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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2012 : Issue 157
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  9-29 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  OTR documentary on BBC                [ "howstean2@[removed]" <howstean ]
  GUNSMOKE Episode - The Railroad       [ Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 30 Septem  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:44:48 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  9-29 births/deaths

September 29th births

09-29-1890 - Nils Thor Granlund - Korpibomboia, Lapland, Sweden - d.
4-21-1957
broadway producer: "[removed] and His Girls"
09-29-1895 - Colonel Roscoe Turner - d. 6-23-1970
host, narrator: "Sky Blazers"
09-29-1898 - Doris Hursley - Milwaukee, WI - d. 5-5-1984
writer: "American Women"; "Cousin Willie"; "Those Websters"; "The
Truitts"
09-29-1898 - Leonard Salvo - d. 7-22-1985
organist: "Little Orphan Annie"; "Cisco Kid"; "Billie Burke Show"
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"
09-29-1904 - Greer Garson - County Down, Ireland - d. 4-6-1996
actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Everything for the Boys"; "Star and the
Story"
09-29-1904 - Ruth Maschwitz - King's Norton, England - d. xx-xx-1988
writer of radio plays
09-29-1907 - Gene Autry - Tioga, TX - d. 10-2-1998
singer, actor: "National Barn Dance"; "Melody Ranch"
09-29-1907 - Richard Harkness - Artesian, SD - d. 2-16-1977
newscaster: NBC network, occassionally filled in for [removed] Kaltenborn
09-29-1909 - Beryl Wallace - Brooklyn, NY - d. 6-17-1948
actor: "Furlough Fun"
09-29-1910 - Bill Boyd - Fannin County, Texas - d. 12-7-1977
singer: (Cowboy Ramblers) WRR Dallas, Texas
09-29-1910 - Virginia Bruce - Minneapolis, MN - d. 2-24-1982
actor: Susan Read "Rexall Summer Theatre"
09-29-1911 - Pat Murphy - Bismark, ND
actor; Timothy Storey "Midstream"; Scoop "Girl Alone"
09-29-1913 - Gerald Strachan Pawle - Bishops Stortford, England - d.
7-26-1991
author of several radio plays
09-29-1913 - Trevor Howard - Cliftonville, England - d. 1-7-1988
actor: "London Playhouse"
09-29-1915 - Brenda Marshall - Island of Negros, Philippines - d.
7-30-1992
actor: Nancy Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"
09-29-1915 - Derwood Brown - Texas - d. 12-24-1978
singer: "The Musical Brownies"
09-29-1915 - Norton Mockridge - NYC - d. 4-18-2004
newspaper columnist: Hosted radio program on CBS radio (1964-1970)
09-29-1918 - James Wood - Elgin, Scotland - d. 3-5-1984
author of radio plays
09-29-1919 - Arthur Bernard - Gary, IN - d. 1-23-2001
producer: "Turning Point"
09-29-1922 - Lizabeth Scott - Scranton, PA
actor: "Stars Over Hollywood"
09-29-1922 - Lou Dinning - Franklin, KY
singer: (The Dinning Sisters) "Dinning Sisters-Songs"; "WLS National
Barn Dance"
09-29-1924 - Steve Forrest - Huntsville, TX
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-29-1934 - James R. Wiseman - North Little Rock, AR
author: "Excavations at Corinth"

