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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 175
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  WW II dramatic radio scripts availab  [ Howard Blue <gerardfreepress@yahoo. ]
  11-6 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Women in Radio                        [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Re: Women in Radio                    [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  RE: Women in Radio                    [ "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed] ]
  Women in Radio                        [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  11-7 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:41:53 -0400
From: Howard Blue <gerardfreepress@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  WW II dramatic radio scripts available
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Because of space
limitations in my apartment I must dispose of much of my
collection of scriptsof World War II radio plays gathered over an
eight year
 period while researching my book Words at War. Among the many
shows in the
collection are:

1. Eight episodes of the
Wrigley's sponsored program Service
to the Front:

2.  A Sept.
 21, 1943 episode of Green Valley, USA
3. Three
scripts of
Chaplain Jim, USA
4. Four scripts of WORDS
AT WAR
5. Six rare
scripts of
The Man behind the Gun all written by the Peabody award-winning
Allan Sloane
from whom I obtained them

please contact me
off-line if
interested

Howard Blue Gerardfreepress@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:42:00 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-6 births/deaths

November 6th births

11-06-1854 - John Philps Sousa - Washington, [removed] - d. 3-6-1932
composer of marches: "John Philip Sousa Speaks"
11-06-1886 - Gus Kahn - Koblenz, Germany - d. 10-8-1941
lyricist: "Good News of 1938"
11-06-1887 - Walter Johnson - Humboldt, KS - d. 12-10-1946
baseball great: Play-by-Play Washington Senators
11-06-1892 - Ole Olsen - Wabash, IN - d. 1-26-1963
comedian: (Olsen and Johnson); "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Breakfast Club"
11-06-1896 - Frank Readick - Seattle, WA - d. xx-xx-1965
actor: (Father of Bob) Knobby Walsh "Joe Palooka"; Shadow "The Shadow"
11-06-1899 - Francis Lederer - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 5-25-2000
actor: Guest Armchair detective: Ellery Queen
11-06-1901 - Juanita Hall - d. 2-28-1968
actor: "Story of Ruby Valentine"
11-06-1904 - Selena Royle - NYC - d. 4-23-1983
actor: Hilda Hope "Hilda Hope, [removed]"; Kathy Marsh "Portia Faces Life"
11-06-1905 - Isabel Carothers - Mt. Pleasant, IA - d. 1-8-1937
actor: Lu "Clara, Lu and Em"
11-06-1910 - Donald Dickson - Clairton, PA - d. 9-21-1972
singer: "Sealtest Party"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
11-06-1916 - Ray Conniff - Attleboro, MA - d. 10-12-2002
arranger: Armed Forces Radio during World War II
11-06-1931 - Mike Nichols - Berlin, Germany
comedian: "Mike Nicholes and Elaine May"; "Monitor"
11-06-1935 - Judy Lewis - Venice, CA - d. 11-25-2011
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
11-06-1937 - Leo Goeke - Kirksville, MO - d. 9-18-2012
operatic tenor: "Don Carlo"
11-06-1943 - Berlie Doherty - Liverpool, England
writer: "The Drowned Village"
11-06-1951 - Paul (Hugh) Carter - The Hague, Netherlands
writer: "Memory As Desire"

November 6th deaths

03-11-1918 - Grace McTernan - d. 11-6-1995
soprano: "Your America"
04-14-1914 - John Hubbard - East Chicago, IN - d. 11-6-1988
actor: Willie Faye "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"
05-07-1840 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - St. Petersburg, Russia - d.
11-6-1893
composer: Many of his compositions were used as themes
05-19-1895 - Harry Saxe - Montreal, Canada - d. 11-6-1947
actor: Daddy Warbucks "Little Orphan Annie"; Dr. Burr "Mryt and Marge
07-17-1904 - John B. Hughes - d. 11-6-1989
news commentator: "Hughes Reel"
07-21-1883 - Cecil Humphreys - Cheltenham, England - d. 11-6-1947
actor: "Theatre Guild on the Air"
08-01-1911 - Fora Campbell - d. 11-6-1978
actor: Jean Forbes Lambert "Brave Tomorrow"; Janice King "Strange
Romance of Evelyn Winters"
08-15-1903 - Burke Bivens - Kirbyville, TX - d. 11-6-1967
saxophonist: Wayne King Orchestra
09-03-1925 - Hank Thompson - Waco, TX - d. 11-6-2007
singer/guitarist: "Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys"
11-17-1907 - L. Sprague de Camp - NYC - d. 11-6-2000
science fiction writer: "X-Minus One"; "Future Tense"
11-19-1863 - Billy Sunday - Ames, IA - d. 11-6-1935
preacher: "Back Home Hour"
11-20-1917 - Jim Hawthorne - Victor, CO - d. 11-6-2007
disk jockey: "The Hawthorne Thing"; "Hawthorne's Adventures"
11-20-1920 - Gene Tierney - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-6-1991
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "[removed]
Steel Hour"
12-19-1902 - Mary Michael - Denver, CO - d. 11-6-1980
actor: Ma Fogart "Big Sister"; Mrs. Kelly "Stepmother"
xx-xx-xxxx - Carol Cotter - Janesville, WI - d. 11-6-2011
actor: Billie the Brownie "Billie the Brownie"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:42:10 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Women in Radio

Vince Long asks for names of OTR women he should not leave out in his speech
to his local history museum.

