Majestic's Master of Mystery

Show Information taken from www.otrcat.com

Dramatic anthology (1933-1934).

Close your eyes and imagine strangely exotic violin music... the distant tinkling of a piano... flowing from your radio into the cool evening dark of some small town or isolated home, as the voice of the announcer proudly recites.....

Brought to you by the makers of Majestic Radio, Maurice Joachim narrated and presented mysterious stories without the assistance of any other actors. Assisted only by sound effects, Joachim played all the roles.

The show had a none-too-subtle, but interesting link to selling the Majestic Radio Company's radio and tubes. After having a significant share of the consumer radio market in the 1920's, sales of the Majestic radios were slipping, and the radio program appears to have been a clever marketing ploy to increase sales, hence the opening line:

"In the majesty of motion, from the boundless everywhere, comes the magic name - Majestic... mighty monarch of the air!"

From Scripophily.com and www.jimsradios.250x.com/page-grunow.htm:

Grigsby-Grunow Company - Famous Majestic Radio Maker.

William Grunow, along with Bertram Grigsby, formed the Grigsby-Grunow company in 1921 making auto accessories. In 1924 they began making radio horn speakers (marketed under the GGH trade name). In 1925 they marketed "A" & "B" battery eliminators under the name "Majestic". Radio production began in 1928 and they added tube production in 1929. The company's radio sales were extraordinary due to the superiority of their speakers over that of others on the market. However, the Depression soon caught up with Grigsby-Grunow, and by 1933, the company was bankrupt. William Grunow left the company in 1931 and formed the General Household Utilities corporation marketing radios under the Grunow name. The business was re-formed into the Majestic Radio & Television Corporation which made the Majestic line, and General Household Utilities which made the Grunow line until 1937. The company ceased radio production in 1937.