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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 204
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  7-11 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Re Chic Sales                         [ "Don Jensen" <dnjkenosha@[removed]; ]
  Sniffles                              [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  Charles Lane                          [ "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed]; ]
  writing the Alan Reed book            [ Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed]; ]
  RE: Chuck Sayles                      [ "Steve Pfister" <srp336r@getcoactiv ]
  Stopping for shows                    [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
  Mythical mottoes                      [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  7-12 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 23:12:35 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-11 births/deaths

July 11th births

07-11-1881 - Clarence Budington Kelland - Portland, MI - d. 2-18-1964
writer: "Scattergood Baines"
07-11-1884 - Howard Estabrook - Detroit, MI - d. 7-16-1978
screen writer: "Screen Guild Theatre"
07-11-1888 - Dr. Lyman Bryson - Valentine, NE - d. 11-24-1959
moderator: "American School of the Air"; "Invitation to Learning";
"People's Platform"
07-11-1892 - Thomas Mitchell - Elizabeth, NJ - d. 12-17-1962
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
07-11-1894 - Walter Wanger - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-18-1968
film producer: "Information, Please"; "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
07-11-1897 - Johnny Marvin - Butler, Oklahoma Territory - d. 12-20-1944
country singer: Had his own show on NBC
07-11-1906 - Fred Feibel - Union City, NJ - d. 5-16-1978
organist: "Between the Bookends"; "Organ Reveille"
07-11-1906 - Harry Von Zell - Indianapolis, IN - d. 11-21-1981
actor, announcer: Bill Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"; "George Burns and
Gracie Allen Show"
07-11-1909 - Irene Hervey - Venice, CA - d. 12-20-1998
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-11-1914 - Tommy Bartlett - Milwaukee, WI  - d. 9-6-1998
emcee: "Welcome Travlers"
07-11-1922 - Bernard Punsly - NYC - d. 1-20-2004
actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
07-11-1922 - Gene Evans - Holbrook, AZ - d. 4-1-1998
actor: "Family Theatre"
07-11-1928 - Hope Miller - d. 7-25-1992
actor: "Let's Pretend"
07-11-1942 - Tommy Vance - Oxford, England - d. 3-6-2005
presenter: Radio 1

July 11th deaths

01-18-1899 - Lucille Wall - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1986
actor: Portia Blake "Portia Faces Life"; Belle Jones "Lorenzo Jones"
02-03-1915 - Bill Miller - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-2006
piano, conductor: "Frank Sinatra"; "Jim Hawthorne Show"
02-09-1913 - Erskine Butterfield - Syracuse, NY - d. 7-11-1961
jazz musician: "Cats 'n' Jammers"
02-21-1909 - Ray Hedge - d. 7-11-1994
actor: Clarence Tiffingtuffer "Myrt and Marge"
03-29-1899 - Clifford Goldsmith - Aurora, NY - d. 7-11-1971
writer: Created "The Aldrich Family"
04-04-1914 - Frances Langford - Lakeland, FL - d. 7-11-2005
singer, actor: Blanche Bickerson "Bickersons"; "Bob Hope Show"
04-12-1918 - Helen Forrest - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 7-11-1999
singer: "Artie Shaw and His Orchestra"; "Harry James and His Orchestra"
04-17-1913 - Richard Travis - Carlsbad, NM - d. 7-11-1989
announcer and sportscaster
04-27-1923 - Peggy Knudsen - Duluth, MN - d. 7-11-1980
actor: Karen Adams "Woman in White"; Lois "Bill Goodwin Show"
05-06-1941 - Ghena Dimitrova - Sofia, Bulgaria - d. 7-11-2005
operatic soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
05-22-1907 - Laurence Olivier - Dorking, England - d. 7-11-1989
actor: "Biography in Sound"; "Document A/777"; "Hour of Mystery"
06-12-1893 - Evelyn Varden - Adair, Oklahoma Territory - d. 7-11-1958
actor: Dorothy Stewart "This is Nora Drake"; Mother Malone "Young Dr.
Malone"
06-12-1914 - Herbert C. Kenny - d. 7-11-1992
singer: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's Go
Nightclubbing"
08-10-1910 - Roy Ringwald - d. 7-11-1995
singer: "The Fred Waring Show"
09-26-1898 - George Gershwin - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-11-1937
pianist, composer: "Music by Gershwin"
09-27-1918 - James McCallion - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-11-1991
actor: Stephen Dallas "Stella Dallas"; Sydney Lawrence "One Man's
Family"
11-11-1909 - Robert Ryan - Chicago, IL - d. 7-11-1973
actor: "Document A/777"; "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Suspense"
12-10-1889 - Ray Collins - Sacramento, CA - d. 7-11-1965
actor: Doc Will Hackett, "County Seat"; member of The Mercury Theatre
12-17-1907 - Frank Gill - d. 7-11-1970
writer, comedian: "Joe E. Brown's Post Toasties Show"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:00:52 -0400
From: "Don Jensen" <dnjkenosha@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re Chic Sales

