Screen & Radio Weekly

Last updated • 8 min readFrom Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Screen & Radio Weekly
Categories Entertainment
Fan magazine
Print syndication
FrequencyWeekly
Circulation 1,700,000
     (April 1935)  [1]
First issueApril 29, 1934 (1934-04-29) [2]
    Janet Gaynor
     (cover photo)
Company Detroit Free Press
CountryU.S.
Based in Detroit
LanguageEnglish
OCLC 801245070

Screen & Radio Weekly was a nationally syndicated Sunday tabloid-newspaper-supplement published by the Detroit Free Press from 1934 to 1940 that covered film, radio, and fashion – and included a short story.

Contents

History

The concept for the publication has been attributed to Dougles DeVeny Martin (1885–1963), one of five 1932 Pulitzer Prize winning journalists from the Detroit Free Press, [3] who, in April 1934, proposed – to Malcolm Wallace Bingay (1884–1953), managing editor – publishing a weekly tabloid supplement in full color, 16 pages covering cinema and radio entertainment "to interest adult-minded readers, with no salacious gossip and a bare minimum of press-agent claptrap." [4] All factual material used, according to promotional material, was staff-written and each issue featured one short story. [5]

The Detroit Free Press first published S&RW April 29, 1934, with a photo of Janet Gaynor on the cover – an era marked by the Great Depression, before television. Full-scale commercial TV broadcasting did not begin in the United States until 1947. Movies and radio, in 1935, according to author Donovan A. Shilling, served as a relief for people living in an era of few jobs. [6]

On the first anniversary of the publication (in 1935), circulation was 1,700,000 – reportedly more than any two other fan magazines combined. [1] [7]

Editors, reporters, and contributors

A few S&RW columnists who also wrote for the Detroit Free Press used pseudonymous bylines and were identified as Free Press journalists, sans the word "Detroit."

Fashion and beauty

Film

Hollywood

Managing editors

Radio

Theater

Archival access

The issues of Screen & Radio Weekly include neither mastheads nor volumes nor issue numbers – only dates. The Margaret Herrick Library – the main repository of print, graphic and research materials of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences – holds issues of Screen & Radio Weekly. ( OCLC   801245070)

Digital archival access

Notes and references

Notes

  1. Robert Herzberg (né Robert Albert George Herzberg; 1886–1960) was a German-born American painter and illustrator.
  2. The Dayton Herald carried the supplement on Wednesdays as the Mid-Week Screen & Radio Magazine.
  3. The Daily Times, Chicago, carried the supplement on Sundays as the Screen & Radio Magazine.

Related Research Articles

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1932.

<i>Big Town</i> Radio drama series

Big Town is a popular long-running radio drama featuring a corruption-fighting newspaper editor initially played from 1937 to 1942 by Edward G. Robinson in his first radio role, with echoes of the conscience-stricken tabloid editor he had played in the film Five Star Final. Edward Pawley played the lead role longer, 1943–52, in plots that made the editor more of a hands-on crime-fighter. During the later Pawley years, Big Town was adapted to film and television series, and a comic book published by DC Comics.

<i>Detroit Free Press</i> American newspaper

The Detroit Free Press is the largest daily newspaper in Detroit, Michigan, US. The Sunday edition is titled the Sunday Free Press. It is sometimes referred to as the Freep. It primarily serves Wayne, Oakland, Macomb, Livingston, Washtenaw, and Monroe counties.

<i>The Detroit News</i> Major newspaper in Detroit, Michigan

The Detroit News is one of the two major newspapers in the U.S. city of Detroit, Michigan. The paper began in 1873, when it rented space in the rival Detroit Free Press's building. The News absorbed the Detroit Tribune on February 1, 1919, the Detroit Journal on July 21, 1922, and on November 7, 1960, it bought and closed the faltering Detroit Times. However, it retained the Times' building, which it used as a printing plant until 1975, when a new facility opened in Sterling Heights. The Times building was demolished in 1978. The street in downtown Detroit where the Times building once stood is still called "Times Square." The Evening News Association, owner of The News, merged with Gannett in 1985.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Adrienne Ames</span> American actress

Adrienne Ames was an American film actress. Early in her career she was known as Adrienne Truex.

