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Between performances in Broadway's Peter Pan, Boris Karloff launched his Boris Karloff's Treasure Chest (over Manhattan's WNEW). Far from the creep-voiced menace of his early movie days, Karloff dished up nonsense (Lewis Carroll's double-talking Jabberwock), limericks, and songs (recorded by Groucho Marx and Burl Ives), gave a fatherly lesson in tolerance (the story of a Churkandoose, which was neither chicken, turkey, duck or goose: "I'm sure . . . you'll respect his right to be different"). It looked as though onetime Frankenstein Monster Karloff, who reported a "tremendous reaction...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Heroes & Treasure Chests | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

Hired by New York's WNEW to read poetry, play records and tell stories to the kiddies: Cinemenace Boris Karloff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 14, 1950 | 8/14/1950 | See Source »

...this, mingled with spots of dancing and pleasant Leonard Bernstein music, provides nice unorthodox eye & ear entertainment. Jean Arthur makes a brightly boyish Peter Pan, Boris Karloff an appealingly unctuous Captain Hook. At times the syrup gets pretty thick and the fantasy pretty thin; Peter. Pan is not Alice in Wonderland. It is much less dazzling as well as much less daring. But however little a masterpiece, the play is now safely a classic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Old Play in Manhattan, May 8, 1950 | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

Starring Boris Karloff (Thurs. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). 1, Murderer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 31, 1949 | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Starring Boris Karloff (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., ABC-TV). Perchance to Dream...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Oct. 17, 1949 | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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