Chick (Chic?) Sayles (sp?)
I have searched the internet and find no reference to "this" Chick
Sayles or his book.


It's the spelling that caused your Google problems.  It is Chic Sales.
Charles "Chic" Sale was a vaudevillian who in the 1920s wrote a slim book
called "The Specialist," supposedly based on a guy in his home town who
specialized in building outhouses.  The author's name became a slang term
for an outhouse, and, it must have lasted more than a few years in popular
usage since I recall hearing it as a youth.
So Chic Sales are outhouses.
--don
DON JENSEN

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:54:20 -0400
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sniffles

Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 10:35:34 -0400
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]

Let's carry the Sniffles thread a bit further. Wasn't Sniffles also
featured in a comic book series? Seems to me I recall having several
of them as a kid. If is fact this is true, does anyone remember the
incantation that was used to make a child the same size as Sniffles?

I don[t remember if it was a comic book of its own, but I do remember
seeing it, perhaps as a feature in a comic book of some other title.
I remember the incantation:  "Magic words of Poof Poof Piffles, make
me just as small as Sniffles."

I have no idea how one got to be regular size again.

--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed]                           [removed]
 92 State Street	                                  Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109           	         [removed]

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:54:33 -0400
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

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Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
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Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
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it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:54:54 -0400
From: "Gary Dixon" <argy@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Charles Lane
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I'm sure that Charles Lane appeared on several radio show, but the first thing
that came into my mind this morning was his appearance as [removed] Erson in the
Stan Freberg cult LP: FREBERG [removed] was released in [removed]

Lane's appearance was in connection with the sketch dealing with telephone
company's all digit dialing system.

"They took away our Murray Hills" was the song that wrapped up the sketch.
argytunes
gary@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 11:55:17 -0400
From: Ben Ohmart <benohmart@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  writing the Alan Reed book

Hello, all. I am indeed writing that Alan Reed book. I
got the material on Monday from his son. Some great
pictures, and the jewel of the pile is the 60 page
autobiography he began but didn't finish due to ill
health. It's written in 3rd person, but I have
permission to change all the "he"s to "I"s. :)

Anyway, the pile isn't as big as I expected, so I'd
really welcome anyone who has articles, interviews,
photos, credits, etc. on Alan. Plus I'm seeking any
co-stars that might still be around. I'll be sure to
mention you in the book!

Thanks!

Ben Ohmart
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 13:58:25 -0400
From: "Steve Pfister" <srp336r@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Chuck Sayles

      In a 1972 radio interview  Clarence Hartzell (Uncle Fletcher-Vic and
Sade) makes reference to one of his idols- Chick (Chic?) Sayles (sp?)

Could it be Chic Sale, author of The Specialist and I'll Tell You Why?

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 15:31:09 -0400
From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Stopping for shows

Way back in #193, Ted Kneebone asked:

What program would be so good that the theaters in
our town would stop the film and pipe in a radio
program -- today?  Or TV audio.  I have asked
myself the question -- but I can't think of one.

I will mention that I while I was in college (92 to 97-ish), the sitcom
Friends was very popular.  It was not uncommon for frats to have
"Friends Parties", where everything came to halt while the show was on.
The show would, of course, be bookended with beer-fueled mayhem.

I was never a fan of sitcoms (TV or OTR), but I am a fan of beer and
girls seemed to like the show, so I participated.

Not exactly an analogous situation, but close.

-chris holm

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 20:27:16 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mythical mottoes

"If you want the best of corsets, of course it's Gildersleeve."  That was
the advertising slogan of the Gildersleeve Girdle Works when Throckmorton P.
operated said firm during the era he (actor Hal Peary) appeared on Fibber
McGee & Molly (continuously in that role from 1939 to 1941, though as early
as 1937).  I'm wondering:  does anybody recall any catchphrases for other
fabled enterprises that existed in Never Never Land?  Not actual sponsors,
but of the fictitious kind.

