Carlton E Morse Bio

Carlton E. Morris was born to George and Ora Morse in Jennings, Louisiana on June 4, 1901. In 1906, his family moved to a fruit ranch in Talent, Oregon, and when Morse was 16, his family relocated to Sacramento, California.

After graduating from high school in Sacramento, Morse spent a few years at the University of California, Berkeley, between 1919 and 1922. Moore, though enjoying his drama classes, was dissatisfied with college life, and after moving back home to Sacramento, began his journalism career with the newspaper, the Sacramento Union, where Mark Twain contributed articles, followed by stints with the San

Francisco Illustrated Daily Herald, Seattle Times, Vancouver, Columbia, and the Portland Nori Gonian before returning to San Francisco in 1928. While working at the San Francisco Bulletin, he met Patricia Deball, who became his first wife on September 23, 1928.

In 1929, Morse lost his job when the Bulletin was absorbed into the San Francisco call. Although offered a position with the Seattle Times, he declined it, thinking that working in radio would be more satisfying and exciting.

During the late 1920s he had taken a keen interest in the evolving radio industry and even tried out riding a few scripts, which he never showed to anyone until the day of his job interview with NBC.

Two weeks before the 1929 stock market crash he was invited to join the production staff of NBC at their San Francisco affiliate KGO. Morse never went back to journalism. At NBC, Moore started off reworking and polishing House of Miss, then penning his own scripts through this radio series.

He went on to write such shows as Chinatown Tales, Illustrated Tales, Split-Second Tales, and Musical Miniatures. Moore quickly gained a name for himself with several blood and thunder radio serials he wrote for NBC Mystery Serial.