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:
“Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall.”
—Max Lerner (b. 1902)
“All radio is dead. Which means that these tape recordings I’m making are for the sake of future history. If any.”
—Barré Lyndon (1896–1972)
“There was a girl who was running the traffic desk, and there was a woman who was on the overnight for radio as a producer, and my desk assistant was a woman. So when the world came to an end, we took over.”
—Marya McLaughlin, U.S. television newswoman. As quoted in Women in Television News, ch. 3, by Judith S. Gelfman (1976)