Jim Cox

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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:26:50 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  7-12 births/deaths

July 12th births

07-12-1863 - Herschel Mayall - Bowling Green, KY - d. 6-10-1941
actor: "The Lone Ranger"; "The March of Time"
07-12-1884 - Edgar Stehli - Lyons, France - d. 7-16-1973
actor: Dr. Huer "Buck Rogers"; Rex A. Starr "It's Murder"
07-12-1886 - Jean Hersholt - Copenhagen, Denmark - d. 6-2-1956
actor: Dr. Paul Christian "Dr. Christian"
07-12-1890 - Joseph Latham - Bolivar, NY - d. 10-10-1970
actor: Uncle Will "Home Sweet Home"; Elmer Eeps "Just Plain Bill"
07-12-1895 - Kirsten Flagstad - Hamar, Norway - d. 12-7-1962
opera singer: "General Motors Concerts"; "Metropolitan Opera"
07-12-1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II - NYC - d. 8-23-1960
lyricist: "Pet Milk Show"
07-12-1898 - Joe Reichman - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-14-1970
bandleader: (the Pagliacci of the Piano) "A Song is Born"
07-12-1903 - Ray Winters - Menomonie, WI - d. 12-xx-1978
announcer: "Kitty Keene"; "The Lamplighter"; "Whispering Streets"
07-12-1908 - Milton Berle - NYC - d. 3-27-2002
comedian: "Milton Berle Show"; "Let Yourself Go"; "Three Ring Time"
07-12-1909 - Joey Faye - NYC - d. 4-26-1997
actor: Recruit "The Rookies"
07-12-1912 - Jim McClain - d. 5-5-2004
host: Dr. [removed] "Dr. [removed]"; Dr. [removed] "Dr. [removed] Jr."
07-12-1912 - Will Bradley - Newtown, NJ - d. 7-20-1978
bandleader: "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Saturday Night Swing Session"
07-12-1917 - William Griffis - Chapel Hill, NC - d. 4-13-1998
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Roger Kilgore, Public Defender"
07-12-1919 - Vera Hruba Ralston - Prague, Czechoslovakia - d. 2-9-2003
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
07-12-1920 - Keith Andes - Ocean City, NJ - d. 11-11-2005
actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
07-12-1934 - Van Cliburn - Shreveport, LA
pianist: "Van Cliburn Concert"

July 12th deaths

02-10-1906 - Lon Chaney, Jr. - Oklahoma City,  Oklahoma Territory -
d. 7-12-1973
actor: "Pursuit of Happiness"
02-12-1904 - Ted Mack - Greeley, CO - d. 7-12-1976
emcee: "Original Amateur Hour"
05-09-1919 - Eddie Manson - d. 7-12-1996
harmonica player: "They Shall Be Heard"
06-02-1902 - Jimmie Lunceford - Fulton, MO - d. 7-12-1947
bandeader: "Jimmie Lunceford and His Orchestra"
07-14-1927 - John Chancellor - Chicago, IL - d. 7-12-1996
newscaster: WMAQ Chicago, NBC; "Voice of America"
07-23-1916 - Kurt Kreuger - Michenberg, Germany - d. 7-12-2006
actor: "New National Guard Show"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
08-08-1907 - Benny Carter - NYC - d. 7-12-2003
saxaphonist, songwriter (Professor) "Chamber Music Society of Lower
Basin Street"
08-31-1886 - L. Wolfe Gilbert - Odessa, Russia - d. 7-12-1970
pianist: WEAF New York City
10-05-1908 - Josh Logan - Texarkana, TX - d. 7-12-1988
film/stage director: "Biography In Sound"
10-19-1907 - Roger Wolfe Kahn - Morristown, NJ - d. 7-12-1962
bandleader: "Roger Wolfe Kahn and His Orchestra"
10-22-1876 - Cecilia Loftus - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-12-1943
actor: Sarah Wright "Roses and Drums"
11-15-1885 - Herbert Rawlinson - Brighton, England - d. 7-12-1953
actor: Edgar, the courthouse guard "The Amazing Mr. Tutt"; "Escape";
"Twelve Players'
12-18-1864 - S. Parkes Cadman - Wellington, Shropshire, England - d.
7-12-1936
preacher: "National Radio Pulpit"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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