VARIETY OF SOUNDS

Originally broadcast on WDCB
Saturday, June 2, 2001

ADVENTURES OF FRANK MERRIWELL (7-31­48) “Secret of the Old Mill” starring Lawson Zerbe as Frank, with Hal Studer as Bart Hodge and Elaine Rost as Inza Burrage. During sum­mer vacation in Atlantic City, college chums are having fun on the midway of an amuse­ment park when a fire breaks out. Sustain­ing, NBC. (29 min)

RAILROAD HOUR (1-21-52) “Desert Song” starring Gordon MacRae and Mimi Benzell in a radio version of Sigmund Romberg’s operetta Cast includes former silent screen star Francis X. Bushman. Norman Luboff Choir, Carmen Dragon and the orchestra. Marvin Miller An­nounces. Association of American Railroads, NBC. (30 min)

BOSTON BLACKIE (1940s) “The Baseball Murder” stars Dick Kollmar as the detective who is an “enemy to those who make him an enemy, friend to those who have no friend” in this story about a baseball star who is myste­riously shot while sliding into second base. Cast includes Jan Miner as Mary Wesley and Maurice Tarplin as Inspector Faraday. Pio­neer radio horse racing announcer Clem McCarthy appears as a sportscaster in this story. Syndicated. (27 min)

SCREEN GUILD THEATRE (2-4-40) “I Met Him in Paris” starring Melvyn Douglas, Ann Sothern and Robert Young in a romantic comedy about a young woman on a holiday in France who must choose between a playwright and a nov­elist. Roger Prior hosts this radio version of the 1937 film. Gulf Oil Co., CBS. (28 min)

AMERICA’S POPULAR MUSIC (1958) Chap­ter 2 of the 18-part “Glenn Miller Story.” Host Andy Mansfield interviews Red Nichols who had employed Glenn Miller as one of Nichols’ “Five Pennies.” AFRTS. (30 min)

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF DENNIS DAY (10-22-­47) Dennis, in his own comedy series, takes a second job selling insurance. Colgate, Lustre Creme, NBC. (28 min)