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What does “have your cake and eat it too” mean? Having your cake refers to keeping it with you. This means you want to preserve the cake for the future. But you also want to eat it. This is contradictory. The moment you eat your cake, you can't have it because it is finished. Conversely, if you decide to have or keep your cake then you can't eat it. This proverb highlights a very valuable lesson which is that you cannot have it both ways. When you are presented with two choices that are mutually exclusive, you have to choose one. You cannot choose both. Either you have to eat the cake or have it. If we examine the wording, we find that ‘eat your cake and have it' sounds more logical.

With Lon Clark in the title role, the series commenced 11 April 1943, on Mutual, continuing in many different timeslots for well over a decade. Between October 1944 and April 1945, it was heard as a 30-minute program on Sunday afternoons at 3 pm, sponsored by Acme Paints and Lin-X, with a 15-minute serial airing four or five times a week in 1944 from April to September. In April 1945, the Sunday series moved to 6pm, continuing in that timeslot until June 1946, and it was also heard in 1946 on Tuesday from March to August. Sponsored by Cudahy Packing and Old Dutch Cleanser and later Acme Products (makers of such home-improvement chemicals as Kem-Tone paints and Lin-X floor-cleaning waxes, a near-rival to the more-popular Johnson's Wax products heard on numerous NBC Radio shows at the same time), the series finally settled in on Sundays at 6:30 pm for broadcasts from August 18, 1946 to September 21, 1952. Libby Packing was the sponsor when the drama aired on Sundays at 6pm (1952–53). In the last two years of the long run (1953–55), the show was heard Sundays at 4:30 pm. Jock MacGregor was the producer-director of scripts by Alfred Bester, Milton J. Kramer, David Kogan and others. Background music was supplied by organists Hank Sylvern, Lew White and George Wright. Walter B. Gibson, co-creator/writer of The Shadow pulp novels, was fired when he asked for a raise in 1946, and then became head writer for the Nick Carter radio series. Oddly enough, he never liked to write scripts for the radio version of The Shadow, though both characters were published by Street & Smith. Patsy Bowen, Nick's assistant, was portrayed by Helen Choate until mid-1945; then Charlotte Manson stepped into the role. Nick and Patsy's friend was reporter Scubby Wilson (John Kane). Sgt. Mathison (Ed Latimer) was Nick's contact at the police department. The supporting cast included Raymond Edward Johnson, Bill Johnstone and Bryna Raeburn. Michael Fitzmaurice was the program's announcer. The series ended on September 25, 1955.

Kathryn Elizabeth Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) was an American contralto. Referred to as The First Lady of Radio, Smith is well known for her renditions of "God Bless America" and "When the Moon Comes over the Mountain". She became known as The Songbird of the South because of her tremendous popularity during World War II. Notes: More on Kate Smith: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Smith