Off the top of my head, the more prominent women at the radio microphone as
actors would be Agnes Moorehead, Mercedes McCambridge, Lurene Tuttle, Arlene
Francis, Mary Jane Higby, Natalie Park, Virginia Gregg, Anne Elstner and
Virginia Payne.

Among the other ones not to be missed:

Mary Margaret McBride:  The "Oprah" of her time with the largest radio audience

Ora Nichols: The mother of sound effects. She founded the craft of radio
sound effects, although it would eventually become a male-dominated portion
of radio

Peg Lynch:  The best comedy writer in radio who also starred in her own shows

(Mary) Kathleen Hite:  The first woman writer on the CBS westerns who would
go on to write nearly all of the "Ft. Laramie" scripts and later, many TV
westerns

Betty Mandeville:  Directed "The FBI in Peace and War" thus becoming the
first woman to direct a crime show in prime time

Ruth Woodman: Creator and writer of "Death Valley Days" on radio and TV for
over four decades, the longest western in broadcast history

There are many more, of course, but try not to leave these [removed]

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:42:16 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Women in Radio

Hello again --

Vince Long's presentation this Sunday should certainly include Bernardine
Flynn, the voice of Sade Gook on "Vic and Sade" and a WMAQ news announcer
during World War II. She also filled in on many other shows.
Others who come to mind are Agnes Moorhead (The "first lady" of Suspense),
Miriam Wolfe (a stalwart on "Let's Pretend") Shirley Mitchell (Leila Ransom
on "Gildersleeve" and Alice Darling on "Fibber McGee"), Janet Waldo, Bea
Benaderet, Mary Jane Croft, and of course the versatile Cathy Lewis.

Jan Bach

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:42:23 -0400
From: "Bob Scherago" <scherago@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Women in Radio

On Sunday, 4 November, Vince Long <vlongbsh@[removed] wrote:

"This Thursday I am making a short presentation at our history museum about
the role of women in the history of radio.  What names should I not leave
out?"

I recommend he include Jean Colbert, who, for years, did a women's show on
WTIC in Hartford, but before that was very active in other markets.

You can find one of her interviews at
[removed] - and more information about her at
[removed]#colbert

--
Bob Scherago
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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:42:57 -0400
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Women in Radio

on 11/6/12 12:18 AM, Vince Long asked:

This Thursday I am making a short presentation at our history museum
about the role of women in the history of radio.  What names should I
not leave out?

ORA NICHOLS (head of sound effects at CBS, also provided sound effects on
Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" broadcast

EDITH MEISER (the actress-producer-director-scriptwriter who first brought
Sherlock Holmes to the airwaves)

Actresses AGNES MOOREHEAD, JEANETTE NOLAN and MERCEDES McCAMBRIDGE

Also actresses BEA BENADERET,JUNE FORAY and JANET WALDO, simply because your
audience will be familiar with their work on TV, respectively The
Flintstones and Petticoat Junction, Rocky & Bullwinkle, and The Jetsons ...
and also LUCILLE BALL. You might also mention that earlier this year June
Foray became the oldest person ever awarded an Emmy Award ... at age 95!

--Anthony Tollin

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Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2012 00:43:07 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-7 births/deaths

November 7th births

11-07-1868 - Royal Copeland - Dexter, MI - d. 6-17-1938
commentator: "Health Talk"; "Fleischmann Hour"
11-07-1883 - Solomon Lightfoot Michaux - Newport News, VA - d.
10-20-1968
preacher: "Elder Michaux's Happiness Church Service"
11-07-1890 - Phil Spitalny - Odessa, Russia - d. 10-11-1970
conductor: "Nestles Chocolateers"; "Blue Coal Revue"; "Hour of Charm"
11-07-1893 - Margaret Leech - Newburgh, NY - d. 2-24-1974
author: "Information Please"
11-07-1895 - Jerry Belcher - Austin, TX - d. 6-3-1962
interviewer: "Vox Pop"; "Our Neighbors"
11-07-1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz - NYC - d. 3-5-1953
screenwriter, producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-07-1902 - Ed Dodd - Lafayette, GA - d. 5-27-1991
comic creator: "Mark Trail"
11-07-1903 - Dean Jagger - Lima, OH - d. 2-5-1991
actor: "Crisis in War Town"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Cavalcade of America"
11-07-1906 - Red Ingle - Toledo, OH - d. 9-7-1965
vocalist: (Spike Jones and his City Slickers) "The Spike Jones Show"
11-07-1907 - Tom Hanlon - Kansas - d. 9-29-1970
announcer: "Jane Endicott, Reporter"; "That's My Pop"; "Beulah Show"
11-07-1910 - Charles Carroll - Jackson, MI - d. 6-5-1978
actor: "Margo of Castlewood"; "Valiant Lady"
11-07-1911 - Dick Stark - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-12-1986
announcer: "It Pays to be Ignorant"; "Perry Mason"; "Walter Winchell's
Jergens Journal"
11-07-1913 - Margorie Anderson - London, England - d. 12-14-1999
disc jockey: "Forces Favourites"; "Woman's Hour"; "Home for the Day"
11-07-1916 - Joe Bushkin - NYC - d. 11-3-2004
jazz pianist: "Saturday Night Swing Club"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
11-07-1917 - Johnnie Stewart - Tonbridge, England - d. 4-29-2005
sound effects for BBC radio in 1930s, then became a producer
11-07-1918 - Billy Graham - Charlotte, NC
preacher: "Hour of Decision"
11-07-1918 - Fred Cusick - Boston, MA - d. 9-15-2009
sportscaster "Irish Hour"
11-07-1921 - Virginia Kaye - d. 3-18-2005
actor: Rosemary Dawson "Rosemary"
11-07-1922 - Al Hirt - New Orleans, LA - d. 4-27-1999
dixieland trumpeter: "Voices of Vista"; "The Navy Swings"; "Here's to
Veterans"
11-07-1926 - Joan Sutherland - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-10-2010
soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
11-07-1945 - Ruthe Stein - Chicago, IL
journalist: "Sonya Live"; "All Things Considered"
11-07-1949 - Gary Marcuse - Ithaca, NY
host: "Songs and Stories of Canada"

