Ma Perkins

Virginia Payne as Ma Perkins, 1934.
Other names	Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins
Genre	Daytime daily serial
Running time	15 minutes
Country	United States
Languages	English
Home station	WLW
Syndicates	NBC CBS
Starring	Virginia Payne Charles Egelston
Creators	Frank and Anne Hummert
Writers	Robert Hardy Andrews
Producers	Frank and Anne Hummert
Air dates	August 14, 1933 to November 25, 1960
No. of episodes	7,065
Sponsor(s)	Oxydol

Ma Perkins (sometimes called Oxydol's Own Ma Perkins) is an American radio soap opera which was heard on NBC from 1933 to 1949 and on CBS from 1942 to 1960. Between 1942 and 1949, the show was heard simultaneously on both networks. Oxydol dropped its sponsorship in 1956. The program continued with various sponsors until 1960.

The series was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert with scripts by Robert Hardy Andrews, Orvin Tovrov and others. Ma Perkins began August 14, 1933 on WLW in Cincinnati. On December 4 of that year, it graduated to the NBC Red network. On NBC and CBS the series ran for a total of 7,065 episodes.

"America’s mother of the air" was portrayed by actress Virginia Payne, who began the role at the age of 23 and never missed a performance during the program's 27-year run. Kindly, trusting widow Ma Perkins had a big heart and a great love of humanity. She always offered her homespun philosophy to troubled souls in need of advice.

Characters and story[link]

Ma owned and operated a lumber yard in the small Southern town of Rushville Center (population 4000), where the plotlines pivoted around her interactions with the local townsfolk and the ongoing dilemmas of her three children, Evey, Fay and John. One of her children died during World War II. Ma's daughter Fay was played by Isabelle Krehbiel and Rita Ascot. Gilbert Faust had the role of John. Evey Perkins was played by Dora Johnson, Laurette Fillbrandt and Kay Campbell, who later became known for playing Grandma Kate Martin on the television soap opera All My Children. Shuffle Shober, Ma's best friend, was played by Charles Egelston (and later Edwin Wolfe). Murray Forbes (1905-1987) was heard as Willie Fitz, and Cecil Roy portrayed Junior Fitz.

In "Sounds from the Past," Chris Plunkett offered an overview of the series:

Typical of Hummert productions, Ma Perkins had her share of tears, crises, and drama, but with a plotline much slower paced than the average soap opera. In a typical year, no more than three or four major complications were covered --interspersed by long "quiet spells," filled with (brutally) protracted discussions on the meaning of life amid the ever-changing tapestry of family, friends and the small town around them... Early in the drama’s run Ma was portrayed as quite combative and spiteful, but her character soon developed (and softened) into the kindhearted sage and conscience of the entire community. There were various dramas that unfolded over the years, some more far-fetched than others. Two of the more memorable plot stretches involve Ma exposing a black market baby-napping ring, and Ma harboring Soviet political dissidents inside her home.^[1]

When the show finally ended on Friday, November 25th, 1960, the day after Thanksgiving Day, it was one of only eight entertainment shows still on the CBS radio network. The last episode was the only one in which Virginia Payne's name was mentioned, by Payne herself in a farewell speech. In all other episodes, the announcer at the close of the show would run down the names of all the actors in the cast (but one), and then say, "... and Ma Perkins."

Cast[link]

• Virginia Payne - Ma Perkins
• Charles Egelston - Shuffle Shober, Ma's best friend (1933-1958)
• Edwin Wolfe - Shuffle Shober (1958-1960)
• Dora Johnson - Evey Perkins (1933-1944)
• Laurette Fillbrandt - Evey Perkins (1944-1945)
• Kay Campbell - Evey Perkins (1945-1960)
• Isabelle Krehbiel - Fay Perkins (1933)
• Rita Ascot - Fay Perkins
• Margaret Draper - Fay Perkins
• Gilbert Faust - John Perkins

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Andrews, Robert Hardy. A Corner of Chicago. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963.
• Cox, Jim. The Great Radio Soap Operas. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 1999.
• LaGuardia, Robert. From Ma Perkins to Mary Hartman: The Illustrated History of Soap Operas. New York: Ballantine Books, 1977.
• Ohmart, Ben. It's That Time Again. Albany: BearManor Media, 2002. ISBN 0-9714570-2-6
• Stumpf, Charles. Ma Perkins, Little Orphan Annie and Heigh Ho Silver. Carlton, 1971.

