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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2005 : Issue 325
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
1939 "Grand Ole Opry" Recreation in [ "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed] ]
10-22 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Wall Street journal [ "Larry" <lfw48@[removed]; ]
FBI file: Hollywood Writer's Mobiliz [ "HOWARD BLUE" <khovard@[removed]; ]
The Stoned Ranger [ Dennis DeMarco <dennisdm@earthlink. ]
FOTR Convention, 2005 [ "Stuart Lubin" <stuartlubin@[removed] ]
Louis Nye [ Jordan Young <jyoung@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 23-29 Oct [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
A Prairie Home Companion Surprise [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
Clip art [ "RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@bas ]
Re: Morley Safer and Jack Benny [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
winner! [ "Mike Hobart" <zines50@[removed]; ]
10-23 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:41:27 +0000
From: "Bill Knowlton" <udmacon1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1939 "Grand Ole Opry" Recreation in
Nashville Oct. 29
If any OTR folks in the Nashville area have nothing better to do, I invite
you to the Convention Center on Saturday night, Oct 29th
A recreation of the Grand Ole Opry as we think it was back in 1939 will
take place Saturday night at 7 pm (CST) on the stage of the Grand Masters
Fiddlers Championship.
Yours infamously will portray the great George D. Hay, founder, producer,
defender, savior, emcee and namer of the Grand Ole [removed] with
"Hushpukina," a replica the steamboat whistle that Judge Hay used to toot.
Actually, I'll be the Solemn Old Colonel
We do this show as if it was a live radio show. We have "appropriate"
commercials and announcements, and we'll keep gesturing for the audience to
applaud and whistle as was (and is) the eternal practice of the Grand Ole Opry.
And--best of all--the participants will be seated in a semicircle at the
back of the stage just as they used to--and god only knows the antics
they'll be up to.
Hope to see you there!
BILL KNOWLTON
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:41:35 +0000
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-22 births/deaths
October 22nd births
10-22-1876 - Cecilia Loftus - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-12-1943
actress: Sarah Wright "Roses and Drums"
10-22-1884 - George Washington Hill - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-13-1946
President of American Tobacco Company, sponsor of many radio programs
10-22-1891 - Parker Fennelly - Northeast Harbor, ME - d. 1-22-1988
actor: Titus Moody, "Fred Allen Show"; Dan Tucker, "Lawyer Dan Tucker"
10-22-1893 - Clarence Menser - d. 10-xx-1975
director: "Tom Mix"; "Vic and Sade"
10-22-1905 - Constance Bennett - New York, NY - d. 7-24-1965
interviewer, panelist: "Constance Bennett Calls on You"; "Leave It to the
Girls"
10-22-1906 - Sidney Kingsley - New York, NY - d. 3-20-1995
writer: "Pulitzer Prize Plays"
10-22-1907 - Roger DeKoven - Chicago, IL - d. 1-28-1988
actor: Professor Allen, "Against the Storm"
10-22-1916 - Sidney Miller - Shenandoah, PA - d. 1-10-2004
actor-director-songwriter: "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Jeff Regan, Private
Investigator"
10-22-1917 - Joan Fontaine - Tokyo, Japan
actress: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"
10-22-1920 - Mitzi Green - The Bronx, NY - d. 5-24-1969
actress: Girl "Passport to Romance"
10-22-1938 - Derek Jacoby - Leytonstone, London, England
actor: Renaissance Theatre Company in association with BBC Radio Drama
10-22-1939 - Jim Cox - Pineville, KY
author: "Radio Crime Fighters"; "Great Radio Soap Operas"
10-22-1939 - Tony Roberts - New York, NY
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
October 22nd deaths
01-02-1925 - Richard Jessup - d. 10-22-1982
writer: "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"
01-23-1884 - George McManus - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1954
"Bringing Up Father" based on his comic strip
02-17-1908 - Walter "Red" Barber - Columbus, MS - d. 10-22-1992
sportscaster: (The Old Redhead) "Schaefer Star Revue"
