Sue I had similarily poor results searching for biographical info on Patricia Ryan on Google. Part of the problem, incidentally, is that Richard Nixon's wife's maiden name was, used guessed it, Patricia Ryan. Part of the lafck of online info is that she died young and the show with her ran from 1934-49. Let's see if someone can find and scan the book Cindy mentioned as it would make a nice addition to Bookshare's oldtime radio collection which Tony B is working hard on right now. oh, construccting Google search strings is an art, not a science; and the more you try it, the better you get. Among those I tried for Patricia Ryan were "patricia Ryan" + "old time radio" "patricia Ryan" + "let's Pretend" "Patricia Ryan" + "radio" + "pretend." Oh, I did a couple of Encyclopedia searches, using K1000, and didn't come up with anything related to the Patricia Ryan we're talking about. To unsubscribe from this list send a blank Email to bksvol-discuss-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put the word 'unsubscribe' by itself in the subject line. To get a list of available commands, put the word 'help' by itself in the subject line.