Born about in Massachusetts, USA
Daughter of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Wife of
[private husband (1900s - unknown)]
Wife of
Adrian O'Brien
— married
18 May 1936 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA [uncertain]
[uncertain] Mother of
[private son (1920s - unknown)], [private daughter (1930s - unknown)] and [private daughter (1930s - unknown)]
Died [date unknown]
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
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Biography
Alice was a radio singer. She sung contralto[1].
Her maiden name was either Day[2] or Dyer[3].
She married Arthur J O'Leary[4] in Massachusetts, and they had a daughter, Alice O'Leary Junior.
In 1936 Alice moved to Ohio and married Adrian O'Brien. [5]
Did she divorce Arthur, or did he die?
Sources
- ↑ Jack Benny Fan Club Forum, user Yhtapmys, 03 August 2007, http://jackbenny.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=780 citing Associated Press radio column 13 July 1932
11.15 p m—Adrian O'Brien, tenor; Alice O'Leary, contralto; Eddie Fitzgerald, pianist; Joe Donahue, tap dancer; Cliff Billington's Orchestra.
- ↑ Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 May 1936, page 7, https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/103217959/
Radio Singers Marry; Alice O'Leary Bride. Adrian O'Brien and Alice O'Leary, radio singers for the Crosley Radio Corporation, were married yesterday by Municipal Judge William E. Handley at the courthouse. They obtained their license yesterday. Courthouse clerks were the witnesses. Miss O'Leary Is known in radio circles as Alice Day. They will make their home at 3441 Morrison Place. Both came here from Boston, Mass., O'Brien arriving in February, Miss O'Leary In January.
- ↑ http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=175174
- ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XQP6-Z68 : accessed 21 April 2017), Alice T O'Leary in household of Arthur J O'Leary, Medford, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 309, sheet 7A, line 25, family 160, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 924; FHL microfilm 2,340,659.
- ↑ "Bob and Ray, Keener Than Most Persons", 2013, by David Pollock, https://books.google.fr/books?id=wePpAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT35&lpg=PT35&dq=%22Adrian+O%27Brien%22+Irish+tenor&source=bl&ots=Nlb87pgvAm&sig=Wh4uAlDUxkNbacnxSY4BRCUOgxc&hl=en&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22Adrian%20O'Brien%22%20Irish%20tenor&f=false
WHDH continued [...] programs heavy with Irish lore and songs. But that was about to change. In 1946 [...] Irish tenor Adrian O'Brien and his wife, Alice O'Leary, were also sent packing
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