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The Gumps (radio Series)
The Gumps is an American radio sitcom broadcast from 1931 until 1937, mostly on CBS Radio based on the popular Sidney Smith newspaper comic strip ''The Gumps''. It was the first radio adaptation of comics. Concept The Gumps are portrayed as a cranky couple. The biographer of writer Irwin Shaw describes them as the "Archie Bunker and Edith Bunker of their day." History The show first aired on WGN Chicago from 1931 until November 5, 1934. From 1934 until 1937 it aired on CBS Radio. WGN executive Ben McCanna believed that a dramatic serial could work on radio just as it did in newspapers. When he approached Gosden and Correll to adapt ''The Gumps'' to radio, they declined and instead devised their own characters for the 1926–27 radio serial, ''Sam 'n' Henry''. After reworking these characters for ''Amos 'n' Andy'' in 1928–29, while borrowing certain elements from ''The Gumps'', they were on their way to becoming millionaires, and the radio serial format they created soon be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Radio
CBS Radio was a radio broadcasting company and radio network operator owned by CBS Corporation and founded in 1928, with consolidated radio station groups owned by CBS and Westinghouse Broadcasting/Group W since the 1920s, and Infinity Broadcasting since the 1970s. The broadcasting company was sold to Entercom (now known as Audacy, Inc.) on November 17, 2017. Although CBS's involvement in radio dates back to the establishment of the original CBS Radio Network in 1927, the most recent radio division was formed by the 1997 acquisition of Infinity Broadcasting by CBS owner Westinghouse. In 1999, Infinity became a division of the original Viacom; in 2005, Viacom spun CBS and Infinity Broadcasting back into a separate company, and the division was renamed CBS Radio. It was the last radio group left to be tied to a major broadcast television network, as NBC divested its radio interests in the 1980s, and ABC sold off its division to Citadel Broadcasting (now part of Cumulus Media) i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wilmer Walter
Wilmer or Wilmers may refer to: Places *Wilmer, Alabama, United States, an unincorporated community *Wilmer, Louisiana, United States, an unincorporated hamlet *Wilmer, Texas, United States, a city *Wilmer, British Columbia, Canada, a settlement Surname Wilmer *Clive Wilmer (born 1945), British poet *Douglas Wilmer (1920–2016), English actor *Elizabeth Wilmer, American mathematician * Emmanuel Wilmer (died 2005), Haitian killed in political violence *Franke Wilmer (born 1950), American politician *Heiner Wilmer (born 1961), German Roman Catholic bishop * James Jones Wilmer (1750–1814), Episcopal priest and U.S. Senate chaplain *Val Wilmer (born 1941), British photographer and writer *William Holland Wilmer (1782–1827), Episcopal priest, author and president of College of William and Mary Wilmers *Mary-Kay Wilmers (born 1938), British journal editor * Robert G. Wilmers (1934–2017), American banker * Wilhelm Wilmers (1817–1899), German Jesuit professor of philosophy and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CBS Radio Programs
CBS Broadcasting Inc., commonly shortened to CBS, the abbreviation of its former legal name Columbia Broadcasting System, is an American commercial broadcast television and radio network serving as the flagship property of the CBS Entertainment Group division of Paramount Global. Its headquarters is at the CBS Building in New York City. It has major production facilities and operations at the CBS Broadcast Center and the headquarters of owner Paramount Global at One Astor Plaza (both also in that city) and Television City and the CBS Studio Center in Los Angeles. It is also sometimes referred to as the Eye Network in reference to the company's trademark symbol which has been in use since 1951. It has also been called the Tiffany Network which alludes to the perceived high quality of its programming during the tenure of William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBS's first demonstrations of color television, which were held in the former Tiffany and Company Building in Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1937 Radio Programme Endings
Events January * January 1 – Anastasio Somoza GarcÃa 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 assassinate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Radio Programme Debuts
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 – Official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Comedy Radio Programs
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth McLeod
Elizabeth McLeod (born 1963) is a journalist and broadcast historian who lives and works on the coast of Maine. She is best known for her extensive research into the origin and history of ''Amos 'n' Andy'', an authoritative study first available on the Internet and then in her book, ''The Original Amos ’n’ Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928–1943 Radio Serial''. Biography McLeod has written numerous articles on radio pioneers and the history of early radio. Her articles have appeared in such publications as ''Nostalgia Digest, Journal of the Radio Historical Association of Colorado'' and ''Radio Recall''. She has contributed to (among others) ''Exploring Cultural History: Living Through the Great Depression'' and ''Encyclopedia of Radio''. McLeod has also written liner notes for Radio Archives' ''Radio Legends: Matinee with Bob and Ray'' and other CD collections. Her major work, ''The Original Amos ’n’ Andy: Freeman Gosden, Charles Correll and the 1928â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bess Flynn
