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Irving Reis
The series began as the idea of Irving ReisIrving Reis
Irving Reis, born May 7, 1906, in New York City – died July 3, 1953, in Woodland Hills, California, was a radio program producer & director, and a film director.Reis was the creator of the experimental anthology program on the radio, Columbia Workshop...
. Reis had begun his radio career as an engineer and developed a fascination with the possibilities of the relatively new medium. His idea was to use experimental modes of narrative to enhance the way a narrative was conveyed over the radio. Reis had isolated attempts to experiment on the radio: Before the Columbia Workshops debut, he had directed at least a few radio dramas. For Reis, the Columbia Workshop was a platform for developing new techniques for presentation on radio as noted in the debut broadcast:
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As a sustaining program
Sustaining program
Sustaining program is a term used in the United States broadcasting industry for a program which does not have commercial sponsorship or advertising...
, the Workshop served as a symbol to prove to the public (and the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
) that CBS was concerned with educating and serving the public.
Early shows on the Workshop exemplified Reis's penchant for experimentation through narrative and technical means. The second program, Broadway Evening followed a couple as they meandered down Broadway during an evening. A subsequent show had at least 30 characters functioning within a half-hour drama. Among the technical demonstrations were sound effects, the use of various kinds of microphones to achieve various aural effects and voice impersonators (including sound effects produced by voice).
Reis called upon others to try their hand in writing new or adapting existing material for the experimental nature of the Workshop. Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
did a two-part adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601...
(mentioned along with the Workshop in the fictitious film Me and Orson Welles
Me and Orson Welles
Me and Orson Welles is a 2009 period-drama film directed by Richard Linklater and starring Zac Efron, Christian McKay, and Claire Danes. Based on Robert Kaplow's novel of the same name, the story, set in 1937 New York, tells of a teenager hired to perform in Orson Welles's stage production of...
), as well as a 30-minute condensation of Macbeth
Macbeth
The Tragedy of Macbeth is a play by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1607...
. Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw
Irwin Shaw was a prolific American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author whose written works have sold more than 14 million copies. He is best-known for his novel, The Young Lions about the fate of three soldiers during World War II that was made into a film starring Marlon...
contributed one show, and Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American author, poet, short story writer, and novelist. Benét is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body , for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By...
adapted several of his short stories. Reis also experimented with readings and dramatizations of poetry, including works by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was an English poet, Romantic, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. He is probably best known for his poems The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Kubla...
, John Masefield
John Masefield
John Edward Masefield, OM, was an English poet and writer, and Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until his death in 1967...
and Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
. One of the most notable presentations of Reis's tenure was Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish was an American poet, writer, and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the Modernist school of poetry. He received three Pulitzer Prizes for his work.-Early years:...
's original radio play, The Fall of the City
The Fall of the City
The Fall of the City by Archibald MacLeish is the first American verse play written for radio. It was first broadcast over the Columbia Broadcasting System as part of the Columbia Workshop radio series on April 11, 1937, with a cast that featured Orson Welles and Burgess Meredith. Music was...
. With a cast that included Burgess Meredith
Burgess Meredith
Oliver Burgess Meredith , known professionally as Burgess Meredith, was an American actor in theatre, film, and television, who also worked as a director...
, Orson Welles
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles , best known as Orson Welles, was an American film director, actor, theatre director, screenwriter, and producer, who worked extensively in film, theatre, television and radio...
and 300 students, the play was notable for its portrayal of the collapse of a city under an unnamed dictator, a commentary on fascism in Germany and Italy.
Reis recognized music as an important part of radio presentation. As part of CBS's commissioning of five classical composers to write original works for radio, Deems Taylor narrated a concert (November 7, 1936) which demonstrated the possibilities of idiomatic music composition for radio by playing orchestrations of three works by staff arranger Amadeo de Fillipi.
Among the most significant musical contributions Reis made was appointing Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann
Bernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...
music director of the Workshop. Herrmann had previously worked on CBS primarily as a conductor. He had composed his first radio drama for the Workshop, but it was only after his second program, Rhythm of the Jute Mill (broadcast December 12, 1936) that the appointment was made. Thereafter Herrmann composed many radio shows himself, also conducting the music of others and even proposing a show entirely devoted to music composed for the Workshop.
Other significant musical contributions during Reis's directorship include Paul Sterrett's and Leith Stevens
Leith Stevens
Leith Stevens was an American composer for radio and film scores.Born in Mount Moriah, Missouri, he was a child prodigy who was an accompanist for Madame Schumann-Heink....
's score for a two-part presentation of Alice in Wonderland in which music took the place of all sound effects, and Marc Blitzstein
Marc Blitzstein
Marcus Samuel Blitzstein, better known as Marc Blitzstein , was an American composer. He won national attention in 1937 when his pro-union musical The Cradle Will Rock, directed by Orson Welles, was shut down by the Works Progress Administration...
's half-hour musical I've Got the Tune, which similarly tried to convey sound effects and long-distance travel through purely musical means.
William N. Robson
On the broadcast of December 23, 1937 (the first of a two-part dramatization of Lewis Carroll's Alice Through the Looking Glass), it was announced that William N. RobsonWilliam N. Robson
William N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He...
had succeeded Irving Reis as director of the Columbia Workshop. Reis moved to Hollywood and continued his career in the film industry. Though the Workshop continued some experimentation, Robson placed greater emphasis on good dramatic adaptations, rather than didactic explanations of radio techniques.
Robson was not averse to experimentation. His San Quentin Prison Break, originally broadcast prior to the Workshop on January 16, 1935 was based on an actual incident. To achieve a sense of realism, the dramatization was a combination news report or documentary. Unlike most radio dramas, there was no narrator involved. This was later rebroadcast as part of the Workshop on September 10, 1936.
