Guide to the Garrett Starmer collection (ARA) PA Mss 182

Original collection processing and arrangement by Thousand Oaks Public Library Staff. Electronic finding and additional processing and description by Jacob Robin, 2023. Latest revision 2023 12 08.
UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
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Title: Garrett Starmer collection (ARA)
Identifier/Call Number: PA Mss 182
Language of Material: English
Contributing Institution: UC Santa Barbara Library, Department of Special Research Collections
Physical Description: 1.6 Linear Feet; (3 document boxes, 4 bound volumes)
source: Starmer, Garrett (Garrett Ludlow) (1915-2003)
Date (inclusive): circa 1940s
Abstract: The Garrett Starmer collection consists of about 1.6 linear feet of scripts that have been collected by Starmer. These scripts pertain to documentaries written in the 1940s and performed via CBS, NBC, ABC and the Mutual Broadcasting System.
Physical Location: Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library.

Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Property rights to the collection and physical objects belong to the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at the UCSB Library. All applicable literary rights, including copyright to the collection and physical objects, are protected under Chapter 17 of the U.S. Copyright Code and are retained by the creator and the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns.
All requests to reproduce, quote from, or otherwise reuse collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB at special@ucsb.edu. Consent is given on behalf of the Regents of the University of California acting through the Department of Special Research Collections at UCSB as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s), or assigns. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or their assigns for permission to publish where the UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of Item], Garrett Starmer collection, PA Mss 182. Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

This collection forms part of the American Radio Archives (ARA), which documents the early history of broadcasting, with an emphasis on California. The ARA was formerly housed at the Thousand Oaks Public Library and was owned and administered by the Thousand Oaks Library Foundation. It was transferred to the UCSB Library in 2021.

Biographical Note

Garrett Starmer was a professional actor for a short time, and spent much of his career as a professor of speech and drama at various colleges and universities in California. With fellow faculty members John Sutthoff and George Rogers he secured the licenses for both an educational television station (now KIXE-PBS) and KCHO radio in the name of California State University, Chico.

Scope and Content

The Garrett Starmer collection contains radio scripts that he collected throughout the course of his career, mostly documentaries and radio plays originating from the Writers' War Board.

Arrangement

The materials in this collection are arranged into one series by type. Series 1: Scripts

Related Archival Material

Forms part of the American Radio Archives (ARA).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Documentary radio programs -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Radio plays -- History -- 20th century
Radio writers -- United States -- Archives
Radio scripts
Starmer, Garrett (Garrett Ludlow) (1915-2003)
Starmer, Garrett (Garrett Ludlow) (1915-2003) -- Archives
Hazam, Louis Jay (1911-1983) -- Archives
Writers' War Board -- Archives

 

Scripts

 

Writer's War Board

box 1, folder 1

Annual Report 1944 August 01-1945 January

box 1, folder 2

The Burned the Books (Stephen Vincent Benet) circa 1940s

box 1, folder 3

Time Is Short (Dorothea J. Lewis) 1942 August

box 1, folder 4

All Out For Davey (Shirley Warde) 1942 September

box 1, folder 5

Brothers (Langston Hughes) 1942 September

box 1, folder 6

The Girl in the Red, White, and Blue (Peter Lyon and Woodie Guthrie) 1942 October

