'You have all seen on the films or heard over the air, that type of gripping thriller, which, like the Fat Boy in “Pickwick,” attempts to make your blood run cold and you hair stand on end, by piling horror on horror. The scene is invariably set in a lonely haunted house, where grisly groans and sepulchral, shrieks render the night hideous; where grinning skeletons and mysterious phantom figures dance ghastly sarabands, and hideous murder is the least of the terrible things which happen. Such a thriller is the “Phantom Follies,” a now and original production by the A.B.C. Revue Company. It will be the last word in sustained horrific effect. At least, we hope so, but as both author and producer are suspected of each possessing a perverted sense of humor, the thriller might not “thrill” quite according to schedule. However, an entertaining hour is promised', which will open when a quartette of concert artists, stranded for the night on a lonely road, take refuge from a storm in the House on Hangman’s Hill. Mysterious legends of a headless figure, and the wistful spectre of a Woman in White are told of this haunted house, and both these ghastly apparitions appear with an effect slightly different from what a well-bred ghost had been led to expect. A number of your favorite revue artists will appear in this production, for which special songs have been written, both tuneful and humorous, while the atmospheric music, essential to all ghostly undertakings, is cleverly burlesqued.'
Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 6 July 1934, p.56.
Presented by the ABC Revue Company and broadcast on 2FC from 8pm on Tuesday 10 July 1934.
Producer: James J. Donnelly.
Characters: The Soprano; the Baritone; the Soubrette; the Comedian; the Headless Man; the Woman in White; Dracula; Frankenstein; and a fine and varied hand picked selection of Ghosts, Ghouls, Vampires and Werewolves.
Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 6 July 1934, p.56.
