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First performed at Theatre New Brunswick the year before.\n- Gordon Pinsent as auctioneer, Joan Weinstein as Maggie.\n- Issue with recording at - [00:01:15] , returns at - [00:01:40] .\n- Play opens in 1898, Sussex, New Brunswick, nearing Market Day.\n- Intermission midway (approx. 34 minutes) – fiddle music\n- [01:25:40] host concludes the program with full cast and production credits.\n- [01:28:20] cuts to conversation with unknown speakers, difficult to discern.\n\n- See also Alden Nowlan 2017.93 recording of The Dollar Woman, which includes full Festival Theatre program introduction.\n\n"],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nThe Dollar Woman, adapted by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212163,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":5.638121},{"id":"8314","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["La Svengali: Jan. 1/83"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[3.3.3]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2053"],"creator_names":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Learning, Walter","Colicos, John","Crossley, Elaine","Rubinek, Saul"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter","Colicos, John","Crossley, Elaine","Rubinek, Saul"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Speaker\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/117145169\",\"name\":\"Colicos, John\",\"dates\":\"1928-2000\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Crossley, Elaine\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/104925712\",\"name\":\"Rubinek, Saul\",\"dates\":\"1948-\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Colicos, John","Crossley, Elaine","Rubinek, Saul"],"Speaker_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1983],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"BASF\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"AN_523_92.21.3.3.3\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T01:30:05\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"164.95 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1983-01-01\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates taken from container and/or accompanying material.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"CBC Radio\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Venue":["CBC Radio"],"content_notes":["On Saturday Stereo Theatre (part of CBC Stereo) hosted by Lorna Jackson; broadcast on the first day of a new year; the time has been extended to ninety minutes in order to present “La Svengali”\n- Play for radio by Walter Learning and Alden Nowlan based on George du Maurier’s novel Trilby (1894).\n- John Colicos as Svengali; Elaine Crossley as Trilby; Saul Rubinek as Gecko.\n- Jackson sets the scene as beginning in Paris in the middle of the last century. Music opens play - [00:01:10] .\n- [00:16:25] end of first scene noted by musical interlude\n- [00:28:57] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [00:38:35] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [00:40:12] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [00:46:15] play intermission.\n- [00:53:30] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [01:17:07] end of scene, musical interlude.\n- [01:26:45] host closes with full cast and crew. Directed in Toronto by Glen Deerman, executive producer Paul Mills.\n\n- See also Alden Nowlan 2017.93 recording of La Svengali."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nLa Svengali, adapted by Alden Nowlan and Walter Learning"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558437212164,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":5.638121},{"id":"8328","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["Sherlock Holmes - Radio"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Case label: The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca (CBC Radio). 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Begins with radio host describing the play by Alden Nowlan and Learning, CBC Stereo Halifax by Elizabeth Fox. John Neville (Holmes) and Dan McDonald (Watson).\n- [00:01:12] coughing in background.\n- [00:09:07] laughter.\n- [00:41:24] intermission\n- [00:44:55] issues with recording, pauses and cuts. Can hear voices in background. Returns at - [00:45:10] significantly further along in the play.\n- [00:50:29] laughter in background.\n- [00:52:58] coughing background. - [00:53:12] laughter. - [54:30-55:00] intermittent laughter.\n- [01:06:00] laughter in background.\n- Recording ends before completion of play."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nThe Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca (radio play)"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558515855362,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":5.638121},{"id":"8330","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["2 minutes of Tosca (centre)"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Tape label: 2 Minutes of Tosca (centre)"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[4.2.2(2)]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2053"],"creator_names":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creator_names_search":["Nowlan, Alden"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/61671170\",\"name\":\"Nowlan, Alden\",\"dates\":\"1933-1983\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors_names_search":["Learning, Walter"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/11093579\",\"name\":\"Learning, Walter\",\"dates\":\"1938-2020\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\"]}]"],"author_name":["Learning, Walter"],"Performance_Date":[1983],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Simpsons-Sears\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Good\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"AN_523_92.21.4.2.2(2)\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:05:44\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"10.50 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1983\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Dates supplied through research for copyright.\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"content_notes":["Fragment of The Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca CBC radio play.\n- From the middle of the play, when Holmes shoots the cardinal.\n- [00:03:08] short intermission with music, can hear movement and Alden Nowlan coughing, speaking in the background. 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