The novel opens with mystery author Harriet Vane on trial for the murder of her former lover, Phillip Boyes: a writer with strong views on atheism, anarchy, and free love. Publicly professing to disapprove of marriage, he had persuaded a reluctant Harriet to live with him, only to renounce his principles a year later and to propose. Harriet, outraged at being deceived, had broken off the relationship. Following the separation, the former couple had met occasionally, and the evidence at trial pointed to Boyes suffering from repeated bouts of gastric illness at around the time that Harriet was buying poisons under assumed names, to demonstrate – so she said – a plot point of her novel then in progress. Returning from a holiday in North Wales in better health, Boyes had dined with his cousin, the solicitor Norman Urquhart, before going to Harriet's flat to discuss reconciliation, where he had accepted a cup of coffee. That night he was taken fatally ill, apparently with gastritis. Foul play was eventually suspected, and a post-mortem revealed that Boyes had died from acute arsenic poisoning. Apart from Harriet's coffee and the evening meal with his cousin (in which every item had been shared by two or more people), the victim appeared to have taken nothing else that evening. The trial results in a hung jury. As a unanimous verdict is required, the judge orders a re-trial. Lord Peter Wimsey visits Harriet in prison, declares his conviction of her innocence and promises to catch the real murderer. Wimsey also announces that he wishes to marry her, a suggestion that Harriet politely but firmly declines. Working against time before the new trial, Wimsey first explores the possibility that Boyes killed himself. Wimsey's friend, Detective Inspector Charles Parker, disproves that theory. The rich great-aunt of the cousins Urquhart and Boyes, Rosanna Wrayburn, is old and senile, and according to Urquhart (who is acting as her family solicitor) when she dies most of her fortune will pass to him, with very little going to Boyes. Wimsey suspects that to be a lie, and sends his enquiry agent Miss Climpson to get hold of Rosanna's original will, which she does in a comic scene exposing the practices of fraudulent mediums. The will in fact names Boyes as principal beneficiary. Wimsey plants a spy, Miss Joan Murchison, in Urquhart's office where she finds a hidden packet of arsenic. She also discovers that Urquhart had abused his position as Rosanna's solicitor, embezzled her investments, then lost the money on the stock market. Urquhart recognised that he would face inevitable exposure should Rosanna die and Boyes claim his inheritance. However, Boyes was unaware of the will's contents and Urquhart reasoned that if Boyes were to die first, nobody could challenge him as sole remaining beneficiary, and his fraud would not be revealed. After perusing A.E. Housman's A Shropshire Lad (in which the poet likens the reading of serious poetry to King Mithridates' self-immunization against poisons) Wimsey suddenly understands what had happened: Urquhart had administered the arsenic in an omelette which Boyes himself had cooked. Although Boyes and Urquhart had shared the dish, the latter had been unaffected as he had carefully built up his own immunity beforehand by taking small doses of the poison over a long period. Wimsey tricks Urquhart into an admission before witnesses.

George Valentine's case started with a book of poems by Robert Burns a valuable early edition from Four Dials Press in Edinburgh a book that someone broke into Mr Humber's shop just to read, a book that an agent wanted to buy for a collector named Emery Whitsill. And who is Emery Whitsill? Well lieutenant Johnson from homicide has an opinion on that because now it seems the little book may have been the cause of murder. . . Duration: 30:34 Starring: Bob Bailey, Virginia Gregg, Ken Christie, Robert Griffin, William Conrad, Jack Kruschen, Lillian Buyeff Broadcast Date: 11th December 1950

San Francisco, the Barbary Coast, 1913 and the man with the belligerent voice is a beefy gentleman known as “Dirty Eddie” proprietor of Dirty Eddies Cafe, pride of the coast. The gentlemen reclining on the sidewalk committed an unforgivable sin; he sang a sour note while entertaining Eddies select clientele composed mostly of thugs from the waterfront. As Eddie stands glowering in the swinging doors a girl comes from the street stepping carefully over the fallen tenor. . . Duration: 44:03 Broadcast Date: 3rd June 1940

A million dollars in cash provides the bait for two enterprising thieves who find themselves bankrupt before they have finished the chase. Duration: 29:43 Starring: Leon Janney, Kathleen Cordell Broadcast Date: 29th June 1952

George is sitting in his office when he hears a commotion outside. Jimmy Jones, an actor in western pictures, is outside signing autographs. Jimmy Jones enters the office. He has a confidential matter he needs George's help with. Jimmy goes on to say, the kids like me, maybe because I like them and I would never want to let them down. Jimmy was brought up at Brookdale Orphanage, and every year Jimmy and Thunderbolt (Jimmy's horse) put on a benefit performance for them, but now there's a problem, and it's a very serious problem for a cowboy movie star, he's afraid of his horse. Duration: 30:31 Starring: Bob Bailey Broadcast Date: 25th October 1946