Under Robson's aegis, the Workshop was able to broadcast a number of notable shows. Known more as a film director, Pare Lorentz
Pare Lorentz
Pare Lorentz was an American filmmaker known for his movies about the New Deal. Born Leonard MacTaggart Lorentz in Clarksburg, West Virginia, he was educated at Wesleyan College and West Virginia University. As a young film critic in New York and Hollywood, Lorentz spoke out against censorship in...
wrote and directed Ecce Homo, a story concerning the relationship of man and technology. Both Irwin Shaw and Archibald MacLeish were invited back to write and direct shows as they had done under Reis's leadership. The Workshop extended its experimental mode by preceding the new MacLeish play, Air Raid with a broadcast of its rehearsal. Stephen Vincent Benèt continued to write for the Workshop, and author Wilbur Daniel Steele made his own adaptations of his previously written short stories. Arch Oboler
Arch Oboler
Arch Oboler was an American actor, playwright, screenwriter, novelist, producer, and director who was active in radio, films, theater, and television. He generated much attention with his radio scripts, particularly the horror series Lights Out, and his work in radio remains the outstanding period...
, known for Lights Out! series, contributed one script, as did Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilder was an American playwright and novelist. He received three Pulitzer Prizes, one for his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and two for his plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth, and a National Book Award for his novel The Eighth Day.-Early years:Wilder was born in Madison,...
and budding writer Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents
Arthur Laurents was an American playwright, stage director and screenwriter.After writing scripts for radio shows after college and then training films for the U.S...
.
At times, Robson reached beyond the typical crop of radio authors, selecting at least one script (Anita Fairgrieve's Andrea del Sarto), from his class in radio writing at New York University as well as soliciting scripts on the air from the listening audience.
With Bernard Herrmann continuing as music director, Robson (probably at Herrmann's insistence) included a few extended musical works and opera on the Workshop. Frederick Delius
Delius
Delius is a surname. It may refer to:* Ernst von Delius - German racing car driver* Frederick Delius - English composer* Nicolaus Delius - German philologist* Tobias Delius Delius is a surname. It may refer to:* Ernst von Delius (1912–1937) - German racing car driver* Frederick Delius...
's Hassan, and two operas by Vittorio Giannini
Vittorio Giannini
Vittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.-Life and work:...
, Beauty and the Beast and Blennerhasset, were among those heard. Robson apparently stepped down sometime in mid-1939, after which the Workshop was somewhat adrift. Brewster Morgan and Earle McGill are credited as being those responsible for continuing the series.
Norman Corwin
Norman Corwin
Norman Lewis Corwin was an American writer, screenwriter, producer, essayist and teacher of journalism and writing...
Norman Corwin had been a rising star at CBS for a few years, and had even some of his work aired on the Workshop as early as 1938, when his adaptation of Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane was an American novelist, short story writer, poet and journalist. Prolific throughout his short life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition as well as early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism...
's The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage
The Red Badge of Courage is a war novel by American author Stephen Crane . Taking place during the American Civil War, the story is about a young private of the Union Army, Henry Fleming, who flees from the field of battle. Overcome with shame, he longs for a wound—a "red badge of courage"—to...
aired. But his sense of social justice again changed the direction of the Workshop into one frequently addressing current issues. By the fall 1940, Corwin was leading the Workshop, and in 1941, the series was giving the subtitle 26 by Corwin, attesting to the author's seemingly indefatigable energy. Given Corwin's strong interest in issues of the day, it is ironic he left the Workshop just one month prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
Final years
It is not entirely clear who led the Columbia Workshop during 1942, but interest in the program was clearly waning. There were a few significant programs (historically the most interesting of them is probably the airing of John CageJohn Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
's and Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen
Kenneth Patchen was an American poet and novelist. Though he denied any direct connection, Patchen's work and ideas regarding the role of artists paralleled those of the Dadaists, the Beats, and Surrealists...
's The City Wears a Slouch Hat). There are only a few references to shows in 1943. The show had a revival in the 1946-47 season. When it was revived in 1956, it was retitled the CBS Radio Workshop.
Radio techniques
The Columbia Workshop gave authors, directors, sound engineers and composers many opportunities to experiment with the use of sound as a device for enhancing narrative.Sound filters
Buck Rogers was broadcast from a 21st-floor studio that had been troubled with air conditioning noises. At a bend in a duct the air gave a whoosh that had been difficult to dampen. Later, when it became necessary to suggest a rocket traveling through outer space, someone remembered the duct and put a microphone in the bend. Whenever Buck Rogers was on the move, the microphone was opened, producing the sound of a spaceship. This was the first development in sound filters.Filters developed upon the need for radio directors to find a way to portray a voice over the telephone. The filters were generally small boxes through which a microphone circuit could be shunted. The box had dials on its surface. Its inner mechanism could remove upper or lower tones or a combination of them to give an incomplete reproduction, as given by a telephone. The dials allowed the engineer to vary the effect, creating varieties of incompleteness. It became common for radio personnel to play around with the filters to find new sounds, and then having radio shows based upon their discoveries.
Staff
Many of the staff who worked on the Columbia Workshop would continue with CBS and work for television.- Bernard HerrmannBernard HerrmannBernard Herrmann was an American composer noted for his work in motion pictures.An Academy Award-winner , Herrmann is particularly known for his collaborations with director Alfred Hitchcock, most famously Psycho, North by Northwest, The Man Who Knew Too Much, and Vertigo...
, composer - Earle McGill, writer, director
- Irving ReisIrving ReisIrving Reis, born May 7, 1906, in New York City – died July 3, 1953, in Woodland Hills, California, was a radio program producer & director, and a film director.Reis was the creator of the experimental anthology program on the radio, Columbia Workshop...
, writer, director - William N. RobsonWilliam N. RobsonWilliam N. Robson was a director and producer of radio programs.-Career:Robson was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He attended Yale University, graduating in 1928. Upon graudation he worked as a screenwriter for Paramount Pictures, receiving screen credit for the 1933 film Private Jones.He...
, writer, director - Leith StevensLeith StevensLeith Stevens was an American composer for radio and film scores.Born in Mount Moriah, Missouri, he was a child prodigy who was an accompanist for Madame Schumann-Heink....
