Subject: [removed] Digest V2009 #3
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 3
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  "R-E-S-P-E-C-T !"                     [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Shadowgraph needles                   [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
  A Christmas Carol                     [ "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed]; ]
  1-2 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  The End of An Era /// Plus 60         [ Stephen A Kallisd <skallisjr@[removed] ]
  Famous on-air break downs, anyone?    [ Lance Grider <rangegrider@[removed] ]
  1-3 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  1-4 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:16:51 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "R-E-S-P-E-C-T !"

 From: "Bob C" rmc44@[removed]

This is my general gripe when  particularly commercial entities
(community theater groups, etc.) reprise old  time radio - they
ham it up, thinking it can't stand on its  own.

Preach ON, Brother Bob!

Having fun WITH a piece? Of  course! Making fun OF it? A pox on that!

I can't stand the fact that so  many folks seem to think it's cute, when
doing recreations, to dress everyone in  pinstripes & fedorahs/Joan Crawford
makeup & dress -and then, to mug to  the house, & generally camp it up.

That is NOT a valid "recreation"  of a Network Era Broadcast, you clydes!!!

The strength of the shows at  FOTR (when at their best), is that they are NOT
treated like that; rather, a  group of level-headed, proficient performing
artists, doing their best to create  what Leslie Howard called, "the illusion
of
the First Time."

Anything  that makes this still-effective little gem of a medium, Audio
Drama, look  cutesy, precious, outdated and quaint, is, to quote the Bard this
time,  "overstep(ing) ... the modesty of nature - for anything so overdone is
(away) from the PURPOSE of playing."

Like Rodney Dangerfield,  OTR don't get no respect.

This infects the New Time Radio/Modern Audio Drama world too; it annoys me
no end, that fully 75% of the work done in the field consists of goofy, camp
scifi - as if the medium is not up to anything more serious.

Happy New Year,
-Craig Wichman

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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:17:05 -0500
From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Shadowgraph needles

I have some 16" discs that say to use RCA 100% Shadowgraphed half
volume steel needles.

What are these needles?

Fred
Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:21 -0500
From: "Bob C" <rmc44@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  A Christmas Carol

Re recent postings about Lionel Barrymore and his acting as
Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol"...

The Dec. 25, 1944, issue of Life magazine has a seven-page photo
spread featuring Barrymore in scenes from the story staged at
MGM.

Quoting the article: "On Christmas Eve 1934, Lionel Barrymore and
the Columbia Broadcasting System first dramatized Dickens'
'Christmas Carol' on the air and have continued to broadcast the
story every Christmas season since, with two exceptions, in 1936
and 1938. (In 1936, Lionel Barrymore's wife died and his late
brother John took his place.) Millions of Americans, who have
forsaken the old custom of reading the Carol aloud to the
children on Christmas Eve, would hardly consider Christmas to be
Christmas without hearing Barrymore harrumph and growl his way
through the role of old Scrooge. This year he will do it again,
on Saturday Dec. 23, from 7 to 7:30 [removed] [removed], on his regular
'Mayor of the Town'program time." ...

So it appears it was Barrymore's illness that kept him away in
'38 ... the earlier absence due to the death of his wife.

Bob Cockrum

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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:28 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-2 births/deaths