box 1, folder 7

Armistice Day (Erik Bernouw) 1942 October

box 1, folder 8

To The Young (Norman Corwin) 1942 November

box 1, folder 9

We Refuse To Die 1942 December

box 1, folder 10

The Nazi (Janet Brandes) 1942 December

box 1, folder 11

The Man Behind The Gun (David Harmon and Ronald MacDougall) 1943 January

box 1, folder 12

Day of Deliverance (William Rose Benet) 1943 January

box 1, folder 13

Torpedo Lane (Stuart Hawkins) 1943 February

box 1, folder 14

A Time To Reap (Stephen Vincent Benet) 1943 March

box 1, folder 15

American Family (Pearl S. Buck) 1943 March

box 1, folder 16

My Brother Lives in Stalingrad (Sandra Michael) 1943 April

box 1, folder 17

From Corregidor (H. Donald Spatz) 1943 April

box 1, folder 18

The Spirit of the Navy (Alfred J. Bonomo) 1943 April

box 1, folder 19

Ellen Comes Through (Priscilla Kent) 1943 April

box 1, folder 20

To The President The Special Day (Arch Oboler) 1943 May

box 1, folder 21

Tomorrow Will Be Ours (Howard Fast) 1943 June

box 1, folder 22

Reminder to the Free (Michael Greenwood) 1943 June

box 1, folder 23

The Master Map of America (Paul C. Woodbridge) 1943 July

box 1, folder 24

Fighters in Dungarees (Frank B. Wells) 1943 August

box 1, folder 25

The Battle of the Warsaw Ghetto (Morton Wishengrad) 1943 October

box 1, folder 26

What's Wrong With Me (Eve Merriam) 1943 November

box 1, folder 27

Good Neighbor (Frank B. Wells) 1943 December

box 1, folder 28

In the Service of my Country (Langston Hughes) 1944 January

box 1, folder 29

These Are Americans (Chet Huntley and Ernest Martin) 1944 January

box 1, folder 30

The Candle and the Gun (Mari Yanofsky) 1944 February

box 1, folder 31

Latch-Key Children (Frank B. Wells) 1944 March

box 1, folder 32

Assignment: U.S.A. (Richard P. McDonagh) 1944 April

box 1, folder 33

Is Fair Play Controversial? (Chet Huntley) 1944 May

box 1, folder 34

Judgment (Norman Williams) 1944 June

box 1, folder 35

Der Fuehrer (and the Great Lie He Borrowed) (Max Ehrlich) 1944 June

box 1, folder 36

Concerning the Red Army (Norman Rosten) 1944 July

box 1, folder 37

War Criminals and Punishment (Richard P. McDonagh) 1944 August

box 1, folder 38

The Golden Calf (Katharine and Adele Seymour) 1944 September

box 1, folder 39

The Promise Versus the Deed (William Kendall Clarke) 1944 October

box 1, folder 40

Foreigners Settled America (Gretta Baker) 1944 November

box 2, folder 1

The Veteran Comes Back (Ben Kagan) 1944 November

box 2, folder 2

Talk Their Language (Millard Lampell) 1944 December

box 2, folder 3

The Dead Are Not Liars (Mortimer Frankel) 1945 January

box 2, folder 4

Scapegoats in History (Ben Kagan) 1945 February

box 2, folder 5

There Are Things to be Done (Mitchell Grayson) 1945 March

box 2, folder 6

The Face (Arthur Laurents) 1945 April

box 2, folder 7

They Shall Be Heard (Norman Rosten) 1945 May

box 2, folder 8

Boy From Nebraska (Millard Lampell) 1945 May

box 2, folder 9

Taps is Not Enough (Carl Carmer) 1945 June

box 2, folder 10

Loving Cups for Murderers (Arnold Hartley) 1945 July

box 2, folder 11

Dr. Hopkins Atomic Bomb (Arnold Hartley) 1945 October

box 2, folder 12

They Shall Be Heard (Norman Rosten) 1945 November

box 2, folder 13

Hate, Incorporated (Caye Christian) 1945 December

box 2, folder 14

To Liberty in a Featherbed (Morton Wishengrad) 1946 January

box 2, folder 15

Hitler Has A Vision (Otto Harbach) circa 1940s

box 2, folder 16

Left Jab (Alfred L. Golden) circa 1940s

 

Victory Players Script of the American Theatre Wing

box 2, folder 17

To Ease Their Hurt (Esther M. Hawley) 1944

box 2, folder 18

The Sergeant (Lawrence M. Klee) 1945

box 2, folder 19

The Music Goes Round and Round (Nancy Moore and Anne Hall) 1945

 

United States Department of the Interior - Educational Radio Script Exchange

box 2, folder 20

The Safety Musketeers, "Forest Fires!", No. 12 circa 1940s

box 2, folder 21

Have You Heard, "Volcanoes", No. 5 (Marguerite Bair Felber) circa 1940s

box 2, folder 22

Have You Heard, "Birds and Reptiles", No. 3 (Marguerite Bair Felber) circa 1940s

box 2, folder 23

Epoch Discoveries of the Past, "Boots! Boots! Boots!", No. 3 circa 1940s

box 2, folder 24

American Yesterdays, "The Johnstown Flood", No. 7 circa 1940s

 

Northwest Territory Celebration Commission

box 2, folder 25

Forward March!, "The Melting Pot", No. 13 circa 1940s

box 2, folder 26

Americans All - Immigrants All, "Scotch-Scotch Irish and Welsh", Episode 4 1939 October 09

box 2, folder 27

An Announcer's Examination undated

box 2, folder 28

Harbach, Otto, Oscar Hammerstein II, Frank Mandel and Sigmund Romberg. The Desert Song. New York: Samuel French, 1932 1932

