The collection documents Carol Cline’s interest and acclaim in the Dayton, Ohio radio community and the public relations industry. Also included is documentation on Cline’s international travels and civic commitment. The bulk of materials date from 1939-1966 and include correspondence, notes, news clippings, photographs, public relations materials, audio reels of "Carol’s Corner" radio broadcast interviews of famous and accomplished individuals, and a scrapbook. Cline interviewed high profile individuals from Miami Beach, Florida in 1963, including Mayor Kenneth Oka, and Marshal Wise, Director of the Cuban Refugee Center. Cline also interviewed professors and students from Cornell University, her alma mater. Cline’s interview subjects included several political figures, such as Congressman Robert Taft, Jr., Senator Paul Douglass, and Frances Perkins (former Secretary of Labor from 1934-1945). Entertainers interviewed by Cline included Bob Newhart, Roberta Peters, Helen Hayes, Peter Nero, Alan King, Jimmy Durante, and Liberace. Authors Abigail VanBuren, and Amy Vandervilt were a few of the authors interviewed. Among the Dayton Personalities were Roz Young, S.C. Allyn, Allan Eckert, Si Burick, Phil Donahue, and Dayton Philharmonic founder and director, Paul Katz.
Content types:
Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Acetate open reel tape and Open reel tape (unknown material)
Extent:
2.5 linear feet. 155 ¼" reel to reel audio tapes, the majority of which are 3" reels, however 5" and 7" tapes are also present.
Repository/Collector:
Wright State University, Special Collections & Archives Department
Contains a few offair audio recordings from the 1940s and 1950s and a more significant collection of pre-1960s print material about the broadcasts, including scrapbooks and some biographical information about performers. For more information about the audio recordings contact the archives. Audio recordings beginning with mid-1960s are more generally available.
Contains papers relating to Rabbi Feinberg's radio career, 1932-1972, including Message of Israel, 1937- 1969, Brotherhood Hour (broadcast in Canada), 1947, Grey Lib, 1972, and his career as the singer Anthony Frome on the Poet Prince on NBC, 1932-1935.
Includes papers relating to Bettman's career as the moderator for the radio forum, What's on Your Mind? Also includes radio addresses Bettman delivered in 1944.
Includes transcripts, tape recordings and correspondence pertaining to The Words We Live By, a series of conversations on the Bible between Samuel and Mark Van Doren that were part of The Eternal Light. Also includes scripts and notes for other programs by and about Samuel that were broadcast on The Eternal Light.
Includes correspondence and transcripts of Lazaron's sermons on many programs, 1926-1946, including Church of the Air, 1931-1939, Message of Israel, 1934-1946, Town Hall Meeting of the Air, 1938-1954, and Wheel of Life.
Includes several hundred photographs, mainly from WLW, Cincinnati, OH, 1934-1936, taken by Patterson who was an engineer at WLW. Also includes two dozen recordings from World War II era relating to Patterson's work for the Office of War Information.
