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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 59
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  A Company Man                         [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
  3-5 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  best cast spoof?                      [ Chargous@[removed] ]
  Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons?      [ "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed] ]
  The Twentieth Century                 [ Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed]; ]

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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:01:08 -0500
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  A Company Man

But while I don't know, offhand, which network "The 21st Century" was aired on,
I can't get it out of my head that it, too, may have been a product  of [removed]

Pretty sure that Mr. Cronkite never strayed from Uncle Bill Paley's  [removed]
 
-Craig W.
 

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 02:12:01 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
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
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
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, 5 Mar 2008 08:08:57 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-5 births/deaths

March 5th births

03-05-1881 - Toby Gremmer - Bainbridge, GA - d. 9-6-1981
actor: Hermit "The Hermit's Cave"
03-05-1882 - Eustace Wyatt - Bath, Somerset, England - d. 10-25-1944
actor: Lord Percy "Our Gal Sunday"
03-05-1891 - Chic Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 2-28-1962
comedian: "Olsen and Johnson"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
03-05-1892 - Paul Wing - Sandwich, MA - d. 5-29-1957
actor/emcee: "The Story Man"; "Uncle Toddy"; "Youth vs. Age"
03-05-1893 - Dorothy Sands - Cambridge, MA - d. 9-11-1980
actor: Mary Ann Clarke "Barry Cameron"; Margot "Backstage Wife"
03-05-1894 - Henry Daniell - London, England - d. 10-31-1963
actor: "Theatre Guild of the Air"
03-05-1898 - Bud Selvin - d. 7-15-1980
bandleader: "Devoe Redskins"; "Kolster Radio Hour"
03-05-1900 - Martin Magner - Stettin, Germany - d. 1-25-2002
director: "Under Arrest"; "Wooden Fish"
03-05-1900 - Sam Hearn - Jersey City, NJ - d. 10-27-1964
comedian: Schlepperman "Jack Benny Program, Glamour Manor"
03-05-1903 - Minerva Pious - Odessa, Russia - d. 3-16-1979
commedienne: Mrs. Pansy Nussbaum "Fred Allen Show"
03-05-1906 - Aileen Carlyle - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-3-1984
vocalist: "Spike Jones and His City Slickers"
03-05-1906 - Harry Lubin - d. 7-21-1977
music: "Glamour Manor"; "Burns and Allen"; "Blondie"
03-05-1908 - Rex Harrison - Huyton, England - d. 6-2-1990
actor: Rex Saunders "Private Files of Rex Saunders"
03-05-1911 - Joseph Tometty - Ireland - d. 6-7-1995
writer: "The McCooeys"
03-05-1913 - Dick Whittinghill - Montana - d. 1-24-2001
disk jockey: "Did you Whittinghill This Morning?"
03-05-1920 - Virginia Christine - Stanton, IA - d. 7-24-1996
actor: "Confession"; "Gunsmoke"
03-05-1921 - Milt Kamen - Hurleyville, NY - d. 2-24-1977
satirist: "Voices of Vista"; "Here's to Veterans"
03-05-1922 - Robert Burr - Jersey City, NJ - d. 5-13-2000
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
03-05-1925 - Lucy Gilman - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-2006
actor: "(Sister of Toni Gilman) "I Love A Mystery"; Welcome Valley"
03-05-1927 - Jack Cassidy - NYC - d. 12-12-1976
singer, actor: "Stars for Defense"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
03-05-1927 - Rachel Gurney - Eton, England - d. 11-24-2001
actor: BBC Home Service; Emma Woodhouse "Emma"
03-05-1936 - Dean Stockwell - North Hollywood, CA
actor: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"