, composer - Guy Della-Cioppa, writer
List of Columbia Workshop programs
This is a list of all the Columbia Workshop programs, giving known information about authors, adaptors, directors/producers, composers. Occasional remarks have been included. Gaps in dates usually refer to programs that were pre-empted. Information for the years 1942-43 is difficult to come by.| Date | Title | Writer | Adaptation | Director/Producer | Music | Remarks | |
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| July 18, 1936 | A Comedy of Danger | Richard Hughes | - | Myron Safler | - | First show | |
| The Finger of God | Percival Wilde | ||||||
| July 25, 1936 | Broadway Evening | Leopold Proser | - | Irving Reis | - | - | |
| August 1, 1936 | Technical Demonstration | - | - | Irving Reis | - | - | |
| Cartwheel | Vic Knight | ||||||
| August 8, 1936 | Experiment | Mary Parkington | - | Irving Reis | - | - | |
| Highway Incident | Brian J. Byrne | ||||||
| August 15, 1936 | Case History | Milton M. E. Geiger | - | Irving Reis | - | Fantasy of pilot in airline crash | |
| August 22, 1936 | Dance of the Molecules | Orestes H. Caldwell (FCC commissioner) | - | Irving Reis | - | Demonstration of how radio works | |
| There Must Be Something Else | Helen Bergovoy | ||||||
| September 5, 1936 | San Quentin Prison Break | William N. Robson | - | William N. Robson | - | Explanation of a show originally broadcast January 16, 1935 | |
| September 12, 1936 | Voyage to Brobdingnag | Jonathan Swift | Leopold Proser | Irving Reis | - | - | |
| September 19, 1936 | Hamlet, Acts 1-2 | William Shakespeare | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | - | - | |
| September 26, 1936 | The Dream Maker | Charles Burton | - | Irving Reis | - | Fantasy of how dreams are made | |
| Shadows That Walk In | - | Ghost analysis | |||||
| October 3, 1936 | St. Louis Blues | ||||||
| October 10, 1936 | Sound Demonstration | ||||||
| October 17, 1936 | Dauber | John Masefield | Burke Boyce | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| October 24, 1936 | Letting the Cat Out of the Bag | - | - | - | - | Interview on vocal sound effects with Brad Barker and Madeleine Pearce | |
| November 7, 1936 | Music for Radio | Narration by Deems Taylor | - | Davidson Taylor | Debussy: Golliwogg's Cakewalk, Schumann: Traumerei, Bizet: Farandole (from L'Arlesienne Suite) orchestrated by Amadeo di Fillipi |
To illustrate idiomatic use of radio orchestration for the Columbia Composers' Commission | |
| November 14, 1936 | Hamlet, acts 3-5 | William Shakespeare | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | - | ||
| November 21, 1936 | The Use of Theaters for Broadcasts | E. E. Free | - | Irving Reis | - | Electrical demonstration | |
| 2000 Were Chosen | E.P. Conkle | - | |||||
| November 28, 1936 | The American Patent System | Irving Reis | - | Irving Reis | - | Honoring 100th Anniversary of the U.S. Patent Office | |
| December 12, 1936 | Rhythm of the Jute Mill | William N. Robson | - | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| December 19, 1936 | The Gods of the Mountains | Lord Alfred Dunsany | - | - | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| December 26, 1936 | The Happy Prince | Oscar Wilde | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| January 2, 1937 | Public Domain | Eustis Wyatt | - | Earle McGill | - | Fantasy of PD characters yearning for release from stories | |
| January 9, 1937 | Interview with a Control Engineer, part 1 | van Voorhees, control engineer | - | - | Clyde Borne, singer | Control sound engineering | |
| A Voyage to Lilliput | Jonathan Swift | (Irving Reis?) | Irving Reis | - | |||
| January 16, 1937 | Interview with a Control Engineer, part 2 | - | - | - | - | microphone mixing | |
| An Incident of the Cosmos | Paul Y. Anderson | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Extraterrestrials witness the end of Earth | ||
| January 23, 1937 | The Signal-Man The Signal-Man The Signal-Man is a short story by Charles Dickens, first published as part of the "Mugby Junction" collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.... |
Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English novelist, generally considered the greatest of the Victorian period. Dickens enjoyed a wider popularity and fame than had any previous author during his lifetime, and he remains popular, having been responsible for some of English literature's most iconic... |
- | Irving Reis and Earle McGill | - | - | |
| January 30, 1937 | Evolution of the Negro Spiritual | - | - | Irving Reis | arrangements by Clyde Barry & Helen Bergeron | - | |
| February 6, 1937 | Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Leopold Proser | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| February 13, 1937 | Sound and the Human Ear | Narrated by Dr. John Steinberg | - | Irving Reis(and pro.) | - | demonstration of pitch perception | |
| February 28, 1937 | Macbeth | William Shakespeare | Orson Welles | Orson Welles | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| March 7, 1937 | - | - | - | - | (unidentified show) | ||
| March 14, 1937 | Split Seconds | Irving Reis | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Script first broadcast in 1931 | |
| March 21, 1937 | Danse Macabre | Helen Bergeron, George Zachary | - | Irving Reis | Camille Saint-Saëns | - | |
| March 28, 1937 | Eve of St. Agnes | John Keats | Edward A. Byron | Edward A. Byron | - | - | |
| April 4, 1937 | Big Ben | John Mossman | - | John Mossman | - | - | |
| April 4, 1937 | Crisis | Roy Winsower | - | Roy Winsower | - | - | |
| April 11, 1937 | The Fall of the City | Archibald MacLeish | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| April 18, 1937 | R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) | Karel Capek | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| April 25, 1937 | St. Louis Blues | Irving Reis | - | Irving Reis | Blues by W.C. Handy | Orig. written in 1932; first play for radio about radio; First heard on the Workshop Oct. 3, 1936 | |
| May 2, 1937 | Drums of Conscience | - | - | Irving Reis | - | - | |
| May 9, 1937 | Supply and Demand | Irwin Shaw | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Worthington Minor, "director of dialogue and staging" | |
| May 16, 1937 | Paul Revere | Stephen Vincent Benét | - | Bernard Herrmann | - | ||
