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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2006 : Issue 251
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
The Whistler locally in Chicago [ "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@run ]
Poe, Folks! [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Casebook of Gregory Hood [ Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed]; ]
Re: Molly McGee [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
9-16 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:30:24 -0400
From: "Matthew Bullis" <matthewbullis@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The Whistler locally in Chicago
Hello, Phillip Chavin said there was a locally produced version of the
Whistler sponsored by Meister Brau beer. I've only heard one show sponsored
by this company, and it was a surprise to hear it and then go back to the
Signal programs. For how long were these local shows done, and does only the
one recording, about a trip to the Grand Canyon, exist? Was this same
script, and the others done locally, also done nationally?
Thanks a lot.
Matthew
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:43:36 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Poe, Folks!
Guys-
I know Boris Karloff worked a lot in radio (including acting in DRAMAS by
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and I know he did many records (including stories by great authors)
but:
Does anyone know if he was ever recorded doing a READING of a Poe piece?
-Craig W.
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:47:21 -0400
From: Kermyt Anderson <kermyta@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Casebook of Gregory Hood
I just stumbled upon the Crippen & Landru "Lost Classics" series,
reprinting collections of (often previously uncollected) pulp stories
by masters of the genre. ([removed])
There's a lot of great looking stuff there, including some collections
of non-Perry Mason stories by Erle Stanley Gardner. (Wonder if any of
them were ever dramatized?) One forthcoming book that caught my eye is
"The Casebook of Gregory Hood" by Anthony Boucher and Denis Green. I
hadn't thought that series had a literary origin, and Thrilling
Detective doesn't mention one
([removed]). Also, Boucher and Green
wrote the radio series (along with tons of others, such as Sherlock
Holmes). Does anybody know if they also churned out Gregory Hood
stories based on their scripts? Or is this possibly a collection of
radio scripts? I see elsewhere on their website that Crippen and Landru
has published other radio scripts (by Ellery Queen and John Dickson
Carr, among others). So perhaps that's the most likely outcome here.
Kermyt
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:46:40 -0400
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Molly McGee
At the risk of beating a dead horse, while Googling the Archives for OTR, I
came across an article dated April, 22, 1940, about Fibber & Molly. It
stated
that Molly suffered a Nervous Breakdown at age 40, and was off the show for
about two years.
Something interesting in the article was the fact that Fibber & Molly owned
a couple of business's. One was a company that manufactured sand blasting
equipment, and the other was a Hire's Root Beer bottling plant in Kansas
City,
Missouri.
Charlie
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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 01:43:37 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 9-16 births/deaths
September 16th births
09-16-1881 - Jack Harvey - Cleveland, OH - d. 11-9-1954
writer: "Joan Davis Time"
09-16-1893 - Alexander Korda - Pusztaturpaszto, Hungary - d. 1-23-1956
director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-16-1899 - Sam Spewack - Ukraine, Russia - d. 10-14-1971
writer: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-16-1902 - Philip Reep - d. 1-xx-1985
singer: (Elm City Four) "The Gay Nineties Revue"
09-16-1903 - Joe Venuti - d. 8-14-1978
jazz violinist: "Friendly Five Footnotes";"Paul Whiteman Show";
"Jubilee"
09-16-1908 - Neil Reagan - Tampico, IL - d. 12-11-1996
director,announcer: (Brother of Ron) "Dr. Christian"; "Straight Arrow"
09-16-1911 - Paul Henning - Independence, MO - d. 3-25-2005
writer: "Burns and Allen"
09-16-1914 - Allen Funt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-5-1999
host: "Candid Microphone"
09-16-1919 - Andy Russell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-16-1992
singer: "Your Hit Parade"
09-16-1919 - Larry Dobkin - NYC - d. 10-28-2002
actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
09-16-1921 - Korla Pandit (Juan Rolando) - New Delhi, India - d.
10-1-1998
organ: "Chandu the Magician", "Jubilee"
09-16-1922 - Janis Paige - Tacoma, WA
actor: "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "Theatre of Romance"
09-16-1924 - Lauren Bacall - NYC
actor: Sailor Duval "Bold Venture"
09-16-1925 - [removed] King - Itta Bena, MS
disc jockey: "Boogie for Breakfast"
09-16-1925 - Charlie Byrd - Chuckatuck, VA - d. 12-1-1999
jazz guitarist: "Voices of Vista"
09-16-1926 - Tommy Bond - Dallas, TX - d. 9-24-2005
actor: Randolph Foster "A Date With Judy"
09-16-1927 - Jack Kelly - Astoria, NY - d. 11-7-1992
actor: "Suspense"
09-16-1930 - Anne Francis - Ossinging, NY
actor: Kathy Cameron "When a Girl Marries"
September 16th deaths
01-01-1905 - Richard Keith - NYC - d. 9-16-1976
actor: Ray Hunt "Myrt and Marge"; Frank W. Brock "Special Investigator"
01-18-1920 - Constance Moore - Sioux City, IA - d. 9-16-2005
singer, actor: Gloria Dean "Hollywood Mystery Time"
01-19-1910 - Jaime Del Valle - d. 9-16-1981
producer, director: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Count of Monte
Cristo"
03-06-1942 - David Cleve - England - d. 9-16-2005
actor: "Out of School"
03-18-1902 - Doris Dalton - Sharon, MA - d. 9-16-1984
actor: Voice of Romance "Romance"; "One Foot in Heaven"
06-11-1906 - Frank Woodruff - Columbia, SC - d. 9-16-1983
director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-14-1884 - John McCormack - Athone, Ireland - d. 9-16-1945
singer: "The Atwater-Kent Hour"; "The Vince Program"
09-07-1910 - Don Ried - d. 9-16-1996
vocalist: "The Jack Kirkwood Show"
09-28-1881 - Pedro de Cordoba - NYC - d. 9-16-1950
actor: John Marshall "Those We Love"; Jose Alvarado "Romance of the
Ranchos"
11-05-1887 - Ralph Moody - St. Louis, MO - d. 9-16-1971
actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Roy Rogers Show"; "Wild Bill Hickok"
11-28-1906 - Helen Jepson - Titusville, PA - d. 9-16-1997
singer: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Show Boat"
11-29-1912 - Alan Courtney - NYC - d. 9-16-1978
host: "Calling All Girls"; "Korn Kobblers"
12-02-1923 - Maria Callas - NYC - d. 9-16-1977
opera singer: "The Metropolitan Opera"
12-23-1911 - James Gregory - The Bronx, NY - d. 9-16-2002
actor: Captain Vincent Cronin "21st Precinct"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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