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Date: 4/26/2007 10:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 127
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Scully Calls Koufax No-Hitter Ju  [ Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed] ]
  Walter Slezak                         [ "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed] ]
  Omni biography                        [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  Re: col flack                         [ "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed]; ]
  4-26 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Major Bowes' Orginal Amateur Hour     [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  KING KONG                             [ "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@m ]
  ...And it goes both [removed]           [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Cincy Convention observation          [ papillion17@[removed] ]
  RE: Ma Perkins                        [ "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed] ]
  Alice Backes                          [ lawrence albert <albertlarry@yahoo. ]

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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:59:48 -0400
From: Andrew Steinberg <otrdig2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Scully Calls Koufax No-Hitter June 30,
 1962
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Here is the link for page containing the clip from the June 30, 1962 No-Hitter

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  While I was looking around the NPR website, I found this link for a page
with a clip from the 1946 Rose Bowl (Jan 1, 1946)

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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:00:13 -0400
From: "Karen Lerner" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "OTR Digest (E-mail)" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Walter Slezak

Yesterday, Kenneth Clarke was asking about the late Walter Slezak.  I had
never heard of him, so I decided to go on a little hunt.  Here's what I was
able to find out:

It seems that he was initially known for playing big, beefy bad guys, and
gravitated towards character parts as he got older.  Mr. Clarke was correct
about his movie work.  He played Willy in Alfred Hitchcock's "Lifeboat," and
starred in Treasure Island along with Orson Welles, among other film roles.
He also appeared in tons of television programs, many with ties to old time
radio programs including Dr. Kildare, Studio One, and Suspense.

As far as his radio work goes, all I could really find is what is listed on
Goldin's site: a bunch of appearances on anthology programs including Lux and
Columbia Workshop, and appearances on a few comedy/variety shows including
The Pepsodent Show and The Charlie McCarthy Show.

Oh, and Mr. Clarke was right about another [removed] to The Internet
Movie Database, Walter Slezak is the father of soap opera star Erika Slezak.

Karen Lerner
Radio Spirits

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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:01:35 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Omni biography

Here is a web site that can be of help to OTR authors and others"
[removed]" This site has over 100,000 Biographies of
inportant people (did'nt find my name) Try it out  has more tha bio's.

Frank McGurn

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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:01:53 -0400
From: "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: col flack

good afternoon
ken's always up on his research, but i didn't say it was a movie soundtrack,
someone else mentioned it.
here's what i have 2-16in discs ea 3 sides with a 15min soap prog, 1 being
col flack,
i have a turntable but it's not setup right, so i can't play
the discs, i have had these discs for years.
i also have another col flack seperate from above
so untill we hear the prog, can't say which it is, and i'd hate to ruin it
playing it.
ed

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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:47:12 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-26 births/deaths

April 26th births

04-26-1883 - Harry Sothern - London, England - d. 2-22-1957
actor: "Counterspy"; "Kitty Foyle"; "True Story Hour"
04-26-1890 - Edgar Kennedy - Monterey, CA - d. 11-9-48
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Radio Reader's Digest"
04-26-1891 - Paul Hoffmann - Western Springs, IL - d. 10-8-1974
foreign aid administrator: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"
04-26-1893 - Anita Loos - Sisson (now Mt. Shasta), CA - d. 8-18-1981
playwright: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-26-1905 - Cecilia Parker - Fort William, Ontario, Canada - d.
7-25-1993
actor: "Good News of 1939"; "Mail Call"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-26-1906 - [removed] "Albert" Alexander - Winthrop, MA - d. 2-24-1967
moderator: "Goodwill Court/Court of Human Relations"
04-26-1907 - Holland Engle - Wheeling, WV - d. 3-24-1988
announcer, emcee: "Ladies Fair"; "Variety Fair"
04-26-1910 - Grace Coppin - Murray, UT - d. 4-7-1993
actor: Maude "The Life of Riley"
04-26-1912 - John McGovern - d. 7-25-1985
actor: Mike Gallagher "Highway Patrol"; Harold Wilkinson "The O'Neills"
04-26-1916 - Frances Robinson - Fort Wandsworth, NY - d. 8-16-1971
actor: Helen Asher "Richard Diamond"; Claire 'Brooksie' Brooks "Let
George Do It"
04-26-1916 - Vic Perrin - Menomonee Falls, WI - d. 7-4-1989
actor: Ross Farnsworth "One Man's Family"; Sergeant Gorce "Fort Laramie"
04-26-1918 - Helen Burgess - Portland, OR - d. 4-7-1937
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-26-1922 - Eric Sinclair - Burkburnett, TX - d. 1-26-2004
actor: "Alias Jane Doe"
04-26-1922 - Mike Kellin - Hartford, CT - d. 8-26-1983
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-26-1923 - Berwyn Ableman - 2-4-2002
sportscaster and newscaster
04-26-1927 - Granny Hamner - Richmond, VA - d. 9-12-1993
sportscaster" "Sports Hilites"

