Radio Appearance Log

At this point after my own extensive research, along with Ginevra Di Verduno (who may be continuing to research), the following radio log is complete. Any broadcast not found is assumed to be lost. If anyone is able to locate any missing broadcasts, I will be forever in your debt if you let me know. I have added a "Radio Career" Section and a table detailing Leslie Howard's radio appearances with links to surviving recordings on Wikipedia's Leslie Howard page.

I would like to mention that Leslie Howard was already writing articles about his radio experiences in 1927 (Trivial Fond Records, pg. 65). Howard wrote a piece, "And Now the Radio Actor," for Vanity Fair in 1927 about his first radio appearance in which his co-star was "Laurette." The show goes badly and he states in the article that "it was some months before she would speak to me" (Trivial Fond Records, pg. 74). In his diary entry for 16 January 1924 (Trivial Fond Records, pg. 42) Howard writes:

Wednesday, 16th January: Lionel [Watts] and I go to Alfred Lunt's for dinner. Spend afternoon discussing wonderful dinner, cocktails and cigars we are to have. After matinée stand forty minutes in rain waiting for taxi and then have beastly meal in lousy restaurant. Laurette [Taylor] and Hartley [Manners] at show. After to supper with them thus breaking seven months feud. Home 2.30 train.

Could the incident in his diary in 1924 refer to the same incident he writes about in the Vanity Fair article in 1927? If so, then his first radio appearance goes back to 1923. If the diary entry and the Vanity Fair article are not about the same incident, then the Vanity Fair article does at least prove one thing, Leslie Howard's radio appearances began as early as 1927.

I am so grateful to Ginevra Di Verduno and her sites Leslie Howard Forever and Inafferrabile (Elusive) Leslie Howard for preserving the memory of Leslie Howard. To learn more about and to listen to Leslie Howard on the radio, visit:

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(2) The Philadelphia Enquirer, Sunday Morning, December 29, 1935

(9) For the complete version of A Minuet, visit: Old Time Radio Library and go to R, then Rudy Vallee - Fleischmann's Yeast Hour, then Episode 287 (Index has episode number transposed).
For the complete version of Galsworthy's Justice, visit: Old Time Radio, The Magic Key, Justice, April 5, 1936

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