| May 23, 1937 | A Night at an Inn | Lord Alfred Dunsany | - | Irving Reis | Debussy, conducted by Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| May 30, 1937 | Discoverie | Merrill Denison | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| June 6, 1937 | Downbeat on Murder | Charles Tazewell | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | voices change into musical notes | |
| June 13, 1937 | The Young King | Oscar Wilde | - | Irving Reis | - | - | |
| June 20, 1937 | Red-Head Baker | Albert Maltz | - | Joseph Losey | Bernard Herrman | - | |
| June 27, 1937 | Babouk Babouk Babouk is a political-themed novel by Guy Endore, a fictionalized account of the Haitian Revolution told through the eyes of its titular slave... |
Guy Endore | Lester Fuller | Edward A. Blatt, Irving Reis | Bernard Herrman | - | |
| July 4, 1937 | Mr. Sycamore | Robert Ayre | Leonard Proser | - | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| July 11, 1937 | The Tell-Tale Heart | E. A. Poe | Charles Tazewell | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Used sounds of real heartbeats | |
| July 18, 1937 | Fifty Grand | Ernest Hemingway | - | Bernard Herrmann | - | ||
| July 25, 1937 | A Matter of Life and Death | Leopold Atlas | - | Irving Reis | - | - | |
| August 1, 1937 | Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent | Stephen Vincent Benét | Sheldon Stark | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| August 8, 1937 | An Incident of the Cosmos(rep) | Paul Y. Anderson | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| Last Citation | John Whedon | ||||||
| August 15, 1937 | Escape (part 1) | John Galsworthy | Leopold Proser | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| August 22, 1937 | Escape (part 2) | John Galsworthy | Leopold Proser | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| August 29, 1937 | The Half-Pint Flask | Dubose Heyward | Irving Reis | William N. Robson | (Victor Young?) | - | |
| August 30, 1937 | Twelfth Night | William Shakespeare | Orson Welles | Orson Welles, director, John Houseman, producer | - | Includes readings by Pepys, Manningham, Mazlitt, and Brandes | |
| September 5, 1937 | S.S. San Pedro | James G. Cozzens | Betsy Tuttle | William N. Robson | Charles Paul | James Gould Cozzens | |
| September 12, 1937 | Death of a Queen | Hilaire Belloc | Val Gielgud | Val Gielgud | - | Originated from BBC in London | |
| September 19, 1937 | Riders to the Sea | John Millington Synge | - | Irving Reis | - | Originated from Dublin, Ireland | |
| September 26, 1937 | Alice in Wonderland, part 1 | Lewis Carroll | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Paul Sterrett | - | |
| October 3, 1937 | Alice in Wonderland, part 2 | Lewis Carroll | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Paul Sterrett and Leith Stevens | - | |
| October 10, 1937 | Meridian 7-1212 | Irving Reis | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| October 17, 1937 | The Killers | Ernest Hemingway | Irving Reis | Irving Reis | - | - | |
| October 17, 1937 | Illusion | Georgia Backus | - | Georgia Backus | - | - | |
| October 24, 1937 | I've Got the Tune | Marc Blitzstein | - | Marc Blitzstein | - | ||
| October 31, 1937 | Sweepstakes | Irving Reis & Charles Martin | - | Irving Reis & Charles Martin | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| November 7, 1937 | The Horla | Guy de Maupassant | Charles Tazewell | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| November 14, 1937 | Mr. Justice | Irving Reis | - | - | - | ||
| November 21, 1937 | Georgia Transport | John Williams Andrews | - | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | Repeat from Sept. 27, 1937 | |
| November 28, 1937 | First Violin | Norman Davey | Sally Russell | Irving Reis | - | - | |
| December 2, 1937 | - | - | - | - | - | (unidentified show) | |
| December 9, 1937 | Marconi | - | Orrin Dunlap | - | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| December 16, 1937 | Metzengerstein | E. A. Poe | Charles Tazewell | Irving Reis | Bernard Herrmann | - | |
| December 23, 1937 | Alice Through the Looking Glass, part 1 | Lewis Carroll | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Paul Sterrett and Leith Stevens | Robson succeeds Reis as head of Columbia Workshop | |
| December 30, 1937 | Alice Through the Looking Glass, part 2 | Lewis Carroll | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Paul Sterrett and Leith Stevens | - | |
| January 8, 1938 | The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet, part 1 | ||||||
| January 15, 1938 | The House That Jack Didn't Build | Alfred Kreymborg | William N. Robson | Experiment in drama | |||
| January 16, 1938 | Mr. Whipple is Worried | Bernard Herrmann | |||||
| January 22, 1938 | Robert Owens | Bernard Herrmann | |||||
| January 29, 1938 | Madame Curie | Eve Curie | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| February 5, 1938 | Andrea del Sarto | Anita Fairgrieve | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | Author was NYU student | ||
| February 12, 1938 | Be Prepared | Guy Della Cioppa & Richard Linkroum | George Zachary | Bernard Herrmann | Boy scouts & demo of audio montage | ||
| February 19, 1938 | The Well of the Saints | John Millington Synge | George Zachary | George Zachary | Bernard Herrmann | Use of sound in delineating elements of supernatural fantasy | |
| February 26, 1938 | Night Patrol | Stuart Hawkins | |||||
| March 5, 1938 | The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet, part 2 | Pauline Gibson & Frederick Gilsdorff | Nila Mack | Bernard Herrmann | Use of microphone filters | ||
| March 12, 1938 | Hassan | James Elroy Flecker | Constance Brown | Earle McGill | Frederick Delius (Bermard Herrmann, conductor) | opera | |
| March 19, 1938 | The Wedding of the Meteors | Leslie Roberts & Joel Hamill | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| March 26, 1938 | J. Smith and Wife | Charles Tazewell | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | No sound effects used | ||
| April 2, 1938 | Seven Waves Away | Richard Sale | Margaret Lewerth | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| April 9, 1938 | The Broken Feather | Michael Carroll | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| April 16, 1938 | The Terrible Meek | Charles Rann Kennedy | William N. Robson | ||||