September 29th deaths

01-03-1893 - Gilbert Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 9-29-1970
writer: "Americans All, Immigrants All"
01-18-1889 - Brad Barker - Hempstead, Long Island, NY - d. 9-29-1951
animal sounds: Sandy "Little Orphan Annie"
02-01-1922 - Miriam Wolfe - Brooklyn, NY - d. 9-29-2000
actor: Nancy "Witch's Tale"
02-14-1927 - Lois Maxwell - Kitchener, Canada - d. 9-29-2007
actor: started career in radio
02-16-1911 - Hal Porter - Thornbury, Australia - d. 9-29-1984
writer: "The Forger"
02-21-1907 - W. H. Auden - York, England - d. 9-29-1973
writer: "Columbia Workshop"
04-06-1934 - David Doyle - Wisconsin - d. 9-29-2008
program host: "Growing Older, A New Perspective"
05-09-1887 - William P. Adams - Tiffin, OH - d. 9-29-1972
actor, announcer: Uncle Henry "Collier's Hour"; Uncle Bill "Let's
Pretend"
05-20-1926 - Miles Davis - Alton, IL - d. 9-29-1991
sideman: "Billy Eckstien Orchestra"
06-03-1925 - Tony Curtis - NYC - d. 9-29-2010
actor: "Hollywood Star Playhouse"; "Stars in the Air"; "Suspense"
06-13-1917 - Elizabeth Reller - Richmond, IN - d. 9-29-1996
actor: Connie Barclay "Doc Barclay's Daughters"
06-26-1900 - Richard Crooks - Trenton, NJ - d. 9-29-1972
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Maxwell House Coffee Hour"
07-06-1924 - Billy Mauch - Peoria, IL - d. 9-29-2006
actor: "Coast-to-Coast on a Bus"; "Let's Pretend"; "Robinson Crusoe,
Jr."
07-07-1920 - Charles Flynn - Chicago, IL - d. 9-29-1999
actor: Jack Armstrong "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"
08-15-1916 - Van Patrick - d. 9-29-1974
detroit lions play-by-play: "Jean Shepard Show"
09-01-1907 - Cliff Howell - Hattiesburg, MS - d. 9-29-1978
announcer: "Gateway to Hollywood; "The Euclid Ballot Box"
09-08-1907 - Eleanor Phelps - Baltimore, MD - d. 9-29-2001
actor: Susan Chandler "Life and Loves of Doctor Susan"
09-21-1944 - Susan Fleetwood - St. Andrews, England - d. 9-29-1995
actor: "King Priam"
10-03-1912 - Gabriel Julian - Newark, NJ - d. 9-29-2002
piano: "Bobby Byrne Orchestra"; arranger: "Glenn Miller Orchestra"
10-31-1886 - Courtney Ryley Cooper - Kansas City, MO - d. 9-29-1940
writer: "The Gibson Family"
11-07-1907 - Tom Hanlon - Kansas - d. 9-29-1970
announcer: "Jane Endicott, Reporter"; "That's My Pop"; "Beulah Show"
11-12-1914 - Charles Marion - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-29-1980
writer: "The Eddie Cantor Show"
12-05-1904 - Harold Huber - NYC - d. 9-29-1959
actor: Hercule Poirot "Hercule Poirot"; Fu Manchu "Shadow of Fu Manchu"
12-13-1917 - Wesley Tuttle - Lamar, CO - d. 9-29-2003
country singer: "Wesley Tuttle and His Coon Hunters"
12-29-1921 - Robert Latting - Michigan - d. 9-29-1983
announcer: "The Cavalcade of America"; "Woman in White"
xx-xx-1925 - Bruce Stewart - New Zealand - d. 9-29-2005
writer: "Omega Point"; "Tor Sands Experience"

Ron

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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:44:55 -0400
From: "howstean2@[removed]" <howstean2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR documentary on BBC

The BBC Archive Hour documentary programme
tonight (Saturday):

Dear Adolf - Letters to the
Fuhrer
Duration:        58 minutes
First
broadcast: Saturday 29 September 2012

see [removed]

"Christopher Cook examines a unique set of
recordings from the vaults of the American Jewish
Committee that strove to define America's war
aims and values.

For 6 weeks, in 1942, the
airwaves of NBC hummed with the voices of
Hollywood stars such as James Cagney, Raymond
Massey and Helen Hayes addressing the Fuhrer in
the guise of ordinary citizens. Ever since the
trauma of Pearl Harbour, thousands of letters had
poured into radio networks and newspaper offices
expressing support, anger and defiance at the new
war America was now fighting. These letters
earned themselves the sobriquet of 'Dear Adolf's'
and Pulitzer prize winning writer Stephen Vincent
Benet drew on their inspiration for six fictional
missives to Hitler.

But the backstory of these
and other broadcasts from the AJC is as
compelling as the star names chosen to speak for
the people of America. Formed in 1906, the
American Jewish Committee was a response to the
plight of Eastern European Jewry then suffering a
wave of pogroms. Avowedly 'unpolitical', in so
far as it eschewed the major movements then
gripping the Jewish world (Socialism, Zionism and
Communism) it sought to defend Jewish life both
in the [removed] and the heartlands of Eastern Europe
and to engage in inter faith dialogue at home. At
its heart was advocacy of a loyal American Jewish
citizenry and a desire to overcome prejudice.

By
the late 1930's the [removed] took to the airwaves
to use the power of radio. Producing thousands of
radio messages and programs aimed at fighting
bigotry on the homefront and promoting democratic
values for a diverse number of programmes. This
was a time of rising anti-semitism, domestically
& abroad with the German American Bund holding
mass rallies in Madison Square Gardens and the
siren voice of radio demagogue Father Coughlin
railing against 'internal enemies'.

Series like
Dear Adolf and a gripping dramatization of the
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, made just months after
its destruction, are just a few of the archival
gems of the [removed] spanning two decades of
attempts to counter prejudice and imbue ordinary
American's with the spirit of tolerance."

