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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2008 : Issue 92
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
4-10 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
So I'm watching CSI: New [removed] [ Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed] ]
Re: Transco and Bruce Eells [ rand@[removed] ]
WABC [ etorch@[removed] ]
John Dillinger on Radio? [ Mark Langkau <mark@[removed]; ]
mike wallace interview [ "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@earthli ]
Yesterday USA will be broadcasting l [ "Walden Hughes" <walden1@yesterdayu ]
Jean Shepherd Hoaxes [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]
Theme Music [ "Israel Colon, [removed]" <colon@temple ]
4-11 births/deaths [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 22:10:47 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-10 births/deaths
April 10th births
04-10-1827 - Lew Wallace - Brookville, IN - d. 2-15-1905
author: Several of his works adapted for radio
04-10-1868 - George Arliss - London, England - d. 2-5-1946
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-10-1885 - Sigmund Spaeth - Philadelphia, PA - d. 11-11-1965
commentator: "Tune Detective"; "Fun in Print"
04-10-1894 - Haven MacQuarrie - Boston, MA - d. 8-4-1953
emcee: "Do You Want to be an Actor"
04-10-1897 - Eric Knight - Menston, England - d. 1-13-1943
writer: "Everyman's Theatre"
04-10-1897 - Fred Hall - NYC - d. 10-8-1964
composer, performer: (Hall and Fields) "Old Man of the Mountain"
04-10-1902 - Mark Warnow - Monastrischt, Russia - d. 10-17-1949
conductor: "We, the People"; "Your Hit Parade"
04-10-1905 - Paul "Hezzie" Trietsch - Muncie, IN - d. 4-27-1980
musician-singer: "National Barn Dance"; "Uncle Ezra"
04-10-1906 - Lilie Darvas - Budapest, Hungary - d. 7-23-1974
actor: Madame Sophie: We Love and Learn/As the Twig is Bent"
04-10-1910 - Peg La Centra - Boston, MA - d. 6-1-1996
singer, actor: "Court of Human Relations"; "For Men Only"; "Gulden
Melodies"
04-10-1911 - Victor Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 1-22-1994
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
04-10-1915 - Harry (Henry) Morgan - Detroit, MI
actor: "Mystery in the Air"
04-10-1919 - Bruce Buell - Santa Ana, CA - d. 4-23-1996
annoucer: "California Caravan"; "Mystery is My Hobby"
04-10-1921 - Chuck Connors - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-10-1992
actor: "Family Theatre"
04-10-1922 - Marian Richman - California - d. 2-24-1956
actor: "Tell It Again"
04-10-1927 - Sidney Appleman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-25-1994
string bassist: Clyde McCoy's Band
04-10-1933 - Poncie Ponce - Maui, HI
singer, ukulele: Hawaiin radio
April 10th deaths
01-18-1920 - Sid Newman - California - d. 4-10-2001
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-01-1915 - Alan Burgess - Birmingham, England - d. 4-10-1998
author: wrote a series for the BBC on war heroes
02-08-1907 - Ray Middleton - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1984
actor: Abraham Lincoln "Honest Abe"
02-24-1890 - Marjorie Main - Acton, IN - d. 4-10-1975
actor: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
05-09-1923 - Byron Kane - Vermont - d. 4-10-1984
actor: "Gunsmoke"; "Broadway is My Beat"; "Escape"
06-11-1911 - Long John Nebel - Chicago, IL - d. 4-10-1978
host: All-night talk show in NYC
06-12-1920 - Peter Jones - Wem, Shropshire, England - d. 4-10-2000
actor: narrator "Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy"; "In All Directions"
06-19-1892 - Mishel Piastro - Kertz, Russia - d. 4-10-1970
violinist, conductor: "Longines Symphonette"; "General Motors Concerts"
06-30-1899 - Santos Ortega - NYC - d. 4-10-1976
actor: Nero Wolfe "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Richard Queen "Advs. of
Ellery Queen"
07-10-1918 - John Easton - NYC - d. 4-10-1984
announcer: "The Great Gildersleeve"; "Advs. of Maisie"
08-02-1921 - Kathryn Bankston - d. 4-10-1987
women's programming: WRBC Athens, Georgia
08-13-1916 - Gloria Dickson - Pocatello, ID - d. 4-10-1945
actor: "Warner Bros. Academy Theatre"; "Federal Theatre Special";
"Lux Radio Theatre"
10-08-1906 - William N. Robson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 4-10-1995
producer, director: "Beyond Tomorrow"; "CBS Radio Workshop"; "Escape"
10-11-1919 - Jean Vander Pyl - d. 4-10-1999
actor: Margaret Anderson "Father Knows Best"; "The Halls of Ivy"
10-16-1921 - Linda Darnell - Dallas, TX - d. 4-10-1965
actor: "Hollywood Premiere"; "So You Want to Lead a Band"
12-24-1886 - Michael Curtiz - Budapest, Hungary - d. 4-10-1962
film director: "Lady Esther Screen Guild Theatre"; Screen Director's
Playhouse"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 22:13:12 -0400
From: Charlie Summers <charlie@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: So I'm watching CSI: New [removed]
...and during a Coldwell-Banker commercial, I'm _certain_ I heard the
voice of our friend Cliff Carpenter (Terry and the Pirates, more) as, I
believe, Banker. (The two paintings are talking to each other about the
company website.) The on-line interactive version of this campaign is
at [removed] - it requires javascript and
Macromedia Flash, but you can _clearly_ hear his voice.
