Let's Pretend and the Golden Age of Radio (hardback) PDF Download

Author: Arthur Anderson
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Languages : en
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Biography of the classic radio show, Let's Pretend, written by one of its cast members.

Author: Arthur Anderson
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ISBN: 9781593930196
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
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Let's Pretend actually went under a different title and slight variations of formats before settling down to the now-familiar children's program heard today through surviving recordings. On October 27, 1928, a Saturday morning children's program offering whimsical tales of fantasy and fairy tales premiered under the title of Aunt Jymmie and Her Tots in Tottyville. Very little is known about this program except for the format. The hostess of the series (Aunt Jymmie) would introduce each week's drama to the juvenile audience, which would be enacted by a cast of young children known as "the tots." The young "tots" would then travel to Tottyville, a make-believe world of king and queens, princesses, witches and magic spells. This series lasted for eighteen broadcasts from October 27, 1928 to February 23, 1929, originating from the WABC studio in New York City, the flagship station for CBS. Aunt Jymmie was replaced by a second children's radio program known as The Children's Club Hour with Howard Merrill. Merrill functioned as both the host and the scriptwriter. Later, during the 1940s, Merrill would write scripts for The Gay Nineties Revue, Secret Missions, and detective series such as Sherlock Holmes, Leonidas Witherall and the Abbott Mysteries. Just as the title suggests, The Children's Club Hour also featured fairy tales enacted by juvenile cast members, but why the word "hour"; is in the program's title is not all too clear - the program was only on the air for a thirty-minute time slot. After seventeen broadcasts of The Children's Club Hour, the time slot was handed over to Estelle Levy and Patricia Ryan who created a third Saturday morning children's program, this one titled The Adventures of Helen and Mary. Third time was the charm. The Adventures of Helen and Mary has been documented in encyclopedias such as John Dunning's On the Air as the forerunner of Let's Pretend, and this statement is correct but it should be known that Aunt Jymmie and the Children's Club Hour programs were not previous incarnations of Let's Pretend. The producers, directors, cast and staff of those two previous were totally different programs. The only similarity was the fact that they both offered renditions of fairy tales for young radio listeners. The Children's Club Hour began on March 2, 1929. The exact date of the final broadcast of The Children's Club Hour is June 22, 1929. The first broadcast of The Adventures of Helen and Mary was June 29, 1929. The Adventures of Helen and Mary was very successful and was heard for a total of 229 broadcasts. Interesting trivia: For a very brief time during December 1930 and January 1931, the name of the program changed from The Adventures of Helen and Mary to Land O' Make Believe. There is no evidence explaining why the program changed its title for the few brief weeks and back again and it's not clear how many broadcasts went by the name Land O' Make Believe. After 229 broadcasts, Nila Mack, who by then was heavily involved with the program, took over the reins and changed the title from The Adventures of Helen and Mary to Let's Pretend. (Anyone slightly confused can recall the example of how Counterspy and David Harding, Counterspy are the same program, it's just that the title changed over the years.) "The best book about radio I've read since Mary Jane Higby's Tune in Tomorrow. You have made the whole golden age of radio come alive." - Ron Lackmann, author

Author: Kari Therrian
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ISBN: 9781514800126
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Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Let's Pretend Vol. 1 #1Including:The Enchanted StagThe RiddleRumpelstiltskinThe Youth Who Learned To Shiver And ShakeDonkey SkinThis book contains the entire issue Let's Pretend Vol. 1 #1, not seen in print for two generations! Now you can with this public domain reprint from Golden Age Reprints. Check out the full line - new titles every week! The comic reprints from Golden Age Reprints and UP History and Hobby are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. These books are constantly updated with the best version available - if you are EVER unhappy with the experience or quality of a book, return the book to us to exchange for another title or the upgrade as new files become available. GE12967 20143868

Author: Arthur Anderson
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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For 24 years Let's Pretend was the most widely heard children's radio program. The author, a member of the cast from 1936 until the show ended in 1954, provides an insider's view of how the show was done and the personalities behind it. The careers of many of the child actors and the adults who worked with them, the process of live radio, and the behind-the-scenes activities of the network and sponsors are all covered. Also recalled are the golden days of radio when shows such as Let's Pretend were in their heyday.

Author: Kari Therrian
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ISBN: 9781514799994
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Languages : en
Pages : 38

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Let's Pretend Vol. 1 #3Including:King Midas And The Golden TouchHansel And GretelThe Princess And The PeaFairy ShoemakerWhy The Sea Is SaltThis book contains the entire issue Let's Pretend Vol. 1 #3, not seen in print for two generations! Now you can with this public domain reprint from Golden Age Reprints. Check out the full line - new titles every week! The comic reprints from Golden Age Reprints and UP History and Hobby are reproduced from actual classic comics, and sometimes reflect the imperfection of books that are decades old. These books are constantly updated with the best version available - if you are EVER unhappy with the experience or quality of a book, return the book to us to exchange for another title or the upgrade as new files become available. GE12967 20143868

Author: Gerald Nachman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520223035
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 548

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Radio broadcasting United States History.

Author: Steve Young
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ISBN: 9780922233441
Category : Industrial musicals
Languages : en
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The little-known world of industrial shows is reconstructed through the record collection of author Steve Young, who has spent twenty years finding the extremely rare souvenir albums as well as tracking down and interviewing the writers and performers.

Author: Martha Wickham
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ISBN: 9781568993713
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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When Emma sees a radio like her grandmother's at the Information Age Exhibit at the National Museum of American History, Emma imagines that she is a young girl in 1945. Emma soon realizes how much radio brought to people's lives only fifty years ago. The companion audiocassette contains classic radio segments of Jack Benny, Lux Family Theater, The Shadows, and more.

Author: Luther F. Sies
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Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 920

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This encyclopedic work comprehensively covers the performers and programming on American radio from its inception to its golden age. Extensively researched over the course of more than twenty years, this new work is the definitive source for scholars of communication, social and cultural history and the popular arts, as well as devoted fans of radio history. The encyclopedia includes entries for programs, announcers, orchestras, musicians, vocalists, comedians, vocal groups, readers, whistlers, musical saw soloists, ministers, sports commentators, reviewers (of books, plays and movies), celebrities, and other personnel broadcasting over American radio from the 1920s to the 1960s. Additional entries cover commercial radio, educational broadcasting, firsts in radio history, opera on radio, religious broadcasting, sports broadcasting, women in radio, border radio, children's programs, comedy on radio, crime shows and mysteries, daytime dramatic serials, and disk jockeys, among other topics.

Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1847395457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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What happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene, is witness to a murder - and to the final words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced her attacker was after her dead daughter's journal, which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It's an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed in the witness protection programme and sent to live in Minneapolis, Lacey must assume a fake identity, at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch, a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date - until the strain of her deception makes her break it off. Then she discovers the killer has traced her whereabouts. Armed with nothing more than her own courage and clues from the journal, Lacey heads back to New York determined to uncover who is behind the deaths of the two women… before she is the next casualty. A terrifyingly chilling bestseller from the internationally adored author of DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL