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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 42
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
3-2 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Lone Ranger Scrip [ RobEverest <erest@[removed]; ]
Radiolab--Escape! [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]
Re: Remember back in [removed] [ Fass Martin <watchstop@frontiernet. ]
3-3 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
This week in radio history 4-10 Marc [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
3-4 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:03:19 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-2 births/deaths
March 2nd births
03-02-1890 - Paul De Kruif - Zeeland, MI - d. 2-28-1971
writer: "Men Against Death" based on De Kruif's book
03-02-1900 - Kurt Weill - Dessau, Germany - d. 4-3-1950
composer: "Der Lindergflug"; "This Is War"
03-02-1902 - Flora Robson - Brighton, England - d. 7-7-1984
actor: BBC Radio "Streets of Pompeii"
03-02-1902 - Moe Berg - NYC - d. 5-29-1972
major league baseball player, world war 2 spy: "Information, Please"
03-02-1904 - Leonard Levinson - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 1-30-1974
writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Great Gildersleeve"; "Jack Carson
Show"
03-02-1904 - Theodor "Dr. Suess" Geisel - Springfield, MA - d. 9-24-1991
children's book author: "American School On the Air"; "Columbia
Workshop"
03-02-1905 - Marc Blitzstein - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-22-1964
author: "Mercury Theatre On the Air"
03-02-1909 - Mel Ott - Gretna, LA - d. 11-21-1958
sportscaster: Play-by-Play Detroit Tigers; "Babe Ruth Show"
03-02-1909 - Narvin Kimball - d. 3-17-2006
vocal, banjo: (Preservation Hall Jazz Band) "Newport Jazz Festival"
03-02-1913 - Marjorie Weaver - Crossville, TN - d. 10-1-1994
actor: "Sally, Irene and Mary"
03-02-1914 - Martin Ritt - NYC - d. 12-8-1990
film director, teacher: "Coming Home"
03-02-1915 - Cliff Carpenter - San Francisco, CA
actor: Terry Lee "Terry and the Pirates"; Jerry "County Seat"
03-02-1917 - Desi Arnaz - Santiago, Cuba - d. 12-2-1986
actor, bandleader: Ricky Ricardo "I Love Lucy"; "Bob Hope Show"
03-02-1918 - Elmira Roessler - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-30-1975
actor, singer: Jennifer Davis "Backstage Wife"; Tweetsie Herringbone
"Ma Perkins"
03-02-1919 - Jennifer Jones - Tulsa, OK - d. 12-17-2009
actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
03-02-1919 - Lawrence Eisler - NYC
monologist: "Major Bowes Amateur Hour"
03-02-1921 - John Millett - Woollahra, Australia
writer: "The World Faces Johnny Tripod"
03-02-1923 - Jean Metcalfe - Reigate, England - d. 1-28-2000
announcer, presenter: "Two-Way Family Favourites"
03-02-1933 - Anthea Askey - Golders Green, London, England - d.
