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50-643: On April 29, 1947, Fletcher Markle launched the 60-minute CBS Radio series with an adaptation of Malcolm Lowry 's Under the Volcano . Broadcast on Tuesdays opposite Fibber McGee and Molly and The Bob Hope Show at 9:30 pm Eastern Time, the radio series continued until July 27, 1948, showcasing such adaptations as Dodsworth , Pride and Prejudice , The Red Badge of Courage and Ah, Wilderness . Top performers were heard on this series, including John Garfield , Walter Huston , Mercedes McCambridge , Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum . CBS Radio received

100-669: A Peabody Award for Studio One in 1947, citing Markle's choice of material and the authenticity of his adaptations "in a production, which at its best, is distinguished for its taste, restraint, and radio craftsmanship". In 1948, Markle transitioned from radio to television. Sponsored by Westinghouse Electric Corporation , the television series was seen on CBS (which Westinghouse later owned between 1995 and 2000), from 1948 through 1958, under several variant titles: Studio One Summer Theatre , Studio One in Hollywood , Summer Theatre , Westinghouse Studio One and Westinghouse Summer Theatre . It

150-617: A deckhand on a tramp steamer to the Far East. In May 1927, his parents drove him to the Liverpool waterfront and, while the local press watched, waved goodbye as he set sail on the freighter S.S. Pyrrhus . The five months at sea gave him stories to incorporate into his first novel, Ultramarine . After returning to Britain Lowry enrolled at St Catharine's College, Cambridge , in autumn 1929, in an attempt to placate his parents. He spent little time at

200-444: A given section, no matter how remote, and feel, hear, sense more or less how it must be. (November 23, 1951) It was this letter and outline that secured for Lowry a long-term contract with Random House. Lowry's alcoholism and early death, however, prevented him from finishing his grand project. Several of the works intended as part of the sequence were rewritten many times over many years—he worked on Lunar Caustic , for instance, from

250-417: A greater, thematically cohesive whole, which he called The Voyage That Never Ends . It was to rival the epics of other great modernists, and he referred to it in several personal annotations and letters as the concept evolved over many years and works-in-progress. An early typescript has the sequence's contents listed as: – – – – Lowry labelled Under the Volcano as "The Centre" while marking Dark as

300-696: A homosexual relationship, which Lowry refused. Lowry felt responsible for his death and was haunted by it for the rest of his life. Lowry was already well travelled; besides his sailing experience, between terms he made visits to America, to befriend his literary idol, Conrad Aiken , and to Norway and Germany. After Cambridge, Lowry lived briefly in London, existing on the fringes of the vibrant Thirties literary scene and meeting Dylan Thomas . He met his first wife, Jan Gabrial, in Spain. They were married in France in 1934. Theirs

350-491: A play, etc." As well, The Ordeal of Sigbjorn Wilderness was a novel he planned after spending time in a hospital after breaking his leg in 1949: "His experiences there due to a mixture of alcohol withdrawal and drugs were as traumatic as his time in Bellevue in 1936. As ever Malc turned these experiences into literature which he initially entitled the 'Atomic Rhythm' which eventually became The Ordeal of Sigbjørn Wilderness , which

400-746: A relatively peaceful and productive period. It lasted until 1954, when a final nomadic period ensued, embracing New York, London and other places. During their travels to Europe, Lowry twice attempted to strangle Margerie. He lived in Canada for much of his active writing career and is thus also considered a significant figure in Canadian literature. He won the Governor General's Award for English-language fiction in 1961 for his posthumous collection Hear Us O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place . Lowry died in June 1957, in

450-410: A rented cottage in the village of Ripe , Sussex, where he was living with wife Margerie after having returned to England in 1955, ill and impoverished. The coroner's verdict was death by misadventure , and the causes of death given as inhalation of stomach contents, barbiturate poisoning, and excessive consumption of alcohol. It has been suggested that his death was a suicide . Inconsistencies in

