Recordings of performances from the Walnut Valley Festivals of 1981 and 1982. The annual Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS features competitions and live performances of the world's foremost string instrumentalists and folk/bluegrass performers.
Includes 44 transcripts and broadcast recordings of speeches and interviews by and about Alfred M. Landon probably broadcast on WREN, Topeka, KS. For a fuller description of collection, see the Manuscripts Inventory in the Kansas Collection.
Includes scripts for Gunsmoke (radio and television), 1957-1965, and other unidentified radio scripts. The catalog listing notes that Hite wrote for the following radio programs but it is not clear if scripts for any of the programs are included in the collection: Fort Laramie, Rogers of the Gazette, Romance, The Ghost Walks, Night Beat, The Modern Adventures of Casanova, State Fair; The Perfect Crime, Will Rogers Country Editor and the Lux Summer Theatre. Check unpublished finding aid for more information on the unidentified scripts.
Repository/Collector:
Library, Department of Special Collections, Wichita State University
Text of weekly radio program of Dean Clarence E. Manion, possibly titled Manion Forum or Manion Forum of Opinion. Includes March 6, 1955 broadcast and possibly others.
A souvenir booklet prepared to explain the operations of a metropolitan newspaper. Also includes information about the newspaper's paper mill and radio station.
Includes arrangements of popular music, primarily for George Gershwin's radio show, 1933-1935. Katzman was an arranger, organist and pianist for Gershwin.
Repository/Collector:
Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Contains correspondence with radio stations, including Ekko stamps and other listener verification materials. Also includes some promotional materials for radio stations or specific programs.
Two letters from Henry Manners Katzman to George Griffin of Broadcast Music Inc., San Francisco, March 5 and 10, 1970, reminiscing about the New York popular music and radio scene, 1932-1935. Katzman describes George Gershwin's radio show in detail with anecdotes.
Repository/Collector:
Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas