Papers of an NBC broadcasting executive who served as vice-president in charge of its stations, planning and development and integrated services departments. Correspondence, 1926-1962, chiefly concerns Broadcast Pioneers, the National Association of Broadcasters, the "Chicago Daily News" and WMAQ. The limited NBC material is best for the inception of television during the late 1940s. Also includes speeches and articles, clippings, memorabilia, a transcript of an oral history interview and a number of NBC reports, including some by Hedges. Material pertaining to Broadcast Pioneers includes minutes, printed matter, issues of the group's in-house organ and material on its history project. Of special interest is Hedges's interview with John F. Royal and the inventories of the project's collection. Information on the NAB, of which Hedges was a founding member, includes a constitution and by-laws, a proposed code of fair competition, convention programs and a handbook. Photographs document a group of journalists, including Hedges, on Broadcasters' Mission to Europe, 1945.
Includes correspondence, memoranda, interview transcripts, drafts of speeches, articles, books, notes, radio broadcasts, legal material, research material, family papers, press releases, printed material, posters, maps and other papers relating primarily to Smith's career.
Helen Sioussat (1902-1995) was Director of the Talks and Public Affairs Department at CBS from 1937 to 1958, where she oversaw as many as 300 broadcasts a year addressing such topics as government, labor, education, religion, civil rights and international affairs. She would go on to create the television program, Table Talk.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections in Mass Media & Culture, University of Maryland
Includes a series of KUOM scripts, November, 1950-March, 1953, probably related to the Minnesota Chippewa or Ojibwa Indians, and other papers relating to Mudgett's work dealing with the Chippewa Indian culture.
Repository/Collector:
Archives & Special Collections, University of Louisville
Contains papers documenting Van Loon's career in radio beginning in 1929, including his time at NBC starting in 1932 and for WRVL, 1939-1940. Also includes manuscripts for broadcasts, 1935-1942.
Papers of an NBC news commentator and newspaper journalist, consisting chiefly of material for his program Three Star Extra which was sponsored by the Sun Oil Company. Includes microfilmed scripts largely dating from January, 1956-May 26, 1965 and some editorials. For the period prior to 1955 the collection includes only a few scattered scripts but over 100 sound recordings. Also includes a small quantity of documentation relating to his broadcasting career with ABC and WOL.
Records of Whillock's business, political, military and civic career, including correspondence, scrapbooks, photographs and subject files relating to KDSH.
Repository/Collector:
Idaho State Historical Society, Historical Library
Contains correspondence, addresses, reports, newspaper clippings, printed material and other papers relating to his career as head of the Farm Department of WHO, Des Moines, 1936-1970.
Contains correspondence, legal and financial documents, business records, copies of patents, scientific journal articles, recording equipment and blueprints, pamphlets, scrapbooks, church records, tape recorded sermons and speeches. Includes Orr's work at WAPI, his founding of WJHO, Opelika, AL and his role as a pioneer in the "electronic church" of the 1950s advocating the use of radio and television by Methodists.
Consists mainly of scripts for radio and television programs and motion pictures written or produced by Heyward along with miscellaneous related materials, manuscripts of novels and scenery drawings for the Garry Moore television show. Includes papers relating to Personality Time and Startime.
Contains correspondence, photographs, press clippings, programs and ephemera documenting the career of the singer/pianist Hildegarde Loretta Sell known professionally as "The Incomparable Hildegarde."
Repository/Collector:
Raynor Memorial Libraries, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Typescript of "Radio Forty Two Years Ago" written by the spouse of Rudy Hilgedick who was instrumental in building Duluth's first radio station, WJAP. The reminiscence is centered on the first broadcast of a Christmas midnight mass, December 25, 1922. Topics include a description of the studio, the station's range, listening devices used at the time and the use of volunteer performers and staff. Several excerpts from cards and letters received from listeners throughout the U.S. after the broadcast are also included.
Contains correspondence and printed material relating to several aspects of Hill's activities, including his career as a reporter for the Radio Farm Program.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
The Radio files contain scripts from Hinken's early career in radio, including The Grouch Club and The Magnificent Montague as well as extensive scripts and production information for the Fred Allen Show for which Hinken was head writer for seven years and the Milton Berle Show with which he was associated, 1946-1949. Also includes a sound recording of the November 25, 1945 performance of the Berle show. Bulk of collection pertains to Hinken's work in television.