Death At 7:10 by H.F.S. Moore is the very intriguing story of a beautiful woman who was in love with death. . . Duration: 28:58 Starring: Raymond Edward Johnson, Helen Shields Broadcast Date: 3rd July 1947

Come and join Ozzie and Harriet Nelson as they raise their two sons; David and Ricky .... and remember the simple days of child raising. - Jury Duty - The Baseball Manager - The Street Light - Oz Enters An Essay Contest - The New Dress Surprise - Sports Heroes - David's Date - Argument about Rover Boys - Have a Cigar - The New Radio - Phonograph - David Discovers Girls - Going to a Concent - The 3rd Degree - Ricky's Third Prize in School - A Cup of Coffee - Fifi La Plume - Retreat From Civilization - Income Tax - Apartment Building Next Door - Card Tricks - Unique Bowling Approach - New Dresses - Randolph's Come As You Are Party - Knitting Contest - House Cleaning

At about 3 o'clock Johnny Modero started down Post Street when he spotted the new auction House. It was small with enough dough changing hands to buy back Manhattan Island. Inside it was packed and a bald headed guy on a wooden stand was selling everything but his suspenders so Modero sat at the back and noticed a girl standing up against the wall. She walked over to Modero and asked him to do her a favor. A black leather suitcase was to be auctioned off that belonged to her and she wanted it back at any price. She offered Modero $50 to bid for her as she didn't want someone there to know she was there. Duration: 28:32 Starring: Jack Webb Broadcast Date: Not known

Cathy is being questioned about the death of poor old Billy. Earlier Billy had confided in Cathy that he was concerned about something he'd found and now he's dead. Duration: 29:12 Starring: Bill Lipton Broadcast Date: 14th August 1952

When Liz Cooper discovers an error on her wedding license she begins to wonder whether she is legally married to her husband George H Cooper. On their wedding license the husband is named as George C Hooper! Duration: 22:57 Starring: Lucille Ball Broadcast Date: 21st January 1949

Killer At Large is a radio station whose sponsors pay $50,000 for the arrest and conviction of a killer at large. The twist is that they deal with real facts, real people and real crimes and real criminals. With a tape recorder they reconstruct one of San Francisco's more sensational unsolved crimes the murder of Carol Stevens. The show is made up of the simple and honest spontaneous statements of witnesses themselves. The radio show is set on this case except for the statement of one man, Jimmy Biddle who had been top suspect until he came up with an alibi. The radio show had been unable to find him until now when he turned up claiming to know whom the murderer was and wanting to claim the $50,000. The radio program employs Private Detective Sam Spade to investigate. Duration: 28:00 Starring: Lurene Tuttle, Steven Dunne Broadcast Date: 5th January 1951

Starring Robert Young. In every family there are special days like the day Junior had his hair cut, the day father reversed into the garage door, the day mother didn't. And today was going to be one of those days in the Anderson family. It will be remembered as the day father received the Christmas bills! Duration: 30:00 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast Date: 12th January 1950

The makers of Maxwell House Coffee presents 60 star-studded minutes brought to you from Metro Goldwyn Meyer studios in Hollywood starring Fanny Brice as Baby Snooks with Hanley Stafford as Daddy Higgins, Connie Boswell and George Euston. As an added extra special treat this program which is the 100th anniversary episode of Good News it is Movie Night including a special preview of Twentieth Century Fox production Little Old New York in which you will hear Alice Faye, Richard Green, Brenda Joyce and an all star cast. Music by Meredith Wilson and his orchestra. Host: Edward Arnold Duration: 60:19 Starring: Alice Faye, Edward Arnold, Fanny Brice, Hanley Stafford, Meredith Willson Broadcast Date: 25th January 1940

Christmas on the Blue is a Christmas Variety show with two full hours with some of the biggest stars of radio. The show includes skits, music, and more and is an excellent radio show to listen to get into the holiday mood. The show opens with a very festive rendition of the favorite Christmas song "Deck the Halls." One of the best parts of the Christmas on the Blue is the voices of WWII Military personal heard from overseas. Locations include Pearl Harbor, Paris, and the "European Battle Front." Families of servicemen could hear the voices of their loved ones from the WWII battle front. Truly a Christmas Miracle! Wendell Niles serves as the announcer and Gracie Fields is the hostess. Guests of Christmas on the Blue include Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Walter Winchell, The Andrews Sisters, Alan Young, Andy Russell, Charlotte Greenwood, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, and The Paul Taylor Chorus.