Bess or BESS may refer to: * Bess (name), a given name and surname * Bess (content-control software), a brand of web filtering software * Bess (Dane), legendary Danish general mentioned in ''Gesta Danorum'' * Bess (singer), Finnish singer * BESS (experiment), a particle physics experiment * Basic Enlisted Submarine School, the United States Navy's school for enlisted submariners * Lake Bess, Florida, United States * Mount Bess, on the border between Alberta and British Columbia, Canada * Bess beetle, a family of beetles * Bess Press, an American publisher * Delta Bessborough or The Bess, a hotel in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada * Battery energy storage system See also * BES (other) * Besse (other) * Brown Bess, nickname of a British Army musket * Old Bess (beam engine) * Tropical Storm Bess The name Bess has been used for one tropical cyclone in the Atlantic Ocean, and ten tropical cyclones in the western Pacific. Bess was used for one tropical cyclone in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Kelk
John Daly "Jackie" Kelk (August 6, 1923 – September 5, 2002) was an American stage, radio, film, and television actor and stand-up comedian. He is best known for portraying the role of Homer Brown on the radio series ''The Aldrich Family'' and as the original voice of Jimmy Olsen on '' The Adventures of Superman''. Early years Kelk was born John Daly Kelk in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Willy Kelk. He attended St. Gregory's Academy before changing to Professional Children's School in New York. Career Kelk began his career as a child actor in the 1930s. He made his film debut Sam in the 1931 short ''Play Ball'', made by Warner Bros. In 1932, he was cast as a snobby bow-tied boy named "Georgie Bassett" in the ''Penrod'' Vitaphone comedy shorts. The shorts were similar to the popular and long running '' Our Gang'' shorts, and were based on books by Booth Tarkington. At age 10, Kelk appeared in the 1934 drama '' Born to Be Bad''. He also had roles in Broadway pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lester Jay
Lester is an ancient Anglo-Saxon surname and given name. Notable people and characters with the name include: People Given name * Lester Bangs (1948–1982), American music critic * Lester W. Bentley (1908–1972), American artist from Wisconsin * Lester Bird (1938–2021), second prime minister of Antigua and Barbuda (1994–2004) * Lester Cotton (born 1996), American football player * Lester del Rey (1915–1993), American science fiction author and editor * Lester Flatt (1914–1979), American bluegrass musician * Lester Gillis (1908–1934), better known as Baby Face Nelson, American gangster * Lester Holt (born 1959), American television journalist * Lester Charles King (1907–1989), English geomorphologist * Lester Lanin (1907–2004), American jazz and pop music bandleader * Lester Lockett (1912–2005), American Negro League baseball player * Lester Maddox (1915–2003), governor and lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of Georgia * Lester Patrick (1883–1960), Canad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Flynn (actor) (born 1993), an amateur boxer from Scotland
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Charles Flynn may refer to: * Charles L. Flynn, Jr., president of the College of Mount Saint Vincent * Charles Flynn (trade unionist) (1882–1957), British trade unionist and politician * Charles A. Flynn, United States Army general * Charlie Flynn Charles "Mailman" Flynn (born 6 November 1993, Lanark) is a professional boxer and Commonwealth gold medalist from Scotland. Amateur career Flynn competed in the men's lightweight division at the 2014 Commonwealth Games where he won the gol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900April 30, 1974) was an American actress. In a career spanning four decades, her credits included work in radio, stage, film, and television.Obituary ''Variety'', May 8, 1974, page 286. Moorehead was the recipient of such accolades as a Primetime Emmy Award and two Golden Globe Awards, in addition to nominations for four Academy Awards. She is best known for her role as Endora on the television series ''Bewitched'', but she also had notable roles in films, including ''Citizen Kane'', ''Dark Passage'', ''All That Heaven Allows'', and ''Show Boat''. She is also known for the radioplay ''Sorry, Wrong Number'' (1943) and its several subsequent re-recordings for '' Suspense''. Moorehead garnered four nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, for her performances in: ''The Magnificent Ambersons'' (1942), ''Mrs. Parkington'' (1944), '' Johnny Belinda'' (1948), and '' Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte'' (1964). Early life Agnes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
