This week’s Snapshot in Prose captures Cladrite Radio sweetheart Annette Hanshaw at the height of her fame. The year is 1935, and she’s already sold more than 4,000,000 records, has declined stage and screen offers, and claims to be mulling over the marketing of her personal method for reading music without any training. Alas, just two or three years later, she’ll give up recording and performing altogether, opting instead for a sedate married life with her husband, Pathé Records executive Herman “Wally” Rose.
And just FYI, Hanshaw’s nephew, one Frank W. Hanshaw III, says that her birth certificate says she was entered the world not in 1910, as the story below claims, but in 1901. Oh Annette, you deceitful minx!

Here’s a bonus treat for our fellow Hanshaw fans, one of our very favorites of her recordings:
Got some errors in info and grammar…
There were a couple of typos, so thanks for bringing those to our attention. As to any inaccurate info, you’ll have to raise that issue with whoever wrote this story 77 years ago.