<i>The Flint Journal</i> American newspaper

The Flint Journal is a quad-weekly newspaper based in Flint, Michigan, owned by Booth Newspapers, a subsidiary of Advance Publications. Published Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Sundays, it serves Genesee, Lapeer and Shiawassee Counties. As of February 2, 2012, it is headquartered in Downtown Flint at 540 S Saginaw St, Suite 504. The paper and its sister publications The Saginaw News and The Bay City Times are printed at the Booth-owned Valley Publishing Co. printing plant in Monitor Township.

The byline on a newspaper or magazine article gives the name of the writer of the article. Bylines are commonly placed between the headline and the text of the article, although some magazines place bylines at the bottom of the page to leave more room for graphical elements around the headline.

The Bramptonian was a short-lived Brampton, Ontario newspaper created 1984. The husband and wife team John and Judi McLeod founded the newspaper to rival The Brampton Times.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Virginia Brown Faire</span> American actress (1904–1980)

Virginia Brown Faire was an American silent film actress, appearing in dramatic films and, later, in sound westerns.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kathleen Burke</span> American actress (1913–1980)

Kathleen B. Burke was an American movie actress of the 1930s and former model.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Raquel Torres</span> Mexican-American actress (1908–1987)

Raquel Torres was a Mexican-born American film actress. Her sister was actress Renee Torres.

<i>She Couldnt Take It</i> 1935 film by Tay Garnett

She Couldn't Take It is a 1935 screwball comedy film made at Columbia Pictures, directed by Tay Garnett, written by C. Graham Baker, Gene Towne and Oliver H.P. Garrett, and starring George Raft and Joan Bennett. It was one of the few comedies Raft made in his career.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Patricia Ellis</span> American actress

Patricia Ellis was an American film actress of the 1930s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julie Gibson</span> American actress and singer (1913–2019)

Julie Gibson was an American singer and radio, television and film actress who had a career in movies during the 1940s. Gibson, who retired from the industry in 1984, was known for her work opposite The Three Stooges. She also collaborated with Orson Welles, John Huston, Ida Lupino and The Bowery Boys.

Irina Petrushova is a Russian journalist, founder and editor-in-chief of the weekly Respublika in Kazakhstan. After a series of stories exposing government corruption, her life was threatened and her paper firebombed. In 2002, she was awarded a CPJ International Press Freedom Award.

John Jacob Sher was an American newspaper columnist, songwriter, film director, film writer, and producer.

Loretta Lee was an American singer in the first half of the 20th century.

<i>Katie Joplin</i> 1999 American sitcom that aired on The WB

Katie Joplin is an American sitcom created by Tom Seeley and Norm Gunzenhauser that aired for one season on The WB Television Network from August to September 1999. Park Overall stars as the title character, a single mother who moves from Knoxville to Philadelphia and tries to balance her job as a radio program host with parenting her teenage son Greg. Supporting characters include Katie's niece Liz Berlin as well as her co-workers, played by Jay Thomas, Jim Rash, and Simon Rex. Majandra Delfino guest-starred in three episodes as the daughter of the radio station's general manager.

Robert Mero Kalloch III, often known by his professional mononym Kalloch, was an American fashion designer and, later, a costume designer for Columbia Pictures and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He worked on 105 films during his career, and was widely considered one of America's top fashion designers in the late 1930s.

Bernadine Hayes was an American singer and an actress on radio and stage and in films and vaudeville. In 1930, she was named the most beautiful radio performer in America.

