Old Radio

  September 25, 1933: The Tom Mix Ralson Straight Shooters  went on air for the first time on NBC and remained on the air waves until the mid-1950's. Thomas Hezikiah Mix, otherwise known as Thomas Edwin ""Tom"" Mix, was an early American western movie actor.  He was featured in 336 films between 1910 and 1935, nine of those being silent features. He was the first of Hollywood’s great Western actors. In 1933, Tom Mix made his radio debut. He was granted by Ralston-Purina  to produce his own radio series. The series was titled Tom Mix Ralston Straight Shooters . The series was popular throughout most of the 1930's through the early 1950's. Tom himself never performed on the series. His character was played by several different radio actors: Artells Dickson (early 1930's), Jack Holden (1937), Russell Thorsen (early 1940's) and Joe ""Curley"" Bradley (1944). Supporting cast included George Gobel, Harold Peary , and Willard W

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novels of all time.  Fitzgerald gained a reputation as being urbane and sophisticated and a chronicler of the international experience of young socialites like him. His relationship with his wife Zelda caught the nation's attention and helped define some of the panache of the Roaring Twenties . In addition to Gatsby, Fitzgerald is the author of This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and the Damned .  Since he was a celebrity author and author of legendary work, it was inevitable that his prose would be widely adapted for radio. We salute Francis Scott Fitzgerald's birth on this day in 1896.