'The Cisco Kid' press Clippings

Information provided by Gerald Wright

NewspaperDateDay of the WeekPageClipping
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette1942-10-16Friday28That Famous romantic adventurer of the Southwest, 'The Cisco Kid,' makes his Mutual network debut in  series of weekly dramatic thrillers, WCAE at 8:30 p.m. Veteran radio actor Jackson Beck portrays the title role. Beck has been heard on many radio serials, and though he's never been south of the border of New York, he's mastered a variety of accents, dialects and drawls peculiar to the Southwest. The first story is called 'The Cisco Kid Finds a Way,' The title of the following week's story (October 23) is 'The Cisco Kid's Lucky Star.'
Daily News1942-12-10Thursday52'The Cisco Kid,' starring Jackson Beck, is being considered for commercial sponsorship because of its sharp rise in the Crossley ratings.
Daily News1942-12-23Wednesday42WOR's 'The Cisco Kid,' starring Jackson Beck, has been renewed for another 13 weeks.
The Lebanon Express1943-01-14Thursday5The Cisco Kid provides a half hour in the lighter vain on 'The Trail of the Cisco Kid' as his subject for the evening. Its to be a comedy-mystery all about a bunch of gamblers who find real trouble waiting for them when they try to do away with our 'Robin Hood of the Range.' The stories are based upon the popular O.Henry character and feature Jackson Beck in the title role.
Tampa Bay Times1943-05-04Tuesday158:00 p.m.—WTSP—Jackson Beck, as O'Henry's fictional hero, 'The Cisco Kid,' discovers a corpse in his room and helps solve a mystery.
Tampa Bay Times1943-05-25Tuesday12Water rights and the fight for survival in the old Southwest are of primary concern to 'The Cisco Kid,' when the story of 'The Girl Who Watched a Murder' is dramatized tonight at 8: o'clock ... Jackson Beck plays the cowboy ...
The Buffalo News1943-05-26Wednesday29Jackson Beck, 'The Cisco Kid,' may not command a Cantor salary, but he's made acting pay off, as he is one of the ten highest-paid characters on the air.
The Sheboygan Press1943-06-07Monday11A governess, who loves a 10-year-old boy more than his stepmother is implicated in a crime the Cisco Kid is called upon to solve when the story, 'The Girl Who Wasn't Afraid,' will be dramatized on the Cisco Kid feature program presented over WHBL-Mutual Tuesday night form 7 to 7:30 o'clock. Jackson Beck plays the role of the famous O. Henry cowboy.
The Sheboygan Press1943-06-14Monday7She came to the old Southwest to kill, to revenge the death of her father. But when the murder was done, the Cisco Kid was sure that the 'Girl Who Came to Kill' had not perpetrated the crime in the thrilling dramatization to be heard over WHBL-Mutual Tuesday evening form 7 to 7:30 o'clock. The Cisco Kid, portrayed by Jackson Beck, helps to solve the perplexing mystery of the old Southwest in this thrill-packed episode.
Tampa Bay Times1943-06-22Tuesday12When two sets of nieces and nephews arrive in the old Southwest to claim the fortune left by 'Old Uncle Bill,' The Cisco Kid becomes suspicious ... Then 'The Girl Who Arrived Too Late' complicates matters more in the dramatization to be heard tonight at 8:00 o'clock ... Jackson Beck portrays O. Henry's cowboy hero...
The Miami Herald1943-06-28Monday19Dramatization of O. Henry's 'The Cisco Kid' has been renewed by MBS-WRTL for an additional 13 weeks with Jackson Beck in the title role.
The Sheboygan Press1943-06-28Monday11Two gamblers shoot to kill 'The Cisco Kid' in the thrilling episode 'The Girl Who Dressed in White' to be heard over WHBL-Mutual Tuesday evening from 7 to 7:30 o'clock. The girl helps the Kid when he is wounded and together they improvise a 'grave' to throw the killers off his trail, until he can recover his strength. Jackson Beck portrays O. Henry's cowboy hero.
Los Angeles Evening Citizen News1943-08-10Tuesday21Jackson Beck the 'Cisco Kid' at 6:30 over KHJ, is going to have a different Powers model each week for his leading lady. June Fleming, who played in little theaters, will be the first ...
The Central New Jersey Home News1943-08-17Tuesday7Georgette Leslie, Broadway actress, will be heard on tonight's 'Cisco Kid' broadcast over WOR at 9:30 o'clock. Jackson Beck will be co-strared.
Tampa Bay Times1943-08-31Tuesday12An innocent girl with cash on the live—a couple of villainous real estate dealers. ... Put it all together and it spells 'The Girl Who Paid For Trouble' ... tonight at 9:30 p.m. ... The Cisco Kid with Jackson Beck one of radio's busiest young actor playing the title role ... and veteran Louis Sorin with some comic relief.
The Akron Beacon Journal1943-10-15Friday32The Cisco Kid,' dramatizations based on the legendary cowboy lover created by O. Henry, will ride again over Mutual at a new time, Fridays at 7:30, effective tonight. Jackson Beck portrays the title role in the show, available over WJW.
The Circleville Herald1944-09-01Friday7Radio's 'Cisco Kid,' Jackson Beck is readying his own radio show for early production. But he won't talk.
The Central New Jersey Home News1944-11-08Wednesday12WOR's 'The Cisco Kid,' featuring Jackson Beck in the title role, will be heard at a new time beginning tonight. The series will be aired at 9:30 instead of 11:30
Norfolk Daily News1945-02-14Wednesday6In view of the fact that the new MBS Brownstone Theater, reviving plays of the 90's and later, is to take the Wednesday night time next week in which the Cisco Kid has been holding forth, it seems only fitting that Jackson Beck, who has been playing that role, is to have the male lead in the new series. In addition, Gertrude Warner, who played opposite the Kid, will continue with Beck. The Cisco Kid winds up with tonight's program at 8:30.
The Owensboro Messenger1945-02-18Sunday18Brownstone Theater' To Present Old Stage Hits. Gertrude Warner, one of radio's most popular leading ladies, will co-star with Jackson Beck in 'Brownstone Theater,' the new series of revivals of old Broadway hits, which starts over WOMI-Mutual Wednesday night at 8:30 o'clock. Clayton Hamilton, veteran drama critic and student of the theater will set the scenes for the plays with Sylvan Levin as music director.
Los Angeles Evening Citizen News1946-02-22Friday20Jack Mather will play the title role and Harry Lang, Pancho, in the 'Cisco Kid' Monday, KHJ at 7:30.