Oral history interview with Selma Warlick Warner, 1976
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- Name
- Warner, Selma Warlick, 1907- (Interviewee)
- Gibson, Mary Bass (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Selma Warlick Warner, 1976
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Selma Warlick Warner, 1976
- Abstract
- Family background, childhood, education; journalism, North Carolina; New York, N.Y. journalism: EAGLE, POST, SUN; promotional work for Colston Leigh Lecture Bureau, 1938-41: markets, audiences, fees, popular speakers; assistant to George Denny, Town Hall, 1941-46; history of Town Hall, publicity work, radio debates; Director, Lecture Division, National Concerts and Artists Corporation, 1946-52: col lege circuits, political speakers; Wide World Lecture Bureau, 1962-73: experiences with various chiefs of state, poets, other lecturers
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Women executives; Executives; Lectures and lecturing; Public relations; Debates and debating; United States Intellectual life; Warner, Selma Warlick, 1907-
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1976
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Lecture agent, journalist
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Mary Bass Gibson
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 7153208
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d4ga-q729
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.