| April 23, 1938 | Never Come Monday | Eric Knight | Stephen Fox | William N. Robson | Charles Paul | Repeated June 25, 1938 | |
| April 30, 1938 | Fours into Seven Won't Go | Val Gielgud, Stephen King-Hall | Val Gielgud | ||||
| May 7, 1938 | The Fisherman and His Soul | Oscar Wilde | [William N. Robson?] | William N. Robson | |||
| May 14, 1938 | Melodrams | various [poems read by David Ross] | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | music composed 1934-35 | ||
| May 21, 1938 | Ecce Homo | Pare Lorenz | Pare Lorenz | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| May 28, 1938 | Bury the Dead | Irwin Shaw | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | |||
| June 4, 1938 | Tranga Man, Fine Gah | John S. Carlisle | John S. Carlisle & William N. Robson | ||||
| June 11, 1938 | Surrealism | Ernest Walsh & George Whitsett | Davidson Taylor | Bernard Herrmann | Also music by Erik Satie & Virgil Thomson | ||
| June 18, 1938 | Reunion | John Hines Jr. & Guy Della Cioppa | William N. Robson | Columbia Univ. Singers conducted by Lyn Murray | |||
| June 25, 1938 | Never Come Monday | Eric Knight | Stephen Fox | William N. Robson | Charles Paul & Bernard Herrmann | Repeat from April 23, 1938 | |
| July 2, 1938 | The Constitution of the US | William N. Robson | |||||
| July 9, 1938 | The Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane | Margaret Lewerth | Norman Corwin | Charles Paul | Corwin's debut on CBS | |
| July 16, 1938 | The National Headliners | William N. Robson | |||||
| July 23, 1938 | Murder in the Cathedral | T. S. Eliot | George Zachary | George Zachary | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| July 30, 1938 | Tristam | Edwin Arlington Robinson | Stella Reynolds | William N. Robson | Wagner (Cond. BH) | ||
| August 6, 1938 | The Devil and Daniel Webster | Stephen Vincent Benét | Charles R. Jackson | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| August 13, 1938 | |||||||
| August 20, 1938 | (unidentified show) | ||||||
| August 27, 1938 | Pelleas et Melisande | ||||||
| September 1, 1938 | (unidentified show) | ||||||
| September 8, 1938 | (unidentified show) | ||||||
| September 15, 1938 | Outward Bound | Sutton Vane | Charles R. Jackson | Martin Gosch | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| September 22, 1938 | He Doubles in Pipes | Hilda Cole | William N. Robson | ||||
| September 29, 1938 | The Lighthouse Keepers | Paul Cloquemin | Norman Corwin | ||||
| October 13, 1938 | Brushwood Boy | Rudyard Kipling | Eustace Wyatt | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| October 20, 1938 | The Happy Journey to Trenton and Camden | Thorton Wilder | |||||
| October 26, 1938 | Air Raid (Rehearsal) | Archibald MacLeish | William N. Robson | ||||
| October 27, 1938 | Air Raid | Archibald MacLeish | William N. Robson | ||||
| November 3, 1938 | Poetic License | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | ||||
| November 10, 1938 | A Drink of Water | Wilbur Daniel Steele | Max Wylie | Martin Gosch | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| November 17, 1938 | Luck | Wilbur Daniel Steele | Margaret Lewerth | Martin Gosch; Betsy Tuttle, producer. |
Bernard Herrmann | ||
| November 24, 1938 | Beauty and the Beast | Robert A. Simon (libretto) | Vittorio Giannini Vittorio Giannini Vittorio Giannini was a neoromantic American composer of operas, songs, symphonies, and band works.-Life and work:... (Howard Barlow, conductor) |
opera | |||
| December 1, 1938 | The Giant's Stair | Wilbur Daniel Steele | Charles R. Jackson | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| December 8, 1938 | Man With a Gun/ Experiments in Music/ Fall of Jericho |
Sound engineer: Al Span | Charles Vanda | Simeone, music director | 3 pop songs in 2nd half of show | ||
| December 15, 1938 | A Trip to Czardis | Edwin Granberry | James & Elizabeth Hart | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| December 22, 1938 | Bread on the Waters | Arch Oboler | Earle McGill | Alexander Courage | Sound: D. Gaines | ||
| December 29, 1938 | Crosstown Manhattan | Travis Ingham, Norman Corwin | William N. Robson | Alfred Newman, Mark Warnow |
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| January 5, 1939 | Orphan Ego | Arnold Manoff | Leslie Ubrach | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| January 9, 1939 | Forgot in the Rains | William Merrick | Brewster Morgan | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| January 16, 1939 | Mr. Whipple is Worried | James Frederick | Brewster Morgan | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| January 23, 1939 | Prophecy | Bernard Herrmann | |||||
| January 30, 1939 | Now Playing Tomorrow | Arthur Laurents | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| February 6, 1939 | Do Not Open For 5000 Years | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | ||||
| February 20, 1939 | Nine Prisoners | William March | Brian J. Byrne | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| February 27, 1939 | Jury Trial | Elizabeth & James Hart | William N. Robson | ||||
| March 6, 1939 | The Winged Victory | David Redstone | Brewster Morgan | ||||
| March 13, 1939 | In the Train | Frank O’Connor | Hugh Hunt | Brewster Morgan | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| March 20, 1939 | A Letter from Home | Charles R. Jackson | Nila Mack | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| March 27, 1939 | Pepito Inherits the Earth | ||||||
| April 3, 1939 | Rendezvous with Kit Carson | correct date? | |||||
| April 10, 1939 | They Fly Through The Air With The Greatest of Ease | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | ||||
| April 17, 1939 | Ear Essay On Broadcasting | ||||||
| April 24, 1939 | Seems Radio Is Here to Stay | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| May 1, 1939 | Wet Saturday | Lee Anderson play based on short story by John Collier (writer) John Collier (writer) John Henry Noyes Collier was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were collected in a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in... |
Margaret Lewerth | William N. Robson | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| May 8, 1939 | Wild Man | ||||||
| May 15, 1939 | Law Beaters | ||||||
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| May 29, 1939 | Private Throgg | ||||||