04-07-1905 - Murray Bolen - Minnesota - d. 10-22-1995
producer, director: "Father Knows Best"; "Mayor of the Town"; "Railroad Hour"
04-11-1921 - Dorothy Shay - Jacksonville, FL - d. 10-22-1978
singer: (Park Avenue Hillbilly) "The Spike Jones Show"
04-29-1903 - Richard Leibert - Bethlehem, PA - d. 10-22-1976
organist: "Dick Leibert's Musical Revue"; "Organ Rhapsody"
06-13-1916 - Mary Wickes - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-22-1995
actress: Louise "Meet Corliss Archer"; Irma Barker "Lorenzo Jones"
06-22-1901 - Charlie Agnew - Illinois - d. 10-22-1978
bandleader: "Yeast Foam Program"; "Armandes Face Cream Program"
06-27-1862 - May Irwin - Whitby, Canada - d. 10-22-1938
actress: "The Eveready Hour"
07-05-1899 - Tim Ryan - Bayonne, NJ - d. 10-22-1956
actor: "Tim and Irene Show"
10-26-1918 - Ivor Francis - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1986
actor: "Secret Missions"; "The Chase"
10-30-1910 - Francia White - Greenville, TX - d. 10-22-1984
singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Fred Astaire Show"; "Telephone Hour"
11-22-1904 - Roland Winters - Boston, MA - d. 10-22-1989
actor: Russell Bartlett "My Best Girls"; "Milton Berle Show"; "Highways in
Melody"
11-25-1905 - Will Osborne - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-22-1981
bandleader, singer: "Abbott and Costello"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:41:45 +0000
From: "Larry"
<lfw48@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Wall Street journal
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There is a very interesting article about OTR on the front page of the Wall
Strett Journal today
Larry
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:41:53 +0000
From: "HOWARD BLUE"
<khovard@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: FBI file: Hollywood Writer's Mobilization
I just found another FBI file left over from my research for WORDS AT WAR --
an extensive one on the Hollywood Writers' Mobilitzation.
Does anybody want it?
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:42:09 +0000
From: Dennis DeMarco
<dennisdm@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The Stoned Ranger
Stephen Keitel" <
SKeitel@[removed] wrote:
>>"Another great comedy spot ran on WDBO (in)72-73 called the "Stoned
>>Ranger". It featured a hippie cowboy "far out, Indian" and his sidekick
>>[removed]"
>>Does anyone out there have more information on this program? Are there
>>any copies of the programs available?
I'm just getting around to reading some old OTR digests, and saw this post
on the "Stoned Ranger." It played in Philadelphia on a top 40 station,
WIBG, in the early 70s. I thought it was locally produced, but I might be
wrong. It was on Mon-Fri at I think 4:55 PM.
I actually taped them all onto a reel-to-reel recorder. Last year or so, I
copied them into MP3s. I have the entire run. Decent quality, too.
IF anyone needs a copy of the run in MP3 format, feel free to email me.
Dennis
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:42:17 +0000
From: "Stuart Lubin"
<stuartlubin@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: FOTR Convention, 2005
Hello, Everybody:
I just wanted to say that, after 25 years in the hobby of OTR, I finally
have gotten to Newark!!! The main delay was fear of flying, so I drove here
from Los Angeles, alone. I have no regrets.
I am enjoying this convention immensely. It is well organized. I regret
not having come here earlier when all my idols were alive and here.
Thanks to all who are putting on this convention. You are keeping it alive.
Stuart---(formerly OTRadiofan)
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:42:42 +0000
From: Jordan Young
<jyoung@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Louis Nye
I've been out of town and away from email much of the time, but I don't
think it's been mentioned here that Louis Nye passed away on October 9, age
92. While he was best known for "The Steve Allen Show" and other TV and
movie appearances, he started his career in theater and radio. I don't know
what shows he appeared on, but he stated in an interview that he played
everything on radio from Nazis to juveniles. I met Nye once or twice and he
was a pretty nice guy.
