In recent weeks, I’ve posted some shows from a previously overlooked World War II series, “Yankee Doodle”, produced by the Office of Civilian Defense to encourage people to support the war effort on the home front. This week, we kick off a few individual shows, not part of a series, from the same batch of discs.
“Of Interest to the Enemy”, is a fifteen minute drama about Larry Crane, “told by the man who wrote his obituary”. The editor of a small-town newspaper talks with different people in the town about the loss of one of their own who died fighting in the Pacific. It prompts the editor to write an editorial about the “Block Plan”, to coordinate neighbors for civilian defense. The show was written by Pauline Gibson and directed by William Rousseau.
Our mp3 was transferred direct from an original sixteen inch vinyl OWI transcription, matrix number G-1995.
We’ll have a few more shows in this series in the following weeks.
Columbia Demonstration Record
20th Century International Radio Newsreel - February 24, 1939
The FBI in Peace and War - October 15, 1952
This is War - March 14, 1942
Coleman Cox - Pgm 12
Coleman Cox - Pgm 11
This is War - February 28, 1942
Lanny Ross - May 23, 1949
Great Music - Pgm 144
This is War - February 21, 1942
The People Act - May 18, 1952
Naval Air Reserve Show - Pgm 24
Fred Waring Show - April 26, 1945
Great Music - Pgm 143
This is War - February 14, 1942
Reno Rides the Range - Pgm 4 Part 2
Reno Rides the Range - Pgm 3 Part 2
Kenny Baker - September 23, 1945
American Rhapsody - April 7, 1945
It’s Time to Smile - September 30, 1942
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