November 7th deaths

01-21-1915 - Alan Hewitt - NYC - d. 11-7-1986
actor: Ken Martinson "This is Nora Drake"; Karl Dorn "Romance of Helen
Trent"
01-21-1925 - Charles Aidman - Frankfort, IN - d. 11-7-1993
acotr: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
02-19-1902 - Eddie Peabody - Reading, MA - d. 11-7-70
banjoist: (The Banjo King) "National Barn Dance"
03-13-1892 - Janet Flanner - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-7-1978
reporter: "Listen, The Women"
03-14-1925 - Sonny Cohn - Chicago, IL - d. 11-7-2006
trumpeter: Count Basie Orchestra
03-24-1910 - John V. Ambrose - d. 11-7-1995
sportscaster: WTAG Worcester, Massachusetts
03-30-1914 - Stu Novins - Boston, MA - d. 11-7-1989
writer: "The City"
04-13-1919 - Howard Keel - Gillespie, IL - d. 11-7-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-14-1924 - Shorty Rogers - Great Barrington, MA - d. 11-7-1994
jazz trumpeter: "Army Bandstand"; "Here's to Veterans"
05-12-1909 - Margaret Harshaw - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-7-1997
opera singer: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "Sylvan Opera Condert"
05-17-1905 - John Patrick - Louisville, KY - d. 11-7-1995
writer, actor: Cecil "Cecil and Sally"
05-25-1898 - Gene Tunney - NYC - d. 11-7-1978
heavyweight boxing champion: "National Guard Show"; "The Navy is Fit
to Fight"
06-12-1924 - Howard E. Goldfuss - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-7-2007
judge: "Tell It to the Judge"
08-15-1903 - Jerry Cady - d. 11-7-1948
writer: "Major Hoople"
08-18-1879 - Gus Edwards - Hohensaliza, Germany - d. 11-7-1945
songwriter: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
08-25-1885 - Chick Sale - Huron, SD - d. 11-7-1936
humorist: "General Motors Family Party"; "RCA Victor Hour"
09-16-1927 - Jack Kelly - Astoria, NY - d. 11-7-1992
actor: "Suspense"
09-20-1918 - Peg Phillips - Everett, WA - d. 11-7-2002
actor: "Studio One"; "The Big Show"
10-04-1905 - Ruth Lyons - Cincinnati, OH - d. 11-7-1988
talk show host: "50-50 Club"
10-10-1911 - George Mathews - NYC - d. 11-7-1984
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
10-11-1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt - NYC - d. 11-7-1962
commentator: "Eleanor Roosevelt Chats/It's a Woman's World/Talks by
Eleanor Roosevelt"
10-11-1914 - Buddy Twiss - St. Paul, MN - d. 11-7-1952
producer: "I Love A Mystery"; "One Man's Family"
10-16-1900 - Lloyd Corrigan - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-7-1969
actor: Judge Hunter "One Man's Family"
10-21-1905 - Carleton Young - NYC - d. 11-7-1994
actor: Dick Grosvenor "Stella Dallas"; Ellery Queen "Advs of Ellery
Queen"
11-05-1885 - Will Durant - North Adams, MA - d. 11-7-1981
historian: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"
12-11-1883 - Victor McLaglen - Tunbridge Wells, England - d. 11-7-1959
actor: Captain Flagg "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"; Mountie Eric
Lewis "Red Trails"
12-14-1915 - Jerry Daniels - d. 11-7-1995
singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
Nightclubbing"
12-15-1891 - A. P. Carter - Poor Valley, VA - d. 11-7-1960
singer: (Carter Family) "Grand Ole Opry"

Ron

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