See also[link]

• List of radio soaps
• List of longest-serving soap opera actors

Listen to[link]

• Ma Perkins radio shows from 1950 (52 episodes)
• Dick Bertel interview with Virginia Payne on Hartford's WTIC (January, 1973)

External links[link]

• Ma Perkins at the National Radio Hall of Fame

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Richard MacQueen "Dick" Wellstood (born November 25, 1927, Greenwich, Connecticut — died July 24, 1987, Palo Alto, California) was an American jazz pianist. He was, along with Ralph Sutton, one of the few stride pianists to arise in the 1940s during the rise of bebop.

Wellstood played with Bob Wilber's Wildcats in 1946, and became a mainstay on the trad jazz scene, playing with Sidney Bechet in 1947 and in the 1950s with Jimmy Archey, Conrad Janis, Roy Eldridge, Rex Stewart, Charlie Shavers, and Eddie Condon.^{[citation needed]} He was the house pianist at New York City clubs Metropole and Nick's in the late 1950s and 1960s. He played with Gene Krupa in South America in 1965 and later joined the World's Greatest Jazz Band. He played locally in the 1970s and studied law, briefly going into practice in the 1980s. In the 1980s he also played often with Kenny Davern.^{[citation needed]}

In 1977 completed a tour of the UK with the Dutch Swing College Band.

From 1980-86, he was the house pianist at Hanratty's restaurant at 92nd and 2nd in Manhattan for 6-8 months a year.^{[citation needed]} He died of a heart attack in 1987, aged 59.

References[link]

• Scott Yanow, Dick Wellstood bio at Allmusic
• Leonard Feather and Ira Gitler, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford, 1999, p. 684
• Riccardo Scivales (ed.), Dick Wellstood Jazz Piano Solos--seven historic solos. San Diego, California, Neil A. Kjos Music Company, 1994
• Riccardo Scivales (ed.), Dick Wellstood: The Art Of Jazz And Blues Piano, Vol. 1. London, England, U.K. Soliloquy Music, 2001

Federico Buffa (28 July 1959, Milan) is an Italian journalist, writer and television sportscaster.

He has studied sociology at UCLA Summer Session in 1978. He obtained his degree at University of Milan in 1986 (Law). In the same year he wrote his first article for Italian Magazine "Superbasket" (which has been published on September's Number). Two years later he began working as basketball agent and started his career as NBA's commentator for Italian TV. He still works as journalist for Sky Sport Italia and Milan Channel.^[1]

Works[link]

• Black Jesus. Un grande viaggio nel basket americano in 23+1 fermate. Libri di Sport. 2002. ISBN 978-88-87676-10-5. 
• Black Jesus. The anthology. Libri di Sport. 2005. ISBN 978-88-87676-68-6. 

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Federico Buffa

• Official Website
• http://www.libreriadellosport.it/libri/black_jesus_-_the_anthology.php
• http://laverita.ilcannocchiale.it/post/1275112.html
• http://www.sky.it/tag/home/federico_buffa_1.html
• http://www.tvblog.it/tag/federico+buffa

For the American television and film actress, see Carole Ita White. For the British actress, see Carol White.

Carole White is a former model, and co-founder of Premier Model Management.

Early life[link]

White was born in Deal, Kent in 1950 but raised in Ghana. At the age of five she was sent to a boarding-school in England, then later to a convent in Belgium, an experience she described as repressive that helped shape her future career and fuel her interest in modelling. She became a model at the renowned Lucy Clayton Modelling Academy,^[1] but quickly decided that this career was not for her.^[2] Instead she became a booker and in 1970 joined London model agency Bobton’s, where she stayed for 7 years looking after the early modeling careers of Jo Wood, Andrea Dellal and the Bond girl Tania Mallet.

Premier Model Management[link]

In 1981, together with her brother Chris Owen, she founded Premier Model Management.^[3] Initially representing 40 girls, they ran the agency from their kitchen table.^[4]

White is a voice of authority and experience in the fashion industry and is a campaigner against racial discrimination in fashion.^[5]

In autumn 2010 Premier Model Management allowed television cameras into their offices for the filming of Channel 4's The Model Agency. The seven part documentary followed White and her co-workers for two months revealing what life is really like behind the scenes. It aired in the UK in February 2011.^[6]

Charles Taylor trial[link]

In 2010, White testified at the trial of former Liberian President Charles Taylor, alleging that her former client Naomi Campbell had accepted blood diamonds from him.^[7]