Can anyone verify that I haven't slipped a cog?
Charlie
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 23:20:25 -0400
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Transco and Bruce Eells
Elizabeth, in the "Nonsense and Melody" thread, mentions that Transco went
out of business around 1940 and their recordings were sold to Bruce Eells
and Associates. What happened to that company? Are their business
records or recordings in any archives or they just scattered to the four
winds?
Has anyone done a book, article or other published material that dives
into the history of Transco and its shows? There's alot out there about
"Cinnamon Bear", but I'd like to know about some of their other work. I'm
really interested in some of the business side of OTR history as well, so
I'd be curious about that aspect of the company. Syndicators played a big
role in early radio and television, but they don't seem to get as much
attention as the networks from historians of the era.
I finished dubbing the last of the twenty shows "Nonsense and Melody"
shows I have to CD the other night and really enjoyed the series. I'll
see if I can figure out a way to get some of them online.
Randy
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 23:21:27 -0400
From: etorch@[removed]
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: WABC
In my posting conjecturing about the most listened to program ever, I
inadvertantly listed the progenitor of WABC as WEAF. Clearly, it was WJZ.
While I'm confessing to omissions, I wonder if Elizabeth feels a random
episode of Amos and Andy may have taken the prize in '29-30.
Evan Torch, MD
Atlanta
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 23:25:55 -0400
From: Mark Langkau <mark@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: John Dillinger on Radio?
Hollywood has come to my city, filming "Public Enemies." Friends that
know I enjoy Old Time Radio programs have asked if I have any recordings
of news broadcasts, or any mention at all of Dillinger on the radio up
through 1934 (or afterwards). Aiming to please, I checked my collection
but came up empty handed.
Does anyone on the list know of any such recordings? Or any shows with
Dillinger in the plot? Gangbusters? You Are there?
Thanks,
Mark
Oshkosh, WI
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Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 23:37:39 -0400
From: "joe@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: mike wallace interview
One of those interviewed on his show was Rudy Vallee, who performed on
OTR, of course, and was even mentioned in another post in the recent OTR
Digest.
it's about 2/3 of the way down the page
joe salerno
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:05:17 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <walden1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Yesterday USA will be broadcasting live at the
convention
Hi Everybody,
Yesterday USA will be broadcasting live at the Old Time Radio Convention in
Ohio. You can listen to it via going to [removed] and check out
the schedule by entering the web site, and look for the link about the
convention. Take care,
Walden
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:48:25 -0400
From: Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Jean Shepherd Hoaxes
Tom van der Voort, writing about Jean Shepherd's various capers, notes,
A very inventive guy was Jean.
Indeed! Both over the air, and reprised in the film, /A Christmas
Story/, Shepherd tells the tale about getting a Radio Orphan Annie
decoder pin, and eventually is able to send off for one. When it finally
arrived, he copied down the secret message, which he deciphered to, "Be
sure to drink your Ovaltine." He complained that it was a "lousy
commercial," which supposedly turned him off Ovaltine forever.
The story was not true. From the very first Radio Orphan Annie Secret
Society Decoder Pin through the last Captain Midnight Code-O-Graph,
Ovaltine played fair with its listeners: the messages always were hints
to the forthcoming episode. Yet so popular is the Shepherd story that
I've seen it cited in serious cryptological literature.
I've been told that Jean Shepherd once observed that he wouldn't let
facts get in the way of a good story.
Another Shepherd invention evolved from a prank. He got the idea of
telling his listeners to request a copy of a book, titled /I, Libertine/,
by Frederick R. Ewing, whenever they visited a book store. Naturally,
the book didn't exist, but its title sounded as if it could. After some
weeks of reminding his listeners to play this prank, he was contacted by
the author, Theodore Sturgeon, who suggested that he (Sturgeon) could
write the book -- which he did! It was printed as a paperback, and the
artist, Kelly Freas did the cover, with Shepherd's station, WOR, hidden
in a decoration on a hat.
Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:00:06 -0400
From: "Israel Colon, [removed]" <colon@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Theme Music
Hi All,
Perhaps someone can help unbefuddle an old brain. The other
day I heard Dvorak's New World Symphony. When I heard the
first movement it reminded me that it was the theme music for
a hero from old time radio or early television. My impression
is that it was a space character such as Flash Gordon or
Captain Video. Can someone please help me remember and affix
the music to the character. Thanks in advance.
