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MURDER ON THE DIRIGIBLE
                       A 1930s mystery melodrama

                           By Jonathan S. Gluckman

                              (from Playthings, 1986)

        Dramatis Personae: (as seated on stage, left to right)

        Capt. Oscar Matthews, 43; pilot of the Golden Cloud
        Lt. Frederick Perkinson, 27; co-pilot and navigator
        Nicholas Oglethorpe III, 25; graduate student
        Hermann Gross, 58; German engineer
        Millicent Peabody, 73; missionary
        Swami Vishnanda, 55; religious cult leader
        Curtis Metcalf, 32; FBI agent
        Rita Pomello, 45; part owner of West Coast Helium Navigation Co.
        Wendell Fisk, 53; attorney and financial adviser
        Lucille MacAllister, 20; stewardess on the Golden Cloud

        The Scene:


















             The interior of the dirigible “Golden Cloud”, circa 1938.

                          © 1986 Jonathan S. Gluckman
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