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Tuesday, December 3, 2024

Please Bring Me My Papa: A Christmas Cartoon of the Great War

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Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Sunday, December 19, 1915. By Nelson Harding. From Newspapers.com and the Brooklyn Public Library. https://bklyn.newsp...
Monday, December 2, 2024

From the Archives: Book Store Find Signed By Shari Lewis!

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"One-Minute Bedtime Stories" by Shari Lewis with Lan O'Kun I am constantly on the lookout for rare and unique materials that r...
Saturday, April 20, 2024

Winifred Toomey - OTR Child Star of the Month April 2024

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Winifred Toomey in Radio Digest December 1930, with her reported 28 brown curls. Winifred Toomey (1919 – 2005), Radio's First Contracte...
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Barbara Jean Wong 100th Birthday Part I: OTR Child Star of the Month - March 2024

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Barbara Jean Wong around age 9, from Radio Mirror July 1936. From  Media History Digital Library It was hard to decide on the Old Time Radio...

Patricia Ryan - Part II

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Ad for Pat Ryan promoting her work on "Let's Pretend" and the "March of Games" series from the Buffalo Courier Expre...
Saturday, February 24, 2024

OTR Child Star of the Month: Patricia Ryan Part I

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In order to speed up a goal of completing a definitive history of children's radio before 1960, I will try to write about one juvenile s...
Saturday, December 23, 2023

Season's Greetings From Alice Remsen - The Musical Story Lady

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  Christmas Greetings from Alice Remsen, NBC Blue Radio's "Musical Story Lady" From Radio Daily  December 1937. From Variety, ...