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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":4.3161006},{"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":4.3161006},{"id":"8325","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":["CBC Tape June 2, 1984 Tribute"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on tape: Maritime Magazine - Alden Nowlan.  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Begins with extended biography of Alden Nowlan, his life, childhood, and poetry.\n- [00:01:26] Alden Nowlan discussing his family/childhood\n- [00:02:49] clip of Norris Hayword, a friend of Alden Nowlan’s from Hartland, NB; Alden Nowlan and Hatfield spent a great deal of time with Hayword\n- [00:03:35] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:04:40] clip of Hayword\n- [00:06:07] clip of American poet Robert Bly. Alden Nowlan’s poetry was first picked up in American little magazines and journals. - [00:06:50] Bly reads Alden Nowlan’s poem “Weakness”.\n- [00:08:08] clip of Ralph Costello, editor of Telegraph Journal at the time of Alden Nowlan working there.\n- [00:08:39] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “Britain Street”\n- [00:11:00] clip of David Adams Richards, novelist and student of Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:12:18] clip of Bob Gibbs, UNB professor.\n- [00:13:12] clip of Alan Donaldson, UNB professor.\n- [00:15:35] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “The Night of the Party”\n- [00:16:31] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:17:14] clip of Richards\n- [00:17:38] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:18:06] Alden Nowlan reading his poem “A Pinch or Two of Dust”\n- [00:20:02] clip of Richards\n- [00:21:25] clip of Jim Stewart talking about Alden Nowlan’s past through the novel Various Persons Named Kevin O’Brien\n- [00:22:14] Alden Nowlan discussing his family and the difficulties of their relationship\n- [00:22:41] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:23:09] clip of Leo Ferrari, UNB professor\n- [00:24:17] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:25:59] Alden Nowlan discussing the founding of the Flat Earth Society\n- [00:26:51] clip of Hatfield on Alden Nowlan’s abundant tolerance\n- [00:27:12] clip of Ferrari\n- [00:27:40] clip of Gibbs\n- [00:28:35] clip of Richards\n- [00:29:02] Alden Nowlan reading “Ypres: 1915”\n- [00:30:31] clip of Ferrari\n- [00:30:59] Alden Nowlan discussing writing poems\n- [00:31:11] clip of Stewart\n- [00:31:24] clip of Richards\n- [00:31:58] Alden Nowlan reading “For Claudine, Because I Love Her”\n- [00:33:38] clip of Stewart\n- [00:34:35] Alden Nowlan discussing childhood home. - [00:35:06] Alden Nowlan reading “Blueberries, Strawberries, Winter Bean”\n- [00:36:18] clip of Hatfield\n- [00:38:20] Production notes."],"contents":["Unknown\n[00:00:01]\nReads \"Alden Nowlan, For His Own Amazement: A Feature Documentary\" from Maritime Magazine, Sunday June 24, 1984: Remembering the poet Alden Nowlan.\nRobert Bly\n[00:06:50]\nReads \"Weakness\" by Alden Nowlan.\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:08:39]\nReads \"Britain Street\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:15:35]\nReads \"The Night of the Party\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:18:06]\nReads \"A Pinch or Two of Dust\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:29:02]\nReads \"Ypres: 1915\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:31:58]\nReads \"For Claudine Because I Love Her\".\nAlden Nowlan\n[00:35:06]\nReads \"Blueberries, Strawberries, Wintergreen\"."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"The Rose and the Puritan (1958), Bread, Wine and Salt (1967), I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1974), The Mysterious Naked Man (1969)\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558514806784,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":4.3161006},{"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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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":4.3161006},{"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. Talking to Walter Learning about the play.\n- [00:04:20] cuts to folk music.\n- [00:05:03] cuts to Alden Nowlan testing recording equipment (multiple tests)."],"contents":["Alden Nowlan\nThe Incredible Murder of Cardinal Tosca (radio play)"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558516903936,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.734Z","score":4.3161006},{"id":"8332","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":["Untitled tape  [\"In memory of Alden Nowlan\" from CBC Anthology series, 1970]"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":[" [\"In memory of Alden Nowlan\" from CBC Anthology series, 1970] added by Jason Camlot to create a more informative title."],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[4.3.2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2054"],"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":["Burn, Cyril","Doherty, Denny","Wadman, Glenn","Milosovich, Olga"],"contributors_names_search":["Burn, Cyril","Doherty, Denny","Wadman, Glenn","Milosovich, Olga"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Burn, Cyril\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/7136679\",\"name\":\"Doherty, Denny\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Wadman, Glenn\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Performer\"]},{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Milosovich, Olga\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Narrator\"]}]"],"performer_name":["Burn, Cyril","Doherty, Denny","Wadman, Glenn"],"Performance_Date":[1970],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Pulser\",\"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_92.21.4.3.2\",\"channel_field\":\"\",\"sample_rate\":\"\",\"duration\":\"T00:46:40\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"85.45 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"\",\"encoding\":\"\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1970\",\"type\":\"Performance Date\",\"notes\":\"Date taken from creation dates listed for item level descriptions in archival finding aid for the Alden Nowlan fonds Item number 4.3.2\",\"source\":\"\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"venue\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"address\":\"Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"\",\"longitude\":\"\"}]"],"Address":["Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada"],"City":["Halifax, Nova Scotia"],"content_notes":["CBC Anthology series female announcer (Olga Milosovich) discussing Alden Nowlan’s Will Ye Let the Mummers In, published posthumously.\n- Program titled “In memory of Alden Nowlan”\n- [0:34-0:45] cuts and then returns to program. Different Anthology female announcer discussing Alden Nowlan and introducing program.\n- [00:01:22] “The Drunken Poet” read by a male voice.\n- [00:02:17] Announcer introduces first piece of short fiction, - [00:02:39] “Hello Out There”\n- [00:10:52] Announcer returns\n- [00:11:32] “Two Poems for the Nova Scotia Department of Highways”. Reads both poems.\n- [00:12:59] Announcer introduces next poem, - [00:13:26] “Fives Days in Hospital”\n- [00:15:15] “The Bull Moose”\n- [00:16:55] Announcer introduces “Ypres: 1915” - [00:17:15] \n- [00:21:37] break and return to program\n- [00:21:51] “Will Ye Let the Mummers In?” Squeak on recording throughout the first half of the reading.\n- [00:44:35] announcer ends program, notes that this program is one year after his death\n- [00:45:12] “For Claudine, Because I Love Her”\n- Written by Robert Weaver, produced by Elizabeth Fox, technical support Rod Sneden, production assistant Betty Ann Lloyd. 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