Thrills for Listeners in "Witches Hour" Series

Radio Record, 13 May 1938, Page 37

Thrills for Listeners in "Witches Hour" Series

ISTENERS to New Zealand Commercial _ stations have in all probability already heard the first instalment of "The Witch's Tale." So great was the response to this series through the U.S.A. that they ran for six year's

and were acclaimed by foremost critics, and many of the daily papers as outstanding. The N.Y. University Bulletin is worthy of quotation, for it describes this series as "The finest dramatie presentation on radio," and the Jersey Journal, in commenting upon the "Witch's Tale," states: "One of radio's finest demonstrations of how effective radio dramuatie acting can be, when a capable actor and real story

meet in front of the microphone... the ‘"Witch’s Tale" rose to heights seldom achieved in any programme." Written by Alonzo Deen Cole, one of the greatest dramatic script writers in America, "The Witch's Tale" brings to the audience uncanny tales of witchcraft which flourished in the days of our great-grandiathers. The broadcasts are made at 10 p.in. on Wednesdays and Fridays. Here are the titles of episodes to be released shortly, and a briet description of their subject :- (1) "Frankenstein"; A new and different version of Mrs. Shelley’s literary inasterpiece. (2) "House of the Bridegroom": The stirring story of a young ‘American and his bride in a house inherited from the bitter victim of unrequited love. (38) ‘Lhe Bronze Venus’: A modern bridegroom awakens love which Jay dormant in two thousand-year-old crypt. (4) "Spirits of the Lake’: An American Indian legend brings retribution to one who murdered on the placid bosom of Minnesota Lake. (5) "The Gypsy'’s Hand": A gypsy violinist who loses his hand, and his mother curses those who carried out the operation. (6) "Grave Yard Mansion’: A vampire woman, dead two hundred years, comes hack amid canebrakes and bayoug of Louisiana. (7) "The Flying Dutchman" A weird, modern treatment of the ancient legend. (&) "The Ilairy Monster": From mysterious Tibet comes this story "of life held in suspense. (09) "The Werewolf": Strangest of all mysteries in human Jifethe human who turns into fanged animal. (10) "The Wonderful Bottle’: Here is Aladdin’s Lamp in modern setting, grant ing every wish to its possessor, but with a curse that follows from Argentine through the Far Fast. (11) ‘The Entomologist’: The strange drama of srientimet who sought to create gargantuan monstrosities in the dark fastness of African Jungle. (12) "A Happy Eniing’: A tale of two warring houses of the South. (18) "Honeymoon Cottage": The stirring story of a young honeymoon couple who Jease a haunted house,