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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2014 : Issue 92
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 19-25 Oct  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Latitude Zero                         [ Radioclass <radioclass@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:41:06 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 19-25 October

10/19

1937   "The freedom of the press is a flaming sword. Use it justly, hold
it high, guard it well." The radio classic, Big Town, made its debut on
CBS radio. Star reporters at the Illustrated Press, Steve Wilson and
Lorelei Kilbourne, were played by Edward G. Robinson and Claire Trevor.
Tell the Story was the theme song. Sponsors included Ironized Yeast
tablets and Lifebuoy soap.

10/20

1930 - One of the most memorable of all radio shows, "The Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes", was first heard on the NBC Red network. Its debut
entry, "The Speckled Band", featured William Gillette in the role of the
famous detective. Gillette introduced Holmes to New York audiences as
early as 1899 ... on the stage, not the radio, of course.

1932 - Journalist Robert Trout joined CBS. Trout became a household name
to CBS listeners -- and they later became loyal viewers of Trout on CBS-TV.

10/23

1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa, joined
him on the CBS radio broadcast. Allen's comedy-variety program was known
as "The Linit Bath Club Revue". It then became "The Salad Bowl Revue",
then, "The Sal Hapatica Revue", "The Hour of Smiles", "Town Hall
Tonight", "The Texaco Star Theatre" and finally, someone with just a bit
of sense, came up with "The Fred Allen Show". The comedic legend stayed
on radio for 17 years.

10/24

1929   The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time on NBC.
Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the
years,  all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee
Show.  Megaphone totin' Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were
mainstays on  radio into the late 1940s.

10/25

1937   Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung
out on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the entire
run.  Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the true life
story of mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own beloved
daughter, Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing the
difference in their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel's life."

Joe

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Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 16:42:53 -0400
From: Radioclass <radioclass@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Latitude Zero

Alan/Linda Bell asked about finding a source for a Latitude Zero recording.
Here's a link that presumes to have a copy.

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Anne Walker

[ADMINISTRIVIA: True, but this person is selling a copy on CD. Thanks to
Larry Gassman, there is a MUCH better and more complete copy of the show
posted to the Digest's Copy folder. If you can't remember how to get to it,
gimme a yell.  --cfs3]

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