Theater Guild On The Air - "Payment Deferred" (05-12-46)

Payment Deferred (Aired May 12, 1946)

The series originated on radio in the 1940s as Theater Guild on the Air. Organized in 1919 to improve the quality of American theater, the Theatre Guild first experimented with radio productions in Theatre Guild Dramas, a CBS series which ran from December 6, 1943 to February 29, 1944. Actress-playwright Armina Marshall (1895–1991), a co-administrator of the Theater Guild, headed the Guild's newly created Radio Department, and in 1945, Theatre Guild on the Air embarked on its ambitious plan to bring Broadway theater to radio with leading actors in major productions. It premiered September 9, 1945, on ABC with Burgess Meredith, Henry Daniell and Cecil Humphreys in Wings Over Europe, a play by Robert Nichols and Maurice Browne which the Theatrer Guild had staged on Broadway in 1928-29.

THIS EPISODE:

May 12, 1946. ABC network, KECA, Los Angeles aircheck. "Payment Deferred". Sponsored by: United States Steel. An impoverished Englishman poisons his wealthy nephew from Australia, and find himself 30,000 pounds richer, but not much happier! The program originates from The Ebell Theatre, Hollywood. Lawrence Langner substitutes for Roger Pryor as the host. The series is also known as, "The United States Steel Hour." Armina Marshall (executive producer), Charles Laughton, Edward Marr, Elsa Lanchester, Franklyn Parker, Gale Gordon, Gayne Whitman, George Hicks, George Kondolf (producer), Greg Holland (adaptor), Harold Levey (composer, conductor), Herbert Rawlinson, Homer Fickett (director), Jeffrey Dell (writer), Joseph Kearns, Lawrence Langner (supervisor), Maria Manton, Susan Douglas, William Johnstone. 58:15. Episode Notes From The Radio Gold Index.