Jordan R. Young
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 17:42:50 +0000
From: Joe Mackey
<joemackey108@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 23-29 October
From Those Were The Days --
10/23
1932 - Fred Allen made his radio debut. His wife, Portland Hoffa,
joined him on the CBS broadcast. Allen's comedy-variety program was known
as The Linit Bath Club Revue. It then became The Salad Bowl Revue, then,
The Sal Hapatica Revue, The Hour of Smiles, Town Hall Tonight, The Texaco
Star Theatre and finally, someone with just a bit of sense, came up with
The Fred Allen Show. The comedic legend stayed on radio for 17 years.
10/24
1929 - The Rudy Vallee Show was broadcast for the first time on NBC.
Actually, the Rudy Vallee show had several different titles over the
years, all of which were referred to by the public as The Rudy Vallee
Show. Megaphone-totin' Rudy and his Connecticut Yankees band were
mainstays on radio into the late 1940s.
10/25
1937 - Stella Dallas made her debut on the NBC Red network. Stella hung
out on NBC until 1955 with Anne Elstner in the title role for the entire
run. Stella Dallas was "A continuation on the air of the true-life story
of mother love and sacrifice, in which Stella saw her own beloved
daughter, Laurel, marry into wealth and society, and realizing the
difference in their tastes and worlds, went out of Laurel's life."
10/26
1935 - A talented twelve-year-old sang on Wallace Beery's NBC show. Judy
Garland delighted the appreciative audience. The young girl would soon be
in pictures and at the top of stardom. It would be only four years before
Ms. Garland (George Jessel gave her the name, thinking it would be better
than her own, Frances Gumm) captured the hearts of moviegoers everywhere
with her performance as Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.
10/27
Marconi, Fessenden, and De Forest were the catalysts. However, it was an
engineer for Westinghouse Electric who, in 1916, was broadcasting music
from his garage (in Wilkinsburg, PA, a suburb of Pittsburgh) over a
wireless (amateur radio station 8XK) who really got the whole thing
started. A newspaper article about the broadcasts caused such interest that
the head honchos at Westinghouse decided to build a real radio station.
It took until this day in 1920 for the Westinghouse radio station to
receive a license to broadcast. The license for KDKA, Pittsburgh came from
the [removed] Department of Commerce. Although the license was officially issued
on this day, KDKA did not start their broadcast operations for a week (they
had to wait until the license was posted in the station). On November 2,
1920, the station aired the returns of the Harding/Cox election ... the
first radio programming to reach an audience of any size ... approximately
1,000 people.
10/28
1922 - WEAF in New York broadcast the first collegiate football game heard
coast to coast. Princeton played the University of Chicago at Stagg Field
in the Windy City. The broadcast was carried on phone lines to New York
City, where the radio transmission began. (Princeton 21,
Chicago 18.)
1946 - Our favorite flying cowboy was heard on ABC for the first time. Sky
King starred Jack Lester, then Earl Nightingale, and finally, Roy Engel, as
Sky. Beryl Vaughn played Sky's niece Penny; Jack Bivens was Chipper and
Cliff Soubier was the foreman. Sky King was sponsored by
Mars candy.
Joe
--
Visit my home page:
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Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2005 23:32:25 +0000
From: "George Tirebiter"
<tirebiter2@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: A Prairie Home Companion Surprise
As long as I can remember the "News From Lake Wobegon" segment of PHC has
been done well into the second hour. Today it was done 45 minutes into the
program. I missed the first few minutes of the show so I don't know if an
announcement of this change was made. It will certainly disappoint those
who tune-in toward the end of the show just to listen to the monologue.
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:01:09 +0000
From:
"RadioAZ@[removed]" <radioAZ@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Clip art
Does anyone know of a website or sites which have a lot of old radio-related
clip art? Not just radios, but microphones, speakers, dials, all kinds of
stuff!!
