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. 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 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.