I Can’t Stand Jack Benny Because— He fills the air with boasts and bragsAnd obsolete obnoxious gags.The way he plays the violinIs music’s most obnoxious sin.His cowardice alone, indeedIs matched by hi...
In 1940, it wasn’t surprising when an elderly couple was arrested for speeding through the Broadway tunnel in San Francisco and used this as their defense: it was time for The Lone Ranger, and they co...
In Who Was That Masked Man?, David Rothel gives verbatim, often conflicting, interviews with people in key positions at the time of The Lone Ranger’s creation. And Dick Osgood, who worked 36 years at...
In a speech at the 1939 New York World’s Fair, he attacked by name some of the nation’s most prominent advocates of right-wing politics. He was most vocal about Father Charles Coughlin, the radio prie...
In the fall of 1950, Waterman became the new Gildersleeve. Peary, meanwhile, jumped to CBS with a new sitcom, Honest Harold. In a dual review (Gildy vs. Gildy, Sept. 29, 1950), Radio Life summed up th...
In the initial NBC series, Greenwood played a neophyte reporter on a small newspaper, who aspired to Hollywood stardom. In the regular season, she lived in the little town of Lake-view, where she took...
Irene Rich had been a notable star of the silent screen in the 1920s, playing opposite Will Rogers, Dustin Farnum, and Wallace Beery. But a disagreement with Warner Brothers sent her into a new career...
It was on Sullivan’s 1932 series that listeners first heard the voices of Jack Benny, Jack Pearl, Irving Berlin, Florenz Ziegfeld, and George M. Cohan. Sullivan’s radio fame was enhanced by his newspa...
Jackson Beck as the Cisco Kid, O. Henry’s beloved badman who rides the romantic trail that leads sometimes to adventure, often to danger, but always to beautiful señoritas. Louis Sorin as Pancho, his...
Just down the street from Gildersleeve, in the next block, lived the widow Leila Ransom. In the second full year she became a pivotal character who on June 27, 1943, got Gildersleeve to the altar and...
Kieran was particularly alert when Fadiman asked what political leader was a bastard’s son. Levant thought it might be Adolf Hitler, né Schicklgrüber, an answer challenged by a woman in the audience w...
MAGIC ISLAND, fantasy juvenile serial. BROADCAST HISTORY: 1936, transcribed syndication, 15m continuation: the fictionalized search by Mrs. Patricia Gregory for her young daughter Joan, shipwrecked in...
Man has always looked to the heavens for help and inspiration, and from the skies too will come his victory and his future.
Marlene Dietrich breezed in and, after snubbing the entire cast, announced that there would be no dress rehearsal because she was not in the mood. Woodruff told her calmly that we haven’t got time to...
Millions for Defense was one of the first big Treasury Department shows of the war. It predated Pearl Harbor by six months and sounded a warning call for hard times ahead. Fred Allen was opening-night...
Now it was called The Texaco Star Theater; the Mighty Allen Art Players became the Texaco Workshop Players, and the show opened in the traditional Texaco manner, with a siren and a bell. The opening w...
Orson Welles answered almost everything thrown at him, prompting Fadiman to comment dryly, This is your last appearance on this program, Mr. Welles.
Questions of violence will continue forever: the same charges aimed at radio in the ’30s are here for television to answer in the ’90s. The difference, then, was the certainty that right would prevail...
Report on the Weans (Nov. 11, 1956) was novelist Robert Nathan’s wise and whimsical look at what archaeologists of the distant future might deduce, wrongly, about our way of life. And 1489 Words (Feb....
Self-issued in a severely limited edition (100 copies), his Fibber McGee’s Closet is a 1,193 page
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