form y separately published work icon The Stolen Stolen Diamonds single work   radio play   crime  
Note: Probably Ron Ingleby, but not confirmed.
Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 The Stolen Stolen Diamonds
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'LARRY KENT, the private investigator, is retained by the “Queen of Sydney’s Underworld,” one Molly Mavis, to recover a diamond necklace, which was an engagement present from Skinner Hokum, and discover the thief.

'The diamonds were “hot,” and Skinner tells Kent he paid £3000 for them, although their real value would have been £20,000. Kent visits a King’s Cross dive-cafe and is slugged unconscious. However, before he finally passes out he gets a glimpse of a pair of pointed-toe tan shoes. It’s this that leads to his finding out the name of the thief, but not without the assistance of some rough-arm tactics on a phiz-gig member of Sydney’s underworld—Bluey Mason.

'Kent eventually is launched on yet another of his apparently interminable love affairs.'

Source: 'Commercial Radio Plays for Next Week', ABC Weekly, 29 July 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Produced by 2UE on Wednesday 2 August 1950, from 8:30pm.

    Cast: Ken Wayne (Larry Kent), with Dorothy Whitely, Alan Herbert, Owen Ainley, Dennis Sterling, Ray Hartley, and Jacqueline Kott.

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UE , 1950 .
      Series: form y separately published work icon I Hate Crime Larry Kent : I Hate Crime; Rola Show : Larry Kent Ron Ingleby , Sydney : Macquarie Network Radio 2UE Sydney Ltd , Z1750974 1949 series - publisher radio play detective

      'Larry Kent is a crime investigator. As a newspaperman in New York, he becomes interested in crime detection and sets up in business in Australia. He has a nose for danger and a habit of playing hunches. A light touch to offset the serious theme of the plays is his eye for a pretty figure, and a favourite occupation of, as he puts it, "Watching the blondes go by" (Australian Radio Series 1930s - 1970s, p.99)

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