Join Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as they solve mysterious in turn of century England and aboard. The Bruce Partington Plans Murder by Proxy Paradol Chamber Case of the King Phillips Golden Salver Haunting of Sherlock Holmes The Waltz of Death Colonel Warburton Great Gandolf Strange Case of the Persecuted Millionaire Adventure of the Haunted Bagpipe Blarney Stone Darlington Substitution Limping Ghost Singular Affair of the Dying School Boys The Adventure of the Tolling Bells The case of the Dog Who Changed His Mind The Dying Detective The Harley Street Murders Stuttering Ghost Unfortunate Tobacconist Vinnese Strangler Retired Colorman

As far back as history has recorded our activities, woman has been a rather puzzling creature, especially when she's going through what is known as the teenage. A good case in point is Betty Anderson. But before we can reveal the capricious maneuvers of her feminine mind we must first look in on the principle male member of the family, Jim Anderson as he settles himself in the Den to do some work in the quiet of his home. Like this. . . Duration: 29:42 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast Date: 15th January 1953

The Navy has given up it's search for the missing yacht owned by a millionaire scientist last reported in that region of the Pacific which has in recent months has come to be known as the graveyard of the Pacific due to more than 15 disappearances of ocean vessels in that area of the Pacific in the last two years. The Shadow suspects that the disappearances are more than a coincidence and is set to prove it. Duration: 29:04 Starring: Orson Welles Broadcast Date: 10th July 1938

A Murder Of Necessity is a story about a man Paul Drake who commits a murder efficiently and safely only to find out there is a witness the person Herbie Sachs was talking to on the telephone before he was murdered. Paul Drake has to find out who that person was and commit another murder of necessity only to discover that it wasn't necessary at all. Duration: 28:52 Starring: Robert Young Broadcast Date: 24th March 1952

Richard Red Skelton was an American entertainer best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971, especially as host of the television program The Red Skelton Show.

It had started like any other day, a widow named Mrs Coplis had hired Shayne to track down one of her boarders who had run away with her copper samovar and he feared the good widows heart, a guy had called to ask his rates for getting divorce evidence against his blond wife and then an old man named Peters came in. The kind of old guy you might see in Jackson Square sleeping on the grass with a newspaper over his face only this old man had a million dollars worth of the biggest pearls Shayne had ever seen in his whole life. . . Duration: 26:45 Starring: Wally Maher, Cathy Lewis Broadcast Date: 29th July 1948

Whitney "Cam" Cameron arrives at a hospital to be with his widowed sister-in-law Lynne, whose stepdaughter Polly has died under mysterious circumstances. A doctor cannot determine the cause of the child's death. Cam has great affection for his young nephew Doug. He begins to fear for the boy's life when Maggie Sargent (Catherine McLeod), the wife of his lawyer, Fred, mentions that the dead girl's symptoms sound suspiciously as if she had been poisoned. Fred reveals that the will of Cam's brother, who also died from unspecified causes, put all his money into a trust for the boy. Lynne would inherit it all if anything happened to Doug. Police, prodded by Cam, exhume the girl's body. Poison is found and Lynne is brought to court, but a judge dismisses the charges for a lack of evidence against her. A desperate Cam cannot think of any way to keep Doug safe, particularly once Lynne decides to take the boy away to Europe for at least a year. Cam surprises them by turning up on the ocean voyage. He begins romancing Lynne, all the while plotting to poison her. He slips a tablet from her belongings into a cocktail. Lynne goes to great lengths to castigate Cam for his suspicions and demonstrate that the tablet contained nothing but aspirin. Cam leaves her stateroom, but a few minutes later Lynne's life is saved by the ship's doctor .....

