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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 240
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Bess Flynn                            [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  Out of Fibber's Closet- a sort of Ga  [ "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@hotm ]
  8-19 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Lone Ranger announcers                [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Re: The Lost Battalion                [ "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed]; ]
  8-20 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:18:45 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Bess Flynn
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On Aug 17, 2007, at 10:37 PM, Ron Sayles wrote:

08-18-1889 - Bess Flynn - Tama, IA - d. unknown
actor: Mother Moyniham "Painted Dreams"; Tilda "The Gumps"

Describing Bess Flynn as a radio actor is akin to saying Babe Ruth
was a great pitcher. Both statements are correct, but miss their true
significance in their respective fields.

Although Flynn was in the cast of the original version  of "The
Gumps" (1931) as well as "Painted Dreams," reading a script was not
her main contribution to OTR. She was primarily a writer from the git-
go.  "Painted Dreams" (called by Dunning "perhaps radio's first soap
opera") was created by Irna Phillips, who was also the principal
writer. But Flynn, who like Phillips, occasionally played the lead of
Mother Moynihan (note spelling) was also on that writing team.

Flynn would go on to write three more soaps: "Martha
Webster" (originally titled "Life Begins"), "We, the Abbotts",  and
"Bachelor's Children." While she continued to ply her trade
occasionally at the microphone (she played the lead in "Martha
Webster") the majority of her OTR career was spent at the typewriter.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:19:40 -0400
From: "George Tirebiter" <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Out of Fibber's Closet- a sort of Gay Joke From
 1939

I remember a while back there was some discussion about homosexuality in
OTR, mostly centering on the perceived sexual orientation of subsidiary
characters in certain shows.  I was listening to Fibber McGee and Company
(this was during Molly's absence, obvioulsy) for 2/7/39 last night and was
mildly surprised to hear the dialogue quoted below.  To set it up: Fibber
has a broken window shade.  He gets the idea to contact an interior
decorator and falsely indicate an intention to redecorate in the hopes that
the decorator will fix the window shade gratis in the hope of getting the
redecoration business. Now here's the first surprise: The decorator is
played by a pre-Gildersleeve Hal Peary, so he sounds just like Gildy.  But
the real surprise is the dialogue itself, which begins with the decorator
arriving at the door.

Decorator - Hi there Mr. McGee.

Fibber- Yeah, Bud, what's on your mind?

Decorator- I'm from the Wistful Vista Decorating Company, Mr. McGee. I'm the
Chief Interior Decorator.

Fibber - Oh.  You got a cold, Bud?

Decorator- No, why?

Fibber - I don't [removed] being an interior decorator, that bass voice
kinda fooled me.

Decorator - (Laughs)...that's very good, very good (suddenly serious) or is
it?

Fibber's line about "the bass voice kinda fooled me" got a big laugh from
the studio audience.  I was a little surprised that a joke that traded on
the idea that a (male) interior decorator would be expected to have a high
(effeminate) voice made in on the air in 1939, especially on Fibber, a show
I've always considered sort of straight laced even by OTR standards.

I guess I should apologize for the lame pun in the title of this post, but I
couldn't resist.

Now you can see [removed] he arrives

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 09:07:04 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-19 births/deaths

