The Friendly Hour
Tom Jacobson performs a service with something that isn't quite a drama or a memory play but whose characters make the trivia of their lives absorbing.
Today is Sunday, September 13, 2026 Broadway Baby Birthdays: Fiona Apple Jean Smart David Shiner Christine Estabrook Nell Carter Gene Page Maurice Jarre Yma Sumac Michael Sivy Carole Mathews Roald Dahl Dick Haymes John Malcolm Brinnin Cholly Atkins Meriel Forbes Reta Shaw Helen F. Cohan Herbert Berghof Mae Questel Gladys George Claudette Colbert Leland Hayward Ruth McDevitt J.B. Priestley Jean Cadell Jesse L. Lasky Auriol Lee Alma Kruger Dominic Fumusa Peter Yanowitz Ann Talman Ray Charles Cameron Bowen Roger Howarth Jade McCall Robert Ornbo Henry Kaplan Philippe Gerard Larry Shields Sherwood Anderson Arnold Schoenberg J. J. Grandville