Following 1936 Father Coughlin retired from all active organizations and now he is encouraging the growth of the Christian Front. Not that it is his organization but that he seeks to its promoters a word of encouragement and a word of advice. In this address Father Coughlin is concerned with the Popular Front that persists in coddling communism and with the Christian Front that is opposed to communism as well as Nazis and other foreignisms. Duration: 61:00 Starring: Father Charles Coughlin Broadcast Date: 21st February 1937

Starring John Brown as Broadway, the narrator of Damon Runyon's dramatic stories of old Manhattan New York and the gangster life in the 1920's and 1930's. It is 11.30 on a Wednesday night and Broadway is standing at the corner of 48th and Broadway thinking about his blood pressure. This is a proposition that he's never given much thought to before, in fact he's never heard of it before he went to see Doc Brennan this Wednesday of which he speaks. Now the reason he thinks of his blood pressure is because of what happened that afternoon and what happens after that is enough to put him in the rack for good. Here Broadway will tell you about it. . . Duration: 28:31 Starring: John Brown Broadcast Date: 10th April 1949

Gordon Miller the shoestring producer has a headache and justifiably so, he's about to be ejected from his hotel. The reason being that Wagner the managing director has made an unexpected visit to the hotel and is at the moment looking over the books. All that Gordon Miller has promoted is 22 rooms for his cast and has run up a bill for $1200. The manager Joe Gribble is his brother-in-law and Joe feels that he has been stuck in to this unhappy atmosphere. Duration: 23:45 Starring: Jack Oakie, Stuart Erwin, Carol Williams, Donald McBride Broadcast Date: 31st December 1944

Popeye was adapted to radio in several series broadcast over three different networks by two sponsors from 1935 to 1938. Popeye and most of the major supporting characters were first featured in a thrice-weekly 15-minute radio program, Popeye the Sailor, which starred Detmar Poppen as Popeye, along with most of the major supporting characters—Olive Oyl (Olive Lamoy), Wimpy (Charles Lawrence), Bluto (Jackson Beck) and Swee'Pea (Mae Questel). In the first episode, Popeye adopted Sonny (Jimmy Donnelly), a character later known as Matey the Newsboy. This program was broadcast Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights at 7:15pm. September 10, 1935, through March 28, 1936, on the NBC Red Network (87 episodes), initially sponsored by Wheatena. a whole-wheat breakfast cereal, which routinely replaced the spinach references. Music was provided by Victor Irwin's Cartoonland Band. Announcer Kelvin Keech sang (to composer Lerner's "Popeye" theme) "Wheatena is his diet / He asks you to try it / With Popeye the sailor man." Wheatena paid King Features Syndicate $1,200 per week. The show was next broadcast Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from 7:15 to 7:30pm on WABC and ran from August 31, 1936, to February 26, 1937 (78 episodes). Floyd Buckley played Popeye, and Miriam Wolfe portrayed both Olive Oyl and the Sea Hag. Once again, reference to spinach was conspicuously absent. Instead, Popeye sang, "Wheatena's me diet / I ax ya to try it / I'm Popeye the Sailor Man". The third series was sponsored by the maker of Popsicles three nights a week for 15 minutes at 6:15 pm on CBS from May 2, 1938, through July 29, 1938. Of the three series, only 20 of the 204 episodes are known to be preserved.

