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MARCH OF TIME, THE {SERIES PREMIERE} (RADIO)
MARCH OF TIME, THE {SERIES PREMIERE} (RADIO)
Summary
One in this series of programs dramatizing current news events. Profiles of this week's news include the following: "Big Bill" Thompson is re-elected mayor of Chicago; the New York World newspaper is sold to the Scripps-Howard Group to form the Evening World-Telegram; in France, the annual steamer leaves for Devil's Island with 774 convicts aboard; King Alfonso XIII of Spain speaks after averting revolution; King Carol of Romania intercedes in the police torturing of a pickpocket; an auction of Russian treasures; House Speaker Nicholas Longworth adjourns the 71st Congress; and Congressman Fiorello La Guardia leads the Marine Orchestra. Includes commercials for Time magazine.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: March 6, 1931 Friday 8:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:30:00
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R76:0063
- GENRE: Radio - Docudrama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Chicago - Politics and government; New York World (newspaper); Prisons - France; Radio - Commercials - Time magazine; Docudrama
- SERIES RUN: CBS - Radio series, 1931-1937
- COMMERCIALS:
- Radio - Commercials - Time magazine
CREDITS
- William Hale Thompson
- Nicholas Longworth
- Alfonso XIII, King Of Spain
- La Guardia, Fiorello