January 2nd births

01-02-1865 - William Lyon Phelps - d. 8-21-1943
author, critic, scholar: "Information Please"
01-02-1888 - Tito Schipa - Lecce, Italy - d. 12-16-1965
operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"; "La Rosa Concerts"
01-02-1892 - Artur Rodzinski - Dalmatia, Yugoslavia - d. 11-27-1958
concuctor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"; "Cleveland Symphony Orchestra"
01-02-1894 - Robert Nathan - NYC - d. 5-25-1985
writer: "CBS Radio Workshop"
01-02-1901 - Hugh Ross Williamson - Romsey, England - d. 1-13-1978
author: "Paul, a Bondslave"
01-02-1904 - Bernardine Flynn - Madison, WI - d. 3-10-1977
actor: Sade Gook "Vic and Sade"; Mathilda Barker "Welcome Valley"
01-02-1904 - James Melton - Moultrie, GA - d. 4-21-1961
singer" "Palmolive Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "Harvest of Stars"
01-02-1905 - Michale Tippett - London, England - d. 1-8-1998
composer: "Midsummer Marriage"
01-02-1913 - Anna Lee - Ightham, Kent, England - d. 5-14-2004
actor: "Soldiers in Greaspaint"; "Lifebuoy Show"; "Screen Guild Theatre"
01-02-1913 - David Levy - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-25-2000
producer: " We the People"
01-02-1915 - Nick Fatool - Milbury, MA - d. 9-26-2000
drummer: (Member of the Big 7 Band) "Pete Kelly's Blues"
01-02-1917 - Vera Zorina - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-9-2003
ballet dancer: "Duffy's Tavern"; "I'm An American"
01-02-1918 - Joan Merrill - Baltimore, MD - d. 5-10-1992
singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
01-02-1920 - Charles Douglass - Mexico - d. 4-8-2003
radio engineer for the CBS radio network
01-02-1920 - Corny Peeples - Oak Park, IL - d. 11-15-1954
actor: William Snood "Tom Mix"; Bud Fairchild "Stepmother"
01-02-1920 - Isaac Asimov - Petrovich, Russia - d. 4-6-1992
Author: "I, Robot"; "Nightfall"
01-02-1923 - Mary Elizabeth Smith - Ft. Worth, TX
associate radio producer: "Wide, Wide World"
01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
actor: "The Great Gildersleeve"
01-02-1925 - Richard Jessup - d. 10-22-1982
writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
01-02-1928 - Howard Caine - Nashville, TN - d. 12-29-1993
actor: "The Brighter Day"; "The Guiding Light"
01-02-1930 - Julius LaRosa - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "Arthur Godfrey Time"
01-02-1931 - Renee Roy - Buffalo, NY - d. 7-30-2005
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-02-1932 - Peter Redgrove - Kingston-on-Thames, England - d. 6-16-2003
writer: "The Nature of Cold Weather"

January 2nd deaths

01-12-1906 - Tex Ritter - Murvaul, TX - d. 1-2-1974
singer: "Lone Star Rangers"
01-13-1914 - Osa Massen - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 1-2-2006
actor: "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"
02-07-1896 - Earl Burtnett - Harrisburg, PA - d. 1-2-1936
orchestra leader: KHJ Los Angeles, California
02-09-1902 - Fred Harman, Sr. - St. Joseph, MO - d. 1-2-1982
cartoonist: Creator of Red Ryder
02-19-1915 - Dick Emery - London, England - d. 1-2-1983
comedian: "Educating Archie"
02-20-1920 - Frank Muir - Ramsgate, England - d. 1-2-1998
comedy writer: "Take It from Here"; "Bedtime with Braden"
03-08-1918 - Alan Hale, Jr. - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-2-1990
actor: "Smiths of Hollywood"
03-30-1883 - Jo Davidson - NYC - d. 1-2-1952
sculptor: "Information Please"
04-14-1915 - Richard Hart - Providence, RI - d. 1-2-1951
actor: "Family Theatre"
05-04-1913 - Joe Aleman - d. 1-2-1996
disk jockey: KPRL Paso Robles, California
06-15-1921 - Erroll Garner - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-2-1977
jazz muscian: "Jubilee"; "Command Performance"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
08-23-1906 - Harriet Parsons - Burlington, IA - d. 1-2-1983
commentator: (Daughter of Louella Parsons) "Hollywood Hotel"
08-25-1912 - John Rarig - Washington - d. 1-2-1991
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
09-08-1902 - Milton Watson - Salinas, CA - d. 1-2-1982
vocalist: "Burns and Allen"
10-20-1897 - Adolph Deutsch - London, England - d. 1-2-1980
arranger, conductor, composer: "Kraft Program"; "This Is Hollywood"
10-27-1910 - Jack Carson - Carmen, Canada - d. 1-2-1963
comedian: "Jack Carson Show"; "New Sealtest Village Store"
11-02-1921 - Shep Menken - NYC - d. 1-2-1999
actor: "Six Shooter"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"; "Four-Star Playhouse"
11-05-1901 - Etta Moten - Weimer, TX - d. 1-2-2004
singer, actress: "The Laff Parade"; Hollywood Spotlight"
11-14-1904 - Dick Powell - Mountain. View, AR - d. 1-2-1963
actor: Richard Diamond "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"; Richard
Rogue "Rogue's Gallery"
11-19-1897 - Bud Green - Austria - d. 1-2-1981
lyricist: "Great Moments to Music"
12-10-1903 - Una Merkel - Covington, KY - d. 1-2-1986
actor: Adeline Fairchild "Great Gildersleeve"; "Johnny Presents";
"Texaxo Star Theatre"
12-xx-1880 - Fred A. Sullivan - Zionsville, IN - d. 1-2-1951
actor: Kirby Willoughby "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Mitchell Frazier
"Story of Mary Marlin"

