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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 64
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Re: Mike Wallace                      [ IreneTH@[removed] ]
  Myron Wallace on IP                   [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  Mike Wallace                          [ otrguru@[removed] ]
  4-12 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:07:52 -0400
From: IreneTH@[removed]
To: old time radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re:  Mike Wallace

@Fass

Yes, Wallace's first appearance on radio was on Feb 7, 1939. He was the guest
panelist, identified as a 'student' on "Information Please". He really was a
student, a senior at the University of Michigan, where he majored in
broadcasting. The regular panelists were Clifton Fadiman, Franklin P. Adams,
John Kieran, and Oscar Levant.

It was in Chicago that he had his first interview show, a 15-minute daily
interview show on WGN called "Famous Names". The program premiered on April
1, 1946 and ran through Nov 1947. It was broadcast from the Mayfair Room at
the Blackstone Hotel. The first guest was the actress Jane Russell. Most of
the almost 400 radio listings for the program did not identify the name of
the guest, but those where names were listed included many famous names of
the day - No tapes of this program exist but I doubt that he developed his
confrontational style on this program, but he sure met a lot of interesting
people. This was interviewing of what WGN called "notables". I know some of
the interviews were taped in advance.

Those whose names did appear in the newspaper radio listings included Joe E.
Lewis, Zero Mostel, Byron Nelson, Patrice Munsel, Roy Rogers, Dale Evans,
Georgia Gibbs, Virginia Mayo, Edward Everett Horton, Varga the famous pin-up
artist and illustrator, Beatrice Kay, Tallulah Bankhead, Rise Stevens, Ballet
Dancers Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, Marlin Perkins director of the
Lincoln Park Zoo, Otto Krueger, Harold Russell, star of "The Best Years of
Our Lives", Ballerina Nora Kaye, Corinne Calvert, covergirl and model Candy
Jones, Vera Caspary, author of 'Laura', as well as "Miss Photoflash" and "Mr
America" :)) There is one guest interview that could have been hard-hitting,
on April 15, 1947, with Lee Mortimer who according to Wikipedia, six days
earlier on April 9, 1947 had a confrontation in front of Ciro's in Hollywood
with Frank Sinatra who Mortimer at one time had attempted to tie to the Mafia
and the Communist Party. Sinatra was arrested the next day on a battery
complaint. Mortimer accused Sinatra of throwing a punch. Mortimer had a long
association with the NY Daily Mirror, as a columnist, critic and eventually a
long-running Broadway gossip columnist.

About 4 months after the end of "Famous Names", on March 7, 1949, Mike
premiered, a new interview program on WGN called "Career Girl" a program that
would "present outstanding career women who will tell how it's done." Guests
on the first program were a fashion editor of Mademoiselle Magazine, an
advertising executive and actress Jan Sterling. "Career Girl" was on the air
for about a year.

Mike Wallace had a remarkable career and he loved radio. He was one of a kind

Excerpt from a 2002 interview in Dublin, Ireland

" When was your first experience in broadcasting? Was it in Ann Arbor?
Radio in Ann Arbor, yes, the University of Michigan.

I think you said once that you felt "trapped" by radio, that it was so
captivating it was almost impossible to get out.

Well radio was the first time -- when I hit the University of Michigan --
that I found that I had an interesting delivery, a reasonably attractive
voice. I didn't have to worry about what I looked like. The mind's eye in
radio for the listener is so much more vivid than anything you can put on the
screen. At least that's what I believed then. So I wasn't trapped by radio. I
was trapped because I felt I would probably never make it in television,
because cosmetically, perhaps, I wasn't sufficiently interesting looking or
pleasant looking. But no, it was wonderful to work in radio."

- Irene Theodore Heinstein

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:08:30 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Myron Wallace on IP

Martin Fass remarked:

On at least one of the available "Information, Please!" programs, he is one
of the guest panelists.  Not yet known as "Mike Wallace," I believe.
Considering that the program only selected witty, intelligent, literate
people as participants, his presence there as a young man is, I think,
significant.  A special fellow.

His name was Myron Wallace at the time he was a guest on INFORMATION, PLEASE,
and represented the University of Michigan which he was a student. It was his
first exposure to radio.
Martin

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:08:37 -0400
From: otrguru@[removed]
To: DIGEST OLD RADIO <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mike Wallace

Mike Wallace, who died April 7 at age 93, spoke about his radio career when I
interviewed him on September 23, 1989.  He was age 71 when we spoke and he
was in Chicago to be honored by the Museum of Broadcast Communications and he
appeared live on my "Those Were The Days" radio show. We spoke for 27 minutes
and were joined for a few of those minutes by his son Chris.

You may hear that conversation anytime at [removed]  When you
get there, just go to "Interviews" and click on "Mike Wallace."  You'll also
be able to hear his 2-24-49 audition recording of "Crime on the Waterfront."

The Wallace interview is among some 200 we had with the stars of the Golden
Age of Radio.  All are available 24/7, along with many additional articles
and features about radio's glory days.

