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CALL NUMBER: T3842:0026 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982-05-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview by Emmanuel Ronse, Jack Gillmore discusses his involvement with the production of early radio drama and variety programs in Vancouver. Gillmore's start in amateur theatre; trained with Arthur Foxhall of Foxhall's National Opera Company; plays produced. First radio drama work. Foxhall's departure; theatre in Victoria. The CNR radio service, and Vancouver station CNRV. George Wright invites Gillmore to produce a play on CNRV. Script pages; "gunshot" sound effect. CNRV offices and studio in Vancouver CNR station. Adapting stage plays. Sound effects for "Behind the Lines;". Presenting Shakespeare. TRACK 2: Radio presentation of Shakespeare plays, and other plays done. Parts played; preparation of scripts; "teamwork"; actors involved. Media coverage of plays and distant reception. Takeover on CNR radio service by CRBC; Walter Powell. Discussion of capek's play "R.U.R." regarding royalties. More on Walter Powell; decline of radio drama at CNRV. Other programs of this type? All complete shows; where players went; stations broadcast from. Vancouver stations.

CALL NUMBER: T3842:0027 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982-05-27 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Story of "The Radio Artist's Review" program on CKWX, sponsored by Excelsior Lumber, and incident with CRCV. Other programs. The Kitsilano Boys' band. [TRACK 2: blank.]

SUMMARY: "The Bush and the Salon" was a CBC radio series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries and other sources. This episode, "Hope, Colours Of Time", written by Michael Mercer, depicts th;e town of Hope, BC, in June of 1911. The town suffers the fate of prosperity after an alleged gold strike on Steamboat Mountain.;

SUMMARY: "The Overlanders" by George Woodcock is a dramatic narrative about the Cariboo gold rush and the individuals who undertook the hazardous journey to the gold fields. The play runs short (41:45), and th;e program is filled out with Pierre Mercure's "Divertissement for String Quartet and String Orchestra".;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. A docudrama about the rise and fal;l of the town of Barkerville during the Cariboo Gold Rush.;

SUMMARY: "The Bush and the Salon" was a CBC radio series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries and other sources. This episode, "A Minor Incident", by Edward Stidder, is an account of the ea;rly years of James Douglas (later the Governor of the Colony of British Columbia). Peter Haworth plays Sir James Douglas and Ted Stidder plays Chief Kwah. Other actors include Sam Payne, Walter Marsh,; Peg Dixon, Graham Crowl, Joe Austin, Jack Anthony, Terence Kelly, Jack Hammond, Merv Campone, Wayne Robson, and Hagan Beggs.;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. Part 1: "Idylls of the Church" fea;tures Sam Roddans's stories about his father, the Rev. Andrew Roddan of Vancouver. [T4303:0046] Part 2: "Region of Icebergs" is a play by Christopher Dafoe, in which a man on a ship entertains himsel;f with masks and false credentials. [T4303:0088];

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "The ;Janet Smith Case" by Joe Wiesenfeld, recalls the famous murder case dating back to 1924.;

SUMMARY: "CBC Tuesday Night" was a multi-part series that featured performances of classical music, opera and drama, as well as readings, documentaries and talks. The series ran from Oct 26, 1965 into the 1970;s in the 7:30 to 11:00 p.m. time slot. Its predecessor of the same format was "CBC Sunday Night". This episode, "Men Of The Harvest", dramatizes the story of the English missionary William Duncan and his work among the Tsimshian Indians of northern B.C. The script was by George Woodcock. Featured in the cast are Robert Clothier, Roland Hunter, Walter Marsh, Bill Buckingham, Jack Ammon, Gavin Payne;, David Hughes, Eric Schneider, James Johnston, Alan Dobby, Ted Greenhalgh, Robert Howay, Ted Stidder, Peter Haworth, Derek Ralston and Dorothy Davies. The narrator is Rev. Arthur Hives. "Men Of The Harvest" was produced and directed by John Must.;

CALL NUMBER: T4303:0711 - 0712 SUMMARY: "The Bush and the Salon" was a CBC radio series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries and other sources. This episode, "Waiilatpu, 1847", adapted by Peter Haworth, is an account of the Whitman massacre near Fort Walla Walla, Washington, based on the journals of the Canadian painter Paul Kane.;

SUMMARY: "The Hornby Collection" is an anthology of plays, documentaries, interviews and selected fiction for radio -- all written, prepared and produced in British Columbia. "Borderlands", a poem for voices a;nd sounds by Don Gutteridge. An account from both sides of the events and emotions surrounding the massacre of the crew of the ship "Boston" by Chief Maquinna and his Nootka band. Featured actors include Peter Haworth as John Jewitt, Don Francks as Maquinna, and the late Powys Thomas as John Meares.

