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Living Dramas Of The Bible
''Living Dramas of the Bible'' is an American Biblical anthology radio program that was broadcast on CBS in 1937. Overview ''Living Dramas of the Bible'' presented Biblical stories adapted by contemporary authors. CBS said that episodes "employ a more contemporary idiom and at the same time retain all the poetic qualities of the original stories." At least one episode, "Susannah and the Elders", was adapted from the Apocrypha. The first episode depicted the trials of Job, and the second related the story of Joseph. A minister, a priest, and a rabbi reviewed the contents of episodes, and CBS offered to provide copies of the scripts to American churches. Actors who appeared on the program included Stefan Schnabel and George Gaul. Writers for the series included Margaret Widdemer, Charles G. Jackson, Albert Tracy Huntington, John Alcorn, Stanley Silverman, Thyra Samter Winslow, Ernest Howard Culbertson, Margaret Sangster and Lewis Beach. Selected episodes Production Dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Biblical Apocrypha
The biblical apocrypha (from the grc, ἀπόκρυφος, translit=apókruphos, lit=hidden) denotes the collection of apocryphal ancient books thought to have been written some time between 200 BC and AD 400. The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches include some or all of the same texts within the body of their version of the Old Testament, terming them deuterocanonical books. Traditional 80-book Protestant Bibles include fourteen books in an intertestamental section between the Old Testament and New Testament called the Apocrypha, deeming these useful for instruction, but non-canonical. To this date, the Apocrypha are "included in the lectionaries of Anglican and Lutheran Churches". Anabaptists use the Luther Bible, which contains the Apocrypha as intertestamental books; Amish wedding ceremonies include "the retelling of the marriage of Tobias and Sarah in the Apocrypha". Moreover, the Revised Common Lectionary, in use by most mainline Protestant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newspapers
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns. Most newspapers are businesses, and they pay their expenses with a mixture of subscription revenue, newsstand sales, and advertising revenue. The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print (usually on cheap, low-grade paper called newsprint). However, today most newspapers are also published on websites as online newspapers, and some have even abandoned their print versions entirely. Newspapers developed in the 17th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefan Schnabel
Stefan Artur Schnabel (February 2, 1912 – March 11, 1999) was a German-born American actor who worked in theatre, radio, films and television. After moving to the United States in 1937 he became one of the original members of Orson Welles's Mercury Theatre repertory company. He portrayed Dr. Stephen Jackson on the CBS Soap opera, daytime TV series, ''The Guiding Light'', for 17 years. Biography Stefan Artur Schnabel was born February 2, 1912, in Berlin, Germany.Ancestry.com. ''New York, Naturalization Records, 1882–1944'' [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. The National Archives and Records Administration; Washington, D.C.; ''Petitions for Naturalization from the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1897-1944; Series: M1972; Roll: 1293'' He was the younger son of the classical pianist Artur Schnabel and contralto Therese Schnabel, Therese Behr Schnabel. His older brother was the pianist Karl Ulrich Schnabel. "My fat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Gaul
George Gaul (September 22, 1885 – October 6, 1939) was an American stage actor in the first half of the 20th century. As far as is known Gaul never appeared in motion pictures but was one America's most successful stage actors in the 1920s. He was born in Philadelphia to John Gall and his wife Rebecca (née Baxter).''Who Was Who in the Theatre: 1912–1976'' vol.2 D-H, p. 913, from editions originally published annually by John Parker; these final editions published by Gale Research Company 1976 He was educated at Lawrenceville Preparatory School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey and made his Broadway debut in 1909. Over the course of his career he toured with Billie Burke, Otis Skinner and Charles Coburn.Appelbaum, Stanley, ''Great Actors & Actresses of the American Stage in Historic Photographs'', p. 74, c.1983. In the 1920s he appeared in the Theatre Guild's ''The S.S. Tenacity'' and ''Back to Methuselah''. He's best remembered for originating the part of Chico in the original Broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Widdemer
Margaret Widdemer (September 30, 1884 – July 14, 1978) was an American poet and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize (known then as the Columbia University Prize) in 1919 for her collection ''The Old Road to Paradise'', shared with Carl Sandburg for ''Cornhuskers''."Poetry" The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2013-11-24. 
