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CD 6 The Courtship of Anna May Lamour - 9/18/1947 THE VOYAGE OF Shore Leave and the Unhappy Wife - 9/25/1947 THE SCARLET QUEEN CD 7 The Fat Trader and the Sword of Apokaezhan - Program Guide by Jack French 10/2/1947 The Tattooed Beaver and Baby Food for Pare Pare - The rare combination of talent that went into producing The Voyage 10/9/1947 of the Scarlet Queen can best be described as “the perfect storm.” It brought together two excellent lead , a superb duo of radio’s best writers, a highly CD 8 skilled trio of sound effects artists, and a respected musician to compose a lavish Ah Sin and the Balinese Beaux Arts Ball - Scarlet Queen regular Barton Yarborough and distinctive score to blend it together. The result was certainly the best radio 10/16/1947 series that ever aired on the Mutual Network. Grafter’s Fort and the Black Pearl of Galahla Bay - 10/23/1947 (1917-1990) deserves all the credit for putting this remarkable series together in 1947, just two years after World War II ended. CD 9 This series, telling the fascinating and exotic story of a sailing vessel in its quest King Ascot And The Maid In Waiting - 10/30/1947 for a Chinese treasure, would take listeners on dozens of remarkable adventures Lonely Sultan of Isabella De Basilan - 11/6/1947 in ports of call throughout the Pacific Ocean and the China Sea.

The architects of this thrilling saga were Gil Doud (1914-1957) and Bob Tallman (1914-1995), the same team who were also writing The Adventures of Sam Spade . In addition to being excellent radio writers, they Jack French, a former Navy officer, is a radio researcher and historian in were superb researchers, Fairfax, VA. He also edits “Radio Recall”, published by the Metro Washington and they filled their Old Time Radio Club. His book, “Private Eyelashes,” which won the Agatha scripts with accurate Award for Best Non-Fiction, is available through Radio Spirits. descriptions of a myriad of actual ports in the Pacific.

The sound effects team consisted of Ray Kemper, Tom Hanley, and Bill James, a talented www.RadioSpirits.com trio who started at KHJ PO Box 1315, Little Falls, NJ 07424 (Don Lee Network) in 1946 and scaled the Audio programs are licensed from series rights holders. All rights reserved. heights at CBS. Music For home use only. Unauthorized duplication prohibited. on this series was Manufactured by Radio Spirits. composed and conducted © 2010 RSPT LLC. All rights rerved. by Richard D. Aurandt (1905-1984), a skilled, Program Guide © 2010 Jack French and RSPT LLC. All Rights Reserved. voyage.qxd:8 pg. Booklet 6/1/10 10:05 PM Page 2

but not well known, radio musician, quipped that bigger screens just made who previously worked in San it easier for people to see how bad TV Francisco. shows were. However, a year later, he was busy directing and While the Scarlet Queen had producing television series, including a full crew on board (the total was a Climax , Bat Masterson and Petticoat little fuzzy and varied from three to Junction . At the age of 63, he started eight), only two voices dominated the writing mystery novels. He wrote scripts: Philip Karney, the captain, and about one novel a year until he died at Red Gallagher, the first mate. Although the age of 72. A heart attack claimed most sources spell the skipper’s name, his life on May 20, 1990 in Gleneden “Carney,” the original scripts all say Beach, CA; he was survived by his “Karney.” Both are uncommon variants second wife, , another of the Irish surname “Kearney,” which popular radio performer. in Gaelic tradition means “warrior.” In the audition episode (“The Death of Postscript: In August 1955, Scarlet Queen regular Virginia Greg, David Malone”), Lewis gave the lead NBC brass were talking about shooting pictured here with her sons. to Howard Duff, but Lewis himself a TV version of Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , and some exterior sites near Hong went on to play Karney on the air for Kong were under consideration. Nothing came of these plans, however, and Elliott Lewis accepting a Radio and Television Mirror the entire series. Ed Max (1909-1980) that’s probably for the best; very few of us could believe it would compare to Magazine Award. provided the husky voice of Gallagher. the original on radio.

A native of Manhattan, Lewis was born on November 28, 1917, and Episodes Included in This Collection after high school, briefly attended City College. He was taking classes in drama and music, but would later claim in his biography that he was CD 1 a pre-law student. Before he was 20, he was getting regular radio acting jobs. The Death of David Malone – Audition - 2/2/1947 His roles got larger as his skills improved, including some regular work on soap The Shanghai Secret - 7/3/1947 operas. His military service during World War II found him assigned to the Armed Forces Radio Service where he acted, directed, and/or produced over CD 2 one hundred programs. While in the service, he married radio performer Cathy Report of the White Jade Buddha - 7/10/1947 Lewis, who joked that she didn’t have to change her name when she wedded The Spaniard and the Laskar Pirates - 7/17/1947 Elliott. By the time work began on Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , this married couple was earning $72,000 a year from their radio work. She was the pal of CD 3 “My Friend, Irma” and had roles on , Adventures of Sam Spade and A The Boston Geisha and Chesapeake Bay - 7/24/1947 Man Called X . He was working for a number of series as an or director, Lily in the Chimoipo Bar - 7/21/1947 including Hawk Larrabee , Jack Benny and Ozzie & Harriet . CD 4 Edwin Miller Max was born in Georgia on May 4, 1909. The family The White Cargo Act and Ah Sin - 8/7/1947 moved to City when he was a teenager. He dropped out of high- Story of the Eight Historic Periods - 8/21/1947 school to seek his fortune as an actor. Discarding his surname, he formed the stage name Ed Miller. Concentrating on film work, he did little on radio, CD 5 although he and Lewis met for the first time as cast members of The Cinnamon The Barefoot Nymph and the Mother Hubbard Jacket - 8/28/1947 Bear , the children’s Christmas story recorded in 1937. He enlisted in the Army Jewel Thieves and the Straw Filled Dummy - 9/11/1947 Air Force in 1942 and spent the next three years with a bomber squadron in 2 7 voyage.qxd:8 pg. Booklet 6/1/10 10:05 PM Page 3

The sound effects were always realistic and appropriate. We heard the Europe. After being discharged, he changed his professional name back to Ed creaking gang plank and the strain in the rigging. The crashing waves conveyed Max. He did mostly motion picture acting (34 movies from 1945 to 1951), and a salty sea breeze to our ears. The Asian crowd scenes, a la Terry and the had limited work at the microphone ( Latitude Zero and Adventures of Philip Pirates , were well-orchestrated and exciting. One of the most impressive effects Marlowe ). Since many of his film roles were small, and some uncredited, of all was the typhoon created for the July 17, 1947 episode “The Spaniard and playing Gallagher on Voyage of the Scarlet Queen may have been his most the Laskar Pirates.” significant role up to that time.