| June 5, 1939 | Highboy | ||||||
| June 12, 1939 | Handful of Dust | ||||||
| June 19, 1939 | Journalism in Tennessee | Mark Twain | Norman Corwin | ||||
| June 19, 1939 | Salesmanship | Mary Ellen Chase | Norman Corwin | ||||
| July 6, 1939 | The Half-Pint Flask | Dubose Heyward | Irving Reis | William N. Robson | [Victor Young?] | ||
| July 13, 1939 | Never Come Home | ||||||
| July 20, 1939 | John Brown's Body | Stephen Vincent Benét | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | Leith Stevens | One hour broadcast | |
| July 27, 1939 | A Trip to Czardis | ||||||
| August 3, 1939 | The Ghost of Benjamin Sweet | ||||||
| August 10, 1939 | Radio Play | William Saroyan William Saroyan William Saroyan was an Armenian American dramatist and author. The setting of many of his stories and plays is the center of Armenian-American life in California in his native Fresno.-Early years:... |
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| August 17, 1939 | A Drink of Water | ||||||
| August 24, 1939 | Meridian 7-1212 | Irving Reis | Irving Reis | ||||
| August 31, 1939 | Apartment to Let | ||||||
| September 7, 1939 | So This is Radio | ||||||
| September 14, 1939 | The Use of Man | Bernard Herrmann | |||||
| September 21, 1939 | Now It's Summer | Arthur Kober | Earle McGill | ||||
| September 28, 1939 | The Fall of the City | Archibald MacLeish | Irving Reis | [no music] | repeat broadcast from California using 500 University of Southern California students | ||
| October 12, 1939 | Wake Up and Die | Frank Lovejoy | Story of alarm clocks | ||||
| October 19, 1939 | William Ireland's Confession | Arthur Miller Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,... |
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| November 2, 1939 | Blennerhasset [Conductor: Howard Barlow] | Libretto by:Philip A. Roll & Norman Corwin | Vittorio Giannini | opera | |||
| November 16, 1939 | A Letter From Above | Florence & Ben Vine | |||||
| November 23, 1939 | A Circular Tour | W. W. Jacobs | |||||
| November 27, 1939 | The Half-Pint Flask | Dubose Heyward | Leith Stevens | Repeat from August 29, 1937 | |||
| November 30, 1939 | The Wonderful Day | Frank Gould | Earle McGill | Alexander Semmler | |||
| December 7, 1939 | As You Like It | ||||||
| December 14, 1939 | Story in the Dogtown Common | Joseph Liss | Alexander Semmler | ||||
| December 21, 1939 | Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk | ||||||
| December 28, 1939 | Higher Than A Kite | Brewster Morgan | [Brewster Morgan?] | ||||
| January 11, 1940 | My Heart Is In The Highlands | ||||||
| January 18, 1940 | Fannie Kemble | Joseph Liss and Louis Lantz | |||||
| January 25, 1940 | Heavently Rest | Milton Wayne | Earle McGill | ||||
| February 1, 1940 | Coals to Newscastle | from J. P. Marquand’s “Timothy Dexter” | Charles Monroe | Brewster Morgan | |||
| February 15, 1940 | Double Exposure | Maurice Level, Étienne Rey | Alexander Semmler | Adaptation of Grand Guignol Grand Guignol Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol — known as the Grand Guignol — was a theatre in the Pigalle area of Paris . From its opening in 1897 until its closing in 1962 it specialized in naturalistic horror shows... play |
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| February 22, 1940 | An Autobiography of an Egotist | ||||||
| February 29, 1940 | The Great Microphone Mystery; Ellery Queen Mystery: The Case of the Mysterious Leap Year | ||||||
| February 29, 1940 | Leaping Out of Character | From CBS Program book: “Announcers are to be singers; singers and directors turn actors; actors take a hand as musiciansî | |||||
| March 7, 1940 | My Client Curley | Norman Corwin | Raymond Scott | Repeated April 4, 1940 | |||
| March 14, 1940 | Three Original Playlets by KNX staff | Writing, acting, producinto and music has been placed in the hands of elevator operators, ushers, stenographers, tourist guides, receptionists, mail clerks and other employed in the non-glamorous jobs connected with radio. | |||||
| March 21, 1940 | The Taming of the Shrew | Shakespeare | Joseph Gottlieb and Irvin Graham | Phil Cohan | “specially written modernized-musical”; music & lyrics by Gottlieb & Graham | ||
| April 4, 1940 | Sunset Boulevard | William N. Robson | William N. Robson | ||||
| April 18, 1940 | Three Strikes, You’re Out | Vernon Delston | Brewster Morgan | ||||
| April 25, 1940 | America Was Promises | Archibald MacLeish | George Zachary | Nicholas Nabokov | |||
| May 5, 1940 | The Honest Captain | Knowles Entrikin, Howard Breslin Howard Breslin Howard Breslin was an American novelist and radio script writer. He mainly wrote novels of historical fiction and is most notable for The Tamarack Tree and Bad Day at Black Rock... |
Earle McGill | Charles Paul (organ) | Workshop switched to Sundays | ||
| May 12, 1940 | A Day in Manhattan | A. M. Sullivan | Earle McGill | ||||
| May 19, 1940 | Carlos Chavez conducts a program of Mexican music | Carlos Chavez,various | |||||
| June 2, 1940 | The Dark Valley | W. H. Auden | Brewster Morgan | Benjamin Britten | |||
| June 9, 1940 | No Complications | ||||||
| June 16, 1940 | pre-empted | ||||||
| June 23, 1940 | In April Once | ||||||
| June 30, 1940 | The Man With the One Track Mind | ||||||
| July 7, 1940 | The Cock-Eyed Wonder | About baseball | |||||
| July 14, 1940 | The Fish Story | Joseph Gottlieb & Irvin Graham | Phil Cohan | musical | |||
| July 21, 1940 | Canvas Kisser | ||||||
| July 28, 1940 | Carmilla Carmilla Carmilla is a Gothic novella by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. First published in 1872, it tells the story of a young woman's susceptibility to the attentions of a female vampire named Carmilla... |
Sheridan Le Fanu Sheridan Le Fanu Joseph Thomas Sheridan Le Fanu was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was the leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.... |
Lucille Fletcher | Earle McGill | |||
| August 18, 1940 | The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins | E. B. White-Dr. Seuss | Nila Mack & Stuart†Aynes | Nila Mack | Charles Paul | ||
| August 25, 1940 | I Followed The Seals | ||||||
| September 1, 1940 | Alf, The All-American Fly | Lucille Fletcher | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | |||
| September 8, 1940 | The Major Goes Over The Hill | ||||||
| September 15, 1940 | Mr. Charles | ||||||