To the young and the valiant New York is a city for conquest and that is the name Warner Brothers gave to a fine motion picture drama, which Lux presents with Alice Faye and Robert Preston in the starring roles. City For Conquest is hard driving drama of a fight for success waged by one man and one girl in this fabulous town. A fight that takes courage and a stalwart but is not worth wining without love. It is a story with a very moving lesson, which is real and human. Duration: 59:14 Starring: Alice Faye, Robert Preston, Cy Kendall, Eddie Marr, Howard McNear, Bea Benaderet, Charles Seel Broadcast Date: 9th February 1942

A 6-foot well-dressed man in a dark grey overcoat turned up at Diamond's office. But his face raised goose bumps, it was as grey as his overcoat even his tongue was grey as he spoke. The man offered him a $1000 to find a missing science teacher at the State College Mr. Carnes within 5 hours. He owed the man a debt and the reason he needed him finding in five hours? He only had 5 hours to live. Duration: 29:11 Starring: Dick Powell Broadcast Date: 16th February 1951

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW In December 1944 it was announced that Pabst Sales Co. was dropping The Kenny Baker Show in favor of a vehicle for rising star Danny Kaye. Pabst had tried to sign established comedian Fred Allen for the show at a whopping cost of $25,000 per episode but the effort fizzled when Allen reportedly sniffing that he didn't care to work for a beer company. Kaye agreed to a package costing the beer producer $16,000 per week, 2/3 the cost of Fred Allen. The Danny Kaye Show debuted on January 6, 1945 and featured Eve Arden, Frank Nelson, Lionel Stander among others. Music was provided by Harry James and a 26-piece orchestra. Interestingly, before signing onto the show James contractually insisted that his wife would never be mentioned and that he would not serve as a comedy stooge for Kaye. Lionel Stander served as the second man while Ken Niles was announcer (followed by Fred Robbins and Dick Joy). Dick Mack of Warwick & Legler was the producer. Initially Phil Rapp was approached to script the show but talks fell through and Kaye's wife Sylvia Fine was responsible for much of the writing when it first took to the air. The highly regarded Goodman Ace took over writing duties when the show returned in the fall on September 28 at a salary of $3,500 per episode. Eventually Ace walked away calling the entire effort a “lost cause.” During its sixteen-month run (minus a 1945 summer hiatus) The Danny Kaye Show never really found its rhythm and could only draw mediocre ratings. In an effort to steady the ship after a shaky start, Kaye, who owned the show package, called in MCA to advice in March 1945 – after just months on the air – when early ratings for the show proved disappointing for Pabst. Even bandleader Henry James ran into issues with the American Federation of Radio Artists early in the show's run when the organization insisted that he was talking too much and should have to join the actors' union. When the series returned in the fall of 1945 Danny Kaye was on a European tour and could not even appear on his own show. Big name talent including Frank Sinatra, Jack Benny, and George Burns and Gracie Allen were hired to take Kaye's place. Pabst pulled the plug on The Danny Kaye Show on May 31, 1946. Samuel Goldwyn, who had Kaye's motion picture contract, had opposed his getting into radio from the beginning, claiming the performer relied too much on visual gimmicks to be successful in the purely aural arena. While the radio program did little to further Kaye's career although it did not hinder him much, either, as indicated by his many years of success that were still to come. To learn whom Danny Kaye is then follow this link: Danny Kaye - Wikipedia

A factual yet incredible report of those New Yorkers who try to mix work in the city with country living and who almost always invariably end up behind the eight ball. Author: A. C. Spectorsky Duration: 28:21 Starring: Eric Severied, John Larkin, Jan Miner Broadcast Date: 30th March 1956

Folks that write dictionaries must have a tough time with the word tolerance. I guess if you had to boil it down to just one other word it would have to be understanding. Some of them in Tombstone found that out when Luke Slaughter gave Chief Margono and a few of his Apache braves the loan of a couple of sections of his spread to try their hand at cattle raising. And Luke got chewed out plenty about it every time he went in to town. . . Duration: 24:16 Starring: Sam Buffington Broadcast Date: 20th April 1958