After the successful run of Voyage of the Scarlet Queen ended in Gil Doud, who had the unusual birth name of Giles Budlong Doud, 1948, all of the participants remained in their chosen fields. Gil Doud wrote for Jr., was born on March 1, 1914 in Winona, MN – the same town where he grew other radio programs ( , Yours Truly , Johnny Dollar, etc.), then gradually up and graduated from high school. His father was a wealthy business man and branched into TV scripts ( , Forbidden and Douglas Fairbanks most people in the town knew Gil as “Junior Doud.” He had one year of college Presents ) and screen plays ( Walk the Proud Land , Thunder Bay and before he began writing for radio, and one of his first credited series was Saskatchewan ). In 1955, he personally worked with Audie Murphy, while Calling All Cars . Doud hadn’t had great success on the west coast before he adapting the latter’s book, To Hell and Back , for the screen play that was filmed enlisted in January 1943, but after he was discharged, his radio writing by Universal. Regrettably, he would live but three more years; he died of prospects improved. He worked for on One Out of Seven , and later hepatitis on December 17, 1957 at the age of only 43. took Richard Breen’s place as the writer for Pat Novak, For Hire . Then, in March 1947, he replaced Jo Eisinger on The Adventures of Sam Spade , thus His writing partner, Tallman, continued successfully writing in teaming him up with Bob Tallman. various venues, including one novel, one screen play ( Price of Fear ), many television scripts ( Hawaiian Eye , Perry Mason , Gunsmoke , Mannix, etc.), plus William Robert Tallman was a native of Colorado, born there on a few radio series, including Mr. Moto . Tallman outlived his typewriter partner December 15, 1914, but raised in . A poetry writer since grade school, by almost four decades; he died at the age of 80 in Los Angeles on September he skipped his last two years of high school and hitchhiked to New York City 10, 1995. where he found a job as a copy boy for the NY Herald Tribune. After a few years, he worked briefly with the Associated Press. From there, he talked Ed Max did virtually no radio work after Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , himself into a writing job with radio’s March of Time . Having dropped his first concentrating instead on movies and television. He was seen on episodes of The name, he headed west in 1943 and wrote screen plays, poetry, and radio scripts. Fugitive and Green Acres among others. While he had small parts in many Tallman, a single guy, somehow avoided the draft in World War II, for reasons movies, the only film of import that he did was Come Back, Little Sheba, in yet to be uncovered. He’d had experience writing for Cavalcade of America and which starred. Despite his paucity of Radio Reader’s Digest when he and Jo Eisinger were hired in 1946 to adapt radio work, the NY Times identified him as a “radio Dashiell Hammett’s writings about Sam Spade for a new radio show. When actor” when he made headlines in October 1952. Eisinger quit the series, Doud took her place, and this new team would write all Max was a hostile witness before the House the Sam Spade scripts until June 1949. Committee on Un-American Activities when he threw his WW II military metals at the committee Raymond Clinton Kemper was born in yelling, “Give them back to President Truman.” He North just two days before Christmas died at age 71 in Los Angeles on October 17, 1980. 1923. After high school graduation, he got a job as an announcer for KHJ. He was just learning the Elliott Lewis stayed very busy in radio, broadcast business when drafted into the military in producing, directing and acting in Suspense , 1942; he served until discharged in February 1946. Broadway’s My Beat and Cathy and Elliot Lewis On Ray went right back to KHJ, but the only vacancy Stage . He also continued his role as Remley on The was a slot on the sound effects crew. He took the job, Phil Harris – Show . In 1953, he told Time joining Tom Hanley and William “Bill” James. This Magazine that he had no interest in television and trio would become very close friends, working on Scarlet Queen regular Straight Arrow , The Count of Monte Cristo and Let Ray Kemper 6 3 voyage.qxd:8 pg. Booklet 6/1/10 10:05 PM Page 4

George Do It . A few years The ketch Scarlet Queen was such an later, the same three were at integral part of the series, she could almost be CBS, working their sound considered a secondary character on the program. A effects magic on the best ketch, a type of ship which dates back to Colonial network westerns: Gunsmoke , days as a cargo vessel, is two-masted and its crew Frontier Gentleman , Fort varies with its length and total sail surface. Laramie , and Have Gun , Described in the script as a 78 foot ketch, built in Will Travel . Both Kemper 1946, the Queen boasted on her bowsprit a carved and Hanley were also fine figure of a woman, naked except for her crown, and writers and their scripts were painted red. Here Doud and Tallman had exercised a used on Gunsmoke and little dramatic license; carved figures on bowsprits, Ray Kemper and Tom Hanley with . Have Gun, Will Travel . so common in the 1700s and 1800s, had disappeared Diagram of a ketch Hanley even won a national award for best dramatic show of the year for a Suspense script long before the First World War. he authored. Although this radio series debuted less than 24 months after V-J Day, Richard Aurandt was born in Colorado, like Tallman, but nine years the scripts are devoid of any anti-Japanese sentiments. As the Scarlet Queen earlier, on January 1, 1905. By his mid-20’s, he was married, living in San plowed through the waves of the Pacific Ocean and the China Sea to a Francisco, and trying to make a living as a musician. In the 1930’s he and a multitude of harbor ports, Japanese characters (and other Asians) were depicted partner, Max Frederick, ran a small firm called Radio Electric Transcriptions, as heroes, villains, or victims, depending on the plot. World War II battle sites which marketed musical programs. Aurandt also played the organ whenever he are occasionally mentioned in the story lines, but in these instances, American could get on the air in San Francisco or Oakland. In 1944, Aurandt created and valor is stressed, not Japanese aggression. A good example of this can be heard directed an NBC show called A Song is Born , produced at KGW in Portland, in the August 28, 1947 episode (“The Barefoot Nymph in the Mother Hubbard OR. Later that year he relocated to Los Angeles to become the musical director Jacket”) as the ketch enters Manila Harbor. Remembering the Bataan Death for Dreft Star Playhouse . When Aurandt was hired for the musical duties on March of April 1942, and the siege of Corregidor, which ended a month later, Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , he was still relatively unknown in the industry Doud and Tallman wrote these poignant observations for Karney: where he’d sought recognition for so many years. “I swung the Scarlet Queen a little north of her course and was passed Jim Burton, who directed/produced this series, may have been less under the rocks of Corregidor. Every eye on our decks was turned toward the well-known in Los Angeles that Aurandt was. Burton had limited experience, squat fortifications for a minute. By this time, they were covered with jungle but he had produced Quiz of Two Cities for Mutual, beginning in 1944. After growth again, and were loudly silent, in the manner of monuments that hold the Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , he and Aurandt worked together on The Green stories of men who made them monuments. Beyond the island, we could see Lama in the summer of 1949. the steaming mass of Bataan and we swung back into Manila Bay.”