Contains over 11,000 transcription discs, both masters and pressings, of Ziv Company programs, 1940-1960. Includes some out-take reel-to-reel tapes and 34 boxes of contracts, scripts, Ziv-created advertising kits and other related items. Ziv was a syndicator of radio and television shows. Programs included: Barry Wood, 182 episodes; Bold Venture (Bogart and Bacall), 78 episodes; Boston Blackie, 218 episodes; Bright Star (Dunne and McMurray), 52 episodes; Calling All Girls, 270 episodes**; The Career of Alice Blair, 130 episodes**; Cisco Kid, 885 episodes; Dearest Mother (soap opera), I 43 episodes**; Dorothy and Dick, 120 episodes**; Easy Aces (repackaged network), 763 episodes; Eddie Cantor Show, 259 episodes; Eye Witness News (news analysis), 160 episodes**; Favorite Story (Coleman), 118 episodes Forbidden Diary (soap), 130 episodes** Fred Waring ( music), 156 episodes; Freedom USA (with Tyrone Power), 52 episodes; Guy Lombardo Show, 92 episodes; Hour of Stars, 260 episodes**; I Was a Communist for the FBI, 78 episodes Korn Kobblers (country/weste rn), 376 episodes Lightning Jim, 98 episodes; Manhunt (crime), 39 episodes**; Meet the Menjous (talk, Menjous), 520 episodes Mr. District Attorney (repackaged), 52 episodes Movietown Radio Theater, 52 episodes**; Old Corral (western), 143 episodes Parents Maga zine of the Air, 52 episodes Philo Vance (detective), 104 episodes Pleasure Parade, 138 episodes**; Red Skelton (repackaged network), 260 episodes Sam Balter-One for the Book, 192 episodes** Secret Diary (soap), 117 episodes**; Showtime from Hollywood, 78 episodes** Sincerely, Kenny Baker (music), 130 episodes Songs of Good Cheer, 117 episodes; Sparky and Dud, 66 episodes This is America, 26 episodes War Correspondent , 78 episodes; Washington Views and Interviews, 120 episodes; Wayne King (music), 78 episodes; World's Greatest Mysteries, 260 episodes
Contains scripts, photographs, publicity material and about 2,000 hours of recordings from WKW, WKRC, WCKY, WSAI, WFBE and WCPO. Although there are no long "runs" of any particular series, the collection does include a "decent" supply of Moon River, WLW, and Canal Days, WSAI. Also includes personal items related to the career of Ruth Lyons and some material relating to Cleveland radio history.
A 1989 interview with Cavanaugh, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Reams Broadcasting Corporation, Toledo, OH. Cavanaugh worked as a rock 'n' roll radio personality on the air from 1957 to 1978, the majority of the time in Flint, MI at WTAC-AM. Collection also includes newsclippings .
Repository/Collector:
Center for Archival Collections, Bowling Green State University
A recording that features 16 different 30-second voiced spot announcements using sound effects to show the value of radio. One side repeats the same sound effects without voice so local announcers can use the copy with a local call letter insertion.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives, Bowling Green State University
Great moments in radio broadcast history selections narrated by Jack Benny and Frank Knight. Includes day time radio programs and commercials, introduction to soap operas, commercials, news, sports, comedy, adventure and mystery.
Repository/Collector:
Music Library and Sound Recordings Archives, Bowling Green State University
A highly prolific poet, translator and prose writer, Corman hosted This Is Poetry, a 15 minute program aired on WMEX, 1949-1951, on which noted poets read their works.
Although Fuldheim's career dates back to the 1940s and her work on WTAM and WEWS, this collection of her papers does not appear to cover that period. The finding aid indicates that the collection includes "many of the commentaries that she became famous for in her broadcasting career" but does not note the dates.
Contains transcripts of the Association's weekly radio and television program, Columbus Town Meeting, including opening statements for some of the broadcasts and other papers.
Papers relating to the history of WNCI-FM and WRFD-AM, including correspondence, public affairs and religious programming files, newscast scripts, editorials, radio logbooks, log analyses, advertising copy and reference files. Access to this collection may be restricted. Contact repository for more in formation.
Includes biographical clippings, programs, press notices and personal memorabilia concerning Toomey's life and career as a soprano known for her work in light opera, oratorio, concerts, radio and television.
Repository/Collector:
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Includes programs, original music scores with Jolson's songs, membership forms for the Al Jolson International Society, photographic copy prints of Jolson, a few audio and video cassettes and other Jolson papers and memorabilia.
Repository/Collector:
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Contains radio and television scripts, script development notes, production files, correspondence, teaching materials, photographs, clippings, journal and magazine issues, artifacts, audio visual materials, original art, autographs, playbills, souvenir booklets, theatre and writer organizations materials, brochures and conference materials and posters. Includes scripts for Armed Forces Radio Service, Favorite Story, The Railroad Hour, Hallmark Playhouse, Young Love, The World We're Fighting For, Man About Hollywood, Songs by Sinatra, Lady Esther's Album, I WasThere, Meet Mr. Music, Saturday Morning, CBS Shows, The Little Show, Call For Music, Request Performance, The Unexpected and others. For a detailed list of radio scripts by program title and date check finding aid at: http://1ibrary.osu.edu/sites/speccoll/finding/LandL.html#series2.
