Birthday - Posts - Page 34

Happy Birthday, Rosa Rio!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 2nd 2016

In Leonard Maltin’s old-time radio memoir The Great American Broadcast, veteran announcer Jackson Beck recalled a most amus

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 30th 2016

One-half of the comedy team that served as my introduction to old-time radio was born one hundred and ten years ago on this

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 22nd 2016

As a medical student at the University of Edinburgh from 1876 through 1881, Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle—born in Edinburgh o

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 8th 2016

A doorbell rings at a residence in the Midwest, and the all-too-trusting couple that resides inside welcomes their visitor

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 5th 2016

During the 1930s and early 1940s, actress-singer Alice Faye—born in New York City on this date in 1915—was one of 20th Cent

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 2nd 2016

In his invaluable reference book The Great Radio Soap Operas, author Jim Cox opines that Gertrude “Trudy” Warner—born in Ha