Producing a radio series in Los Angeles gave a director access to some Captain Karney’s entries in the log book citing longitude and latitude of the best voices and accents for their supporting casts. In this set, you’ll hear were usually, though not always, accurate in pinpointing their location. Tallman some exceptionally talented actors filling small roles, including William Conrad, and Doud knew their subject well, and must have been overruled in the Jack Kruschen, Virginia Gregg, Barton Yarborough, , Mary Lansing, phraseology of the series opening lines: “Every week....a league further…” A Bill Johnstone, and Ann Tobin. Nearly every episode had the announcer, Charles league is only three nautical miles, and the Queen usually traveled hundreds of Arlington, list each actor in the closing credits. The only time this was not done miles between each port. The script rarely veered from factual accuracy, on the original transcriptions was when the script played too long and the credits although in one episode Karney refers to a Japanese pistol as a “.25 caliber had to be abbreviated. An example of the complete closing credits can be heard Sambu automatic.” However, this military sidearm, similar to the German in the October 30, 1947 show, “King Ascot and the Maid in Waiting.” But, Luger, was actually an 8 mm Nambu semi-automatic. unfortunately for today’s listeners, many of the surviving audio copies are those of the AFRS, who chopped off all the closing credits. 4 5 voyage.qxd:8 pg. Booklet 6/1/10 10:05 PM Page 4

George Do It . A few years The ketch Scarlet Queen was such an later, the same three were at integral part of the series, she could almost be CBS, working their sound considered a secondary character on the program. A effects magic on the best ketch, a type of ship which dates back to Colonial network westerns: Gunsmoke , days as a cargo vessel, is two-masted and its crew Frontier Gentleman , Fort varies with its length and total sail surface. Laramie , and Have Gun , Described in the script as a 78 foot ketch, built in Will Travel . Both Kemper 1946, the Queen boasted on her bowsprit a carved and Hanley were also fine figure of a woman, naked except for her crown, and writers and their scripts were painted red. Here Doud and Tallman had exercised a used on Gunsmoke and little dramatic license; carved figures on bowsprits, Ray Kemper and Tom Hanley with Norman MacDonnell. Have Gun, Will Travel . so common in the 1700s and 1800s, had disappeared Diagram of a ketch Hanley even won a national award for best dramatic show of the year for a Suspense script long before the First World War. he authored. Although this radio series debuted less than 24 months after V-J Day, Richard Aurandt was born in Colorado, like Tallman, but nine years the scripts are devoid of any anti-Japanese sentiments. As the Scarlet Queen earlier, on January 1, 1905. By his mid-20’s, he was married, living in San plowed through the waves of the Pacific Ocean and the China Sea to a Francisco, and trying to make a living as a musician. In the 1930’s he and a multitude of harbor ports, Japanese characters (and other Asians) were depicted partner, Max Frederick, ran a small firm called Radio Electric Transcriptions, as heroes, villains, or victims, depending on the plot. World War II battle sites which marketed musical programs. Aurandt also played the organ whenever he are occasionally mentioned in the story lines, but in these instances, American could get on the air in San Francisco or Oakland. In 1944, Aurandt created and valor is stressed, not Japanese aggression. A good example of this can be heard directed an NBC show called A Song is Born , produced at KGW in Portland, in the August 28, 1947 episode (“The Barefoot Nymph in the Mother Hubbard OR. Later that year he relocated to Los Angeles to become the musical director Jacket”) as the ketch enters Manila Harbor. Remembering the Bataan Death for Dreft Star Playhouse . When Aurandt was hired for the musical duties on March of April 1942, and the siege of Corregidor, which ended a month later, Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , he was still relatively unknown in the industry Doud and Tallman wrote these poignant observations for Karney: where he’d sought recognition for so many years. “I swung the Scarlet Queen a little north of her course and was passed Jim Burton, who directed/produced this series, may have been less under the rocks of Corregidor. Every eye on our decks was turned toward the well-known in Los Angeles that Aurandt was. Burton had limited experience, squat fortifications for a minute. By this time, they were covered with jungle but he had produced Quiz of Two Cities for Mutual, beginning in 1944. After growth again, and were loudly silent, in the manner of monuments that hold the Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , he and Aurandt worked together on The Green stories of men who made them monuments. Beyond the island, we could see Lama in the summer of 1949. the steaming mass of Bataan and we swung back into Manila Bay.”