Repository/Collector:
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Contains mainly personal correspondence between Goddard and her husband, Burgess Meredith, along with a biography of Goddard, obituaries, telegrams, postcards (original and transcribed), photographs and other material. Does not appear to contain any radio specific material.
Repository/Collector:
Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute
Includes letters relating to some of his songs, an article about Handy and a radio schedule for WGAR, Cleveland for September 24-30, 1944 featuring Handy on the cover.
Includes publications, annual reports, bulletins, audio recordings and scrapbooks. Also contains scripts for some broadcasts, including Economic Detective, Once Upon a Time in Ohio and Story Time.
Transcripts of a series of radio talks delivered over WOSU by Oskar Seidlin relating to the 20th century German authors Franz Kafka, Rainer Maria Rilke and Thomas Mann.
Includes office files, audio tapes, administration and project files as well as information on radio in Ohio and the U.S. A second WOSU collection includes over 2,000 phonograph records of broadcasts, l 930s-l 940s.
According to the Archives Department, almost no records of the company's sponsorship of radio soap operas have been preserved. However, the department does have a listing of the programs that were sponsored by the company, including The Puddle Family which was replaced by Ma Perkins, O'Neill's, 1935, Vic and Sade, Guiding Light and Pepper Young's Family and a few scripts for Ma Perkins and photographs of some of the show casts.
Hardman was general advertising manager of the Ohio Bell Telephone Company, 1924-1951, and director of the Ohio Story. Papers pertain largely to the development of the program, from original idea to final casting, broadcast and publicity. Includes scripts and script drafts, administrative papers, correspondence, story ideas and suggestions, research articles, subject lists, broadcast material, clippings, music scores, photographs and biographical information on Hardman. See also separate collection listing for Ohio Story Scripts. Sound recordings and films of the program are located in the Audio-Visual collection.
Includes scripts and other papers relating to the series Movies, Art, and Problems directed by Lyttle and broadcast over Cleveland stations WHK and WCLE.
Papers of the Hungarian-American radio announcer, including a Hungarian song book compiled by Szappanos in 1941, correspondence, 1960-1966 and newspaper clippings, 1939-1975. Szappanos was active in the Szappanos Radio Ball. Some of the materials are in Hungarian.
Contains correspondence, writings, legal documents, clippings, scrapbooks, diaries, typescripts of Wallace's columns, magazine feature stories, unidentified radio and TV scripts, short stories and a novel. Also includes material on Wallace's script (media not identified) for the 1956 political commentary, "I'm Going to Scream Again."
Prepared for the stockholders and affiliates of the MBS, the White Paper dealt with the FCC report on chain broadcasting and a May, 1941 agreement between Mutual and ASCAP. Mutual's second White Paper analyzing the FCC's revision of its chain broadcasting regulations is located in a separate file.
Radio and television scripts written by Frank Siedel. See related Anson F. Hardman collection on the development and production of the program. Sound recordings and films of the program are located in the Audio-Visual collection. The program was broadcast on WTAM.
Records of a charitable fund focusing on children's literature, the effects of movies and radio on the values of children and the development of radio as an educational tool.
Includes scripts on the cities, towns and villages of Stark County, OH as broadcast over WHBC. The broadcasts were launched by the Stark County Historical Society in cooperation with the Ohio Broadcasting Corp.
Series I consists mainly of radio scripts written by Hall as an information specialist for the Cleveland Office of Civilian Defense during World War II. Recordings of the program are in the Audio Visual collection.
Includes papers relating to McKinney's one minute radio broadcasts, Thot-O-Grams, brief inspirational messages under the auspices of United Church Women of Cleveland.
Transcript of interview with Williamson taped on December 10, 1975 in which he discusses his experience with WKBN. A separate interview includes a biography of Williamson.
Repository/Collector:
William F. Maag Jr. Library, Youngstown State University
Transcript of interview taped on December 7, 1990 on the history of Youngstown State University's radio station WYSU as told by Donald Elser who helped start the station.
Repository/Collector:
William F. Maag Jr. Library, Youngstown State University