| September 22, 1940 | Well Look Who’s Here | ||||||
| September 29, 1940 | The Pussy Cat And The Expert Plumber Who Was A Man | Arthur Miller Arthur Miller Arthur Asher Miller was an American playwright and essayist. He was a prominent figure in American theatre, writing dramas that include plays such as All My Sons , Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , and A View from the Bridge .Miller was often in the public eye,... |
Brewster Mogran | Charles Paul | |||
| October 6, 1940 | > They Also Serve | ||||||
| October 27, 1940 | Fulton Fish Market | ||||||
| November 3, 1940 | The Constitution | ||||||
| November 10, 1940 | Bela and Dita Bartok | Bela Bartok | |||||
| November 17, 1940 | I Get The Blues From Revues | ||||||
| November 24, 1940 | The Dynasts | Thomas Hardy | W.H. Auden? | Benjamin Britten | |||
| December 1, 1940 | And To Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street | Dr. Seuss | Nila Mack production | ||||
| December 8, 1940 | The Trojan Women | Euripides | Edith Hamilton, translator | Virgil Thomson | |||
| December 15, 1940 | The Symptoms of being 35 In The Fog |
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| December 22, 1940 | The Plot to Overthrow Christmas | ||||||
| December 29, 1940 | Dr. Johnson in Scotland | ||||||
| January 5, 1941 | Love In 32 bars | ||||||
| January 12, 1941 | Cassidy and the Devil | ||||||
| January 26, 1941 | This Is From David | Meridel Le Sueur Meridel Le Sueur Meridel Le Sueur was an American writer associated with the proletarian movement of the 1930s and 1940s... |
Draper Lewis, Jack Fink | Clinton Johnston | Alexander Semmler | ||
| February 2, 1941 | Help Me Hannah | ||||||
| February 9, 1941 | Dress Rehearsal | ||||||
| February 16, 1941 | A Crop of Beans | Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings was an American author who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie, also known as The... |
Draper Lewis | Guy della Cioppa | |||
| February 23, 1941 | Wings of an Eagle | ||||||
| March 2, 1941 | Roadside | ||||||
| March 9, 1941 | Still Small Voice | ||||||
| March 16, 1941 | Cassidy and the Devil | ||||||
| March 23, 1941 | Out of the Air | ||||||
| March 30, 1941 | The Creation The Congo |
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| April 6, 1941 | The Rocking-Horse Winner | DH Lawrence ad. Auden & James Stern | Guy della Cioppa | Benjamin Britten | |||
| April 13, 1941 | Glory Machine/The House/Brooklyn Cantata | ||||||
| April 20, 1941 | The Reluctant Dragon | Nila Mack | |||||
| April 27, 1941 | Jason Was A Man | ||||||
| May 4, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Radio Primer | Norman Corwin | Lyn Murray | ||||
| May 11, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Log of the R-77 | Norman Corwin | Lyn Murray | ||||
| May 18, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: The People, Yes | Norman Corwin | Earl Robinson | ||||
| May 25, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Lip Service | Norman Corwin | Larry Adler | ||||
| June 1, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Appointment | Norman Corwin | Lyn Murray | ||||
| June 8, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: The Odyssey of Runyon Jones | Norman Corwin | Alexander Semmler | ||||
| June 15, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: A Soliloquy to Balance the Budget | Norman Corwin | |||||
| June 22, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Daybreak | Norman Corwin | Lyn Murray | ||||
| June 29, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Old Salt | Norman Corwin | Lyn Murray | ||||
| July 6, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Between Americans | Norman Corwin | Alexander Semmler | ||||
| July 13, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Ann Rutledge | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | Alexander Semmler | Ann Was An Ordinary Girl | ||
| July 20, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Double Concerto | Norman Corwin | Paul Berlanger | ||||
| August 3, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Descent of the Gods | Norman Corwin | |||||
| August 10, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Samson | Norman Corwin | Bernard Herrmann | ||||
| August 17, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Esther | Norman Corwin | Lyn Murray | ||||
| August 24, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Job | Norman Corwin | Deems Taylor | ||||
| August 31, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Mary and the Fairy | Norman Corwin | Lud Gluskin | ||||
| September 7, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Anatomy of Sound | Norman Corwin | [no music] | ||||
| September 14, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Fragments from a Lost Cause | Norman Corwin | Alexander Semmler | ||||
| September 21, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: The Human Angle | Dore Schary | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | |||
| September 28, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Good Heavens | Norman Corwin | Lyn Murray | ||||
| October 5, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Wolfiana | Thomas Wolfe | Norman Corwin | Norman Corwin | Alexander Semmler | ||
| October 12, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Murder in Studio One | Norman Corwin | Alexander Semmler | ||||
| October 19, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Descent of the Gods | Norman Corwin | Perry Lafferty | [no original music] | repeat due to Corwin illness | ||
| October 26, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Odyssey of Runyan Jones | Norman Corwin | repeat performance | ||||
| November 2, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: A Man with a Platform | Norman Corwin | Lyn Murrary | ||||
| November 9, 1941 | 26 by Corwin: Psalm for a Dark Year | Norman Corwin | Alexander Semmler | ||||
| November 16, 1941 | Gator Boy | ||||||
| November 23, 1941 | The Life of a Careful Man | Virgil Thomson | |||||
| November 30, 1941 | Double Ugly | ||||||
| December 14, 1941 | Citizen For Tomorrow | 150th anniversary of Bill of Rights | |||||
| December 21, 1941 | Miracle In Manhattan | Duffy’s Tavern | |||||
| December 28, 1941 | Who Wants To Be Born These Days? | New Years show – baby organization | |||||
