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Sunday Mar 24, 2013
Eno Crime Clues - March 28, 1934 - Pt 1
Sunday Mar 24, 2013
Sunday Mar 24, 2013
Note: This program contains racial stereotyping themes that may be offensive to some listeners.
"Eno Crime Clues" is a rare 1930s radio series heard on the NBC Blue Network from 1933 to 1936. The program had different incarnations, heard on Columbia in the early 1930s and later on Mutual as "Crime Clues", with the series connected to detective and mystery novels put out by publishers like Doubleday.
Goldin only lists eight programs existing in the Blue Network series, so this is a nice find. What we have in this post is part 1 of the broadcast of March 28, 1934, Episode 2 of the story "The Talking Skull", a murder mystery that takes place on an island, with the detective grilling the assembled group of suspects to come to a solution to the crime. The program is sponsored by Emo Effervescent Salts.
Each story was broadcast in two half-hour installments, so we're hearing only 15 minutes of the second half of the story. Even without the solution to the mystery, it's a nice example of this early type of radio drama.
The show was transferred from an original one-sided Victrolac transcription pressed by RCA, matrix number 82259-1. The advertising agency is N.W. Ayer and Son, New York.
This show appears to be previously lost. Anyone have the other disc containing the other half of the show in their attic?
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