April 26th deaths

01-09-1914 - Gypsy Rose Lee - Seattle, WA - d. 4-26-1970
exotic dancer: "Advs. of Ellery Queen"; "What Makes You Tick?"
01-13-1901 - A. B. Guthrie - Bedford, IN - d. 4-26-1991
author, screenwriter: "NBC University Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-13-1923 - Gene Ames - Malden, MA - d. 4-26-1997
singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
02-16-1912 - Del Sharbutt - Ft. Worth, TX - d. 4-26-2002
announcer: "Hobby Lobby"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Victory Theatre"
02-18-1890 - Edward Arnold - NYC - d. 4-26-1956
actor: President "Mr. President"
02-22-1911 - Vaughn Taylor - Boston, MA - d. 4-26-1983
actor: "National Travel Club"; "There is No Night"
02-26-1919 - Mason Adams - NYC - d. 4-26-2005
actor: Larry 'Pepper' Young "Pepper Young's Family" Ned Scott "Jones
and I"
05-08-1913 - Sid James - Newcastle, Natal, South Africa - d. 4-26-1976
comedian: "Hancock's Half Hour"
07-01-1909 - Madge Evans - NYC - d. 4-26-1981
panelist: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Who Said That?"
07-12-1909 - Joey Faye - NYC - d. 4-26-1997
actor: Recruit "The Rookies"
07-13-1908 - Tim Spencer - Webb City, MO - d. 4-26-1974
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
07-15-1897 - Howard Lanin - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-26-1991
bandleader: ((King of Society Dance Music) "Atwater Kent Hour";
"Campbell Soup Show"
08-06-1911 - Lucille Ball - Celoron, NY - d. 4-26-1989
comedienne: Liz Cooper "My Favorite Husband"; Lucy Ricardo "I Love Lucy"
08-13-1909 - John Beal - Joplin, MO - d. 4-26-1997
actor: Bonnie Doon "Amazing Mr. Tutt"; "Box 13"; "Favorite Story"
08-21-1904 - William Allen "Count" Basie - Red Bank, NJ - d. 4-26-1994
bandleader: "Command Performance"; "Jubilee"
08-26-1915 - Jim Davis - Edgereton, MO - d. 4-26-1981
actor: "Dangerous Assignment"
08-28-1920 - Don Glasser - Derry, PA - d. 4-26-2004
bandleader: "Don Glasser and His Orchestra"
10-08-1908 - Albert Maltz - NYC - d. 4-26-1985
screen writer: (One of Hollywood Ten) "Words at War"; "Lux Radio
Theatre"
10-17-1903 - Irene Noblette Ryan - El Paso, TX - d. 4-26-1973
actor: "Tim & Irene Sky Road Show"; "Royal Crown Revue"
11-08-1865 - Tim Frawley - Washington, [removed] - d. 4-26-1936
actor: Old Ranger "Death Valley Days"
11-17-1905 - Josef Marais - Sir Lowey's Pass, South Africa - d.
4-26-1978
singer: "African Trek/Sundown on the Veld"; "Meredith Willson Show"
12-04-1915 - Allan Jackson - Hot Springs, AR - d. 4-26-1976
newscaster for the CBS network for 32 years
12-09-1911 - Broderick Crawford - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-26-1986
actor: "Hedda Hopper Show"; "Hallmark Playhouse"; Cavalcade of America"
12-18-1908 - Celia Johnson - Ellerker Gate, Richmond, England - d.
4-26-1982
actor: "Desert Island Disks"; Read poetry and short stories during WWII
xx-xx-1915 - Wendell Holmes - d. 4-26-1962
actor: "Dimension X"; "Mysterious Traveler"; "Words at War"
xx-xx-xxxx - Allan Jackson - d. 4-26-1976
newscaster for the CBS network for 32 years

Ron Sayles

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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:47:31 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Major Bowes' Orginal  Amateur Hour

To answer Randy Miller's question about the Amateur Hour:

There are very few "Major Bowes' Original Hour" programs available, one
source says 11 shows and another source says 7. I have 2 of them
9/17/1936  sponsored by The Chrysler Corp. and another  2/25/1944
sponsored by Chase & Sandborn Coffee .

The Major interviewed contestants briefly and the contestant would
perform. If the major felt the contestant was  no good, he had loud gong
the the would strike and that was the end of the contestant. The radio
audience would call a New York phone number(Murry Hill -9933) to vote or
by post card or [removed] in Chicago you could vote early and often.

The Major would open his show with "The wheel of fortune around, around
she goes and where she stops nobody knows."
The Major was real radio pioneer wiith shows dating form 1922.