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:01:18 +0000
From:
jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Re: Morley Safer and Jack Benny
Dan, is there a website address for SHOP TALK?
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:03:19 -0400
From: "Mike Hobart"
<zines50@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: winner!
The winners of the 2005 BBC World Service/British Council Playwrite
Competition (winning 2,500, an expenses-paid trip to London to see their
play being recorded and attending a prize-giving event) are:
English as a first language category:
Gino Diiorio, "The Hard Way" (USA)
English as a second language category:
Desmond Ntshalintshali, "Four, Four - Straight Town" (South Africa)
Diiorio is a professor of theatre arts at a New York university and says
that while he's never written a radio play before, he grew up listening to
CBS Radio Mystery Theater.
He describes his play (to be broadcast on BBC World Service next month) as
a cross between Bonanza and The X-Files.
I heard about this on the Write On programme.
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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2005 10:03:57 -0400
From: Ron Sayles
<bogusotr@[removed];
To:
<[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 10-23 births/deaths
October 23rd births
10-23-1884 - Cesar Saerchinger - Aix-la-Chapelle, France - d. 10-10-1971
news correspondent: "Story Behind the Headlines"; "America's Town Meeting of
the Air"
10-23-1901 - Arthur Jacobson - New York, NY - d. 10-6-1993
actor: Kirk Harding "Woman in White"; Anthony J. Marleybone "Affairs of
Anthony"
10-23-1904 - Ford Bond - Louisville, KY - d. 8-15-1962
announcer: "Cities Service Concert"; "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"; Highways
in Melody"
10-23-1904 - Margaret Speaks - Columbus, OH - d. 7-16-1977
singer: "Voice of Firestone"
10-23-1904 - Oliver Barbour - d. 4-11-1968
producer, director: "Life Can Be Beautiful"; "Parker Family"; "When a Girl
Marries"
10-23-1906 - Lucy Monroe - New York, NY - d. 10-13-1987
singer: (The Star-Spangled Soprano) "Hammerstein's Music Hall"; "Manhattan
Merry-Go-Round"
10-23-1911 - Martha Rountree - Gainesville, FL - d. 8-23-1999
co-founder, moderator: "Meet the Press"
10-23-1922 - Coleen Gray - Staplehurst, NE
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-23-1923 - Frank Sutton - Clarksville, TN - d. 6-28-1974
actor: "Couple Next Door"
10-23-1925 - Johnny Carson - Corning, IA (Raised: Norfolk, NE) - d. 1-23-2005
announcer, disc jockey: "Johnny Carson Show"
10-23-1931 - Diana Dors - Swindon, Wiltshire, England - d. 5-4-1984
actress: "Earplay"
10-23-1943 - Roger Scott - London, England - d. 10-31-1989
disc jockey: "Three O'Clock Thrill"; "Hitline"
October 23rd deaths
01-31-1872 - Zane Grey - Zanesville, OH - d. 10-23-1939
writer: "Rudy Vallee Hour"
03-16-1892 - James Petrillo - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1984
union leader" Head of the American Federation of Musicians
05-10-1909 - Maybelle Carter - Nickelsville, VA - d. 10-23-1978
singer: (Queen of Country Music) "Grand Ole Opry"
05-26-1886 - Al Jolson - Srednick, Lithuania, Russia - d. 10-23-1950
singer: (The Jazz Singer) "Shell Chateau"; "Kraft Music Hall"
06-04-1919 - Robert Merrill - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-23-2004
singer: "An Evening with Romberg"; "Robert Merrill Show"
07-21-1905 - Diana Trilling - d. 10-23-1996
writer: "NBC University Theatre"
08-04-1897 - Abe Lyman - Chicago, IL - d. 10-23-1957
bandleader: "Jack Pearl Show"; "Lavender and New Lace"; "Waltz Time"
12-02-1915 - Adolph Green - New York, NY - d. 10-23-2002
songwriter: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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