The
programme will be available to listen again for a
week after broadcast from the webpage above.
Although you can't download most programmes from
the BBC site, someone has written a program
specifically for that purpose, available at
[removed]

Phil

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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:45:17 -0400
From: Stewart Wright <otrwash@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  GUNSMOKE Episode - The Railroad

Some interesting new information on the GUNSMOKE episode - The Railroad
has been posted at The Nostalgia Pages GUNSMOKE Forum at
[removed]

Signing off for now,

Stewart Wright

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Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:45:25 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 30 September to 6
 October

 From Those Were The Days

9/30

1930   Death Valley Days was first heard on the NBC Red network this day
(and) became one of radio's biggest hits. The 30 minute, Western
adventure series starred Tim Daniel Frawley as the Old Ranger, Harvey
Hays as the Old Prospector, John White as the Lonesome Cowboy, Edwin
Bruce as Bobby Keen, Robert Haag as Sheriff Mark Chase and Olyn Landick
as Cassandra Drinkwater.

The tales heard on Death Valley Days were all based on fact and were
human interest stories revolving around the borax mining town of Death
Valley, California. The show was created by Ruth Woodman, a script
writer for a New York ad agency. She had never seen Death Valley; but
had found the vehicle to sell 20 Mule Team Borax. As time went on, Ms.
Woodman did make a trip to Death Valley. She went back again and again
after that, digging up facts for her scripts. She even met an honest to
goodness old ranger, Wash Cahill, who knew everyone and everything about
the mining town.

Death Valley Days was renamed Death Valley Sheriff in 1944 and The
Sheriff in 1945. And Ruth Woodman continued to write the scripts. She
even wrote scripts when Death Valley Days became a TV show. Buy some 20
Mule Team Borax in commemoration.

1933   The theme song was Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here and it opened
the National Barn Dance. The half hour country music and comedy show,
originally heard on WLS, Chicago since 1924, moved to the NBC Blue
network this night. National Barn Dance was broadcast from the Eighth
Street Theater in Chicago, where the stage was transformed into a
hayloft every Saturday night. The host was Joe Kelly. Uncle Ezra was
played by Pat Barrett who was known to say, "Give me a toot on the
tooter, Tommy," as he started dancing. A few of the other Barn Dance
characters were Arkie, the Arkansas Woodchopper; Pokey Martin; the
Hoosier Hotshots; the Prairie Ramblers; cowgirl, Patsy Montana; Pat
Buttram; Lulu Belle and the Cumberland Road Runners. Gene Autry and Red
Foley were heard early in their careers on National Barn Dance. Although
there were plenty of sponsors (Alka Seltzer, One A Day vitamins,
Phillips Milk of Magnesia), the National Barn Dance was one of the few
radio shows to charge admission.

1935   "Calling all [removed]" The Adventures of Dick Tracy came to radio
for the first time    on the Mutual Radio Network. Based on the comic
strip created by Chester Gould, the 15 minute adventure show was heard
Monday thru Friday at 5:45 [removed] The sponsors were Quaker Puffed Wheat
and Quaker Puffed Rice.

1962 - The death of OTR.  The last regularly scheduled network programs,
Suspense and Johnny Dollar, was heard.

10/1

1942   People Are Funny went on the air with host Art Baker.

10/3

1901   The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA Victor became the
leader in phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous
Victrola phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words "His
Master=s Voice", appeared on all RCA Victor phonographs and record labels.

1946   Dennis Day started his own show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same (type) naive young
bachelor he played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day
aired for five years.

10/4

1948   Gordon MacRae hosted the premiere of a radio classic. The
Railroad Hour debuted on ABC. The theme song was I've Been Working on
the Railroad and the show was sponsored by, get ready, America's Railroads.

10/5

1930   The New York Philharmonic Orchestra was first heard on the air
over CBS from Carnegie Hall. The Sunday afternoon concerts set CBS back
$15,000 ($190,918 in 2009 dollars). Not per week, but for the entire season!

1930   This was a big day for CBS. Following the orchestra broadcast
(above), Father Coughlin, The Fighting Priest was first heard on network
radio. He lit up the airwaves with oratory that aired into the early
forties.  He was first heard on WJR Detroit in 1926.

1934   The first major network radio show to originate from Hollywood
aired on this day. Hollywood Hotel was heard on CBS and was heavily
promoted as being the first to broadcast from the West Coast of the [removed]

1947   A small Northern California company got a major boost from Bing
Crosby. The first show recorded on tape was broadcast on ABC. "Der
Bingle" was so popular, that his taped show promoted wide distribution
of the new magnetic tape recorders that would become broadcast classics
the venerable Ampex 200.

  1952   After an 11 year run, Inner Sanctum, the legendary mystery
series, was heard for the final time. We'll never know if they oiled
that squeaky [removed]  (Of course there is the story of a staffer who did
actually oil the door before one [removed] ed.)  (PS I have a door
that creaks just like that one and half the time expect to find Raymond
lurking around somewhere.  I've never oiled it in the hopes Raymond
would appear.)

10/6

1937   Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American
hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show's theme was The Best Things in Life are
Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and
Colgate Dental Creme.

Joe

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