Writer. Radio playscripts used in First Nighter and Talkie Picture Time programs, written under Hale's maiden name, Margaret Halliwell, in collaboration with Dorothy de Jagers, Beatrice M. Gottlieb, Hilda Gottlieb, Jeanette I. Helm, Hal Field Leslie, and Marion Waldman.

The Heartbeat Theatre Radio Scripts Collection contains scripts of the dramatic radio series broadcast weekly from 1956 to 1985. The series was sponsored by the Salvation Army.

The Hermit's Cave Collection contains scripts from several Howlett-Elliott created radio shows, The Hermit's Cave in particular, as well as sound recordings, correspondence, and research material that document Howlett and Elliott's contribution to WJR, Detroit.

Nearly the entirety of the prolific output of radio playwright and independent film maker Arch Oboler (1909-1987) in radio, motion pictures, television, theater, and print is contained in the Arch Oboler Collection. Featured are his radio plays from the 1930s and 1940s and the first three-dimensional feature film, Bwana Devil.