SUMMARY: "Canadian School Broadcasts" was a series of educational radio programs designed to supplement existing school curriculum. The majority of broadcasts were organized and administered at the provincial ;level by the Departments of Education and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. However, many programs were produced by national organizations. The series went on the air in March 1938 as a twice-w;eekly broadcast; then it was expanded to daily broadcasts. "Other Times, Other Places" was a six-part series featuring Canadian families in different provinces throughout time. This episode is a play; about a Chinese-Canadian family in Vancouver. A grandmother explains to her granddaughter how her great-grandmother came to Canada. With Rae Brown and Shannon Shepherd.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "Chin;ese Riot" by Tom Cone, depicts the time of labour conflicts in 1887 and the large Chinese population that was willing to work for less.;

SUMMARY: "Audience" was an arts program presented from Vancouver. (1) This episode, "The Last Portage And The Height Of Land", is adapted from the journals of poet and civil servant Duncan Campbell Scott (1862;-1947). Scott, a poet and short story writer, became the Deputy Superintendent of the Department of Indian Affairs in 1923. This program, adapted by Peter Haworth, features Scott's Northern journey as a member of the James Bay Treaty Commission in the summer of 1905. "There are distinct differences of style and point of view among Duncan Campbell's Scott's personalities as Poet, Diarist and Official. Therefore these roles will be played by three actors, each representing an aspect of the poet." (2) "The Story Of A National Crime," a docu-drama by Peter Haworth, explores long-suppressed documents from 1922 in which Duncan Campbell Scott's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Peter Bryce, accused him of genocide. With Roy Brinson as Dr. Peter Bryce and Sam Payne as Duncan Campbell Scott.;

SUMMARY: "The Story Of A National Crime," a docu-drama by Peter Haworth, explores long-suppressed documents from 1922 in which Duncan Campbell Scott's Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Peter Bryce, accused him of gen;ocide. With Roy Brinson as Dr. Peter Bryce and Sam Payne as Duncan Campbell Scott.;

SUMMARY: Monitor was a series devoted to the arts in BC. This episode is a play offering many individual's perspectives on the Second Narrows Bridge disaster of 1958.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "The; Battle Of The Bridge - 1933" by Cherie Thiessen, re-creates a heated city council meeting discussing the proposal for the Lions Gate Bridge.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "In M;emoriam" by Brenda White, concerns a disaster that occurred during the construction of the Second Narrows Bridge on June 17, 1958.;

SUMMARY: "Heritage Theatre" was a series of short historical plays set in the Vancouver environs. These vignettes illustrate some of the significant events and interesting episodes from Vancouver's earliest ti;mes. First broadcast in 1977, the plays were made in co-operation with the Social Planning Department of the City of Vancouver. This series was broadcast during the summer of 1981. This episode, "The ;Floating Crap Game" by John Wiesenfeld, takes a look at gambling on BC ferries.;

CALL NUMBER: T3946:0003
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Personalities in music and drama on Vancouver radio, 1925-1945
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-12-07
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: John Avison discusses: radio stations he performed at in the 1920s, including CKMO; CFYC -- downtown location, manager, Burnaby location; people connected with CFYC -- Victor W. Odlum and Professor Odlum; CKCD and CHLS; advertisers; relationship of CKCD and CHLS; W.J. 'Billy' Hassell; entertainers on CHLS; new equipment, ca. 1933; performers; "Marston of the Mounties"; background details on the; popular entertainers, the Calangis family; Avison's duties as CHLS music director. TRACK 2: Mr. Avison discusses: the Calangis family (cont'd); CJOR and the Chandler family; CKWX studio on Seymour Street; Harold Paulson; story about a new car; performers; other musicians on Vancouver radio; W.J. Hassell; Mercer McLeod, drama director; the program "Chains of Circumstance"; drama at CRCV in the late 1930s; Vancouver actors; other CBC drama directors of the late 1930s and 1940s; CNRV and CRCV staff members; Dick Claringbull; attitudes to local programming at CNRV and CRCV.