2-28-1999
actor: Violet Elizabeth Bott "Just William"
03-02-1949 - Randy Paar - Los Angeles, CA
disc jockey: (Daughter of Jack Paar) "The Jack Paar Show"
March 2nd deaths
01-23-1898 - Randolph Scott - Orange County, VA - d. 3-2-1987
actor: "Academy Award Theatre"; "Campbell Playhouse"
01-29-1916 - Bill Lawrence - Lincoln, NE - d. 3-2-1972
newsman for the ABC network
02-06-1897 - Erna Sack - Spandau-Berlin, Germany - d. 3-2-1972
singer: (The German Nightingale) "General Motors Concerts"
02-12-1884 - Bessie McCammon - Cincinnati, OH - d. 3-2-1964
actor: Jessie King "Lone Journey"; Olivia McEvoy "Young Widder Brown"
02-14-1908 - Lonnie Glosson - Judsonia, AR - d. 3-2-2001
country music harmonica player: "Grand Ole Opry"
02-19-1915 - Fred Freiberger - NYC - d. 3-2-2003
writer: "Suspense"; "Family Theatre"
03-16-1916 - Mercedes McCambridge - Joliet, IL - d. 3-2-2004
actor: Sunny Richards "I Love A Mystery"; Martha Ellis Bryant "Defense
Attorney"
04-05-1911 - Martin Denny - NYC - d. 3-2-2005
orchestra leader: Live radio show for Alaskan Air Force Command Radio
06-04-1921 - Tom Bigler - Terentum, PA - d. 3-2-2007
disk jockey: WILK Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
07-24-1913 - Hollace (Vivien) Shaw - Fresno, CA - d. 3-2-1976
singer: "Blue Velvet"; "Vic Damone and Hollace Shaw Show"
08-20-1920 - Stefan Hatos - Aurora, IL - d. 3-2-1999
producer, writer, announcer: "Beulah"; "The Green Hornet"
10-16-1917 - Rowena Clark - Staten Island, NY - d. 3-2-2004
actor: "Gateway to Hollywood"
10-21-1913 - Jack McElroy - Kansas - d. 3-2-1959
announcer, host: "Bride and Groom"; "Breakfast at Sardi"s"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:03:26 -0500
From: RobEverest <erest@[removed];
To: OldTimeRadio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Lone Ranger Scrip
This weeks Scoop has an article about the auction of the Lone Ranger
pilot script. With a picture of the first page, instead of hi o silver
the ranger gives a "hearty laugh".
Rob
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:03:34 -0500
From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Radiolab--Escape!
One of my favorite current radio shows--maybe my favorite--is Radiolab from
WNYC and NPR. I bring this up because the most recent show is about
escape--not the old radio show, but rather the concept of escaping. However,
the intro to the episode IS by using the show, Escape. I think OTR fans would
appreciate how the hosts, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, lead into the
topic. Check it out. You might even want to stick around for the whole
episode.
Alan
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Alan/Linda Bell
Santa Rosa, CA
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:04:17 -0500
From: Fass Martin <watchstop@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Remember back in [removed]
This is unlikely to be a new idea; [removed] How about replacing the
traditional sort of literal convention with a gathering that takes advantage
of the Internet, the potential for a rich archive and a continuing dialogue.
As one sort of example or possible model, look at what the New York Times is
currently doing with features and activities related to the current Broadway
production of "Death of a Salesman." Not everyone will have the opportunity
to come to NYC to see the play in person during its limited run. But the
newspaper is offering a series of features, including encouragement for
readers to participate in conversations.
Imagine such a convention with a nominal fee, special presentations that one
might see live, access later, or [removed] do you think?
--Martin Fass
[ADMINISTRIVIA: [removed]'t that a good description of what we do here all
year long? --cfs3]
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:04:23 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-3 births/deaths
March 3rd births
03-03-1885 - Marshall Bartholomew - Belleville, IL - d. 4-16-1978
tenor on nbc, connected with the Yale Glee Club
03-03-1890 - Edmund Lowe - San Jose, CA - d. 4-21-1971
actor: Sergeant Quirt "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"
03-03-1896 - Willie Fung - Canton, China - d. 4-16-1945
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
03-03-1900 - Edna Best - Hove, East Sussex, England - d. 9-18-1974
director: "Sherlock Holmes"; "Silver Theatre"
03-03-1902 - Ruby Dandridge - Memphis, TN - d. 10-17-1987
actor: Mammy Brown "Gallant Heart"; Geranium "Judy Canova Show"
03-03-1906 - Kenny Sargent - Centralia, IL - d. 12-20-1969
vocalist/saxophonist: "The Camel Caravan"
03-03-1907 - Canada Lee - NYC - d. 5-9-1952
actor: "New World A' Coming"; "Lest We Forget"; "The Free Company"
03-03-1907 - Donald Novis - Hastings, England - d. 7-23-1966
actor: Matt Mulligan "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"
03-03-1911 - Henry Gladstone - Boston, MA - d. 1-22-1995
announcer: "White Owl Reporter"
03-03-1911 - Jean Harlow - Kansas City, MO - d. 6-7-1937
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-03-1913 - Margaret Bonds - Chicago, IL - d. 4-26-1972
composer: "Chicago Women's Orchestra"
03-03-1914 - Donald Gray - Fort Beaufort, South Africa - d. 4-7-1978
BBC actor from 1947 to 1951
03-03-1915 - John Nelson - Spokane, WA - d. 11-3-1976
emcee: "Bride and Groom"; "Know Your NBC's"; "Live Like a Millionaire"
03-03-1919 - Enzo Stuarti - Rome, Italy - d. 12-16-2005
operatic singer: "Stars for Defense"
03-03-1920 - James Doohan - Vancouver, Canada - d. 7-20-2005
actor: "You Never Had It So Good"; "The Investigator"
03-03-1920 - Jimmy Edwards - Barns, Surrey, England - d. 7-7-1988
actor: Pa Glum "Take It from Here"
03-03-1921 - Diana Barrymore - NYC - d. 1-25-1960
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
03-03-1924 - Barbara Jean Wong - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-13-1999
actor: Judy Barton "Cinnamon Bear"
03-03-1924 - Cathy Downs - Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY - d.