References[link]

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Elvis Perkins
Elvis Perkins performing live at Joe's Pub in New York City on March 1, 2007.
Background information
Born	(1976-02-09) February 9, 1976 (age 36)
Genres	singer-songwriter, folk-rock
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, harmonica
Labels	XL Records

Elvis Perkins (born February 9, 1976) is an American folk-rock recording artist. He released his debut studio album, Ash Wednesday, in 2007. Perkins subsequently toured in support of the album with his band Elvis Perkins in Dearland, composed of Perkins alongside multi-instrumentalists Brigham Brough (bass,vocals, saxophone), Wyndham Boylan-Garnett (organ, harmonium, trombone, guitar, vocals) and Nick Kinsey (drums, clarinet, vocals). The band released their eponymous debut, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, on March 10, 2009.

The band formed in Providence, RI around 2004 when Elvis moved to the East Coast upon completing Ash Wednesday, although the members have been friends and collaborators for many years.^{[citation needed]} The band are currently based out of the Hudson River Valley of New York State.

Background[link]

Perkins is the son of actor Anthony Perkins and photographer Berry Berenson. He was raised in Los Angeles, California, and New York City with his older brother, actor Oz Perkins. Perkins is a great-grandson of the fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli who was a great-niece of Giovanni Schiaparelli, the Italian astronomer who believed he had discovered the supposed canals of Mars, and a nephew of the actress Marisa Berenson, Berry's sister. His paternal grandfather Osgood Perkins, was also an actor. His maternal great grandfather was Count Wilhelm de Wendt de Kerlor, a Theosophist and psychic medium. His mother was also a great-grandniece of art expert Bernard Berenson (1865–1959) and his sister Senda Berenson (1868–1954), an athlete and educator who was one of the first two women elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Perkins attended Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, after graduating from high school at the Harvard-Westlake School in 1994.

Perkins' father was a well known Elvis Presley aficionado and thus named his son Elvis. Perkins took to music at an early age, briefly learning the saxophone before picking up the guitar in high school and taking lessons with Prescott Niles, one-time bassist for The Knack. While he played in rock bands, Perkins also developed an interest in the classical guitar, and began to compose music in both idioms. He also wrote poetry, and that gradually morphed into lyrics. After a short stint at college, he began to cultivate the idiosyncratic, highly personalized style that distinguishes Ash Wednesday.

"It's been a long journey, long in the coming," Perkins admits, when he discusses the album, and it took a serious detour on September 11, 2001, when his mother, a passenger on the ill-fated American Airlines Flight 11 from Boston to Los Angeles, perished in the attack on New York City's twin towers a day before the ninth anniversary of his father's death. Ash Wednesday has been shaped in part by this tragic event and its aftermath.

Berry Berenson was the younger daughter of Robert L. Berenson, an American diplomat turned shipping executive, who was of Lithuanian Jewish descent; his mother's family's original surname was Valvrojenski.

Some of his ancestry on his mother's side is French, Jewish, Egyptian, Italian, and Swiss. His father Anthony Perkins died in 1992 of complications related to AIDS.

Recordings[link]

Ash Wednesday was independently released in 2006 and was subsequently released February 20, 2007 by XL Recordings.

In 2007 he did a Take-Away Show acoustic video session shot by Vincent Moon.

In 2008, Perkins in Dearland recorded a cover of the Sacred Harp song "Weeping Pilgrim" for Awake My Soul, Help Me to Sing the soundtrack to the movie Awake My Soul.

His band released their debut album Elvis Perkins in Dearland on 10 March 2009.

Elvis recently worked with the Yellow Bird Project to create a t-shirt to raise money for the World Wildlife Fund.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

• Ash Wednesday (February 20, 2007)
• Elvis Perkins in Dearland (March 10, 2009)

Singles[link]

• "While You Were Sleeping" (July 16, 2007)
• "All the Night Without Love" (November 20, 2007)

EPs[link]

• "The Doomsday EP" (October 20, 2009)

External links[link]

• Official website
• UK based Elvis Perkins website
• Elvis Perkins at MySpace
• Elvis Perkins: Brooding, Thoughtful, Sophisticated from National Public Radio
• Elvis Perkins and Dearland on Letterman performing "While You Were Sleeping"
• Gibson Guitar's Interview with Elvis Perkins by Ellen Mallernee
• Interview with Elvis Perkins on The Line Of Best Fit