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Thyra Samter Winslow
Thyra Samter Winslow (March 15, 1886 – December 2, 1961) was an American short story writer, novelist, and film story writer, who published over 200 stories during her career, frequently for magazines such as ''The Smart Set'', ''The American Mercury'', and ''The New Yorker''. Early life Thyra Samter was born to Louis Samter and Sara Harris Samter in Fort Smith, Arkansas on March 15, 1886 (though other sources list contradictory birth years). Her parents had married in May 1885; her family was Jewish, and her father ran a dry-goods store. At one point in her teen or early adult years, Samter wrote a society column for the Fort Smith ''Southwest American'' entitled "The Lady Clerk." After graduating from high school, Samter briefly attended the University of Missouri. In 1909, she moved to Chicago, working in vaudeville theatre and as a feature writer for the ''Chicago Tribune''. In 1912, she married writer John Seymour Winslow. They divorced some time in 1927; Thyra Samter Wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernest Howard Culbertson
Ernest Howard Culbertson, also known as E. H. Culbertson and Howard Culbertson, (April 29, 1886, New York – July 1972, New York City) was an American newsreel editor, journalist, playwright, and screenwriter. Educated in Washington D. C., Culbertson began his career working for William Randolph Hearst as a features writer for ''The Washington Times''. A pioneer in newsreel journalism, he was appointed head of the features department for William Fox's newly created ''Fox News'' in 1919; the organization that invented the newsreel. He later worked as a newsreel editor for ''Universal Newsreel''. As a dramatist he is best known for the play ''Goat Alley'' which was first staged on Broadway in 1921 and later revived in 1927. He also wrote screenplays for films made by Pathé Exchange and Paramount Pictures, and was a writer for the 1937 CBS Radio program ''Living Dramas of the Bible''. Early life and education Born Ernest Howard Culbertson, Jr on April 29, 1886, in New York state, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Sangster (radio Writer)
Margaret Sangster (1894 - October 23, 1981) was an American writer who primarily produced scripts for radio programs. Early years Sangster was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Manson Sangster. She grew up in Brooklyn, New York, living there until she was 20 years old. Her mother was an invalid, which limited Sangster's activity as a child. When she ventured beyond the front stoop of their home, her mother tapped sharply on her upstairs window with a thimble, beckoning her back to the stoop. "On occasion," she recalled in 1934, "I was permitted to sit on a hassock while tea was served, but I wasn't permitted to talk. I really was a model child. It was very uninteresting." Her father was a newspaperman in New York, and her grandmother was Margaret Elizabeth Sangster, a writer and editor. Her grandmother became blind, and the younger Margaret spent several hours a day reading to her. Sangster's childhood shaped her outlook as a professional writer, causing her to say, "I never have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William N
William is a male given name of Germanic origin.Hanks, Hardcastle and Hodges, ''Oxford Dictionary of First Names'', Oxford University Press, 2nd edition, , p. 276. It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066,All Things William"Meaning & Origin of the Name"/ref> and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. It is sometimes abbreviated "Wm." Shortened familiar versions in English include Will, Wills, Willy, Willie, Bill, and Billy. A common Irish form is Liam. Scottish diminutives include Wull, Willie or Wullie (as in Oor Wullie or the play ''Douglas''). Female forms are Willa, Willemina, Wilma and Wilhelmina. Etymology William is related to the given name ''Wilhelm'' (cf. Proto-Germanic ᚹᛁᛚᛃᚨᚺᛖᛚᛗᚨᛉ, ''*Wiljahelmaz'' > German ''Wilhelm'' and Old Norse ᚢᛁᛚᛋᛅᚼᛅᛚᛘᛅᛋ, ''Vilhjálmr''). By regular sound changes, the native, inherited English form of the name should b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sustaining Program
A sustaining program is a radio or television program that, despite airing on a commercial broadcast station, does not have commercial sponsorship or advertising. This term, mostly used in the United States, was common in the early days of radio, but has become unfamiliar owing to the nearly universal use of commercial advertising on radio and television. Network and commercial radio Commercial radio stations began broadcasting in the early 1920s, but it would be over a decade before the concept of selling over-the-air advertising would catch on. Many radio stations were established by radio equipment manufacturers and retailers such as RCA and programming was provided to sell the still-patented radio transmitters and receivers (thus effectively establishing a one-time fee model). Programming was financed from the sale of the equipment. Other radio stations and programs were provided as a public service through endowments or municipal financing; a few were operated by universities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1930s American Radio Programs
Year 193 ( CXCIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sosius and Ericius (or, less frequently, year 946 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 193 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * January 1 – Year of the Five Emperors: The Roman Senate chooses Publius Helvius Pertinax, against his will, to succeed the late Commodus as Emperor. Pertinax is forced to reorganize the handling of finances, which were wrecked under Commodus, to reestablish discipline in the Roman army, and to suspend the food programs established by Trajan, provoking the ire of the Praetorian Guard. * March 28 – Pertinax is assassinated by members of the Praetorian Guard, who storm the imperial palace. The Empire is auctioned off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Radio Programme Debuts
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua. * January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into February, leaving 1 million people homeless and 385 people dead. * January 15 – Spanish Civil War: Second Battle of the Corunna Road ends inconclusively. * January 20 – Second inauguration of Franklin D. Roosevelt: Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for a second term as President of the United States. This is the first time that the United States presidential inauguration occurs on this date; the change is due to the ratification in 1933 of the Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution. * January 23 – Moscow Trials: Trial of the Anti-Soviet Trotskyist Center – In the Soviet Union 17 leading Communists go on trial, accused of participating in a plot led by Leon Trotsky to overthrow Joseph Stalin's regime, and assassinat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
