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
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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
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.
Includes scripts and other papers relating to the series Movies, Art, and Problems directed by Lyttle and broadcast over Cleveland stations WHK and WCLE.
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.
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.
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.