 

Partial Scripts

box 2, folder 31

Production Exercise #27 undated

box 2, folder 32

Mr. Woolworth undated

 

Short Scripts

box 3, folder 1

Birthday Party undated

box 3, folder 2

The Cricket on the Hearth undated

box 3, folder 3

The Gay Caballero undated

box 3, folder 4

Kathryn Howard undated

box 3, folder 5

The Masque of the Red Death undated

box 3, folder 6

What's the Truth about Flying undated

 

The Book of Famous Tales

box 3, folder 7

An Accursed House undated

box 3, folder 8

Con Cregan's Legacy undated

box 3, folder 9

Dr. Manette's Manuscript undated

box 3, folder 10

The Lifted Veil undated

box 3, folder 11

Markheim undated

box 3, folder 12

Rappacini's Daughter undated

box 3, folder 13

The Sire de Maletroit's Door undated

box 3, folder 14

Sleeping Potion undated

box 3, folder 15

Second Husband 1940 June 17

 

The Children's Playhouse

box 3, folder 16

Beauty and the Beast undated

box 3, folder 17

Cinderella undated

box 3, folder 18

Fairy Tales Are Fun - Snowdrop undated

 

Curtain Raisers

box 3, folder 19

A Bilious Attack undated

 

Of, By, and for the People Series

box 3, folder 20

How Does the City Manage (Allen M. Fobes) undated

 

Radioplay Service

box 2, folder 33

The Return of the Fishermen 1944 October

box 2, folder 33

Madame Du Barry 1945 October

box 2, folder 33

The Cid 1946 September

box 2, folder 33

Lester Radio Scripts 1946 September

box 3, folder 21

Alexander the Great undated

box 3, folder 22

Box and Cox undated

box 3, folder 23

Brother and Sister undated

box 3, folder 24

Charles the Second undated

box 3, folder 25

The Christmas Duck undated

box 3, folder 26

December undated

box 3, folder 27

A Doll's House undated

box 3, folder 28

Everyman undated

box 3, folder 29

Fashion, or Life in New York undated

box 3, folder 30

February undated

box 3, folder 31

January undated

box 3, folder 32

Minna von Barnhelm undated

box 3, folder 33

Mozart undated

box 3, folder 34

Napoleon the Third undated

box 3, folder 35

The Rat - Man's Oldest Enemy undated

 

Sketches from Life

box 3, folder 36

Charlotte Corday undated

box 3, folder 37

The Skitbook undated

 

Tales from Maupassant

box 3, folder 38

A Wife's Confession undated

box 3, folder 39

The Ghost undated

 

Tales of the Supernatural

box 3, folder 40

Canon Alberic's Scrap-Book undated

box 3, folder 41

The Haunted and the Haunters undated

 

Tanglewood Tales

box 3, folder 42

The Chimaera undated

box 3, folder 43

Jason and the Golden Fleece undated

box 3, folder 44

The Miraculous Pitcher undated

box 3, folder 45

Pandora and the Golden Box undated

box 3, folder 46

Prince Cadmus and the Dragon's Teeth undated

box 3, folder 47

The Quest of the Three Golden Apples undated

 

Three Thousand Years of the Theater

box 3, folder 48

David Garrick undated

box 3, folder 48

Antigone undated

box 3, folder 48

She Stoops to Conquer undated

box 3, folder 48

The Rivals undated

 

Listeners United Program

box 3, folder 49

The Jukes Family 1946 July 16

 

Bound Scripts

box 4

Documentaries (CBS)

 

The Eagle's Brood 1947 March 05

 

A Long Life and A Merry One 1947 April 04

 

Menace in White 1947 May 25

 

Experiment in Living 1947 June 06

 

The Sunny Side of the Atom 1947 June 30

 

We Went Back 1947 August 14

 

Dear Mr. Lincoln 1947 September 14

 

Fear Begins At Forty 1947 October 28

 

Among Ourselves 1947 December 30

 

The Last Waterhole 1948 February 15

 

Report Card 1948 March 24

 

Arrows in the Dust 1948 May 22

 

The Hollywood Picture 1948 November 03

 

Time and Her Life 1949 April 20

 

The People's Choice 1949 May 22

 