Forty eight transcription discs of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin broadcasts, including Wisconsin Cavalcade, broadcast by WKOW, WHA, WIBA and other stations.
Collection includes an unknown quantity of recorded radio broadcasts. Other than a complete run of the Theatre Guild on the Air there is no catalog of the collection that can be accessed by the public. Library staff will, however, respond to written or email inquiries regarding the availability of specific programs or performers. Inquiries should be as specific as possible, noting that it is easier for the library to search by performer than by program.
In addition to the transcripts of the individual interviews, this collection consists of miscellaneous papers relating to the memoirists who were interviewed by the Oral History Office. Includes original papers, printed materials and microfilm copies of materials not retained by Columbia. One half of the collection consists of original notes, draft transcriptions, related correspondence and documents related to the Radio Pioneer Project. Of those papers only available on microfilm, about one-third have a list of contents.
Participants discuss the creation and development of WOR from several viewpoints. Accounts deal with broadcast news, trade unions, program innovations, music, technical developments and the effects of blacklisting. Includes portions of individual interviews with George Brown, Morton Gould, Henry Morgan and Jack Poppele.
An interview with the daughter of Scott Phillips conducted by John A. Cuthbert concerning Mrs. Shulz's recollections of her father's musical activity, stringbands, radio performances and recordings.
Repository/Collector:
West Virgina & Regional History Center, West Virginia University
Draft history of the station, 1946-1960, "KPFA History," by Eleanor McKinney, January 1960, with annotations in an unknown hand. Also, "The Beginnings of Pacifica Foundation" by Gene R. Stebbins, 1969.
Repository/Collector:
Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
McCormick discusses his early broadcast career in Kansas City in 1957 and move to Los Angeles in 1958 where he worked for KGFJ, KDAY, KFWB, KLAC and KMPC before switching to television.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Additional oral histories with radio related information may be included under the subject headings "Motion Pictures and Television," "Theatre" and "Music." There is no separate "Radio" subject category. For more information, contact the Program office.
Repository/Collector:
Oral History Program, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
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
Transcript includes a discussion of Sims's work at WJBO, Baton Rouge, LA before and after World War II and his association with station owner Charles Manship, Sr.
Repository/Collector:
Noel Memorial Library, Northwest Louisiana Archives at LSUS
Transcripts of Hitchcock's radio speeches on the progress and problems of the 1935 Minnesota legislative session of which he was a member from St. Louis County.
Papers include scripts Hodges wrote for The Children's Bookshelf and other materials related to the program and also about her role as a storyteller on Let's Tell A Story which became the nationally broadcast television program Tell Me A Story.
Martin Bookspan interviews American classical composer and pianist Lee Hoiby. Hoiby talks about both of his careers: as a pianist and composer. Though at first he intended to pursue a career as a concert pianist, today he is more interested in composing, he says. The composer speaks about his early interest in composing, his background, his studies at Mills College, and then later at the Curtis Institute of Music with Gian Carlo Menotti, his life in New York City. He discusses various of his works such as two operas: Summer and smoke, and Natalia Petrovna; and the music he composed for two balets: After Eden (choreography by John Butler) and Suite for orchestra for Hearts, meadows, and flags (choreography by Richard Wagner). Excepts of two ballets are played during the interview.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Consists of diaries, correspondence, manuscripts of novels, short stories, poetry, radio scripts, research material, financial material and copies of her published works.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Includes correspondence, speeches, minutes, memoranda, reports, studies, newspaper clippings, reference material and scripts for Your County Government Report documenting McLean's civil service activities during her terms on the Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors, 1956-1963.
Repository/Collector:
University Library, University of California at Santa Cruz
Contains papers collected from his various activities, including sermons from Dr. William L. Stidger's program, Getting the Most Out of Life, sponsored by Fleischmann's Yeast, 1937-1939, annotated with hymns and fan letters. Houghton also provided the music for the program.
