Radio comedy - Posts - Page 19

Happy Birthday, Earle Ross!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 29th 2019

As a boy, actor Earle Ross had been gifted with a beautiful soprano voice—one that he put to good use singing in the boys’

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 12th 2019

If real life were like an old-time radio comedy program—and my gosh, don’t you think it should be?—I can’t think of any oth

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 12th 2019

In the 1950s, with technological strides being embraced by the dying medium of radio, the Columbia Broadcasting System star

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 9th 2019

On April 26, 1936, the small Arkansas town of Waters officially changed its name to Pine Ridge. It wasn’t because they wer

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 25th 2019

It pains me to have to say this…but I have heard from many an old-time radio devotee that Portland Hoffa—born on this date

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 18th 2019

The date was June 9, 1986 and the borough of Brooklyn was awash with the celebrative gaiety of its Back to Brooklyn Day Fes