CALL NUMBER: T3946:0004
SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Personalities in music and drama on Vancouver radio, 1925-1945
RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1982-12-07
SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Avison discusses: CBC talent audition panel; CBC station in the Hotel Vancouver; Avison on CBC orchestra; organ broadcasts; broadcasts and recordings at Ryerson Church; Andrew Allan and his broadcast of a medieval Christmas play; Allan's religion and personality; his approach to drama; Fletcher Markle as a radio drama writer in Vancouver; "artistic climate" and influences in Vancouver, 1930s and '40s -- Dr. Ira Dilworth, musicians, English influence, isolation from the east; Toronto musical community; decline of intellectual content in entertainment programming. TRACK 2: [blank? ; end of interview];

SUMMARY: "Tuesday's Child", a radio play by Vancouver actor and writer Fletcher Markle, is part two of a four-part "auto-bio-drama" series entitled "There Was A Young Man" that was broadcast within the radio drama series "Baker's Dozen". The play dramatizes events in the life of young man influenced by his encounters with women.

SUMMARY: A radio play by Vera Rosenbluth, based on events that took place in Vancouver in 1914, before before the First World War. The characters depicted in the play include Mayor Baxter, Conservative MP H.H. Stevens, lawyer J. Edward Bird, Dominion Immigration Inspector Malcolm R.J. Reid, and Amanat Ali Khan, who in 1914 was a sawmill worker living in Vancouver's East Indian community.

SUMMARY: "Vancouver Theatre" was a CBC radio series that featured new plays by Canadian writers, as well as adaptations of works from other media and from other countries. "Theatre of War" is a radio play by J. Micahel Yates containing a series of images of modern war. It was directed by Imbert Orchard and produced at CBC Vancouver. The three narrators are John Wright, Michael Irwin and Lillian Carlson. Terrence Kelly, John Sparks, and Carl Wyllie are the voices of the three soldiers. Also heard were: Sam Payne, Wally Marsh, Roland Hunter, and Joe Golland.

SUMMARY: "Poet in an Arctic Landscape" is a play by J. Michael Yates, based on his experiences sport fishing in the Northwest Territories. It combines poetry and dramatic episodes having complementary themes. Voices heard include: Robert Clothier, James Johnston, Ted Stidder, Jim McQueen, Merv Campone, Lillian Carlson, Derek Ralston, Michael Irwin, Roger Dressler, Barnie O'Sullivan, Joe Golland, and Bob Graham.

SUMMARY: First part of radio program with Bill Herbert, including performance of "Victoria's Hundred Years" (also entitled "Victoria Centenary"), written by Archie MacCorkindale, with unidentified actors, about: theatre, radio drama; Victoria, its history.

SUMMARY: "The Bush and the Salon" was a CBC radio series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries and other sources. This episode, "This Is My Home: The Story Of The Deans Family of Victoria, Part 2: Here Will I Stay", is written by Peter Haworth. This episode focuses on Victoria in 1854, including the war with Russia in Sitka, and early life in the colony as related by members of the Deans; family. The actors include Pat Williams, David Glyn-Jones, Robert Clothier, Roy Brinson, Shirley Broderick, Michael Collins, Eric Schneider, and Sam Payne.;

SUMMARY: "The Bush and the Salon" was a CBC radio series that recreated early Canadian life from letters, diaries and other sources. This episode, "This Is My Home: The Story of The Deans Family of Victoria, Part 1: The Seas Between Us", is written by Peter Haworth. It focuses on the 1852-53 voyage to Vancouver's Island on the "Norman Morrison". Early accounts by members of the Deans family describe Fort Victoria, Kenneth McKenzie's Craigflower Farm, homesickness, loneliness and the early life in the colony. Actors include Pat Williams, David Glyn-Jones, Robert Clothier, Roy Brinson, Shirley Broderick, Michael Collins, Eric Schneider, and Sam Payne.;

SUMMARY: "The Lonely One" is the second in a series of stories and plays by Ray Bradbury, adapted and dramatized for radio by Otto Lowy and Don Mowatt. This episode is based on part of Bradbury's novel "Dandelion Wine".;

SUMMARY: "CBC Stage" was a contemporary drama series that introduced and encouraged many promising writers and actors, and drew attention to other literary resources in the country through adaptations. CBC Sta;ge celebrated a quarter-century of this high-calibre program in 1969. This episode, "Lunar Caustic", is based on a novella by Malcolm Lowry, adapted for radio by Anthony Robertson. The story is based; on Lowry's experiences as an alcoholic patient at New York's Bellevue Hospital. Actors include Peter Haworth, Merv Campone, Leon Bibb, Joseph Golland, Robert Clothier and Shirley Milliner.;

SUMMARY: "How We Killed The Moose" is a play by John Lazarus, inspired by an incident that happened in a Canadian town in 1974. See T4303:0688 for a full program description and cast listing.;

SUMMARY: Series title and broadcast date unknown. See T4303:434 for a "Vancouver Theatre" episode with the same title; this item may be a duplicate of, or otherwise related to, that program.;