| January 4, 1942 | The Fish on the Bathroom Floor | ||||||
| January 11, 1942 | Free Speech | ||||||
| January 18, 1942 | At The Sign Of The Lark | “rare books” | |||||
| January 25, 1942 | The Man Without A Shadow | Werner Mishel | Charles Vanda | Alexander Semmler | Lurene Tuttle plays all 7 female parts | ||
| February 1, 1942 | Jenny, The Bus Nobody Loved | Perry Lafferty | Bus rebellion | ||||
| February 8, 1942 | Portrait of Jennie Portrait of Jennie Portrait of Jennie is a 1948 fantasy film based on the novella by Robert Nathan. The film was directed by William Dieterle and produced by David O. Selznick. It stars Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.-Plot:... |
Robert Nathan Robert Nathan Robert Gruntal Nathan was an American novelist and poet.-Biography:Nathan was born into a prominent New York family. He was educated in the United States and Switzerland and attended Harvard University for several years beginning in 1912. It was there that he began writing short fiction and poetry... |
George D. Griffin | Earle McGill | Lehman Engel Lehman Engel Lehman Engel was an American composer and conductor of Broadway musicals, television and film.-Work in theatre, television and films:... |
Santos Ortega Santos Ortega Santos Ortega was an American actor.-Radio:Ortega was active in radio, starring in The Adventures of Nero Wolfe and narrating a popular radio show called Gangbusters as well as Stroke of Fate. Perhaps his most famous and notable radio role was Commissioner Weston on The Shadow... |
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| February 15, 1942 | Opus For A Lute And A Liar | Nila Mack | Nila Mack | ||||
| February 22, 1942 | Plot for Mr. Greenberg | ||||||
| March 1, 1942 | When the Bough Breaks | ||||||
| March 8, 1942 | The Test | James Driscoll | |||||
| March 15, 1942 | A Child’s History of Hot Music | ||||||
| March 22, 1942 | Green Receipt | ||||||
| March 29, 1942 | Solomon and Balkis | Bernard Rogers | opera | ||||
| April 5, 1942 | Miracle of the Danube | ||||||
| April 12, 1942 | He Should Have Stood In Elba | Nathan Van Cleave | Ted de Corsia | ||||
| April 19, 1942 | Play Ball | Louis Hazam | |||||
| May 3, 1942 | Looking For Susie | ||||||
| May 10, 1942 | Flight To Arras | ||||||
| May 17, 1942 | Good Morning Mr. Crumb | ||||||
| May 24, 1942 | Midnight Blue | James Caleb Beach | Perry Lafferty | Nathan Van Cleave | About blues | ||
| May 31, 1942 | The City Wears a Slouch Hat | Kenneth Patchen | Les Mitchel | John Cage | |||
| June 7, 1942 | The Little One | ||||||
| June 12, 1942 | Ritchie The Great | Jerome Lawrence, Robert E. Lee | John Dietz | James Monks, Joan Allison | |||
| June 19, 1942 | It Couldn’t Happen To A Nicer Kid | ||||||
| June 26, 1942 | History Is On The March/1812 | ||||||
| July 3, 1942 | Tag number 1-184-463 | Skip Homier | |||||
| July 6, 1942 | Broadcast from the Year 1812 | ||||||
| July 13, 1942 | Let Me Tell You About My Operation | ||||||
| July 20, 1942 | Someone Else | Lucille Fletcher | Earle McGill | Bernard Herrmann | Arr. of music by Couperin | ||
| July 27, 1942 | Reveille Pass | ||||||
| August 3, 1942 | Laughter For The Leader | ||||||
| August 10, 1942 | Music Of The Mountains | ||||||
| August 17, 1942 | All Out For Comedy | ||||||
| August 24, 1942 | Hold ‘Em Yale | ||||||
| August 31, 1942 | All Out For Comedy – Columbia Sketchbook | ||||||
| September 7, 1942 | Café Society – Stars | ||||||
| September 14, 1942 | Portrait of Jennie Portrait of Jennie Portrait of Jennie is a 1948 fantasy film based on the novella by Robert Nathan. The film was directed by William Dieterle and produced by David O. Selznick. It stars Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten.-Plot:... |
Robert Nathan Robert Nathan Robert Gruntal Nathan was an American novelist and poet.-Biography:Nathan was born into a prominent New York family. He was educated in the United States and Switzerland and attended Harvard University for several years beginning in 1912. It was there that he began writing short fiction and poetry... |
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| September 21, 1942 | My Kid Brother | ||||||
| September 28, 1942 | Florrie And The Country Green | ||||||
| October 12, 1942 | Rebirth of Barrow’s Inlet | ||||||
| October 19, 1942 | Remodeled Brownstone | Lucille Fletcher | John Dietz | Martin Gabel | |||
| November 8, 1942 | Proclaim the Morning | ||||||
| July 25, 1944 | El Capitain and the Corporal | ||||||
| March 23, 1946 | Act of Faith | Irwin Shaw | Charles S. Monroe | John Dietz | Alexander Semmler | ||
| April 13, 1946 | Joe Peabody's Dream | Betty Todd | Charles Paul | ||||
| April 21, 1946 | The Playroom | Howard Rodman | John Dietz | Norman Lockwood, conducted by Fred Steiner | |||
| April 28, 1946 | A Study in Bells | Bogart Carlaw | - | Albert Ward | Norman Lockwood, conducted by Fred Steiner | ||
| The House | André Maurois | ||||||
| May 19, 1946 | The Trial | Franz Kafka | Davidson Taylor | Guy della Cioppa(&pro) | Bernard Herrmann | ||
| September 15, 1946 | The Last Delegate | Margaret Lewerth | John Dietz | Robert Stringer | |||
| September 21, 1946 | The Midnight Town Is Full of Boys | Fletcher Markle | Albert Ward | Fred Steiner | |||
| October 5, 1946 | Studies in Jealousy | Irving Hopkins | Alexander Semmler | ||||
| October 12, 1946 | Brewsie and Willie | Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein Gertrude Stein was an American writer, poet and art collector who spent most of her life in France.-Early life:... |
Richard Sanville | Robert Stringer | |||
| November 2, 1946 | Lee Fountain Comes of Age | Joseph Ruscoll | Werner Mishel | Alexander Semmler | |||
| November 23, 1946 | The Tin Whistle | Richard Burdick | Carl Beyer | Everett Helm | |||
| November 30, 1946 | It Shouldn't Happen to a Man | Madelyn Pugh | William N. Robson | Maurice Carlton, conducted by Wilbur Hatch | |||
| December 7, 1946 | The Parade | Morris Markey | Margaret Lewerth | Richard Sanville | Robert Stringer | ||
| December 14, 1946 | Alice and the Echo | Jean L. Meyer | John Becker | Alexander Semmler | |||
| January 11, 1947 | The Surreal Marriage | Elwood Hoffman | Werner Mishel | Alexander Semmler | |||
| January 25, 1947 | The Natural History of Nonsense | Bergen Evans | Joseph Ruscoll | Albert Ward | Ben Ludlow |
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