Producing a radio series in Los Angeles gave a director access to some Captain Karney’s entries in the log book citing longitude and latitude of the best voices and accents for their supporting casts. In this set, you’ll hear were usually, though not always, accurate in pinpointing their location. Tallman some exceptionally talented actors filling small roles, including William Conrad, and Doud knew their subject well, and must have been overruled in the Jack Kruschen, Virginia Gregg, Barton Yarborough, Paul Frees, Mary Lansing, phraseology of the series opening lines: “Every week....a league further…” A Bill Johnstone, and Ann Tobin. Nearly every episode had the announcer, Charles league is only three nautical miles, and the Queen usually traveled hundreds of Arlington, list each actor in the closing credits. The only time this was not done miles between each port. The script rarely veered from factual accuracy, on the original transcriptions was when the script played too long and the credits although in one episode Karney refers to a Japanese pistol as a “.25 caliber had to be abbreviated. An example of the complete closing credits can be heard Sambu automatic.” However, this military sidearm, similar to the German in the October 30, 1947 show, “King Ascot and the Maid in Waiting.” But, Luger, was actually an 8 mm Nambu semi-automatic. unfortunately for today’s listeners, many of the surviving audio copies are those of the AFRS, who chopped off all the closing credits. 4 5 voyage.qxd:8 pg. Booklet 6/1/10 10:05 PM Page 3

The sound effects were always realistic and appropriate. We heard the Europe. After being discharged, he changed his professional name back to Ed creaking gang plank and the strain in the rigging. The crashing waves conveyed Max. He did mostly motion picture acting (34 movies from 1945 to 1951), and a salty sea breeze to our ears. The Asian crowd scenes, a la Terry and the had limited work at the microphone ( Latitude Zero and Adventures of Philip Pirates , were well-orchestrated and exciting. One of the most impressive effects Marlowe ). Since many of his film roles were small, and some uncredited, of all was the typhoon created for the July 17, 1947 episode “The Spaniard and playing Gallagher on Voyage of the Scarlet Queen may have been his most the Laskar Pirates.” significant role up to that time.