Citizen of the World 1949 July 10

box 4

Documentaries (NBC)

 

Marriage in Distress (Lou Hazam) 1948 September 01

 

Mother Earth (Dorothea J. Lewis) 1948 December 19

 

Living

 

Home, Broken Home (Lou Hazam) 1948 April 25

 

Notebook for Convention Listeners (Lou Hazam) 1948 June 20

 

Wisdom in the Streets (Lou Hazam) 1948 July 18

 

Plight of Our Hospitals: A Drama Diagnosis (Lou Hazam) 1948 September 05

 

Danger -- School Zone! (Lou Hazam) 1948 September 18

 

Clicking Turnstiles 1948 September 26

 

Television: Many Happy Returns? (Lou Hazam) 1948 November 14

 

An Investigation into Congressional Investigations (Lou Hazam) 1949 January 09

 

The Biggest Job in the World (Wade Arnold) 1949 January 23

 

ERP: Operation Cooperation (Lou Hazam) 1949 February 06

 

Who Rides the Tiger… (Milton Wayne and Wade Arnold) 1949 February 20

 

The House That Jack Didn't Build (Lou Hazam) 1949 February 27

 

A Blueprint and a Prayer (Lou Hazam) 1949 March 06

 

With Trembling Hands (Howard Rodman) 1949 March 13

 

Second Class Citizens (Lou Hazam) 1949 March 20

 

Dear Mr. President (Lou Hazam) 1949 March 27

 

Jerusalem, The Holy City (Lou Hazam) 1949 April 17

 

Batter Up (Lou Hazam) 1949 April 24

 

Transplanted Children (Lou Hazam) 1949 May 01

 

Treatment on Cancer (Lou Hazam) 1949 May 08

 

Highbrow, Lowbrow, Middlebrow or All God's Chillun Got Brows (Milton Wayne) 1949 May 15

 

It Floats Thru the Air (Lou Hazam) 1949 May 22

 

Our Troubled Waters (Lou Hazam) 1949 June 05

 

California, '49 to '49 (Then Central Valley Project) (Lou Hazam) 1949 June 26

box 4

Documentaries (Mutual, ABC, Misc.)

 

American Broadcasting Company (ABC)

 

V.D. (Erik Barnouw) 1948 April 28

 

Communism -- U.S. Brand 1948 August 02

 

The Berlin Story 1949 January 10

 

Mutual Broadcasting System

 

The Right to Safety and Security of the Person (To Secure these Rights) 1948 February 24

 

The Right to Citizenship and its Privileges (To Secure these Rights) 1948 March 02

 

The Right of Freedom of Conscience and Expression (To Secure these Rights) 1948 March 09

 

The Right the Equality of Opportunity (To Secure these Rights) 1948 March 16

 

Split the Atom (The Atom and You Series) 1948 September 20

 

The Case of the Tick-Tock Murder (The Atom and You Series) 1948 September 27

 

Brainbusters (The Atom and You Series) 1948 October 04

 

Adventure into Tomorrow (The Atom and You Series) 1948 October 11

 

Children of Divorce 1948 October 25

 

One Great Hour (Erik Barnouw) 1949 March 26

 

VD Radio Project

 

Baby and Me (Ben Kagan undated

 

Looking for Lester (Alan Lomax) undated

 

Big Deal (Ben Kagan) undated

 

As the Twig is Bent

 

Program 1 1947 November 26

 

Program 2 1947 December 03

 

Program 3 1947 December 10

 

Program 4 1947 December 17

 

Neither Free nor Equal

 

The Face of Discrimination 1947 June 25

 

Discrimination in Employment 1947 July 02

 

Discrimination in Housing 1947 July 09

 

The Indian in Minnesota 1948 July 16

 

The Hate Merchants 1948 July 23

 

Meeting the Problem 1948 July 30

 

A Home to Live In

 

Suckerbait (Michael Sklar) 1948 February 06

 

The Fast Dollar (Michael Sklar) 1948 January 07

 

An Open Letter to Mr. Moses (Michael Sklar) 1948 January 08

 

Yesterday's Heroes (Michael Sklar) 1948 January 09

box 4

Documentaries (CBS and Mutual)

 

Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)

 

Mind in the Shadow (Arnold Perl) 1949 February 02

 

This Year, Israel - United Jewish Appeal 1949 April 17

 

Mutual Broadcasting System

 

War Babies 1947 September 28

 

Wanted, A Baby 1947 December 10