Typescripts for the program prepared under the direction of Martin Schmitt for the University of Oregon Library. Includes related correspondence, program schedules and short critiques of some of the programs.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon
Consists of correspondence, scripts for stage, movies, radio and television, newspaper clippings, ephemera and videotapes of television interviews, commercials and television performances.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Includes transcription discs of the radio series begun in 1945 and sponsored by Texas Gulf Sulphur. It was on one of these broadcasts that Van Cliburn made his debut at age 12. An annotated chronological list is available.
Repository/Collector:
Fine Arts Library,The University of Texas at Austin
Papers consist of material on Smith's career with both the ABC and CBS networks. CBS radio scripts pertain to his work as a World War II correspondent and to his postwar commentaries.
Collection documents the entire span of Rodman's career from his early days as a writer of short stories to a script writer for the broadcast media and a creator of television series. Best coverage of his broadcasting work is provided by files on United Nations Radio. Includes some unidentified tape recordings.
Papers of a playwright, writer and educator, primarily comprised of scripts for radio and plays. Radio materials include Cavalcade of America, Treasury Hour, Ford Theater, Theatre U.S.A. and soap operas such as Road of Life and Valiant Lady.
Preliminary report on public service broadcasting by William Costello prepared for the Association of Radio Television News Analysts, 1957, together with a commentary on the same subject by news analyst Howe, then president of ARTNA.
Contains scripts, 1941-1942, of radio interviews of August Dietz, Maude Howlett Woodfin and Louis Booker Wright concerning the publication of books about William Byrd.
Papers of a former U.S. Senator and Congressman. Included in the audio recordings are radio programs on which Hruska appeared, including Capitol Cloakroom and The Leading Question.
Conversation with Semu Huaute, Chumash Medicine Man, on a variety of topics. Recorded at a powwow held at Tonawanda, New York, in the summer of 1966. Broadcast by Radio WBFO (Buffalo, N.Y.) in November 1967. Also includes a brief speech by Mad Bear recorded at the same time.
Papers cover Hyland's early career in sales in radio and later as general manager of KMOX, St. Louis. Contains some mostly unspecified recordings, 1958-1964, including "Pass The Biscuits, Mirandi," with the Spike Jones Combo broadcast September 9, 1963.
Repository/Collector:
Western Historical Manuscript Collection, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Papers of Nastal, a pioneer Milwaukee Polish-language radio broadcaster, and of his son, Stanley H., who succeeded him in 1947. The collection documents ethnic programming from the 1930s through the 1950s and includes biographical information, a copy of Nastal's reminiscences of service with Polish Volunteer Forces of the Canadian Army during World War I, advertising contracts, program logs and scripts. The logs, in English, are from Our Polish Hour, 1947-1954. The scripts, in Polish, are from Theater of the Air and daily serialized sketches. Also contains eleven tape recordings of broadcasts, primarily Our Polish Hour, ca. 1942-1947.
Scripts 1-4 and 6 of a thirteen part series, University of Idaho Presents, written by Ross Alm of the Department of Speech, possibly in the 1950s, and designed to acquaint the citizens of ldaho with the operation of the university.
Copies of audio tapes of black music and related photographs gathered by Work from 1935 to 1942 that were used for a radio program Roots of American Popular Music which aired over National Public Radio in February 1989.
Martin Bookspan interviews musician and composer Ilhan Mimaroğlu. Mimaroğlu talks about his studies at Columbia University thanks to a Rockefeller Scholarship, and in the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Center with Vladimir Ussachevsky and Edgard Varèse. He speaks about his life and career as a music critic and clarinetist in Turkey, and later as a composer in Turkey and the United States, and his work with Freddie Hubbard. Being one of the early pioneers of electronic music, he explains the way he produces "tape music" at a sound recording studio, and how he mixes this music together with jazz and other types of music, with vocals, and the spoken word. He describes this electronic music as political music. The composer discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: three excerpts from Sing me a song of Songmy (The crowd, What a good time for a Kent State, and The black soldier), Tract, La Rouche, and Wings of the delirious demon.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Papers of a creator and writer of radio and television soap operas. Includes scripts by Phillips herself and by Radio Scripts, Inc., to which she was a consultant, including outlines, advertising copy and correspondence with listeners, viewers, networks and advertising agencies. Includes Another World, Brighter Day, The Guiding Light, Right to Happiness, Road of Life, Today's Children, Woman in White and many other daytime serials.