After the successful run of Voyage of the Scarlet Queen ended in Gil Doud, who had the unusual birth name of Giles Budlong Doud, 1948, all of the participants remained in their chosen fields. Gil Doud wrote for Jr., was born on March 1, 1914 in Winona, MN – the same town where he grew other radio programs ( Escape , Yours Truly , Johnny Dollar, etc.), then gradually up and graduated from high school. His father was a wealthy business man and branched into TV scripts ( Gunsmoke , Forbidden and Douglas Fairbanks most people in the town knew Gil as “Junior Doud.” He had one year of college Presents ) and screen plays ( Walk the Proud Land , Thunder Bay and before he began writing for radio, and one of his first credited series was Saskatchewan ). In 1955, he personally worked with Audie Murphy, while Calling All Cars . Doud hadn’t had great success on the west coast before he adapting the latter’s book, To Hell and Back , for the screen play that was filmed enlisted in January 1943, but after he was discharged, his radio writing by Universal. Regrettably, he would live but three more years; he died of prospects improved. He worked for Jack Webb on One Out of Seven , and later hepatitis on December 17, 1957 at the age of only 43. took Richard Breen’s place as the writer for Pat Novak, For Hire . Then, in March 1947, he replaced Jo Eisinger on The Adventures of Sam Spade , thus His writing partner, Tallman, continued successfully writing in teaming him up with Bob Tallman. various venues, including one novel, one screen play ( Price of Fear ), many television scripts ( Hawaiian Eye , Perry Mason , Gunsmoke , Mannix, etc.), plus William Robert Tallman was a native of Colorado, born there on a few radio series, including Mr. Moto . Tallman outlived his typewriter partner December 15, 1914, but raised in California. A poetry writer since grade school, by almost four decades; he died at the age of 80 in Los Angeles on September he skipped his last two years of high school and hitchhiked to New York City 10, 1995. where he found a job as a copy boy for the NY Herald Tribune. After a few years, he worked briefly with the Associated Press. From there, he talked Ed Max did virtually no radio work after Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , himself into a writing job with radio’s March of Time . Having dropped his first concentrating instead on movies and television. He was seen on episodes of The name, he headed west in 1943 and wrote screen plays, poetry, and radio scripts. Fugitive and Green Acres among others. While he had small parts in many Tallman, a single guy, somehow avoided the draft in World War II, for reasons movies, the only film of import that he did was Come Back, Little Sheba, in yet to be uncovered. He’d had experience writing for Cavalcade of America and which Burt Lancaster starred. Despite his paucity of Radio Reader’s Digest when he and Jo Eisinger were hired in 1946 to adapt radio work, the NY Times identified him as a “radio Dashiell Hammett’s writings about Sam Spade for a new radio show. When actor” when he made headlines in October 1952. Eisinger quit the series, Doud took her place, and this new team would write all Max was a hostile witness before the House the Sam Spade scripts until June 1949. Committee on Un-American Activities when he threw his WW II military metals at the committee Raymond Clinton Kemper was born in yelling, “Give them back to President Truman.” He North Hollywood just two days before Christmas died at age 71 in Los Angeles on October 17, 1980. 1923. After high school graduation, he got a job as an announcer for KHJ. He was just learning the Elliott Lewis stayed very busy in radio, broadcast business when drafted into the military in producing, directing and acting in Suspense , 1942; he served until discharged in February 1946. Broadway’s My Beat and Cathy and Elliot Lewis On Ray went right back to KHJ, but the only vacancy Stage . He also continued his role as Remley on The was a slot on the sound effects crew. He took the job, Phil Harris – Alice Faye Show . In 1953, he told Time joining Tom Hanley and William “Bill” James. This Magazine that he had no interest in television and trio would become very close friends, working on Scarlet Queen regular William Conrad Straight Arrow , The Count of Monte Cristo and Let Ray Kemper 6 3 voyage.qxd:8 pg. Booklet 6/1/10 10:05 PM Page 2

but not well known, radio musician, quipped that bigger screens just made who previously worked in San it easier for people to see how bad TV Francisco. shows were. However, a year later, he was busy directing and While the Scarlet Queen had producing television series, including a full crew on board (the total was a Climax , Bat Masterson and Petticoat little fuzzy and varied from three to Junction . At the age of 63, he started eight), only two voices dominated the writing mystery novels. He wrote scripts: Philip Karney, the captain, and about one novel a year until he died at Red Gallagher, the first mate. Although the age of 72. A heart attack claimed most sources spell the skipper’s name, his life on May 20, 1990 in Gleneden “Carney,” the original scripts all say Beach, CA; he was survived by his “Karney.” Both are uncommon variants second wife, Mary Jane Croft, another of the Irish surname “Kearney,” which popular radio performer. in Gaelic tradition means “warrior.” In the audition episode (“The Death of Postscript: In August 1955, Scarlet Queen regular Virginia Greg, David Malone”), Lewis gave the lead NBC brass were talking about shooting pictured here with her sons. to Howard Duff, but Lewis himself a TV version of Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , and some exterior sites near Hong went on to play Karney on the air for Kong were under consideration. Nothing came of these plans, however, and Elliott Lewis accepting a Radio and Television Mirror the entire series. Ed Max (1909-1980) that’s probably for the best; very few of us could believe it would compare to Magazine Award. provided the husky voice of Gallagher. the original on radio.

