Skip to main content
We think you're near
Los Angeles
Examiner.com
Log in
Sign up
Arts & Entertainment
Recreation
Home & Life
Interests
News & Info
More
Become an examiner
National Goodman Ace
Coming up Aces: Old-time radio listening, 17-18 April
Easy Aces
April 18, 2012
Two days' old-time radio jewels, including but not limited to the easiest of Aces, Jack Benny and his former sotted bandleader, two distinct...
Read more
Going to the mattress: Old-time radio listening, 6 March
mr. ace and JANE
March 6, 2012
mr. ace and JANE: Talent Hunt for Radio Show (CBS, 1948)“Well,” wrote Goodman Ace, introducing a charming anthology of a few Easy Aces...
Read more
The easiest Ace: Old-time radio appreciation, 15 January
Goodman Ace
January 15, 2012
The son of Latvian immigrants, he was born 113 years ago today.Hebecame a newspaper reporter, abbreviated his given surname (Aiskowitz), and caught...
Read more
The Lady and the Self-Satirist: Old-Time Radio Listening, 4 June
mr. ace & JANE
June 4, 2011
mr. ace and JANE: THAT IS NO LADY, THAT IS MY WIFE (CBS, 1948)First, I want to say that the two principal characters in this story are not...
Read more
A Big Show Signs Off Forever: Old-Time Radio Appreciation, 20 April
The Big Show
April 20, 2011
1952 -- Throwback and forward pass at once, a valiant, usually engaging bid to preserve big-time, old-time radio variety programming against the...
Read more
So What's In a Name? Old-Time Radio Listening, 17 April
Easy Aces
April 17, 2011
Easy Aces: Betty Leaves Carl Over the Baby's Name (CBS, 1941)It's a shame you can't isolate precise dates for most of what survived of...
Read more
It's All Relative, Unfortunately: old-time radio listening, 27 March
Goodman Ace
March 27, 2011
mr. ace and JANE: Sally is Fired (CBS, 1948)In every man's life, there are three women: his mother, his wife, and his secretary down at the...
Read more
The juror's still out (there): Old-time radio listening, 13 March
Arts & Entertainment
March 13, 2010
mr. ace andJANE: Jury Duty (CBS, 1948) Jane weighed in on the scales of justice at 105, wearing purple trunks and an off-the-face hat. In the other...
Read more
"A worrisome girl": Old-time radio listening, 25 February
Arts & Entertainment
February 25, 2010
The Big Show: “I Wonder Who Wrote This Letter” (NBC, 1951) Judy Holliday wrote the mock-snide fan letter hostess Tallulah Bankhead...
Read more
Let him call her sweetheart: Old-time radio listening, 21 February
Arts & Entertainment
February 21, 2010
mr. ace andJANE: You Don’t Bring Me Flowers (CBS, 1948) “First,” drawls (Goodman) Ace, "I want to say I'd like to dedicate...
Read more
Pages
1
2
Next
Advertisement