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GASLIGHT
Today I am adding a new category so that I can share my love of radio drama — Mystery Matinee. Radio was king for a large portion of the twentieth century, and it was from radio where Americans received most of their news and entertainment. There was a lot of original programming such as musical variety shows and situation comedies, but occasionally a motion picture would be adapted as a somewhat condensed audio play. Such is the case with Lux Soap’s presentation of Gaslight.
Gaslight tells the story of a woman who unknowingly weds a villain who attempts to drive her insane by making her doubt the evidence of her own ears and eyes. It was based on a stage play and was filmed twice in the 1940s. The first version was made in England in 1940 and can be viewed online. The second, more famous version of the story was made in America with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. That cast was reassembled to produce the radio version you can listen to below.
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Posted in Mystery Matinee
Tagged audio, Gaslight, gaslighting, insanity, Lux, manipulation, movie, old time radio, play, radio
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Read this students, QUIETLY!
My Weekly Reader from the Spring of 1972. I found this in a crumbling folder of ancient homework and handouts from grade school circa 1972. Teachers would hand these out and make the students read them QUIETLY so they could cadge a cigarette or three in the teachers’ lounge and ponder their life choices. I have no idea why I hung on to these things.
Posted in Blast from the Past, Curious Clutter
Tagged 1972, bicycle, My Weekly Reader, school
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Ginger
We found out this morning that our friend Bill’s dog died. Ginger was a guest at many of our Thanksgiving dinners. She kept me company in the kitchen and guarded the oven until the turkey was done. Godspeed sweetheart.
OH BOY!
A cartoon I did back when I was around 7 or 8 years old. It was probably drawn while I was splayed out on the floor in front of the television watching Wee Willie Webber. I found it in a crumbling folder along with some dated school work so I’m guessing this cartoon dates from the very early 1970s.
Crude, but it showed talent. Maybe not so much, but I did get a chuckle at the lunatic expression on the character’s face.
Posted in Blast from the Past, It Came From the Sketchbook, Sketch
Tagged 1970s, Cartoon, doodle, scribble
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Syd Kushner W I D E S H O E S
Advertisement for a Philadelphia shoe store from a November 23, 1971 edition of the Courier Post, a Southern New Jersey newspaper.
Pumpkin Bread
Sunday was one of those gray, rainy, chilled to the bone days. After braving the elements, we returned home, had lunch – then I turned on the oven to bake something to warm the kitchen. I had a can of pumpkin on hand leftover from Thanksgiving, and since I’m not a big pumpkin pie fan – I thought a pumpkin bread would be just the thing to have in the afternoon with a cup of coffee. Continue reading