 Frank McGurn

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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 07:48:08 -0400
From: "thomas heathwood" <HeritageRadio@[removed];
To: "[removed]" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  KING KONG
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Puzzled -
Anyone have an idea of the details re: a 1938 radio adaptation of the 1933
film, "King Kong" ?
The copy a listener sent to me for use on Heritage Radio Theatre appears
complete in the dramatization
minus any program opening or closing.  There is no identification of any kind
as to who was in the cast or who wrote
adaptation or any of the normal "credits" heard at the end of most radio
versions o movies.
It runs a bit over 30 mins, but appears to be at a normal speed, and in
reasonable sound for 1938.
Would like a bit more information before playing it on our show, but if no one
knows  (already checked with Jim Cox)
the facts on this interesting program, we will simply play it and see if
anyone can pin it down.
The main character, the captain of the boat, sounds like Paul Muni,  and there
is one other voice who sounds a good deal like a radio character actor, whose
name I can't recall at the moment.  Thanks for any help.
Tom Heathwood - Heritage Radio Theatre  / The Olde Tyme Radio Network.

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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:37:01 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  ...And it goes both [removed]

Dear Mark, & gang-

From: Mark  Higgins <paul_frees_fan@[removed];

Walter Slezak was indeed the  father of Erica Slezak.

As well as the son of famed singer Leo  Slezak:
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The Wife and I saw a  very interesting European documentary on him recently.
Quite a star in his time  (much resembling his son), with a big stage and
early talking film  career.

I recall seeing her in
person at the Milwaukee Repertory  Theater (probably about 1968) as Nerissa,
in "The Merchant of  Venice".

And if The Boss will allow, I'll soon springboard off of  that comment too -
with a note about upcoming Elizabethan radio and  film!

Best,
-Craig W.

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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 10:49:31 -0400
From: papillion17@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Cincy Convention observation

Hi Everyone. I don't usually get up and speak much but I think this needs
saying. The convention this year was enjoyable as always (especially with the
addition of Ruth Last who I found to be delightful) but there was an air of
emptiness and melancholy to it.  The obvious reason was that Hal was missing.
A few other key people were also not there (Bob Burchett, Charlie, Derek).
(I'm not picking on them, I know they wanted to be there.)  I think the thing
that bothered me most was the fact that no one had anything to say about Hal.
The only mention at all that I heard was at the first recreation when Don
Ramlowe asked for a moment of silence in Hal's memory. And that was it! None
of his compatriots said a word. I guess I was expecting Bob Hastings to
relate a moment or 2 of some private memories or Rosemary Rice to relay a
story. Perhaps it was too painful for them to attempt. Perhaps the absolute
non-mentioning of Hal WAS the whole point and I missed it. Perhaps those who
knew him
 best know he wouldn't have wanted people remembering him at the convention.
Perhaps everyone felt enough had been said and written about him here and
elsewhere already. As for me, I didn't know him at all really but yet he was
like  part of the family that we all are at the Cincy Convention. I guess I
was looking for a bit of closure at this year's convention because it's where
I'd always seen Hal.  I hope I'm not out of line here expressing my
disappointment. I know life goes on but I don't think that means we should go
out of our way to not remember someone that special, especially someone that
is so recently departed. (And it seemed to me that people were going out of
their way to not mention Hal). To borrow a phrase, that's just my opinion, I
could be [removed]

Doug

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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:34:56 -0400
From: "Druian, Raymond B SPL" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Ma Perkins

I don't think I'm the best person to answer Kenneth Clarke's request because
I was forced to listen to my mother's soap operas while I was a kid because
we had only one radio. "Ma Perkins" was possibly one of the best of the
genre, but not to a little kid. It aired for something over 25 years at (I
think, but my memory is somewhat foggy after 55 years) on either CBS or NBC
at about 1:00 or 2:00 PM in Chicago. I assume it was an hour later in New
York. The two things I KNOW I have right about the show are, it starred
Virginia Payne as Ma for its entire run, and she spent a good part of her
time answering mail requests for advice from Ma. Also, for the entire time
that I heard the show, mostly the later forties and early fifties, the
sponsor was Oxydol Detergent, at the time a major product in Proctor &
Gamble's stable (Oxydol has since been produced by another company as a
bargain store product -- I don't know if the formula is still the same or if
someone merely bought the rights to the name from P&G). I think my mother
used Oxydol until her death in the seventies, but I was away from home by
then, and she might not have still been able to get the product. I know that
she was virtually heart-broken when she was no longer able to purchase
"American Family" laundry soap bars, an ideal product for washing out a kid's
dirty mouth (no, I never ate any, but I was often threatened). Anyhow, Ma
Perkins ran a lumber yard in some small town in mid-America and solved all
the problems of her family members and friends. Housewives all over the
country really loved her for the entire run of the program. She never
measured up to "Tom Mix," "Dick Tracy," "Captain Midnight," or "Superman,"
however, and I was never able to figure out why my mother listened to Ma but
never paid attention the stuff that I liked.

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Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 14:35:15 -0400
From: lawrence albert <albertlarry@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Alice Backes
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 I'm sorry to hear of passing of Alice Backes, she came to at least two REPs
showcases and was a welcome addition to any recreation she took part in. I
was privileged to work with her on a Harry Nile episode and as B. J. Watkins
pointed she was having memory problems, until she got up to the mic. Then the
professional kicked in and she gave a sharp,detailed performance.
    She was an extremely nice person and I hope her passing was peaceful.
  Larry Albert

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