500-507: A squatter's shack on the beach near the community of Dollarton , north of Vancouver. In 1944, the beach shack was destroyed by a fire, and Lowry was injured in his efforts to save manuscripts. Margerie was a positive influence, editing Lowry's work skillfully and making sure that he ate as well as drank (she drank, too). The couple traveled to Europe, America and the Caribbean , and while Lowry continued to drink heavily, this seems to have been

550-595: Is also issuing several made-to-order DVDs of episodes not included in the Koch Vision Anthology. Malcolm Lowry Clarence Malcolm Lowry ( / ˈ l aʊ r i / ; 28 July 1909 – 26 June 1957) was an English poet and novelist who is best known for his 1947 novel Under the Volcano , which was voted No. 11 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels list. Lowry was born in New Brighton , Wirral ,

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600-568: The Chester and York Mystery Plays of the 14th and 15th centuries, reworked into Elizabethan English . With musical accompaniment by the Robert Shaw Chorale , and presented during the Christmas season of 1952, it was one of the few medieval mystery plays telecast on commercial network television. The cast included Thomas Hardie Chalmers , Miriam Wolfe , Hurd Hatfield and Paul Tripp . During

650-500: The Nielsen ratings for the 1950–1951 season. For years, the second half of the original TV production of "Twelve Angry Men" was considered lost. However, in 2003, Joseph Consentino, a researcher-producer for The History Channel , discovered a complete kinescope of the Studio One production in the home of the late New York defense attorney (and later judge) Samuel Leibowitz . Consentino

700-469: The 1930s until his death, first titled The Last Address , then Swinging the Maelstrom , and finally Lunar Caustic . The posthumous publications of his unfinished manuscripts have brought several more parts of The Voyage That Never Ends to light, though these vary in completeness and Lowry's final intentions with these works can only be speculated on. The published version of Lunar Caustic , for instance,

750-555: The 1953 presentation "Dry Run", whole sections of a submarine were built inside the studio, and the entire cast was nearly electrocuted when water that was being used for special effects got very close to power cables. Worthington Miner, Martin Manulis and others produced. As the official commercial spokeswoman for Westinghouse, Betty Furness became strongly identified with the Westinghouse products she advertised and demonstrated during

800-480: The 1956 feature-film version with Edmond O'Brien in the principal role. Reginald Rose 's drama " Twelve Angry Men ", about the conflicts of jurors deciding a murder case, originated on Studio One on September 20, 1954; and the 1957 motion picture remake with Henry Fonda was nominated for three Academy Awards . Sal Mineo had the title role in the January 2, 1956, episode of Reginald Rose's "Dino", and he reprised

850-699: The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, were the Robert Shaw Festival Singers, a group which operated mainly around Shaw's summer home in France after his retirement as the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's Music Director; and the Robert Shaw Chamber Singers, an Atlanta-based group composed chiefly of members of the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus. This article is based on interviews with Florence Kopleff , who

900-538: The Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid , Eridanus , and La Mordida as "Trilogy". In addition, Eridanus (the name Lowry gave his West Coast surroundings, referring "to both the stellar constellation and mythical river to which Faeton was cast down by gods") seems to consist of the story collection Hear Us Oh Lord From Heaven Thy Dwelling Place , the poems of The Lighthouse Invites the Storm , and "other tales, poems,

950-575: The Night have also been published. Volcano: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Malcolm Lowry (1976) is an Oscar-nominated National Film Board of Canada documentary directed by Donald Brittain and John Kramer. It opens with the inquest into Lowry's "death by misadventure", and then moves back in time to trace the writer's life. Selections from Lowry's novel are read by Richard Burton amid images shot in Mexico,

1000-680: The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). This recording peaked at #5 on Billboard's Top Pop Album Chart. The group made several tours sponsored by the U.S. State Department as part of a cultural exchange program, including 21 European and Mid-eastern countries in 1956; South America; and in 1962, a seven-week tour of Russia. The Robert Shaw Chorale was notable for its homogeneity of tone, finely wrought balances between vocal sections, elegance of phrasing, and rhythmic vitality. Many of its members were recruited from Juilliard and other NYC-area conservatories, sometimes to