References

  1. 1 2 ("Screen & Radio Weekly")Time, Vol. 25, Part 2, p. 55 (Retrieved via Google Books; snippet view only)
  2. "Detroit Gives Enthusiastic Welcome to Free Press Screen & Radio Weekly,"Detroit Free Press, April 30, 1934, p. 4 (Retrieved via Newspapers.com ; subscription required)
  3. Complete Biographical Encyclopedia of Pulitzer Prize Winners, 1917–2000, by Heinz-Dietrich Fischer, Erika J. Fischer, K. G. Saur Verlag, (2002); ISBN   3-598-30170-7
    "Martin, Douglas DeVeny", pp. 153–154
  4. On Guard, A History of the 'Detroit Free Press,' by Frank Angelo, Detroit Free Press (1981), p. 158; OCLC   7273946
  5. 1 2 "Screen & Radio Weekly" (review), The Writer, Vol. 52 (issue not known) (1939), p. 384 (Retrieved via Google Books; snippet view only)
  6. Rochester's Movie Mania, by Donovan A. Shilling (born 1933), (self published) (2013), p. 38 (2013); OCLC   856579424
    Note: Shilling is historian, notably on Rochester, New York
  7. ("Screen & Radio Weekly") Printers' Ink, Vol. 171 (issue not known), 1935; ISSN   0196-1160 (Retrieved via Google Books; snippet view only)
  8. "Death Notices – 'Richards, Sara Lou (Dague),'" Hartford Courant, August 18, 2001, p. B4 (Retrieved via Newspapers.com ; subscription required)
  9. "Miss Grace M. Barber . . . " (marriages), Detroit Free Press, July 10, 1921, part 4, p. 4, col. 7 (of 8, top) ( Newspapers.com ; subscription required)
  10. "Grace Barber to Get Award" Detroit Free Press, February 7, 1960, p. 10E ( Newspapers.com ; subscription required)
  11. "A Woman of Words and Fishing Rods," by Kay Savage," p. 1E (accessible via Newspapers.com , subscription required)
    Continued, "Grace Barber, Her 2 Lives," Detroit Free Press, February 7, 1960, p. 10E ( Newspapers.com ; subscription required)
  12. Jacobsen's Biographical Index of American Artists – Artists native to the United States or working in the United States from 1606 to 2002 (Vol. 2 of 4), Anita Jacobsen (ed.) A.J. Publications (2002); OCLC   956672085
  13. The Coryell Nursery – Growers of High Grade Ornementals (1917)
  14. "A Designing Young Lady – Lillian Templeton, Studio Stylist, Discusses the Art of Garbing the Garbos," by Frank Stanley Nugent, New York Times, May 19, 1935, p. 4X (Retrieved via New York Times , subscription required)
  15. California and Californians (Vol. 4 of 4), Rockwell Dennis Hunt, PhD (ed.), Lewis Publishing Company (1932), p. 533
  16. "Sixty-Eighth Annual Commencement," Northwestern University, June 14, 1926, pp. 13 & 24
  17. "Isabella Taves Miller Joins Look Staff," (re: Look)Nebraska State Journal, May 28, 1942, p. 5 (Retrieved via Newspapers.com ; subscription required)
  18. ("Mrs. Isabella Miller") Printers' Ink, Vol. 177 (issue not known), 1936, p. 40; ISSN   0196-1160 (Retrieved via Google Books; snippet view only)
  19. "From the Production Centres – In Hollywood . . . " (re: "Grace Wilcox"), Variety, Vol. 155, No. 5, July 12, 1944, p. 26
  20. 1 2 "Deaths: Robert Burns White," The Times Herald (Port Huron, Michigan), August 26, 1969, p. Sec. A, p. 5 (accessible via Newspapers.com ; subscription required)
  21. "Radio Editors of Newspapers in the United States and Canada," Broadcasting combined with Broadcast Advertising1936 Year Book Number, Broadcasting Publications, Inc.
  22. "Startled Miss Sloan Reads Own 'Murder' – Mystery Tale Reviewer Finds Out How She 'Died'" (book review), by Betty Sloan, Detroit Free Press, May 12, 1935, part 3 "Arts Section," p. 13 (accessible via Newspapers.com ; subscription required)
    Re: The Murder of Miss Betty Sloan, by Sidney Clark Williams (1878–1949), D Appleton, Century Company (1937); OCLC   20879866
  23. "Joins NBC – Robert White" (with portrait photo), Detroit Free Press, September 19, 1937, p. 19, col. 6 (of 8) (Retrieved via Newspapers.com ; subscription required)
  24. "Front Office – Robert Burns White," Broadcasting, October 9, 1950, p. 50