Ron
Just a note on a coincidence for this day, Dick Powell and Jack Carson
died on exactly the same day with the same illness, cancer of the
lymph gland.

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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:34 -0500
From: Stephen A Kallisd <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The End of An Era /// Plus 60

2009 marks the 60th anniversary of the closing year of the Captain
Midnight radio show.  The adventure serial began eleven years previously
as a syndicated radio program, sponsored by Skelly Oil.  The stories were
aimed at an older audience than the usual serials -- how many youngsters
bought Skelly Oil products? -- yet it proved popular to listeners of all
ages.

In 1940, the show changed sponsorship.  From Skelly Oil, the show came
under the aegis of Ovaltine.  With the new sponsor came some concepts
from the previous show they sponsored, Little Orphan Annie.  The Radio
Orphan Annie Secret Society was echoed with Captain Midnight's Secret
Squadron.  The ROA SS Secret Decoder Pins were followed by the Secret
Squadron Code-O-Graphs.

Despite the new sponsor, the show remained highly popular with grownups,
and as the United States entered World War II, the program became the
staple of many service personnel when stationed where they could listen
to it.  Interestingly, the Captain Midnight storyline in the Fall of 1941
involved a diagram of Pearl Harbor in the hands of Japanese allies,
months before the actual attack.  (This was just an odd coincidence,
though the script writers were visited by the Feds after the attack took
place.)

Postwar, the stories reflected the shift in literary interest, with a
tinge of science fiction in such story elements as death rays, biological
warfare, force fields, and a prehistoric land with both dinosaurs and
cave people.  But by the closing phases of the serial in the Spring of
1949, the stories shifted to such strange things for the heroes to be
involved with as cattle rustling and juvenile delinquency.

The Fall of 1949 saw a severe shift in the program.  It shifted from
serial format to complete half-hour shows.  The actor who played the
title role for all but one year of the serial,Ed Prentiss, was replaced
by another, Paul Barnes.  The plotting became very simplified, with the
writing aimed squarely at school children, which it hadn't been before.
It aired only twice a week, in alternation with the Tom Mix radio show,
also in half-hour format.

Captain Midnight went off radio in December of 1949.  It certainly wasn't
the longest running radio show ever aired, but the show had a respectable
run.  To a lot of listeners, it was unforgettable.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:46 -0500
From: Lance Grider <rangegrider@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Famous on-air break downs, anyone?

Like most true aficionados of Fibber McGee and Molly, I still have a few
recordings that I haven't heard, despite being an OTR fan for the past 30
years. These precious gems are deliberately spaced out to savor on special
occasions--like New Year's.  Anyway, I was listening to the May 3, 1949
broadcast "Do a Good-Turn McGee" and was startled to hear the normally
mellifluous Harlow Wilcox cough, stutter, and then amazingly lose all control
over his voice during his routine opener for Johnson's Wax. Wilcox coughs,
his voice rasps out, he calls for "a glass of water like Fibber's" and then,
when he still can't read his script, simply panics. 'Frank, I can't do it.
Better have some music, I can't talk." Billy Mills complies with a 10-second
orchestra interlude, after which Wilcox regains both his voice and composure
and proceeds as if nothing happened. This incident impressed me for a couple
of reasons. First for its rarity--given the thousands of on-air
 hours by the ubiquitous Harlow Wilcox, this singular lapse is a testimony to
his professionalism. And while I'd heard Wilcox cough and apologize before,
I'd never heard him lose complete control. Second, that this live gaffe was
allowed to survive on the recording.
But surely there must be other instances of uncharacteristic flubs by great
announcers. I'm not talking about Spoonerisms or comic misspeak--Jack Benny
made that part of Don Wilson's repertoire, after all, ditto with Groucho for
George Fenneman, to name just two examples. Anybody with more OTR hours have
a trump for this?
Lance Grider
Billings, Montana