March 5th deaths

02-18-1907 - Billy de Wolf -  Wollaston, MA - d. 3-5-1974
actor: "Ginny Simms Show"; "Philco Radio Playhouse"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-03-1939 - Sam Chu Lin - Mississippi - d. 3-5-2006
newscaster, actor: "Empire of the Air"
03-07-1880 - Sidney Scott Booth - Birmingham, England - d. 3-5-1946
radio performer
03-17-1879 - Sid Grauman - Indianapolis, IN - d. 3-5-1950
theatre owner: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-21-1943 - Vivian Stanshall - Shillingford, England - d. 3-5-1995
pop musician: "Viv Stanshall's Radio Flashes"
03-31-1922 - Richard Kiley - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1999
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-08-1896 - Yip Harburg - NYC - d. 3-5-1981
lyricist: "Columbia Presents Corwin"
04-18-1889 - Gene Carroll - Chicago, IL - d. 3-5-1972
comedian: Lena, the maid "Fibber McGee and Molly"
05-02-1908 - Wilms Herbert - d. 3-5-1951
actor: Sergeant Otis Ludlum "Richard Diamond, Private Detctive"
05-12-1894 - Leora Thatcher - Logan, UT - d. 3-5-1984
actor: Mrs. Kramer "Right to Happiness"
07-06-1875 - Roger Babson - d. 3-5-1967
economist: "Babson Reports"
07-15-1913 - Cowboy Copas - Muskogee, OK - d. 3-5-1963
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Music Time"
07-29-1892 - William Powell - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-5-1984
actor: Father "My Mother's Husband"
07-29-1909 - Bernard Mackey - d. 3-5-1980
singer, guitarist: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots";
"Let's Go Nightclubbing"
08-02-1915 - Gary Merrill - Hartford, CT - d. 3-5-1990
actor: Bruce Wayne/Batman "Adventures of Superman"
08-03-1886 - Russ Westover - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-5-1966
writer: Creator of the comic strip "Tillie the Toiler"
08-23-1869 - Edgar Lee Masters - Garnett, KS - d. 3-5-1950
author: "Cavalcade of America"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
09-04-1898 - Harry Salter - Bucharest, Romania - d. 3-5-1984
conductor: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; "Lanny Ross Show"; "Stop the Music"
09-06-1915 - Kleve Kirby - d. 3-5-1949
actor: John Murray "Today's Children"
09-08-1932 - Patsy Cline - Gore, VA - d. 3-5-1963
country singer: "Country Hoedown"; "Town and Country Time"
09-26-1915 - Tony Romano - Fresno, CA - d. 3-5-2005
guitarist: "The Bob Hope Show"
09-29-1918 - James Wood - Elgin, Scotland - d. 3-5-1984
author of radio plays
10-26-1910 - Clarence Hartzell - Huntington, WV - d. 3-5-1988
actor: Uncle Fletcher "Vic and Sade"; Pappy Yokum "Li'l AAbner"; "Ben
Withers "Lum and Abner"
11-07-1897 - Herman J. Mankiewicz - NYC - d. 3-5-1953
screenwriter, producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-17-1905 - Mischa Auer - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 3-5-1967
actor: "Mischa the Magnificent"
12-02-1906 - Donald Woods - Brandon, Manitoba, Canada - d. 3-5-1998
actor: Leslie Foster "Those We Love"; "Woolworth Hour"
12-22-1921 - Hawkshaw Hawkins - Huntingdon, WV - d. 3-5-1963
singer: "Country Style [removed]"; "Country Music Time"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:09:18 -0500
From: Chargous@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  best cast spoof?

Of the ones I've heard, I think the hands-down winner would be The Guiding
Light "Who's the Father?".  Are there any surviving cast spoofs of ano
other series besides this, Gunsmoke, and Red Ryder?

Travis

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 08:59:06 -0500
From: "Holm, Chris " <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons?

I was listening to WAMU's Big Broadcast a week or so ago, and they had
an episode of Mr Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons on, called The Broken
Glass Murder Case (or something similar).  I'm not a big fan of Mr Keen.
While I recognize the show has a certain harmless charm, I don't find
the pleasure in the ridiculous dialog that some people do ("It's you.
What are you doing here?  No, don't shoot me with that gun in your hand!
Ahhhh.  You've shot me!").  Consequently, I've listened to few episodes.

Every episode I have listened to, however, doesn't involve any missing
persons.  They're all murder who-done-its. It's always a The ____-Murder
Case.  So my question is, did Mr Keen ever actually trace any missing
persons?

-chris holm

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 15:30:10 -0500
From: Bob Slate <moxnix1961@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  The Twentieth Century
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"The Twentieth Century" narrated by Walter Cronkite on TV in the 1950's and
1960's was sponsored by  "The Prudential Insurance Corporation of America." I
suspect that the nrtwork that produed it would be CBS, as that was Walter
Cronkite's home turf.

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