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Tuesday Jul 10, 2012
Best Plays - Pgm 6
Tuesday Jul 10, 2012
Tuesday Jul 10, 2012
For your drama fans, here's the last episode I have in my collection of "Best Plays", an hour-long anthology series of plays from the New York stage. The other programs in the series in my collection are here and here.
Program 6 in the series, as it was heard on the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service on June 5, 1953, is "Autumn Crocus" with Carmen Matthews and Walter Slezak; the announcer is Fred Collins. "Autumn Crocus", according to Wikipedia, was first staged at London's Lyric Theatre in 1931 with Fay Compton and was adapted into a film in 1934. The drama concerns a schoolteacher who goes on holiday and falls in love with the owner of the hotel where she is staying. Carmen Matthews had a long career on stage, film and television and appeared in episodes of the "CBS Radio Mystery Theater" in the 1970s. The show is hosted by John Chapman, drama critic for the New York Daily News. As I mentioned in a previous post, many of the radio scripts for "Best Plays" were written by Earl Hamner, years before he found fame creating "The Waltons". Our program was transferred to digital direct from an original vinyl AFRTS transcription set.Version: 20240320
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