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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:51 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-3 births/deaths

January 3rd births

01-03-1886 - Josephine Hull - Newtonville, MA - d. 3-12-1957
actor: Miss Julia "Miss Julia"; Mrs. Kayden "The O'Neills"
01-03-1891 - Gaston Anderson - d. 5-xx-1978
disk jockey: WGWD Gasden, Alabama
01-03-1892 - Marion Davies - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-25-1961
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "How I Made Up for the Moview"
01-03-1893 - Gilbert Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 9-29-1970
writer: "Americans All, Immigrants All"
01-03-1897 - Dorothy Arzner - San Francisco, CA - d. 10-1-1979
film director: "You Were Meant to be a Star"
01-03-1898 - Freddie Rich - Warsaw, Poland - d. 9-8-1956
bandleader: "Friendly Five Footnotes"; "Freddie Rich's Penthouse Party"
01-03-1898 - John Loder - London, England - d. 12-9-1988
actor, host: "Crime Does Not Pay"; "Silver Theatre"
01-03-1898 - Zasu Pitts - Parsons, KS - d. 6-7-1963
comedienne: "Lum and Abner"; "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
01-03-1900 - Cecil Underwood - Vienna, MO - d. 9-27-1976
producer, director: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"
01-03-1905 - Anna May Wong - Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA - d. 2-3-1961
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"; "Hollywood Hotel"
01-03-1905 - Ray Milland - Neath, Wales - d. 3-10-1986
actor: Ray McNutley "Meet Mr. McNutley"
01-03-1909 - Victor Borge - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 12-23-2000
comedian, pianist: "Victor Borge Show"; "Kraft Music Hall"
01-03-1911 - Al Sack - NYC - d. 12-6-1947
orchestra leader: "Beula Show"; "Tony Martin Show"; "Frank Morgan Show"
01-03-1914 - Carl (Henry) Stewart - Alabama - d. 2-4-1993
bass: "The Radio Cowboys"
01-03-1916 - Betty Furness - NYC - d. 4-2-1994
actor: Anne Williams "Casey, Crime Photographer"
01-03-1917 - Jay Sommers - NYC - d. 9-25-1985
writer: "Lum and Abner"; "Joan Davis Time"; "Alan Young Show"
01-03-1918 - Jesse White - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-8-1997
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
01-03-1918 - Maxene Andrews - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-21-1995
singer: (Andrews Sisters) "Andrews Sisters Revue"
01-03-1920 - Lester Bashara - d. 2-19-1990
newscaster: KGFW Kearney, Nebraska
01-03-1927 - William Boyett - Akron, OH - d. 12-29-2004
actor: Freelance in younger years
01-03-1930 - Marcel Dube - Montreal, Canada
author: "Chambres a louer"
01-03-1942 - John Thaw - West Gorton, England - d. 2-21-2002
actor: "Peter Pan"