1050-517: The United States, Canada and England. In 2001, Lowry's first wife Jan Gabrial revealed in her memoir that she had an early draft of Lowry's novel In Ballast to the White Sea, which was thought to have been lost. According to Professor Dean Irvine at Dalhousie University , Lowry had given an early copy of the novel to Gabrial's mother before the couple went to Mexico in 1936. Lowry's working copy of

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1100-692: The Volcano . Lowry and Jan moved to Mexico, arriving in the city of Cuernavaca on 2 November 1936, the Day of the Dead , in a final attempt to salvage their marriage. Lowry continued to drink heavily, though he also devoted more energy to his writing. The effort to save their marriage failed. Jan saw that he wanted a mother figure, and she did not want to mother him. She then ran off with another man in late 1937. Alone in Oaxaca , Lowry entered into another period of dark alcoholic excess, culminating in his deportation from Mexico in

1150-528: The Worlds . The cast included Alexander Scourby , Ed Asner (credited as Edward Asner) and Vincent Gardenia ; James Coburn (credited as Jim Coburn), Warren Beatty and Warren Oates all made their television debuts in bit parts. John Astin appeared uncredited as a reporter. Another notable presentation was an adaptation in 1952 of a medieval mystery play about the Nativity of Jesus , " The Nativity ", based on

1200-558: The accounts given by his wife at various times about what happened on the night of his death have also given rise to suspicions of murder . Lowry is buried in the churchyard of St John the Baptist in Ripe. Lowry wrote in his 1940 poem "Epitaph": "Here lies Malcolm Lowry, late of the Bowery, whose prose was flowery, and often glowery. He lived nightly, and drank daily, and died playing the ukulele," but

1250-519: The age of 14. In his teens Lowry was a boarder at The Leys School in Cambridge, the school made famous by the novel Goodbye, Mr. Chips . At age 15, he won the junior golf championship at the Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake . His father expected him to go to Cambridge and enter the family business, but Malcolm wanted to experience the world and convinced his father to let him work as

1300-551: The commercial breaks, and she was also seen as an actress in eight Studio One dramas. The show's musical directors were Milton C. Anderson, who also created music for Playhouse 90 , and Eugene Cines. The show's musical orchestra was also directed in several episodes during the 1950s by Alfredo Antonini . The show's run ended when Westinghouse switched its sponsorship to the Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse , which premiered in 1958. The series finished at number 24 in

1350-471: The consternation of those singers’ voice teachers: Shaw was fond in later years of relating that when he was preparing to take the Chorale on a grueling U.S. tour of 36 one-night stands performing Bach’s lengthy Mass in B Minor , several teachers protested that he would ruin their students’ voices. At the end of the tour, when teachers remarked with astonishment that the voices had actually improved, Shaw replied to

1400-433: The crew's acceptance. A collection of short stories, Hear Us, O Lord from Heaven Thy Dwelling Place (1961), was published after Lowry's death. The scholar and poet Earle Birney edited Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry (1962). Birney also collaborated with Lowry's widow in editing the novella Lunar Caustic (1968) for re-publication. It is a conflation of several earlier pieces concerned with Bellevue Hospital, which Lowry

1450-609: The effect that “Bach has been teaching singing.” Alumni of the Chorale include a number of singers who had significant careers as solo artists, including sopranos Yvonne Ciannella and Shirlee Emmons , alto Florence Kopleff , tenors Seth McCoy and Jon Humphrey, and baritone Thomas Pyle; and several others who have worked with distinction as directors of their own choruses, such as Clayton Krehbiel, Donald Craig, and Maurice Casey. The Robert Shaw Chorale ceased operations with Robert Shaw's move to Atlanta . Subsequent groups with which Shaw gave concerts and made recordings, apart from

1500-706: The epitaph does not appear on his gravestone. In 2017 the British Library acquired Malcolm Lowry papers from his first wife Jan Gabrial. Lowry's literary papers had been left in the possession of Gabrial's mother, Emily Vanderheim, in 1936 and passed to Gabrial on her mother's death. Some further items were then acquired from Priscilla Bonner, the sister of Margerie Bonner Lowry. The archive contains literary papers of Lowry; personal papers of Jan Gabrial, primarily relating to her marriage to Lowry; and select items relating to Margerie Bonner Lowry, Lowry's second wife. Lowry published little during his lifetime, in comparison with

