The Fated Hour

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The Fated House
Genredrama play
Running time9:00 pm–
Country of originAustralia
Language(s)English
Hosted byABC
Written by Catherine Shepherd
Original release16 July 1938 [1]

The Fated Hour is a 1938 Australian radio play by Catherine Shepherd about a woman who has her fortune told. [2]

Contents

The play was well received and performed again in 1939, 1944, [3] 1946 [4] 1945, 1946, 1950 and 1958.

A critic of the 1950 production called it "entertaining enough... although the surprise ending was a bit obvious." [5]

Premise

"Lorita Sanderson was a rising actress with little fear of interrup-tion to her brilliant career. Then she went to see a fortune-teller, Mrs. Bates... When Mrs. Bates is asked to say what Lorita will be at 4 p.m. on March 15, her birthday, Mrs. Bates foretells a future that Lorita feels she must at all costs avoid. So worried is she by the possibility that Mrs. Bates’ prediction may come true that she refuses to take the lucrative and enticing star-part which a producer offers her, and hides herself away in a country cottage...Lorita drives herself almost into a frenzy—and her friends’ stories of other successful predictions by Mrs. Bates do not help her sanity." [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "SATURDAY, JULY 16", The wireless weekly : the hundred per cent Australian radio journal, Sydney: Wireless Press, July 15, 1938, nla.obj-714329941, retrieved 25 February 2024– via Trove
  2. ↑ "A.B.C. PLAYS FOR JULY". The Telegraph. Queensland, Australia. 25 June 1938. p. 18 (SPORTS FINAL). Retrieved 22 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "NEXT WEEK with the A B C". Rutherglen Sun And Chiltern Valley Advertiser . Vol. 59, no. 47. Victoria, Australia. 4 January 1944. p. 2. Retrieved 22 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  4. ↑ "radio roundup". The Sun. No. 11, 318. New South Wales, Australia. 3 May 1946. p. 2 (LATE FINAL EXTRA). Retrieved 22 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  5. ↑ "RADIO ROUNDABOUT". News. Vol. 54, no. 8, 333. South Australia. 22 April 1950. p. 5. Retrieved 22 February 2024– via National Library of Australia.
  6. ↑ "THE WEEK'S PLAYS OVER THE A.B.C.", ABC weekly, Sydney: ABC, 15 April 1950, nla.obj-1692525214, retrieved 22 February 2024– via Trove
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