January 3rd deaths

01-27-1905 - Howard McNear - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-3-1969
actor: Doctor Charles Adams "Gunsmoke"
02-08-1890 - Irving Kaufman - Syracuse, NY - d. 1-3-1976
singer: "Champion Sparkers"; "Broadway Vanities"
02-08-1892 - Will Aubrey - Lithuania - d. 1-3-1958
actor: (The Bard of the Byways) "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
02-10-1897 - Judith Anderson - Adelaide, Australia - d. 1-3-1992
actor: Royal Gelatin Hour"
02-13-1904 - Erwin D. Canham - Auburn, ME - d. 1-3-1982
news commentator: "Christian Science Monitor Views the News"
02-20-1874 - Mary Garden - Aberdeen, Scotland - d. 1-3-1967
singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
02-22-1901 - Bess Johnson - d. 1-3-1975
actor: Bess Johnson "Story of Bess Johnson"; Lady Esther "Lady Esther
Serenade
03-03-1948 - Byron MacGregor - Alberta, Canada - d. 1-3-1995
CKLW radio newsman, recorded narrative "The Americans"
03-04-1907 - Pat McGeehan - Steelton, PA - d. 1-3-1988
announcer, actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "The Red Skelton Show"
03-26-1924 - Jean M. Brooks - Brighton, England - d. 1-3-2003
writer: "Gregory of the Outback"; "Opal Witch"
04-02-1907 - Luke Appling - High Point, NC - d. 1-3-1991
baseball great: "Tops in Sport"
04-03-1904 - Peter Van Steeden - Amsterdam, The Netherlands - d.
1-3-1990
bandleader: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Mr. District Attorney"
04-16-1897 - Milton J. Cross - NYC - d. 1-3-1975
announcer, commentator: (The Voice of the Met) "General Motors Concerts"
04-24-1906 - William "Lord Haw Haw" Joyce - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-3-1946
propagnadist for Nazi Germany during World War II: Hung for treason
05-16-1880 - Julius Tannen - Chicago, IL - d. 1-3-1965
comedian: (Human Chatterbox) "Goldenrod Revue"; "Seven Star Revue"
05-23-1907 - Kenneth Griffin - Enid, Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-3-1951
actor: Larry Noble "Mary Noble, Backstage Wife"
06-06-1923 - Beverly Styles - Richmond, VA - d. 1-3-2005
violinist, pianist, drummer vocalist
08-12-1895 - Carol DeAngelo - Rome, Italy - d. 1-3-1962
actor, director: "We Love and Learn"; "The Jack Benny Program"
08-14-1917 - Marty Glickman - NYC - d. 1-3-2001
sprorts broadcaster: "Saturday Night Bandwagon"; "Play Ball"; "Box
Score Review"
09-04-1923 - Graham Archer - d. 1-3-2001
disk jockey: "Wax Museum"; "The States of the Union"
10-23-1912 - Floyd Mack - Ava, OH - d. 1-3-1983
commentator: "Floyd Mack and the News"; "Bell Telephone Hour"
12-09-1912 - Philip Guest Adams - d. 1-3-1998
actor: "The Green Hornet"; "Gangbusters"
12-19-1894 - Tess Gardella - Wilkes-Barre, PA - d. 1-3-1950
actor: Aunt Jemina "Aunt Jemina"
12-20-1906 - Marion Talley - Nevada, MO - d. 1-3-1983
singer: "Ry-Krisp Presents Marion Talley"
xx-xx-xxxx - Bryna Raeburn - d. 1-3-1986
actor: "Gangbusters"; "Philo Vance"; "The Big Story"
xx-xx-xxxx - Isabella Beech - d. 1-3-1972
food editor: Francis Lee Barton "Mother Knows Best"

Ron

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Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 19:20:57 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-4 births/deaths