Includes only articles about the program in "The Pentecostal Evangel" and a few historical articles about the program and possibly some unprocessed 16" transcription discs. Featured on the 15 minute program which received the "Best All-around Religion Broadcast" from the National Religious Broadcasters in 1947 were E.S. Williams and Wesley R. Steelberg.
Part of a series, "Red Man in Michigan," broadcast on WUOM (Ann Arbor, MI). Features "extensive clips from field recordings made by Gertrude Prokosch Kurath."
Papers relating to McEwen's career as a newspaper reporter and feature writer, radio reporter and private speech instructor. She wrote scripts for the serial program Hodgepodge that was aired on a Twin Falls radio station.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Includes scripts and other material for radio programs during the 1940s, including material for You Are An American, 1942-1944. The Institute was concerned about promoting better understanding and appreciation among people of all cultural and national backgrounds.
Jolinda Menendez speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about the recent management lock-out at American Ballet Theatre; the effect of the resignations of Cynthia Gregory and Gelsey Kirkland on female soloists in the company; her looking forward to dancing Nikiya in Natalia Makarova's full-length production of La bayadère; her height as neither detriment nor help in her career; her childhood and early training, including in Santiago, Chile, and in Trinidad; moving to New York City and studying at the National Academy of Ballet under the direction of Thalia Mara; joining American Ballet Theatre, first as an apprentice then in the corps; her first soloist roles, including the pas de deux in David Lichine's Graduation ball and a section of Alvin Ailey's The river; performing in Europe; the star system at American Ballet Theatre; Alexander Godunov's leaving and then rejoining the company; the upcoming change in directorship of the company from Lucia Chase to Mikhail Baryshnikov; plans for touring with American Ballet Theatre in the U.S. and the upcoming season at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City; her reasons for joining American Ballet Theatre; her reasons for not joining New York City Ballet; performing for the television program Live from Lincoln Center; filming other dance works, including for the television program Dance in America; leisure activities; future plans.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Karen Kain speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her early training at the National Ballet of Canada School and studying with Betty Oliphant; joining the National Ballet of Canada; dancing with Roland Petit's company; performing in the 1973 International Ballet Competition in Moscow; dancing on a raked stage; her favorite roles; working with Rudolf Nureyev; her guest appearance with the Bolshoi Ballet, touring with the National Ballet of Canada; leisure activities; filming dance for television, including James Kudelka's work A party, for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation; a typical work day; future plans.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Lucia Montagnon [known as Lucia Isenring before her marriage and after her divorce] speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her early ballet training; joining the Stuttgart Ballet; working with John Cranko and Glen Tetley; Tetley as a director of the Ballet; her roles in the Stuttgart repertoire; touring; the Stuttgart School [Dance School, Stuttgart]; foreign companies that have appeared in Stuttgart; filming dance; a typical work day; diet; performance schedule; leisure activities, including while in New York City on tour; future plans.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Maria Tallchief speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her American Indian heritage; early dance training beginning at age three; moving to California to study dance at age seven; studying with Bronislava Nijinska; training to be a concert pianist but preferring to dance; dancing with the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo in Europe at the invitation of Tatiana Riabouchinska; performing with the Ballet Russe in Canada and being invited to join the company; being an understudy in Agnes de Mille's Rodeo; studying Nijinska's Chopin concerto first as understudy and then performing in it; performing George Balanchine's choreography in the musical comedy Song of Norway; her favorite roles with Ballet Russe including in Balanchine's Baiser de la fée; Balanchine's influence on her technique; favorite partners, including Nicholas Magallanes, André Eglevsky and Francisco Moncion; Balanchine's Firebird as her most important role; joining Ballet Society; performing as a guest artist with Erik Bruhn with American Ballet Theatre; dancing on television, including with Rudolf Nureyev on Bell Telephone hour; training dancers in Chicago and forming a dance company with the Chicago Lyric Opera [Chicago City Ballet]; working with Jacques D'Amboise; the company's repertoire of mostly Balanchine works; her decision to retire; her daugher; her sister Marjorie Tallchief's career and work with Dallas Civic Ballet; future plans.