1550-472: The extensive collection of unfinished manuscripts he left. Of his two novels, Under the Volcano (1947) is now widely accepted as his masterpiece and one of the great works of the 20th century (number 11 on the Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th century ). Ultramarine (1933), written while Lowry was still an undergraduate, follows a young man's first sea voyage and his determination to gain

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1600-469: The following year they married. At first, they lived in an attic apartment in the city. When World War II broke out, Lowry tried to enlist but was rejected. Correspondence between Lowry and Governor-General of Canada Lord Tweedsmuir (better known as the writer John Buchan ) during this time resulted in Lowry's writing several articles for the Vancouver newspaper The Province . The couple lived and wrote in

1650-511: The fourth son of Evelyn Boden and Arthur Lowry, a cotton broker with roots in Cumberland . In 1912, the family moved to Caldy , on another part of the Wirral peninsula . Their home was a mock Tudor estate on two acres with a tennis court, small golf course and a maid, a cook and a nanny. Lowry was said to have felt neglected by his mother, and was closest to his brother. He began drinking alcohol at

1700-573: The manuscript was then lost in a fire. In October 2014 it was published for the first time by University of Ottawa Press and a launch was held at the Bluecoat Arts Centre in Liverpool. Lowry envisioned The Voyage That Never Ends as his magnum opus : an epic cycle encompassing his existing novels and stories as well as projected works, with Under the Volcano as its centrepiece. He spent much of his writing life crafting his body of work into

1750-567: The original Westinghouse commercials. Bonus features include the "Studio One Seminar" from the Paley Center for Media ; an interview with director Paul Nickell , footage from the Archive of American Television and a featurette on the series. The episode "Twelve Angry Men" is also included as a bonus on the Criterion Collection DVD and Blu-ray releases of the 1957 film. Amazon.com

1800-660: The post of Music Director of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra . During its existence the Robert Shaw Chorale became arguably the best-known and most widely respected professional choral organization in the United States, with repertoire ranging from J.S. Bach to folk music and Broadway theatre tunes. The group's album recording "Christmas Hymns And Carols" released in November 1957 was certified gold in August 1964 by

1850-554: The role for the film Dino (1957). In 1954, "Crime at Blossoms", scripted by Jerome Ross, was given an Edgar Award for Best Episode in a TV Series. Nathaniel Hawthorne 's granddaughter received a plaque in recognition of her grandfather's writing achievements during the April 3, 1950, telecast of The Scarlet Letter . " The Night America Trembled " was Studio One ' s September 9, 1957, top-rated television recreation of Orson Welles ' October 30, 1938, radio broadcast of The War of

1900-567: The summer of 1938. His family put him up at the Hotel Normandie in Los Angeles where he continued working on his novel and met his second wife, the actress and writer Margerie Bonner . His father sent his rent checks directly to the Normandie's hotel manager. In August Lowry moved to Vancouver , leaving his manuscript behind. Later, Margerie moved up to Vancouver, bringing his manuscript, and

1950-460: The three major versions with annotation on the history of the text's composition. When the novel In Ballast to the White Sea was finally published in 2014—after being thought lost for decades—it represented only an early draft of the 1000 page manuscript that had been destroyed in the same shack fire that nearly destroyed Under the Volcano , and as such does not represent the more complete text Lowry had been working on for nine years. La Mordida

2000-553: The university, however, and his penchant for drink was already apparent; Hugh Sykes Davies , one of Lowry's academic supervisors and later a friend, found that the only place in which it was possible to teach him was in a pub. Nonetheless, he excelled in writing, graduating in 1932 with a third-class honours degree in English upon submitting several extracts of his first draft of Ultramarine for examination. During his first term, his roommate, Paul Fitte, killed himself. Fitte had wanted

