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The Big Show. November 12, 1950. NBC net. Sponsored by: Anacin, RCA Victor. The second show of the series. Baby Snooks gets an acting lesson from Tallulah, Groucho holds his quiz on the show and teaches Pinza how to sing "Some Enchanted Evening." Tallulah does a Dorothy Parker monologue called "Sentiment.". Jimmy Wallington (announcer); Meredith Willson and His Orchestra; Frank Lovejoy; Groucho Marx; Dorothy Parker (author); Hanley Stafford; Ezio Pinza; Jane Powell ; John Agar; David Brian; Fanny Brice; Tallulah Bankhead; Dee Englebach (producer, director). Space Patrol. November 15, 1952. ABC net. "The Queen Of Space". Sponsored by: Ralston cereals ("Space-O-Phones" premium). Jelna Fenton is the owner of Trans-Orbit Lines, a freight line to the outer planets, with big plans!. Dick Tufeld (announcer), Ed Kemmer, Larry Robertson (producer, director), Lou Huston (writer), Lyn Osborn, Mike Moser (creator), Nina Bara, Norman Jolley, Virginia Hewitt. 29:24, Bold Venture. 1951. Program #4. ZIV Syndication. "A Bullet For Shannon". Sponsored by: Commercials added locally. Tough Johnny Rice gets what he wants, including the death of Slate Shannon!. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Howard McNear, Nestor Paiva, Henry Hayward (director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), David Rose (composer, conductor). DEVIL'S SCRAPBOOK. November 28, 1938, "The Conquest Of David Ring"TOTAL TIME: 2:55:31.289SOURCES: Wikipedia and The RadioGoldindex.com
By Andy Milroy An audio podcast episode has been added to this article. Early conditioning can be very important. Wally Hayward came from a very tough background. His father, Wallace George Hayward, the son of a coal agent, had been born in Peckham in London, England in 1880, and emigrated to South Africa sometime between 1901 and 1906, in his early twenties. It looks probable he actually arrived soon after 1904 when the sand bar which had restricted Durban Harbour to bigger ships was dredged and deepened. This allowed the weekly Union Castle passenger ships from Southampton to enter the port. Bearing in mind Wallace's later employment, and absence from Union Castle passenger lists, it is possible that he served as a barman on one of these passenger ships, departing the ship at Durban. On ultrarunninghistory.com, each article/episode takes about 30 hours of effort to research, write, script, edit, publish and publicize. Each month more there are more than 100,000 downloads of these history stories. Help is needed to continue this effort. Please consider becoming a patreon member of ultrarunning history. You can become part of the effort to preserve and document this history by signing up to contribute a few dollars each month. Visit https://ultrarunninghistory.com/member Durban, South Africa After arriving in Durban he met Cornelia Gerhardina Jacoba Kritzinger. Cornelia was the youngest of eight children of an Afrikaner farmer, Louis Kritzinger and his wife Rachel. The Kritzinger family had a 3000 acre farm in Zululand, then part of the British province of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). The three sons worked on the farm with their father and the women had a whole raft of household tasks to complete - baking and preserving, making and repairing clothes, sewing, knitting and cooking. The sisters took in turn to tackle each of these tasks. Cornelia Hayward Cornelia was born in 1878 but by her mid-twenties she seems to have rebelled against this demanding regime and left the farm for the city life of Durban. Perhaps the demands and deprivation of the Second Boer War had been the final straw. Cornelia got a job as a cook in a children's home and some time in 1906/07 she met the younger Wallace Hayward. He had become a barman in a Durban hotel and the couple later lived in one of the hotel rooms. On the 10 July 1908 Wallace "Wally" Henry was born, named after his father and his grandfather, Henry Hayward. Two years later a sister Agnes was born, then two years after that a brother Horace and finally a sister Gertrude. The names chosen show a great deal about the dynamics between the couple. Basically the children were named after Wallace's siblings. None of Cornelia's family had a child named after them. This was in the aftermath of the Anglo-Boer War which had made such a horrendous impact on the Afrikaans. Wallace's dominance in the naming of the children, may have been a response of a victor over the vanquished, but seems at the very least, insensitive. Johannesburg When Wally was eighteen months old, the family moved to Johannesburg. Without skills, his father found it difficult to get work, and once again wound up as a barman in a hotel. Already a heavy smoker, he began drinking heavily. The Haywards had come to Johannesburg at the prompting of one of Cornelia's sisters. The Kritzingers had been involved in the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902). Originally from Germany, three Kritzinger brothers came to South Africa in 1820 and two of them married Dutch women. A descendant, Pieter Hendrik Kritzinger, was a Boer general and guerrilla fighter during the Second Boer War. Around 1914, when Wally was six, his father got a job working in a mine, eventually becoming a mine captain at the East Rand Propriety Mines, mining gold at Boksburg, a settlement not far from Johannesburg. Wallace Hayward In 1916 Wallace enlisted in the South African Overseas Expeditionary Force (as the South African ...