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Marianna Tcherkassky speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her parents' backgrounds in the performing arts; studying ballet with her mother, Lilli-Ann Oka; studying with Edward Caton at the School of American Ballet; performing with the André Eglevsky Ballet; joining American Ballet Theatre; the broad repertory of American Ballet Theatre; substituting for Gelsey Kirkland in Don Quixote; originating the role of Clara in Mikhail Baryshnikov's The nutcracker; Baryshnikov's approach to creating and staging a work; her thoughts on his leaving American Ballet Theatre; the challenge of learning Twyla Tharp's different style of movement in her work Push comes to shove; her enjoyment in performing Glen Tetley's work, Voluntaries; her level of ease on stage depending on the nature of the role; diet; leisure activities.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Ronald Perry speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his introduction to ballet, on television; his school audition with Arthur Mitchell and his early training at the Harlem School of the Arts; joining Dance Theatre of Harlem as an apprentice; attending the Professional Children's School; participating in high school track; his most influential teachers, including Karel Shook and Arthur Mitchell as well as Tanaquil Le Clercq; Corsair [Le corsaire] as the most challenging ballet; the variety of dance styles he performs, including jazz, ethnic and modern; attending performances of many different companies, with special attention to watching male dancers; admiration for the dancing of Fernando Bujones; the importance of Alexandra Danilova's teaching women's classes at Dance Theatre of Harlem; working with Glen Tetley and the demanding nature of performing his dances; touring with Dance Theatre of Harlem in Europe and across the U.S.; Dance Theatre of Harlem's audience reception and the building of new audience members; partnering many different female dancers; leisure activities; the increasing opportunities for black dancers.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Shaun O'Brien speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his signature role as Drosselmeyer in The nutcracker at New York City Ballet; his use of make-up in creating character roles, for example, the father in George Balanchine's ballet Prodigal son; performing character roles such as Dr. Coppelius and Drosselmeyer; performing classical roles at Vitale Fokine's dance school concerts in Connecticut [Vitale Fokine Ballet School?]; dancing with "Alicia's company" [Ballet Alicia Alonso] and the " Marquis's company" [Grand Ballet de Monte Carlo, Marquis de Cuevas]; being selected by Janet Reed to perform character roles based on his performance as the mother in [Lew Christensen's ballet] Filling station; favorite roles, including Dr. Coppelius, the tray carrier in George Balanchine's La valse, and Von Rothbart; his long career with New York City Ballet and changes in the company during that time; touring; the company's seasons and the nature of the audiences in Saratoga [Saratoga Springs, N.Y.]; leisure activities; exercise and rehearsals; Balanchine's supervision of final rehearsals and his occasional performances, in the past, of the character roles O'Brien now performs.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Virginia Johnson speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about Dance Theatre of Harlem on the occasion of the company's tenth anniversary, including Arthur Mitchell's founding of the company and its school; performing with Washington Ballet [Washington, D.C.]; coming to New York to study modern dance at the Dance Department of New York University [New York University, School of the Arts, Dance Theatre Program]; taking classes with Arthur Mitchell in Harlem; the joint performance with New York City Ballet of George Balanchine's and Mitchell's work Jazz concerto [Concerto for jazz band and orchestra]; her roles in the Dance Theatre of Harlem repertoire, including a number of ballets with Tchaikovsky scores; the mixture of dance styles in the company repertoire; the current and possible future racial makeup of Dance Theatre of Harlem; its audience and building its audience through open houses; her enjoyment in performing both strictly classical and dramatic roles; her enjoyment in watching New York City Ballet and the European companies touring the U.S.; Mary Hinkson as her ideal dancer; starting her training in Washington, D.C., at age three and subsequently studying at the Washington School of Ballet [Washington, D.C.]; touring with Dance Theatre of Harlem in the U.S. and Europe and the audience reception; future plans.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Transcript of an interview with a public affairs director for WMAQ, the NBC owned station in Chicago. Topics discussed include the history of the station during its ownership by the "Chicago Daily News," CBS and NBC plus instructional and public service programming such as the University of Chicago Roundtable. Also covers other programs originating in Chicago such as Amos 'n' Andy.
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