941. Program #27. Blue Network. "The Servant In The House". Sustaining. A drama in honor of Easter, first heard in 1908. Charles Rand Kennedy (author). 55:07. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90100. Great Plays. April 20, 1941. Program #28. Blue Network. "Trelawney Of The Wells". Sustaining. The broadcast has a studio audience. Arthur Wing Pinero (author), Elizabeth Hawes (adaptor). 52:12. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90101. Great Plays. May 4, 1941. Program #30. Blue Network. "Prologue To Glory". Sustaining. The play was first produced on Broadway in 1938, as a project of the WPA. The broadcast has a studio audience. The last show of the season. E. P. Conkle (author), Richard Morenus (adaptor), Tom Bennett (composer), Joseph Hauntie (conductor), Wesley Addy, Blevins Davis (series arranger), Pauline Ward. 56:50. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
47472. Great Plays. December 7, 1941. Program #4. Blue Network. "The Inspector General". Sustaining. Blue Net Pearl Harbor Coverage. Part 1. The program opening has been deleted, coverage starts at about 2:07 P. M. and continues to 3:00 P. M. (all times are Eastern). The first bulletin of the attack is heard about 2:33 P. M. Gogol (author). 51:18. Audio condition: Good. Incomplete.
90102. Great Plays. December 28, 1941. Program #7. Blue Network. "The Taming Of The Shrew". Sustaining. Mr. Clark comments that the play may have represented Shakespeare's relationship to his own wife. William Shakespeare (author), Barrett H. Clark (host), Ranald MacDougall (adaptor), Grace Copen, Herbert Rudley, Sylvia Marlowe (harpsichord), Joseph Stopak (conductor). 57:17. Audio condition: Excellent. Incomplete.
90104. Great Plays. January 11, 1942. Program #9. Blue Network. "Monsieur Poirier's Son-In-Law". Sustaining. "One of the high points of French comedy." Mr. Clark's scholarship in discussing this program and the others on which he appears, is remarkable and insightful. Emile Augier (author), Jules Sandeau (author), Barrett H. Clark (translator, host), Ranald MacDougall (adaptor), Axel Gruenberg (director), Junius Matthews, Les Damon, Betty Winkler, Alexander Scourby, Arad Moulton (?), Donald MacDonald, Tom Bennett (arranger), Joseph Stopak (conductor). 59:27. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
90103. Great Plays. January 25, 1942. Program #11. Blue Network. "The Pillars Of Society". Sustaining. The last program of "the first section of this season's plays." Henrik Ibsen (author), Barrett H. Clark (host), Charles Newton (adaptor), Arnold Moss, Peggy Allenby, Irene Hubbard, Sammie Hill, Peter Capell, Betty Garde, Joe DeSantis. 59:02. Audio condition: Excellent. Complete.
Report contains 69 programs.