1879
Max Marcin is born in Posen, Germany (now Poznan, Poland). He will co-author the successful play The House of Glass (1915) with George M. Cohan.
In 1940 he creates Robert Ordway, the popular radio character known to millions as The Crime Doctor. Psychiatrist-detective Ordway's investigations into cases involving the mentally aberrant become a series of B pictures from 1943 to 1949.
1915
Orson Welles is born in Kenosha, Wisconsin. Among his best performances in movies of suspense or espionage are profiteer Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949), Colonel Haki of the Turkish Secret Police in Journey into Fear (1942) and a Nazi incognito in small-town America in The Stranger (1946.)
He is also the first voice of Lamont Cranston, aka The Shadow, on the radio, and also stars as Harry Lime, anti-hero, in the Third Man radio series.
Bibliography
The Mystery Book of Days, William Malloy, Mysterious Press, 1990
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