Mykola Francuzenko was a Ukrainian-American writer (under the pseudonym Mykola Virnyi), translator, theatrical director, radio journalist, and social activist. His literary output includes over 400 works, and he was a writer and broadcaster for the Ukrainian services of both Radio Liberty and the Voice of America during the Cold War. He was known for his speaking and recitation, and was considered a master of the art of the Ukrainian spoken word. His archives contain scripts, working notes, photo albums, and numerous audio tapes, some of which contain unique interview recordings, recordings of poets reading their own works, live recordings of events in the Ukrainian American community, and radio programming of the Ukrainian services of Radio Liberty and the Voice of America.
Content types:
Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Data disk (floppy disk), Photographic print, Text document, and Microcassette
Extent:
Approximately 130 open reel tapes and 200 analog audio cassettes, as well as radio scripts, photographs, and text documents
WOR Inaugural 50,000 Watt broadcast 2/22/35 (2 recordings); Ed Fitzgerald/Benay Venuta (actress) 12/28/36 - cut #1; Ed & Pegeen Fitzgerald WOR 25th anniver. 2/22/47 – cut #2; Breakfast with the Fitzgeralds 10/8/44 – cut #3; Gabriel Heatter (commentator) 1940 – "We the People"; The Gambling’s at home Xmas-1954; John B. Gambling Second Breakfast 7/28/1956; Dorothy Kilgallen/Dick Kollmar WOR 11/12/62; Norman/Ruth Peale – at home audition 6/13/63; Vincent Tracy WOR debut show 2/4/64; Jean Shepherd on WOR 8/4/65; Jean Shepherd on KFRC San Francisco; Peter Lind Hayes/Mary Healey WOR 1/24/69; WOR-AM archive ID Themes 1/16/70 - 23 cuts
Includes photos, articles, programs, sheet music, advertisements, sound recordings of radio programs, including the Shell Chateau, 1930s, and other memorabilia relating to Cook's career as a vaudevillian, on Broadway in musical comedies and on radio.
Includes artifacts, exhibits, displays, recordings, film and memorabilia on radio and biographical material on the radio personalities inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Includes correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, concert programs, 1945-l966, and other memorabilia of the Mandolin Club of Newark. The group performed on WORAM, 1932-1933, and later on WGCP. Much of material is in German.
Contains material on Rice's interests in radio, including material dealing with his varied business enterprises in minstrel shows for the major radio networks.
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections
Consists of manuscripts of three plays and an introduction compiled by James Boyd. The scripts were written as American propaganda plays and presented over CBS in the spring of 1941. Includes Boyd's "One More Free Man" (final title) and a mimeographed copy of Orson Welles's "His Honor, the Mayor" (annotated, probably by Boyd). The third play, "Above Suspicion," is ascribed to Sherwood Anderson although the play was not completed at his death. Anderson's idea was developed by the company and the play was presented in tribute to him.
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections
Contains radio scripts designed to sway public opinion during World War II and the post World War II era, including Our Secret Weapon with Rex Stout as the "lie detective" debunking Axis propaganda, Freedom House Forum and Pride and Prejudice, a forum for representatives of different races and religions to discuss issues of prejudice.
Repository/Collector:
Princeton University Libraries, Rare Books and Special Collections