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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 269
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  old-time radio comic books            [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  Can You Top This?                     [ PFornatar@[removed] ]
  9-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  I know what you're thinking           [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:19:29 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  old-time radio comic books

Are there any web-sites that document Dell's Four Color comics other than
Disney comics?  They published a few old-time radio subjects and I cannot
find an archive on-line other than disney stuff.  Anyone have any leads?
Martin

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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:19:50 -0400
From: PFornatar@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Can You Top This?
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Does anyone remember this show. I do fondly. I've hunted for it but can't
seem to find anything. Anyone know anything about this show with Joe Laurie
Jr.
Senator [removed]

Paul V. Fornatar

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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:21:43 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-19 births/deaths

September 19th births

09-19-1879 - Louis Joseph Vance - NYC - d. 12-16-1933
writer: "The Lone Wolf"
09-19-1888 - John Henry Bodkin - d. unknown
director: Abundant Life Mixed Chorus "Operatic Night"
09-19-1888 - Porter Hall - Cincinnati, OH - d. 10-6-1953
actor: "March of Time"
09-19-1892 - Fred E. Ahlert - NYC - d. 10-20-1953
composer/arranger: "When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the
Day"
09-19-1899 - Ricardo Cortez - Vienna, Austria-Hungary - d. 4-28-1977
actor: "Shell Chateau"; "Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"; "Treasury Hour"
09-19-1904 - Dr. Bergen Evans - Franklin, OH - d. 2-4-1978
host: "Down You Go"; "Of Many Things"
09-19-1904 - Elvia Allman - Concord, NC - d. 3-6-1992
comedienne: Tootsie Sagwell "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show";
Cora Dithers "Blondie"
09-19-1905 - Betty Garde - Philadelphia, PA - d. 12-25-1989
actor: Peggy O'Neill "O'Neills"; Kate Mason "Maudie's Diary"
09-19-1910 - Arthur Mullard - London, England - d. 12-11-1995
actor: Jack (Dad Porter) "Industrial Inaction"; "Brothers In Law"
09-19-1910 - Dresser Dahlstead - Springville, UT - d. 4-20-1998
announcer: "I Deal in Crime"; "Death Valley Days"; "I Love a Mystery"
09-19-1910 - Margaret Lindsay - Dubuque, IA - d. 5-8-1981
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Silver Theatre"
09-19-1912 - Edmund Anderson - NYC - d. 6-29-2002
program writer and director for various network programs
09-19-1912 - William Abramchik - d. 4-16-1998
newscaster: Chicago, Illinois
09-19-1913 - Frances Farmer - Seattle, WA - d. 8-1-1970
actor: "Pursuit of Happiness"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "Suspense"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
09-19-1916 - Helen Ward - NYC - d. 3-xx-1975
vocalist: "Let's Dance"; "Duffy's Tavern"
09-19-1922 - Willie Pep - Middletown, CT - d. 11-23-2006
boxer: "Pabst Blue Ribbon Bouts"
09-19-1926 - James Lipton - Detroit, MI
actor: Dick Grant "The Guiding Light"; Dan Reid "The Lone Ranger"
09-19-1931 - Ray Danton - NYC - d. 2-11-1992
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"

September 19th deaths

02-03-1903 - Martin Block - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1967
announcer, disc jockey: "Make-Believe Ballroom"; "Chesterfield Supper
Club"
04-07-1899 - Robert Casadesus - Paris, France - d. 9-19-1972
pianist: "Telephone Hour"; "Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra"
05-21-1901 - Fred Cole - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1964
writer: "Double or Nothing"
06-01-1900 - Werner Janssen - NYC - d. 9-19-1990
music: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
06-17-1897 - Vivian Duncan - Los Angeles, CA - d. 9-19-1986
singer: (Topsy and Eva) "Wireless Vaudeville"
06-17-1910 - Red Foley - Blue Lick, KY - d. 9-19-1968
singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"; "Red Foley Show"
07-28-1911 - Ann Doran - Amarillo, TX - d. 9-19-2000
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-16-1896 - Eddie Green - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-19-1950
actor: Eddie the Waiter "Duffy's Tavern"; Jerry "Uncle Charlie's Tent
Show"
10-20-1895 - Rex Ingram - Cairo, IL - d. 9-19-1965
actor: "Free World Theatre"
12-30-1931 - Skeeter Davis - Dry Ridge, KY - d. 9-19-2004
country/western singer: "Grand Old Opry"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 02:12:01 -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
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
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range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
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, 19 Sep 2007 23:06:14 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  I know what you're thinking

Purchasers and perusers of my new book "The Great Radio Sitcoms," released
last week ([removed], 800-253-2187) may be mortified when they
see Jim and Marian Jordan on the cover exchanging glances, scripts in hand,
while separated by an unmistakable CBS microphone.  While it's true they
made their names and their wealth at NBC, it's also reality that they were
CBS subjects when a previous series, Smackout, was airing out of Chicago in
the early years of the 1930s.  Lines on the back cover explain all of that
but the casual observer may miss it.

I'm taking a proactive stance to attempt a little defense before I'm roughed
up by a reactionary stating that I don't  know where they spent the bulk of
their time working.  Of course I do.  I heard them every Tuesday night for
years and later on NBC's Monitor.

Allow me to explain that, unlike a very few publishers that allow authors to
not only create covers for their works and title their own books, most
conventional publishers reserve such actions for themselves.  Therefore,
staff editors, artists and legal officials do the picking.  We can intercede
when we see something that is fundamentally off base.  But to routinely
question every decision from on high would not make for a satisfactory
working relationship, and that is desirable to all parties.

Hence, I didn't raise a fuss when I saw that someone had picked that shot
for that cover.  There were other issues far more critical worth delving
into.  I trust the purists among us can comprehend that.  If you've worked
for an employer at some time in your life, perhaps you know when it's best
to accept the status quo and be silent.

That doesn't negate the fact that the Jordans appeared on CBS for a while.
And it certainly shouldn't diminish the 17 pages devoted to their lives and
their accomplishments to be found inside.  In writing about this here, I
simply wanted you to know how the decision was made.

The Jordans, by the way, appear alongside Ozzie and Harriet, the Aldriches,
Amos 'n' Andy, Snooks, Beulah, Duffy, the Andersons of Father Knows Best,
Burns and Allen, Gildy, Benny, Riley, Luigi, Millie, Irma, Miss Brooks,
Harris and Faye and a host of others, many of those with
never-before-published photos.

Jim Cox

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