Hello and welcome again to the Old-Time Radio Hour Blog with your host Justeen Ward. This week we continue our tribute to the radio detective with Dashiel Hammet's famous detective Sam Spade played by Howard Duff. Detective fiction is great fun because it evokes a wonderful sense of time and place. First we take you to the San Francisco bay area in the 1940's as our hard boiled detective goes from one death bed statement to another in order to solve the mystery. Later the sponsor Wild Root Hair Oil would try to have Dashiel Hammet's name removed from the series as the commie hunting lawmakers zeroed in on him. Even this early in 1948 you might hear some comments on constitutional freedoms. Enjoy this death bed caper in The Adventures of Sam Spade first broadcast June 20, 1948 on CBS. I'm your host Justeen Ward and next we take you to nineteenth century England for a case starring perhaps the most famous detective in history, Sherlock Holmes. This episode takes place in a circus that features a ferocious lion and a dame who has been tamed by her master. It features John Stanley as Holmes and Ian Martin as Watson. I think you will enjoy the way they incorporate the sponsor Clipper Craft, a menswear store, into Watson's wardrobe. Let your imagination carry you far away with Sherlock Holmes and the case set in a traveling circus also broadcast June 20, 1948 Mutual network. Please join us again next week when we bring you some classic radio murder mysteries and they each have a Hawaiian connection. If you tune in and join us you will experience what it was like to travel by air in the early days of passenger flight.
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Hello and welcome again to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward and this week we bring you another favorite American musical. Frank Sinatra, Kathryn Grayson and Gene Kelly star in the romantic musical “Anchors Aweigh”. World War Two is nearing it's end and two buddies who are in the Navy find themselves on leave in San Pedro, the port of Los Angeles. We thought you would enjoy finding out how romance comes to these sailors, because it is Valentine's Day this week. Enjoy Lux Radio Theater “Anchors Aweigh” first broadcast December 29, 1947 on CBS. Each week we select the most entertaining episodes from Radio's Golden Age. I hope you will join us again next week when we bring you more radio classics.
Hello and welcome once again to The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I'm your host Justeen Ward giving you another treat from perhaps the most famous film musical ever made. The Jazz Singer was the first “talkie” ever made in 1927 and the public loved it. Al Jolson was the biggest star on Broadway. They refer to the character wearing “black-face” makeup, which was a convention of those times that we find unacceptable now. Al Jolson was known as a champion of civil rights, and he fought very hard for African American songwriters, dancers and playwrights to be featured on Broadway. When Jolson read that songwriters Eubie Blake and Noble Sissle had been refused service at a Connecticut restaurant he tracked them down and personally took them out to dinner and dared anyone to keep them from dining. This is a classic and I know you will enjoy Lux Radio Theater “The Jazz Singer” first broadcast August 10, 1936 on CBS. Please join us again next week when we bring you more entertainment from Radio's Golden Age.
Hello and welcome to the The Old-Time Radio Hour Blog. I am Justeen Ward your host for our weekly broadcast of the best from Radio's Golden Age. For the past couple of weeks we have given you wonderful musical entertainment and we continue this week with a real classic. Madame Butterfly started in New York as a play and then was turned into an opera by Giacomo Puccini. Our Lux Radio Theater production of Madame Butterfly starring Cary Grant and Grace Moore is a combination of play and opera that I know you will enjoy very much. Please excuse the little glitch between the introduction and the beginning of the play, that is the only version preserved from the original broadcast. Lux Radio Theater “Madame Butterfly” first broadcast March 8, 1937 on CBS. The Old-Time Radio Hour is broadcast each week throughout the World Wide Web. Next week we bring you another radio classic from Lux Radio Theater, The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson.
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