Radio
In the 1930's she was a regular commentator on the radio broadcasts of the Metropolitan Opera, though she appeared infrequently in subsequent decades with her final Met broadcast being in 1966. During the 1940s, she was heard on various radio panel discussion shows, and she was a panelist with Alexander Woollcott and Rex Stout on The People's Platform program of January 23, 1943, when Woollcott had a heart attack during the broadcast and died before he arrived at Roosevelt Hospital.
Marcia Davenport died January 16, 1996, in Monterey, California, at the age of 92. She was survived by her youngest daughter Cornelia Davenport Schwartz, six grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. Her eldest daughter Patricia Clarke Kaplow, who predeceased her, was the mother of four of Marcia Davenport's grandchildren.
There is a memorial plaque dedicated to Marcia Davenport in Nerudova Street, Prague.
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Famous quotes containing the word radio:
“The radio ... goes on early in the morning and is listened to at all hours of the day, until nine, ten and often eleven o’clock in the evening. This is certainly a sign that the grown-ups have infinite patience, but it also means that the power of absorption of their brains is pretty limited, with exceptions, of course—I don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. One or two news bulletins would be ample per day! But the old geese, well—I’ve said my piece!”
—Anne Frank (1929–1945)
“England has the most sordid literary scene I’ve ever seen. They all meet in the same pub. This guy’s writing a foreword for this person. They all have to give radio programs, they have to do all this just in order to scrape by. They’re all scratching each other’s backs.”
—William Burroughs (b. 1914)
“Now they can do the radio in so many languages that nobody any longer dreams of a single language, and there should not any longer be dreams of conquest because the globe is all one, anybody can hear everything and everybody can hear the same thing, so what is the use of conquering.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)