Ian MacAndrews was the man who founded Lake City. He died five years ago and his life policy had been paid out but now it seemed that he had come back or his ghost had come back. Duration: 24:57 Starring: Bob Bailey Broadcast Date: 18th May 1958

Official Detective ran from 1950 to 1956 and was a classic old time radio police drama starring Craig McDonnell as Detective Lieutenant Dan Britt and Tommy Evans as Sergeant Al Bowen.... The show features a crime from the start to the end from a drunk accused of murder to bride that murders her groom after discovering that he married her for her money. Even spinsters are unsafe at the hands of madmen and murderers. Plots in this police melodrama offer great twists and an unusual lineup of the usual suspects including a "gay sailor" as a suspect in murder in a butcher shop.

Bright young comedian from Canada, Alan Young plays the part of Bob Bennett a young stockbroker working for E.M Ralston the big bad wolf of Wall Street. He is sitting in his office chatting to a client over the phone when a beautiful woman enters his office. It is Gwinn Ralston his boss's daughter and his love interest played by Anne Baxter. She has $10,000, which she collected for Seaside Charities but she promised to raise $20,000 and now wants Bob to invest it and double it in three days! Duration: 29:45 Starring: Alan Young, Anne Baxter Broadcast Date: 14th January 1945

In Scotland Yard's museum of murder here lies death dressed in its Sunday best. And here we find a jacket somewhat inconspicuous in its place on the shelf sleeveless and unstitched, a tragic relic of passion and violence. Duration: 26:06 Starring: Ozzie Nelson Broadcast Date: 1952

Roland Young plays the part of an author of detective novels who invented his best part when his life was at stake. With Mr Young to play his long-suffering secretary is Miss Peggy Conklin. Written by John Dickson Carr. Duration: 28:53 Starring: Roland Young Broadcast Date: 23rd March 1943

thel seemed to have a jinx on the horses and was always loosing. She considered herself hardluck Ethel until one day she went to see a fortune teller who told her she will be lucky very soon that she will win five times. But beware a handsome man who will chase her and catch her because he wants to kill her. . . Duration: 29:42 Starring: Ruth Gilbert, Ann Thomas, Ralph Bell Broadcast Date: 8th June 1952

Robert Arden News Commentary ran from 1940 to 1942 and featured Robert Arden, who was a foreign correspondent. Arden made insightful comments about the current events of the time. Most of the episodes in this collection aired before the US became involved in WWII and offer a interesting and introspective pre-war American viewpoint. Once the USA became involved in WWI Arden reported on the news of the war in Europe and examined both side of the war, including the life history of Adolf Hitler. SHOWS LIST Pre-War Commentary and War News A Biography of Hitler New Year's War News The Balkan Situation President Roosevelt Comments Labor Day FDR's Warning to the Axis Powers Roundtable Discussion on WW2 Address to Police Officers

Young David Nelson has hardly said a word all morning and his mother is worried about him. It seems that Grace Johnson has invited him to her party on Friday night and he has told her he would come but his team is playing basketball on Friday night so he has to tell her he can't make it and doesn't know how to tell her. He doesn't really want to let her down and is worried that if he does tell her he can't make it and then the basketball is called off he will regret it. He decides to think about it but his father tells him not to procrastinate. Later Mrs Jones rings to remind Harriett that they are invited to dinner tonight and to give her directions. However Ozzie has forgotten and has accepted an invitation to dinner from a fellow at the bowling club. Duration: 29:30 Starring: Harriet Hilliard Nelson, Ozzie Nelson Broadcast Date: 20th February 1949

Original broadcast day Wednesday, July 25, 1979. A hard-working honest plumber and a small time hustler join forces for the perfect kidnapping. Only they discover they need their victims help to collect the ransom.

