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245 00|aRuth Casey and Dolphe Martin memorabilia,|fca. 1920-1974.
300 |a1 box|a(.1 linear ft.)
351 |aUnprocessed.
546 |aIn English.
520 |aComprised of Martin's 1920 Harvard Medical School diploma; a photograph of "Youth on Parade"; sheet music with a few manuscript pages; Martin's 1974 publication, "Poetry is Good Medicine"; and a Metropolitan Symphonic Band scrapbook.
545 |aRuth Casey (1928-2012) was a pioneer television producer and teenage singing sensation in the 1950s-60s. Dolphe Martin was her manager. In 1941, Casey and Martin created and produced the television show “Youth on Parade”, New England’s first and longest-running amateur talent show for CBS on WEEI-AM in Boston; Casey's sister, Eileen, also worked on the show. Casey later went on to become a casting director and voice-over artist.
545 |aDolphe Martin (1891-1974) was an orchestra leader and composer who had trained as a medical doctor. Under contract to CBS, he conducted various radio orchestras and produced/directed “Youth on Parade”; he also invented the "voice orchestra". Martin opened the West Roxbury Academy of performing arts in Boston (Mass.).
600 10|aCasey, Ruth.
600 10|aMartin, Dolphe.
610 20|aHarvard Medical School.
610 20|aMetropolitan Symphonic Band (Boston, Mass.).
655 7|aDiplomas.|2aat
655 7|aPhotographs.|2aat
655 7|aSheet music.|2aat
541 0 |cGift;|aEstate of Ruth Casey;|bBoston, MA;|d2013 October 17;|e2013MT-14.|5the
506 0 |aOpen for research.
852 8 |bTHE|cHD|hMS Thr 994