Israel
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Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:07:16 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 4-11 births/deaths
April 11th births
04-11-1880 - Bernardino Molinari - Rome, Italy - d. 12-25-1952
conductor: "NBC Symphony Orchestra"
04-11-1893 - Dean Acheson - Middletown, CT - d. 10-12-1971
[removed] secretary of state: "Building the Peace"; "The United Nations Today"
04-11-1893 - Lou Holtz - San Francisco, CA - d. 9-22-1980
comedian: "Fleischmann Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
04-11-1893 - Pat Flanagan - Clinton, IA - d. unknown
sportscaster, announcer: CBS Network, WBBM in Chicago
04-11-1902 - Carroll Carroll - NYC - d. 2-5-1991
writer: "Over Here"; "Guest Star"
04-11-1902 - Quentin Reynolds - NYC - d. 3-17-1965
author: "Britain Speaks"; "Quentin Reynolds"; "Keep 'Em Rolling"
04-11-1904 - Paul McGrath - Chicago, IL - d. 4-13-1978
actor, host: Host "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"; Robert Allison "My Son
Jeep"
04-11-1907 - Paul Douglas - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-11-1959
announcer, sportscaster, actor: Lawyer Feldman "Meyer the Buyer"
04-11-1908 - Leo Rosten - Lodz, Poland - d. 2-19-1997
writer: "Conversation"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Four Star Playhouse"
04-11-1909 - Sylvia Picker - NYC - d. 9-25-1981
actor: Suzy "Box 13"
04-11-1910 - Jim Britt - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-31-1980
sports commentator: "Dateline Boston"
04-11-1911 - Bob Dixon - Stamford, CT - d. 8-22-1998
announcer: Edward R. Murrow: created the phrase "Listen to Murrow
tomorrow"
04-11-1911 - Robert Saudek - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-13-1997
television producer: Established the Museum of Television and Radio
04-11-1912 - John Larkin - Oakland, CA - d. 1-29-1965
actor: Perry Mason "Perry Mason"; "Dimension X; " Ford Theatre"
04-11-1913 - Bob LeMond - Hale Center, TX - d. 1-13-2008
announcer: "Romance of the Ranchos"; "Sweeny and March Show"
04-11-1913 - Millie Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 5-3-1993
singer: (Girls of the Golden West) "National Barn Dance"
04-11-1921 - Dorothy Shay - Jacksonville, FL - d. 10-22-1978
singer: (Park Avenue Hillbilly) "The Spike Jones Show"
04-11-1921 - Toni Darnay - Chicago, IL - d. 1-5-1983
actor: Evelyn Winters "Strange Romance of Evelyn Winters"
April 11th deaths
01-31-1905 - John O'Hara - Pottsville, PA - d. 4-11-1970
author: "Information, Please"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"
02-09-1883 - Joseph King - Austin, TX - d. 4-11-1951
announcer: "Mr. and Mrs. North"; "A Report to the Nation"
02-11-1908 - Hiram Sherman - Boston, MA - d. 4-11-1989
actor: "Les Miserables"; "Mercury Theatre on the Aie"
03-09-1920 - Jerry Byrd - Lima, OH - d. 4-11-2005
steel guitarist: "Country Music Time"; "March of Dimes"
03-24-1895 - Paul Specht - d. 4-11-1954
bandleader: Made very first broadcast of dance Music 9-20-1920 WWJ
Detroit
04-02-1878 - Leo Curley - NYC - d. 4-11-1960
actor: Ed Jackson "Backstage Wife"; Mike Shaw "Tom Mix"
05-08-1928 - John Bennett - London, England - d. 4-11-2005
actor: "John Bennett Programme"
05-11-1907 - Kent Taylor - Nashua, IA - d. 4-11-1987
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
06-15-1894 - Leo Cleary - Massachusetts - d. 4-11-1955
actor: Bailiff "His Honor, the Barber"
06-26-1907 - Ynez Seabury - Oregon - d. 4-11-1973
actor: Libby Collins "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-27-1905 - Sydney Mason - NYC - d. 4-11-1976
announcer, actor: "Famous Jury Trials"; "Johnny Presents"
08-03-1905 - Dolores Del Rio - Durango, Mexico - d. 4-11-1983
actor: "Hollywood on the Air"
09-29-1903 - Ted de Corsia - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-11-1973
actor: Flip Corkin "Terry and the Pirates"; Dan McGarry "McGarry and
His Mouse"
10-23-1904 - Oliver Barbour - d. 4-11-1968
producer, director: "Life Can Be Beautiful"; "Parker Family"; "When a
Girl Marries"
11-25-1912 - Francis Durbridge - Hull, Yorkshire, England - d. 4-11-1998
writer: Creator of Paul Temple
11-27-1904 - Florence Lake - Charleston, SC - d. 4-11-1980
actor: (Sister of Arthur Lake) Tess Terwilliger "David Harum"
12-17-1903 - Erskine Caldwell - Morland, GA - d. 4-11-1987
playwright: "Information, Please"; "Short Story"
12-27-1900 - Pauline Alpert - d. 4-11-1988
"Whirlwind Pianist": "Log Cabin Inn"; "Rhythm and Rhyme"
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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