2050-634: Was a renowned professional choir founded in New York City in 1948 by Robert Shaw , a Californian who had been drafted out of college a decade earlier by Fred Waring to conduct his glee club in radio broadcasts. The Chorale enjoyed an intermittent existence, being formed and re-formed on an ad hoc basis for national and international tours and several RCA Victor recordings, its personnel count ranging from around thirty to around sixty voices depending on repertoire requirements. The Chorale ceased operations permanently in 1965, shortly before Shaw assumed

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2100-553: Was a turbulent union, especially due to his drinking, and because she resented homosexuals attracted to her husband. After an estrangement, Lowry followed Jan to New York City where, almost incoherent after an alcohol-induced breakdown, he checked into Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital in 1936 – experiences which later became the basis of his novella Lunar Caustic . When the authorities began to take notice of him, he fled to avoid deportation and then went to Hollywood, where he tried screenwriting. At about that time he began writing Under

2150-443: Was compiled by his widow Margerie Lowry and poet Earle Birney from "two distinctly different manuscripts. One bore the first title and was last worked on in 1942–44, while the other had the second name and was last edited by the (at the time living) dead author in 1951–52." In the intervening years, the story had undergone vast changes in style and thematic emphasis. A scholarly edition was eventually published in 2013 that includes

2200-697: Was in the process of rewriting as a complete novel. With Douglas Day , Lowry's first biographer, Lowry's widow also completed and edited the novels Dark as the Grave Wherein my Friend Is Laid (1968) and October Ferry to Gabriola (1970) from Lowry's manuscripts. The Selected Letters of Malcolm Lowry , edited by his widow and Harvey Breit, was released in 1965, followed in 1995–96 by the two-volume Sursum Corda! The Collected Letters of Malcolm Lowry , edited by Sherrill E. Grace. Scholarly editions of Lowry's final work in progress, La Mordida ("The Bribe"), and his screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald 's Tender Is

2250-431: Was inspired by Lowry's deportation from Mexico in the mid-1940s. "The central narrative of La Mordida involves a descent into the abyss of self, culminating in the protagonist's symbolic rebirth at the book's end. Lowry planned to use this basic narrative pattern as the springboard for innumerable questions about such concerns as art, identity, the nature of existence, political issues, and alcoholism. Above all, La Mordida

2300-420: Was never developed beyond a rough sketch and remains unpublished." His plans for The Voyage That Never Ends ultimately grew into a 34-page outline that he gave to the editor Albert Erskine, with whom he was friends. It's hellish near impossible to make a précis of my plan...but I've tried to give you an idea, a frame. I myself can hear – almost – the whole thing; that is to say I can already project myself into

2350-491: Was published only twelve years after Lowry's death, and also featured Sigbjorn Wilderness. It was "collated from a huge volume of notes ... almost every chapter exist[ing] in three or four different forms." Because so much of The Voyage That Never Ends was left incomplete (much of it hardly begun, barely going beyond his initial conceptual framework) what exists only hints at the final form Lowry intended for his magnum opus. Robert Shaw Chorale The Robert Shaw Chorale

2400-555: Was researching a History Channel documentary about Leibowitz, and the discovery was announced by the Museum of Television & Radio (now The Paley Center for Media ). Many Studio One episodes are available for viewing at the Paley Center for Media in New York City and Los Angeles, and some are available through Amazon Prime Video . In 2008, Koch Vision released the Studio One Anthology with 17 episodes. The episodes contain

2450-434: Was telecast in black-and-white only. Offering a wide range of dramas, Studio One received Emmy nominations every year from 1950 to 1958. The series staged some notable and memorable teleplays among its 467 episodes. Some created such an impact, they were adapted into theatrical films. William Templeton 's 1953 adaptation of George Orwell 's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four , starring Eddie Albert as Winston Smith , led to

2500-398: Was to have been a metafictional work about an author who sees no point in living events if he cannot write about them and who is not only unable to write but suspects that he is just a character in a novel." It was published in 1996 as notes, sketches, outlines, and rough chapters—it was to feature the autobiographical character Sigbjorn Wilderness. Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid

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