August 19th births

08-19-1870 - Bernard Baruch - Camden, SC - d. 6-20-1965
guest: "Tex and Jinx"
08-19-1873 - Fred Stone - Longmont, CO - d. 3-6-1959
comedian: "Gulf Headliners"
08-19-1902 - Colleen Moore - Port Huron, MI - d. 1-25-1988
actor: "Whatever Became of . . . ."
08-19-1902 - Ogden Nash - Rye, NY - d. 5-19-1971
poet: "Three Ring Time"; "Kaleidoscope"
08-19-1903 - Claude Dauphin - Corbeil, France - d. 11-17-1978
actor: "As Easy as [removed]"
08-19-1903 - Fran Striker - Buffalo, NY - d. 9-4-1962
creator, writer: "The Lone Ranger"; "Sgt. Preston of the Yukon"; "The
Green Hornet"
08-19-1903 - Muriel Kirkland - Yonkers, NY - d. 9-26-1971
actor: Mary Marlin "Story of Mary Marlin"; Mary Todd "Honest Abe"
08-19-1910 - Evelyn Antonsen - d. 8-18-2002
violinist: WCCO Minneapolis, Minnesota
08-19-1913 - Harry F. Mills - Picqua, OH - d. 6-28-1982
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
08-19-1915 - Ring Lardner, Jr. - Chicago, IL - d. 10-31-2000
screenwriter: (Member of the Hollywood Ten) "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-19-1916 - Marie Wilson - Anaheim, CA - d. 11-23-1972
actor: Irma Peterson "My Friend Irma"
08-19-1921 - Gene Roddenberry - El Paso, TX - d. 10-24-1991
writer: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
08-19-1922 - Lester Fletcher - Cardiff, Wales - d. 12-8-1989
actor: "Sherlock Holmes"; "FBI in Peace and War"
08-19-1930 - David Guy Compton - London, England
author: "Blind Man's Bluff"
08-19-1933 - Debra Paget - Denver, CO
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
08-19-1946 - Bill Clinton - Hope, AR
[removed] president: Saturday morning presidential broadcast

August 19th deaths

02-17-1924 - Mel Welles - NYC - d. 8-19-2005
worked as a radio disc jockey before moving to Hollywood in the 1950s
03-11-1907 - Jessie Matthews - London, England - d. 8-19-1981
actor: Mrs. Mary Dale "The Dale's"
05-21-1915 - Kathleen Cordell - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-19-1997
actor: Marion Burton Sullivan "Second Mrs. Burton"; Monica Brewster
"Valiant Lady"
06-15-1894 - Robert Russell Bennett - Kansas City, MO - d. 8-19-1981
compser: "Symphony in D for the Dodgers"; "Project Twenty"
06-20-1890 - Effie Palmer - Albany, NY - d. 8-19-1942
actor: Jean Evans "Lonely Woman"; Dodie Black "Scattergood Baines"
06-29-1913 - Hilliard Marks - d. 8-19-1982
producer: (Brother of Mary Livingston) "The Jack Benny Show"
10-02-1890 - Groucho Marx - NYC - d. 8-19-1977
comedian: "Flywheel, Shyster and Flywheel"; "Blue Ribbon Town"; "You
Bet Your Life"
11-04-1917 - Jean King - Dallas, TX - d. 8-19-1993
disk jockey: Lonesome Gal "Lonesome Gal"
11-28-1910 - Russell Napier - Perth, Australia - d. 8-19-1974
actor: "Midweek Theatre"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:03:04 -0400
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Lone Ranger announcers
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In a message dated 8/18/07 10:20:06 PM Central Daylight Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

Harry Golder was the principal
announcer when World War II erupted in 1941, but when he went into the navy,
John Slagle took over until Harry returned.  Harry was the announcer that
Fred replaced.

I once heard Myron Wallace (a/k/a future "60 Minutes" correspondent Mike
Wallace) was also an announcer on "The Lone Ranger."  Is that true and if so,
when
did he do that?  Was he a substitute announcer or did he do it for a period
of time?

Dixon

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:39:52 -0400
From: "R. R. King" <kingrr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: The Lost Battalion

Specifically, I'm looking for ANY OTR
program that has a dramatization (or any mention, for that matter)
about The Lost Battalion.

NBC Chicago produced a series called "Lives at Stake," a weekly
half-hour which featured music and dramatizations of "noted events in
which men have faced death" ([removed], true-life adventure and suspense
stories). Sponsored by The General Tire and Rubber Co. and hosted by
company president W. O'Neil, it aired on NBC Red on Tuesday nights at
10 Eastern and premiered on 18 April 1933 with the story of Sgt. Alvin
C. York.