A native of Manhattan, Lewis was born on November 28, 1917, and Episodes Included in This Collection after high school, briefly attended Los Angeles City College. He was taking classes in drama and music, but would later claim in his biography that he was CD 1 a pre-law student. Before he was 20, he was getting regular radio acting jobs. The Death of David Malone – Audition - 2/2/1947 His roles got larger as his skills improved, including some regular work on soap The Shanghai Secret - 7/3/1947 operas. His military service during World War II found him assigned to the Armed Forces Radio Service where he acted, directed, and/or produced over CD 2 one hundred programs. While in the service, he married radio performer Cathy Report of the White Jade Buddha - 7/10/1947 Lewis, who joked that she didn’t have to change her name when she wedded The Spaniard and the Laskar Pirates - 7/17/1947 Elliott. By the time work began on Voyage of the Scarlet Queen , this married couple was earning $72,000 a year from their radio work. She was the pal of CD 3 “My Friend, Irma” and had roles on Suspense , Adventures of Sam Spade and A The Boston Geisha and Chesapeake Bay - 7/24/1947 Man Called X . He was working for a number of series as an actor or director, Lily in the Chimoipo Bar - 7/21/1947 including Hawk Larrabee , Jack Benny and Ozzie & Harriet . CD 4 Edwin Miller Max was born in Georgia on May 4, 1909. The family The White Cargo Act and Ah Sin - 8/7/1947 moved to New York City when he was a teenager. He dropped out of high- Story of the Eight Historic Periods - 8/21/1947 school to seek his fortune as an actor. Discarding his surname, he formed the stage name Ed Miller. Concentrating on film work, he did little on radio, CD 5 although he and Lewis met for the first time as cast members of The Cinnamon The Barefoot Nymph and the Mother Hubbard Jacket - 8/28/1947 Bear , the children’s Christmas story recorded in 1937. He enlisted in the Army Jewel Thieves and the Straw Filled Dummy - 9/11/1947 Air Force in 1942 and spent the next three years with a bomber squadron in 2 7 voyage.qxd:8 pg. Booklet 6/1/10 10:05 PM Page 1

CD 6 The Courtship of Anna May Lamour - 9/18/1947 THE VOYAGE OF Shore Leave and the Unhappy Wife - 9/25/1947 THE SCARLET QUEEN CD 7 The Fat Trader and the Sword of Apokaezhan - Program Guide by Jack French 10/2/1947 The Tattooed Beaver and Baby Food for Pare Pare - The rare combination of talent that went into producing The Voyage 10/9/1947 of the Scarlet Queen can best be described as “the perfect storm.” It brought together two excellent lead actors, a superb duo of radio’s best writers, a highly CD 8 skilled trio of sound effects artists, and a respected musician to compose a lavish Ah Sin and the Balinese Beaux Arts Ball - Scarlet Queen regular Barton Yarborough and distinctive score to blend it together. The result was certainly the best radio 10/16/1947 series that ever aired on the Mutual Network. Grafter’s Fort and the Black Pearl of Galahla Bay - 10/23/1947 Elliott Lewis (1917-1990) deserves all the credit for putting this remarkable series together in 1947, just two years after World War II ended. CD 9 This series, telling the fascinating and exotic story of a sailing vessel in its quest King Ascot And The Maid In Waiting - 10/30/1947 for a Chinese treasure, would take listeners on dozens of remarkable adventures Lonely Sultan of Isabella De Basilan - 11/6/1947 in ports of call throughout the Pacific Ocean and the China Sea.

The architects of this thrilling saga were Gil Doud (1914-1957) and Bob Tallman (1914-1995), the same team who were also writing The Adventures of Sam Spade . In addition to being excellent radio writers, they Jack French, a former Navy officer, is a radio researcher and historian in were superb researchers, Fairfax, VA. He also edits “Radio Recall”, published by the Metro Washington and they filled their Old Time Radio Club. His book, “Private Eyelashes,” which won the Agatha scripts with accurate Award for Best Non-Fiction, is available through Radio Spirits. descriptions of a myriad of actual ports in the Pacific.

The sound effects team consisted of Ray Kemper, Tom Hanley, and Bill James, a talented www.RadioSpirits.com trio who started at KHJ PO Box 1315, Little Falls, NJ 07424 (Don Lee Network) in 1946 and scaled the Audio programs are licensed from series rights holders. All rights reserved. heights at CBS. Music For home use only. Unauthorized duplication prohibited. on this series was Manufactured by Radio Spirits. composed and conducted © 2010 RSPT LLC. All rights rerved. by Richard D. Aurandt (1905-1984), a skilled, Program Guide © 2010 Jack French and RSPT LLC. All Rights Reserved.