January 4th births

01-04-1881 - Norman Field - Montreal, Quebec, Canada - d. 9-11-1956
actor: Glen Hunter "One Man's Family"
01-04-1889 - Pat Kelly - North Queensland, Australia - d. 12-23-1967
announcer: "Dog Heroes"; "Getting the Most Out of Life"
01-04-1896 - Everett Dirksen - Pekin, IL - d. 9-7-1969
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
01-04-1905 - Sterling Holloway - Cedartown, GA - d. 11-22-1992
actor: "Railroad Hour"; "[removed] Steel Hour"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
01-04-1907 - Floyd Christy - NYC - d. 5-21-1962
writer: "The Johnson Family"
01-04-1910 - Ann Jamison - Belfast, Ireland - d. 4-16-1961
singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "The Packard Hour"
01-04-1911 - Fred Killian - d. 4-25-1994
producer, director: "Those Sensational Years"
01-04-1916 - Lionel Newman - New Haven, CT - d. 2-3-1989
conductor, composer: (Brother of Alfred) "Hollywood Star Time"
01-04-1917 - Jane Wyman - St. Joseph, MO - d. 9-10-2007
actor: "Dreft Star Playhouse"
01-04-1918 - Buddy Baker - Springfield, MO - d. 7-26-2002
musical director: Bob Hope, Eddie Cantor, Jack Benny
01-04-1919 - Al "Jazzbeaux" Collins - NYC - d. 9-30-1997
disc jockey: "Collins on a Cloud"; "Happy Al"
01-04-1920 - Rosalie Crutchley - London, England - d. 7-28-1997
actor: "Advice to a Queen"; "Looking After Ourselves"
01-04-1925 - Johnny Lujack - Connellsville, PA
all-american football player, actor: Himself "Johnny Lujack of Notre
Dame"
01-04-1927 - Barbara Rush - Denver, CO
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-04-1927 - John Drury - Peoria, IL - d. 11-25-2007
staff announcer: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
01-04-1935 - Floyd Patterson - Waco, NC - d. 5-11-2006
boxer: "Life and the World"; "Tops in Sports"
01-04-1936 - David Allen - Birmingham, England
writer: "Cheapside"

January 4th deaths

03-10-1888 - Barry Fitzgerald - Dublin, Ireland - d. 1-4-1961
actor: Bernard Fitz "His Honor, the Barber"
03-14-1912 - Les Brown - Reinerton, PA - d. 1-4-2001
bandleader: (Les Brown and His Band of Renown) "Bob Hope Show"
03-16-1886 - Howard Pierce - d. 1-4-1973
Owned a piece of the Lone Ranger
04-03-1906 - Iron Eyes Cody - Oklahoma Territory - d. 1-4-1999
actor: "Straight Arrow Pow-Wow
04-06-1895 - Dudley Nichols - Wapakoneta, OH - d. 1-4-1960
screenwiriter: "Cavalcade of America"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-09-1895 - Frank H. Anderson, Jr. - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1952
pianist/singer: had his own program for 8 years
04-29-1946 - Humphrey Carpenter - Oxford, England - d. 1-4-2005
writer, disc jockey: BBC radio
05-26-1909 - Richard Maibaum - NYC - d. 1-4-1991
screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-14-1925 - George Draper Lewis - d. 1-4-1998
writer: "The Camel Caravan"
07-25-1899 - Ralph Dumke - South Bend, IN - d. 1-4-1964
actor: Willie Tompkins "We, the Abbotts"; Pat Plenty "Quality Twins"
08-12-1909 - Nat Asherton - NYC - d. 1-4-1987
composer/pianist: Leo Reisman Orchestra, Lester Lanin Orchestra
08-26-1904 - Chirstopher Isherwood - High Lane, Cheshire, England - d.
1-4-1986
writer: "NBC University Theatre"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
08-31-1912 - Ramon Vinay - Chillan, Chile - d. 1-4-1996
tenor: "A Critic's Toscanini"
09-08-1877 - Bide Dudley - Minneapolis, MN - d. 1-4-1944
drama critic: "Around Little 'Ol Broadway"
09-13-1908 - Mae Questel - The Bronx, NY - d. 1-4-1998
actor: Betty Boop "Betty Boop Fables"; Olive Oyl "Popeye the Sailor"
09-24-1901 - Paschal Strong - d. 1-4-1988
writer: "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
09-24-1924 - Joan Aiken - Rye, Sussex, England - d. 1-4-2004
adapter of her short fiction: "Chilredn's Hour"
09-26-1888 - T. S. Eliot - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-4-1965
writer: "Columbia Workshop"
10-16-1912 - Berry Kroeger - San Antonio, TX - d. 1-4-1991
actor: Michael Waring/The Falcon "The Falcon"; Reed Bannister "Big
Sister"
11-29-1932 - John Gary - Watertown, NY - d. 1-4-1998
singer: "Christmas Music - Spots for the National Guard"

Ron

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