According to contemporary newspapers, the 12 September 1933 episode
was scheduled to dramatize "The bravery of Major Charles W. Whittlesey
when during the World war he was cut off from supplies and aid" while
leading the "Lost Battalion."

Variety reported in July that Willis Cooper, himself a veteran of the
war, was writing the scripts for the series. He took over as NBC
Chicago's continuity editor that summer so I don't know if he was
still writing it in September.

Anybody know the extent of Cooper's participation? Or if any scripts
or recordings survive from this series?

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Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:52:09 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-20 births/deaths

August 20th births

08-20-1881 - Edgar Guest - Birmingham, England - d. 8-5-1959
poet: (Poet Laureate of Radio) "Edgar Guest in Welcome Valley"; "It
Can Be Done"
08-20-1888 - Julia Sanderson - Springfield, MA - d. 1-27-1975
singer, emcee: "Blackstone Plantation"; "Battle of the Sexes"; "Let's
Be Charming"
08-20-1905 - Jack Teagarden - Vernon, TX - d. 1-15-1964
trombonist: "Eddie Condon"s Jazz Concert"; "Paul Whiteman Show"
08-20-1906 - Floyd Neal - Iowa - d. 12-22-1985
announcer: "Uncle Don"; "Vienese Night"
08-20-1907 - Alan Reed (aka Teddy Bergman) - NYC - d. 6-14-1977
actor: Falstaff Openshaw "Fred Allen Show"; Pasquale "Life with Luigi"
08-20-1908 - Al Lopez - Tampa, FL - d. 10-29-2005
baseball hall of fame: "Greatest Sports Thrills"; "Tops In Sports"
08-20-1908 - Andre Baruch - Paris, France - d. 9-15-1991
announcer, disc jockey: "Your Hit Parade"; "Kate Smith Program";
"Myrt and Marge"
08-20-1911 - Robert Riley Crutcher - Missouri - d. 8-10-1974
writer: "Fabulous Dr. Tweedy"; "Eddie Bracken Show"
08-20-1915 - Virginia Vass - Greenville, SC
singer: (The Vass Family) "The Lady Next Door"; "Kraft Phenix Program"
08-20-1917 - Catherine McCune - Honolulu, Hawiian Territory
actor: Clara Potts "Scattergood Baines"; "Joe Penner Show"
08-20-1918 - Henry Leff - NYC
actor: Ray Mallard "Candy Matson, YU2-8209"
08-20-1918 - Jacqueline Susann - Philadelphis, PA - d. 9-21-1974
actor: Lola the Cigarette Girl "Morey Amsterdam Show"
08-20-1920 - Stefan Hatos - Aurora, IL - d. 3-2-1999
producer, writer, announcer: "Beulah"; "The Green Hornet"
08-20-1922 - Vince Anselmo - d. 1-xx-1979
sportscaster: KJRL Picatello, Idaho
08-20-1923 - Jim Reeves - nr. Galloway, Panola County, TX - d. 7-31-1964
country singer: "Jim Reeves Show"; "Grand Old Opry"; "Country Style
[removed]"
08-20-1929 - Frank Bresee - Los Angeles, CA
actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"
08-20-1933 - Ted Donaldson - NYC
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"

August 20th deaths

01-16-1901 - Sid Silvers - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-20-1976
actor: Beetle "Phil Baker Show"; "Jack Benny Program"
03-12-1908 - William Lally - New York - d. 8-20-1956
actor: "The NBC University Theatre"
03-16-1916 - Walter Reed - Fort Ward, Bainbridge Island, WA - d.
8-20-2001
actor: "The Bombadier"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
06-16-1912 - Ilona Massey - Budapest, Hungary - d. 8-20-1974
actor: Mata Hari-style operative in World War II "Top Secret";
"Screen Guild Theatre"
08-23-1905 - Rags Ragland - Louisville, KY - d. 8-20-1946
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
11-11-1897 - James Goss - Chicago, IL - d. 8-20-1976
actor: Uncle Jim Fairfield "Jack Armstrong, The All-American Boy"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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