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April Fool's Day Special
Exploring Elfland
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I'm a Fool - Sherwood Anderson - Mercury Summer Theater - Orson Welles
"I'm a Fool" is a short story by American writer Sherwood Anderson. It was first published in the February 1922 issue of The Dial, and later, in 1923 as the first story in Anderson's short-story collection Horses and Men. Of that collection, William Faulkner wrote that "...I think, next to Heart of Darkness by Conrad that the first story, 'I'm a Fool,' is the best short story I ever read."

Foolish Gentlewoman - Margery Sharp - Saturday Night Theatre
Clara Margery Melita Sharp was an English author of 25 novels for adults, 14 children's novels, four plays, two mysteries, and numerous short stories. Her best known work is The Rescuers series about two mice named Bernard and Miss Bianca

Call Not Any Man a Fool - The Greatest Story Ever Told - Radio Dramas of the Life of Christ
A father tries to goad his son in to doing what he wants him to do by insulting him and calling him a fool

The Nun's Priest's Tale - Canterbury Tales - Geoffrey Chaucer
A disputed association between 1 April and foolishness is in Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales (1392). In the "Nun's Priest's Tale", a vain rooster Chauntecleer is tricked by a fox on "Since March began thirty days and two"

Pranks at School - Great Gildersleeve
Is Leroy pulling pranks at school?

Death is a Joker - Peter Lorre - Boris Karloff - Inner Sanctum
Peter Lorre introduces "Raymond." A small ugly man commits a needless murder for love.

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