Tobias the Terrible - Damon Runyon Theatre
Damon Runyon Theatre was broadcast on radio in the late 1940s. Actor John Brown had the role of Broadway, the narrator, and portrayed a leading character in each episode. Russell Hughes adapted Runyon's stories, including "Harrigan, the Cop", "Harry, the Horse", "Little Miss Marker", and "Milk-Ear Willie". Richard Sanville directed the program, and Vern Carstensen was the producer. Stations that carried the show included WOR in New York[4] and KGO in San Francisco.
Alfred Damon Runyon was an American
newspaperman and short-story writer. He was best known for his short stories celebrating the world of Broadway in New York City that grew out of the Prohibition era. To New Yorkers of his generation, a "Damon Runyon character" evoked a distinctive social type from Brooklyn or Midtown Manhattan. The adjective "Runyonesque" refers to this type of character as well as to the type of situations and dialog that Runyon depicted. He spun humorous and sentimental tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, and gangsters,
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