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Edward Bowes
Major Bowes as his Amateur Hour became a national radio program in 1935
Born
June 14, 1874 San Francisco, California, U.S
Died
June 13, 1946(1946-06-13) (aged 71) Rumson, New Jersey, U.S
Pen name
Major Bowes
Occupation
Radio personality
Spouse
Margaret Illington
(m. 1910; died 1934)
Edward Bowes (June 14, 1874 – June 13, 1946), professionally known as Major Edward Bowes, was an American radio personality of the 1930s and 1940s whose Major Bowes Amateur Hour was the best-known amateur talent show on radio during its 18-year run (1935–1952) on NBC Radio and CBS Radio.[1]
whose MajorBowes Amateur Hour was the best-known amateur talent show on radio during its 18-year run (1935–1952) on NBC Radio and CBS Radio. Bowes’ father...
The MajorBowes Amateur Hour was an American radio talent show broadcast in the 1930s and 1940s, created and hosted by Edward Bowes (1874–1946). Selected...
invented the first commercially available postage meter, and Walter Bowes as the Pitney Bowes Postage Meter Company on April 23, 1920. The company provides...
film roles was in the 1935 short film MajorBowes' Amateur Theatre of the Air, a spin off from the MajorBowes Amateur Hour radio show. He appeared in...
then took to the MajorBowes Amateur Hour in 1938, winning first prize. A touring offer, playing various theaters with the MajorBowes Review, was part...
occasionally performed with them. Following their winning performance on the MajorBowes Amateur Hour on September 8, 1935, the newly-formed quartet embarked...
show was a continuation of MajorBowes Amateur Hour, which had been a radio staple from 1934 to 1945. Major Edward Bowes, the originator of the program...
the group around. Sinatra soon learned they were auditioning for the MajorBowes Amateur Hour show, and "begged" the group to let him in on the act. With...
Airedale-Wharfedale Senior Cricket League. Bowes, p. 14. Bowes, p. 16. Bowes, p. 17. Kilburn, pp. 78—79. Bowes, p. 18. Bowes, p. 19. Bowes, p.22. "MCC v Wales in 1928"...
appears to catch and swallow a fish. The Bowes Museum was purpose-built as a public art gallery for John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier...
their football team. After college, he worked for real estate investor MajorBowes in San Francisco until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake wiped out his...
LaBastille's obituary. LaBastille was married for seven years to C.V. “Major” Bowes (born 29 Apr 1919; died 25 Oct 2012), the owner of the Covewood Lodge...
passed away. White and his partner, Clarence Schelle, had appeared on The MajorBowes Amateur Hour. The "Two Zephyrs" made the circuits together for over four...
conductor at New York Metropolitan Opera Major Edward Bowes (1874–1946), early radio star, he hosted MajorBowes' Amateur Hour Alice Brady (1892–1939),...
Clinton High School, and where he graduated in 1937. In 1939, he won the MajorBowes Amateur Hour contest on radio where the prize included touring in vaudeville...
quoted the value of MajorBowes car at US$25,000 ($543,705 in 2023 dollars ). According to records, after the death of Mr. Bowes the car returned to Chrysler...
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York Times. Retrieved 2016-07-03. Bloom, 462 "American Idols: 'Roxy,' MajorBowes, and Early Radio Stardom | Antenna". Ken Bloom. Broadway: Its History...
wandering, he encounters a radio amateur contest (clearly a takeoff of the MajorBowes Amateur Hour), hosted by "Jack Bunny" (a pun on Jack Benny and later...
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