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Orson Welles appearing in a scene from Romeo and Juliet on the Monday Night Show, over the WALC-Columbia network, from 8:00 to 8:30 p.m. EST on May 23, 1938. Welles is wearing his costume in readiness for a dash to the Mercury Theater, where he was appearing in Heartbreak House.
Photo: Associated Press via the Denver Post
This Date in Manka Bros. History - March 25, 1939
Following the success of Orson Welles’ broadcast of H.G. Wells’ ‘The War of the Worlds,’ Manka Bros. (and the Manka Radio Players) produced an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ ‘The First Men In The Moon.’ Many who heard it live went insane, rioted and killed themselves believing men had actually landed on the moon.
In 1922, station KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (the "Pioneer Broadcasting Station of the World") hosted humorist Will Rogers in his first radio appearance. Rogers seen here with the 1922 Ziegfeld Follies Girls enjoying a crate of apples; I'll just bet he was making a joke about the garden of Eden!
Three guests at the Hotel Baltimore listening to their favorite home town orchestra while visiting New York, March 18, 1925. The hotel had just installed individual radio sets in every suite and planned to make good on the slogan "radio in every room."
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Surrounded by staff members, United State Line operating manager Thomas H. Rossbottom receives a message from the SS America in his office on Broadway, March 5, 1922. It was the first time that a radio telephone had been used by a United States Line vessel to make its noon report.
Photo: Paul Thompson via FPG/Archive Photos/Getty Images
Radio Rose, the brainchild doll of Beulah Louise Henry, the "Lady Edison," makes her broadcasting debut on the Gimbels in-house 500W radio station, WGBS, on January 28, 1925. She had a loudspeaking unit in her bisque skull, the bell of an 8-inch horn in her chest, and a complete, self-contained three-tube radio set in her dress.
Beulah Henry was an inventor who made extensive contributions to consumer products and manufacturing technology. She was a descendant of Patrick Henry.
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The Hotel Vanderbilt installed a radio phone receiving set, and Mr. E.C. Pickward and his unnamed partner enjoyed a wireless foxtrot in the Della Robbia Room on February 28, 1922.
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The sound effects team works its magic in the CBS studio for the famous radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, October 30, 1938.
Photo: Hulton-Deutsch Collection/National Endowment for the Humanities