Chuck Schaden

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:08:45 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-12 births/deaths

April 12th births

04-12-1898 - Lily Pons - Draguignan, France - d. 2-13-1976
singer: "Telephone Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
04-12-1902 - John White - d. 11-26-1992
country/western singer: Lonesome Cowboy "Death Valley Days"
04-12-1904 - Berlyn Baylor - d. 7-6-1969
leader of the Troubadours for WLBN Little Rock, Arkansas
04-12-1904 - Frankie Masters - Saint Marys, WV - d. 1-29-1991
music: "Edgar A. Guest"
04-12-1905 - Audrey Call - Alton, IL - d. 6-3-2001
violinist: "Fibber McGee and Molly"
04-12-1907 - Hubert Fincher - Waldo, AR - d. 10-29-1979
country music: "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
04-12-1907 - Ivan Ditmars - Olympia, WA - d. 9-10-1997
music: "Advs. of Frank Race"; "Dr. Christian"; "Escape"
04-12-1908 - Robert L. Scott - Waynesboro, GA - d. 2-27-2006
wwII fighter pilot, author: "Mail Call"; "Hop Harrigan"
04-12-1911 - Joseph Blazak - d. 12-4-1993
newscaster: KGFJ Los Angeles, California
04-12-1912 - Herbert B. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 4-12-1989
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
04-12-1914 - Ken Williams - Canada - d. 2-16-1984
actor: Brian Wells "David Harum"
04-12-1918 - Helen Forrest - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 7-11-1999
singer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Harry James and His Orchestra"
04-12-1919 - Ann Miller - Chireno, TX - d. 1-22-2004
dancer, actor: "Forecast"; "Hollywood Hotel"
04-12-1919 - Cy Bahakel - Birmingham, AL - d. 4-20-2006
newscaster: WJRD Tuscaloosa, AL
04-12-1919 - Ivor Barry - South Wales, UK - d. 12-12-2006
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
04-12-1920 - Anita Ellis - Montreal, Canada
singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy"; "Jack Carson Show" "Red
Skelton Show"
04-12-1921 - Peter R. Brooke - Berlin, Germany - d. 4-14-1999
writer: "Secret Mission"
04-12-1926 - Jane Withers - Atlanta, GA
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-12-1930 - Bob Bartter - d. 10-xx-1976
disk jockey: KNEX McPherson, Kansas
04-12-1930 - Johnny Antonelli - Rochester, NY
baseball pitcher: "Bill Stern Sports News"
04-12-1931 - Betty Clooney - Maysville, KY - d. 8-6-1976
singer: (The Clooney Sisters) "Moon River"
04-12-1935 - Gene Weed - Dallas, TX - d. 8-5-1999
disk jockey: "Shivaree"
04-12-1940 - Jack Hibberd - Warracknabeal, Australia
writer: "A Stretch of the Imagination"

April 12th deaths

01-30-1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt - Hyde Park, NY - d. 4-12-1945
[removed] president: "Fireside Chats"
04-06-1919 - Paula Kelly - d. 4-12-1992
vocalist: (Modernaires) "Club Fifteen"
04-12-1912 - Herbert B. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 4-12-1989
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
05-03-1921 - Sugar Ray Robinson - Detroit, MI - d. 4-12-1989
pugilist: "Destination Freedom"; "Heat It Now"
05-13-1914 - Joe Louis (The Brown Bomber) - Lafayette, AL - d. 4-12-1981
heavyweight boxing champ: "Fred Allen Show"; "Freedom's People"
05-23-1882 - James Gleason - NYC - d. 4-12-1959
actor: "Jimmy Gleason's Diner"
06-03-1906 - Josephine Baker - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-12-1975
singer: "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"
06-12-1915 - Zeke Zarchy - NYC - d. 4-12-2009
lead trumpet: "Benny Goodman Band"; "Artie Show Band"
06-21-1916 - Al Brown - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-12-1989
actor: Og "Og, Son of Fire"
07-19-1902 - Buster Bailey - Memphis, TN - d. 4-12-1967
clarinet: "Flow Gently, Sweet Rhythm"
07-24-1913 - Brian Reece - Noctorum, England - d. 4-12-1962
actor: Archibald Berkeley-Willoughby "The Advs. of [removed] 49"
09-01-1931 - Boxcar Willie - Sterrett, TX - d. 4-12-1999
country singer and songwriter: "Grand Ole Opry"
09-08-1921 - Harry Secombe - Swansea, Wales - d. 4-12-2001
comedian: Neddie Seagoon "Goon Show"
09-09-1894 - Arthur Freed - Charleston, SC - d. 4-12-1973
songwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-15-1898 - Gene Arnold - d. 4-12-1954
singer: (the man with a tear in his throat) "National Barn Dance"
09-26-1890 - Sarah Allis - d. 4-12-1980
newscaster: WHAI Greenfield, Massachusetts
10-11-1919 - George Rock - Farmer City, FL - d. 4-12-1988
260 poind trumpet player: "The Spike Jones Shw"
10-20-1924 - Pat Chamburs - Clearwater, FL - d. 4-12-2009
disk jockey: "Jazz, Jive and Swing"
11-02-1901 - Paul Ford - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-12-1976
actor: "Suspense"; "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
11-11-1922 - Kurt Vonnegut - Indianapolis, IN - d. 4-12-2007
writer: "Dimension X"
11-16-1887 - Arthur Krock - Glasgow, KY - d. 4-12-1974
journalist: "Information Please"

Ron

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