Muirock the bottom of a dried up lake is now the home of an air installation and all kinds of military airplanes where homed there. Max Westlake was a sergeant in 1937 who's interested in science and skyrockets. Looking up one night he sees a parachute coming down with what looks like part of an airplane. A man was recovered from the crash landing and taken to the hospital with concussion. That man was a major in the United States Air force and his name was Max Westlake and he bore a striking resemblance to Sergeant Max Westlake. . . Duration: 29:17 Starring: Ernest Chappell Broadcast Date: 21st November 1948

First Show Duration: 30:00 Starring: Jack Benny Broadcast Date: 02 May 1932 A regular in vaudeville comedy, Jack Benny made his first professional on air appearance in May 2, 1932 on the Canada Dry Program. A different Jack Benny than you know and love, hear Jack Benny as MC in this early 1932 broadcast...

Running out of gas on a foggy back road in Maine, a couple become frightened by news reports of a murderous woman who's escaped from an asylum. Searching for help, the two take refuge in an abandoned shack. When an hysterical woman appears at the window wanting refuge, they're convinced she's the lunatic that's on the loose.

A man is killed by drowning in a bathtub in a small upstate town. His killers take his body to the city where they dump it in the sea lion pool at the zoo. When the body is found it looks like suicide until laboratory tests prove what Boston Blackie suspected. Duration: 26:47 Starring: Dick Kollmar, Jan Miner, Maurice Tarplin Broadcast Date: 14th May 1947

Granville Merryweather and Fennis Finny want to join the army claiming that they're answering the call to the colors, but you could put it another way, they're starving to death. But the kind of recruits that are coming to join the army these days are dregs, failures and fugitives. Duration: 27:44 Starring: Raymond Burr, Harry Bartell, Parley Baer, John Dehner Broadcast Date: 8th July 1956

“In our experience in our war against crime, nothing in the popular conception of crime is so widespread, and so erroneous, as the idea that honor exists amongst thieves. In this case of the deadly snowflake, we see this so-called criminal code for what it is. . . Duration: 29:24 Starring: Dwight Weist Broadcast Date: 26th May 1948

Lux Radio Theater presents the comedy romance Mr Blandings Builds His Dream Home with Cary Grant playing the part of Jim Blandings, the same role he payed in the 1948 RKO motion picture of the same name and Irene Dunne as Muriel Blandings. Like millions of other New Yorkers Jim and Muriel Blandings and their two young daughters live in an apartment. It is adequate but somewhat crowded. Not that Jim isn't doing well he is a college graduate and makes $15000 a year in the Advertising business. Then they find their dream home in the country at a price that they can afford and they buy it with their heart and not their head against the better judgement of Jim's friend and lawyer Bill Cole and without advice from a structural engineer. Duration: 55:46 Starring: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Don Randolph, Steven Dunne, Anne Whitfield, Anne Carter, Herb Butterfield, Charlotte Lawrence, Tim Graham, Lillian Randolph, Jack Petruzzi, Howard McNear, Earl Lee, Eddie Marr, Cliff Clark Broadcast Date: 10th October 1949

Ray Milland stars as Rick Fitzgerald the same role he played in the 1944 film adaptation of Dorothy Macardle's ghost story. Rick and his sister Pamela move to an old deserted seaside house and discover that it is haunted by the sound of a sobbing woman. When a neighbor Stella Meredith, calls upon them they discover that she lived there, as a child until the age of three when her mother had died after falling over a cliff in to the sea and that she hasn't been since. Her grandfather forbade her to go there saying that her life would be in danger. . . Duration: 29:06 Starring: Ray Milland, Alma Lawton, Mary Shipp, June Foray, John Dehner, Georgia Backus, Norman Field Broadcast Date: 18th November 1949

Shell Chateau was a musical variety radio series heard on NBC from April 6, 1935 to June 26, 1937. Sponsored by Shell Oil, the hour-long program, sometimes called The Shell Show, was broadcast on Saturday evenings at 9:30pm. More on Shell Chateau: Shell Chateau | Old Time Radio (otrcat.com) Shell Chateau - Wikipedia