The collection consists of correspondence dealing with the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions; personal papers, mainly promotional documents, and biographical and/or pedagogical writings; newspaper and magazine clippings; annotated scores, programs, photos, scrapbooks and recordings. Recordings include opera broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera which include Mario Chamlee, also his performance and rehearsal broadcasts on KFAC, and numerous transcription discs from his appearances on the Tony & Gus show in 1935 on WJZ.
Content types:
Notated music, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Pressed 78rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Photographic print, Text document, and Microfilm
Consists largely of radio scripts written by Pickard and Provo for radio and television, including Wendy Warren and the News, 1947-1958, and occasional episodes for Young Dr. Malone. Also includes scripts from Australian Broadcasting Company programs that Pickard either wrote, directed or acted in (ca. 1932-1935) for the Australian Broadcasting Company prior to his emigration to the United States as well as presentation scripts for proposed television and radio series, manuscripts of plays and novels and correspondence.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Contains scripts for Mr. President, Boston Blackie, The Ginny Simms Show, Everything for the Boys, The Man Called X and Halls of Ivy plus correspondence, including Milton Merlin's involvement with various writers' organizations such as the Hollywood Writers Mobilization during World War II and the Radio Writers Guild in which he served as national president in the early 1950s.
Repository/Collector:
American Radio Archives, Thousand Oaks Library Foundation
Consists of contemporary syndicated rebroadcasts of classic radio programs, including Amos 'n' Andy, Burns and Allen, The Jack Benny Show, Dragnet, Suspense, CBS Radio Mystery Theater, Your Hit Parade and other programs.
Repository/Collector:
UCLA Film and Television Archives, University of California, Los Angeles
Consists primarily of television and radio series scripts. Also includes photographs and correspondence relating to Isaacs's career. Radio materials include Kraft Music Hall, 1947-1949, The Bob Burns Show, 1946-1947, The Rudy Vallee Show, 1941, and The Martin and Lewis Show, 1949-1950. Includes some bound volumes.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of radio, television and motion picture scripts and production material. Includes radio scripts for Father Knows Best, 1950-1954. Also includes correspondence and stills, some of which are related to the Robert Young-Eugene Rodney Production Co.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes radio scripts for Hallmark Playhouse (a.k.a. Hallmark Radio Hall of Fame), January, 1952-March 1955, and production material, property procurement and releases, 1948-1952.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes radio scripts for Mark Trail, 1950-1952, Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, 1952, One Foot in Heaven, 1945, Adventures of Topper, 1945, and Fighting Heroes of the U.S. Navy, n.d.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists primarily of scripts and screenplays, including several undated scripts for Assignment U.S.A. that Berkeley did in collaboration with Stanley Roberts and Clark E. Reynolds.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists primarily of material written by Paul and/or Margaret Schneider for a variety of television productions, including The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre (television) but also some unspecified material dealing with radio. Unpublished finding aid.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of radio and television series scripts, including radio scripts for Adventures of Topper, June-September, 1945, Fighting Heroes of the U.S. Navy, n.d., Mark Trail, Series 1-4, January, 1950-June, 1952, One Foot In Heaven, January-November, 1945, and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet, January-June, 1952.
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes 10 episodes of Romance and audio tapes and transcripts of interviews conducted by Froug for his book "The Screenwriter Looks at the Screenwriter."
Repository/Collector:
Arts Library, Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)