Republic Pictures contract player: GRACE DURKIN

The sister of juvenile stars Junior and Gertrude Durkin, Grace Durkin was under contract to Republic 9-28-1936 to 12-27-1936. She may be seen today in the public domain Ellery Queen programmer THE MANDARIN MYSTERY (1936), available for free on the Internet Archive site. Grace Durkin passed away at age 77 in Los Angeles in 1991. The Durkin family tragedy of 1935 is described in the following clipping: 

Republic Pictures contract player EDGAR ALLAN

Edgar Allan played one of the eponymous hero's fellow young g men in the 1937 Republic serial DICK TRACY; and he had bits in such studio potboilers as THE MANDARIN MYSTERY (1936; an Ellery Queen mystery now in public domain and available for free at the Internet Archive site), BEWARE OF LADIES (1936), JOIN THE MARINES and MICHAEL O'HALLORAN (both 1937). Edgar Allan was underTerm Contract with Republic Pictures 10-5-1936 to 4-4-1937, after which he disappeared from the industry.