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The First Nighter Program
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<h2 id="listen-to">Listen to</h2> <ul><li><a href="https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1571663">NPR: <i>First Nighter</i> opening in "Radio Legend Les Tremayne Dies" (December 26, 2003)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.otr.net/?p=1nit">OTR Network Library: <i>The First Nighter Program</i> 16 1944-53 episode</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.speakingofradio.com/interviews/luddy-barbara-actress/">An interview with Barbara Luddy and Olan Soule</a></li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><a href="http://www.otrsite.com/logs/logf1020.htm">Jerry Haendiges Vintage Radio Logs: <i>The First Nighter Program</i></a></li> <li><a href="http://www.otrr.org/FILES/Magz_pdf/Movie%20Radio%20Guide/MRG%204304.pdf">"They Shall Be Free" – A <i>First Nighter</i> story from <i>Movie-Radio Guide</i>, April 1943</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.genericradio.com/series/firstnighter">Scripts of two <i>First Nighter</i> programs from The Generic Radio Workshop Script Library</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Dunning, John (1998). On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio. Oxford University Press. pp. 252–254. ISBN 978-0-19-507678-3. Retrieved April 28, 2017. <a href="978-0-19-507678-3" target="_blank">978-0-19-507678-3</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>“Dialing Around.” The Batavia Herald, Thursday, 24 October 1935, p. 11 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Fizdale, Tom (February 2, 1939). "Listen to This". The Edwardsville Intelligencer. Illinois, Edwardsville. p. 5. Retrieved July 17, 2016 – via Newspapers.com. <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5923069/the_edwardsville_intelligencer/" target="_blank">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5923069/the_edwardsville_intelligencer/</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Mason, Mildred (May 12, 1936). "Betty Lou Gerson Is Married". Xenia Daily Gazette. p. 6. Retrieved March 7, 2015 – via Newspapers.com. <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1938076/betty_lou_gerson_is_married/" target="_blank">https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1938076/betty_lou_gerson_is_married/</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"a,b...." Catalog of Copyright Entries, Part I (Part I, Group 3--Dramatic Compositions & Motion Pictures) Library of Congress Copyright Office. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1933. p. 333, No. 11, 1934 6788 Little Town of Bethlehem:a Christmas play in 3 acts by Anthony Wayne. Batavia, Ill., Author's Publishing Company (1934) 24 p. 12mo Copyright Oct. 22, 1934; 2c. Nov 12; D 32053; I. Willard Crull c/o Campana sales co., Batavia, IL. (Anthony Wayne was the pseudonym for I. Willard Crull who wrote over a hundred radio plays for The First Nighter Program while serving as Campana's treasurer which was then headed by his uncle Ernest Morgan Oswalt. Crull would serve as Campana's president from 1942 through 1974 <a href="/w/index.php?title=I._Willard_Crull&action=edit&redlink=1" target="_blank">/w/index.php?title=I._Willard_Crull&action=edit&redlink=1</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>