I Was A Communist For The FBI. November 2, 1952. "Home Improvements". The Communists plan to support a front politician by allowing only "fellow travelers" into a housing project. Dana Andrews, Truman Bradley (announcer), Henry Hayward (director), David Rose (music). oldtimeradiodvd.com and iheartradio.com/talk
I Was A Communist For The FBI. December 21, 1952. "Red Gold". Cvetic is suspected of a double-cross with Party funds. Dana Andrews, Olan Soule, Truman Bradley (announcer), Henry Hayward (director), David Rose (music). oldtimeradiodvd.com and iheartradio.com/talk
I Was A Communist For The FBI. March 30, 1952. "I Walk Alone". The Party tries to trap Cvetic through his mother. Dana Andrews, Truman Bradley (announcer), Henry Hayward (director), David Rose (music). oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. 1951. "The Phyllis Calvert Murders" Shannon pulls a dead woman named Phyllis Calvert out of the bay and discovers a triple murderer. The story is also known as, "Out Of Control" David Rose (composer, conductor), Jester Hairston (calypso transitions), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Henry Hayward (director).oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. 1951 "A Voodoo Vendetta In Paradise" A murderess searching for Tommy Reed traps Slate and Sailor. She uses poisoned darts and voodoo while Sailor slowly dies. The story is also known as, "Search For Tommy Reed." Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, David Rose (composer, conductor), Jester Hairston, Henry Hayward (wdirector), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Betty Lou Gerson.oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. 1951 "The Tears Of Siva" "The Tears Of Siva" are stolen from a friend of Slate's named Joe Bishop. The star sapphires are phonies! Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, David Rose (composer, conductor), William Conrad, Gerald Mohr, Jester Hairston, Henry Hayward (director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer). oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. 1951. "Spanish Gold Sailor and Shannon go on a treasure hunt for Spanish gold with some unsavory companions. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Barton Yarborough, Jester Hairston, David Rose (composer, conductor), Henry Hayward (director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Tony Barrett, Betty Lou Gerson.oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. 1951"The Blue Moon" Mr. Cameron asks Slate Shannon to free his daughter from the clutches of Norton and his gambling ship, "The Blue Moon." Jester Hairston (singing transitions), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, David Rose (composer, conductor), William Conrad, Herb Vigran, Henry Hayward (director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer).oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. 1951 "Shannon Framed For Murder" Franny Lane, a comic's partner, has been murdered. Slate Shannon is framed for the killing. The story is also known as, "He Who Laughs Last." Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Jester Hairston, David Rose (composer, conductor), Henry Hayward (director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Nestor Paiva. oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. 1951 "A Bullet For Shannon Tough Johnny Rice gets what he wants, including the death of Slate Shannon! Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Howard McNear, Nestor Paiva, Henry Hayward (director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), David Rose (composer, conductor).oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. 1951. "Foprged Bill Of Lading". Two tough opium smugglers are up against a young girl, until Slate evens the odds. David Rose (composer, conductor), Humphrey Bogart, Jester Hairston, Lauren Bacall, William Conrad, Tony Barrett, Henry Hayward (director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer).oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. 1951 "The Kuan Yin Statue" A beautiful Chinese girl is killed to get an idol she has smuggled into Havana. Transitions and plot summaries are sung by "King Moses (Jester Hairston)," a calypso singer. Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, David Rose (composer, conductor), Henry Hayward (director), Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Shirley Mitchell, Junius Matthews, Joseph Du Val.oldtimeradiodvd.com
Bold Venture. March 26, 1951"Deadly Merchandise". . Bogart plays Slate Shannon who owns a hotel in Havana and gets involved in intrigue with his beautiful sidekick "Sailor." Shannon and Sailor get involved with a shipment of arms for a planned revolution. But Shannon never picked up the "merchandise" in Key West, and two murders follow because he doesn't have the guns. David Rose (composer, conductor), Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Morton Fine (writer), David Friedkin (writer), Henry Hayward (director), Jay Novello (doubles), Tony Barrett, Eve McVeagh, Betty Lou Gerson, Peter Leeds. oldtimeradiodvd.com