12-8-1976
actor: "Your Movietown Radio Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Mail Call"
03-03-1937 - Bobby Driscoll - Cedar Rapids, IA - d. 3-20-1968 (body
found)
actor: "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day"; "Family Theatre"
03-03-1939 - Sam Chu Lin - Mississippi - d. 3-5-2006
newscaster, actor: "Empire of the Air"
03-03-1948 - Byron MacGregor - Alberta, Canada - d. 1-3-1995
CKLW radio newsman, recorded narrative "The Americans"
03-03-1959 - Ira Glass - Baltimore, MD
host: "This American Life"
03-03-1970 - Christopher Cyrill - Melbourne, Australia
writer: "What Withers and What Remains"
March 3rd deaths
01-15-1923 - Ivor Cutler - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 3-3-2006
poet: BBC's Home Service
01-18-1913 - Danny Kaye - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-3-1987
comedian: "Danny Kaye Show"
01-31-1908 - Connie Desmond - Ohio - d. 3-3-1983
sportscaster: play-by-play for the Brooklyn Dodgers
02-08-1902 - Lyle Talbot - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 3-3-1996
actor: "Your Hollywood Informer"; "Calling All Cars"; "The Unexpected"
02-26-1887 - William Frawley - Burlington, IA - d. 3-3-1966
comedian: Fred Mertz "I Love Lucy", "Hallmark Playhouse"; "Hollywood
Hotel"
03-06-1906 - Lou Costello - Paterson, NJ - d. 3-3-1959
comedian: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Abbott and Costello Show"
03-13-1907 - Frank Wilcox - DeSoto, MO - d. 3-3-1974
actor: Father "Central City"
03-19-1889 - George L. "Doc" Rockwell - Providence, RI - d. 3-3-1978
comedian: "Camel Pleasure Hour"
04-04-1895 - Arthur Murray - NYC - d. 3-3-1991
dance master: "Natural Bridge Dancing Class"
04-05-1919 - Ted Liss - d. 3-3-1992
actor: "Destination Freedom"
07-24-1921 - Giuseppe Di Stefano - Motta, Sicily, Italy - d. 3-3-2008
operatic tenor: "Standard Hour", "Metropolitan Opera"
07-28-1925 - Paul Rogers - Chicago, IL - d. 3-3-2007
host: "Great Music from Chicago"; "Music Unlimited"; "Nightside"
08-22-1900 - Charles Halleck - De Motte, IN - d. 3-3-1986
[removed] congressman "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
08-31-1930 - Big Tiny Little - Worthington, MN - d. 3-3-2010
piano player: "The Lawrence Welk Show"
09-03-1912 - Peter Capell - Berlin, Germany - d. 3-3-1986
actor:"Dimension X"; "Romance"; "Secret Missions"
09-07-1918 - Al Christy - Kansas City, KS - d. 3-3-1995
started his career in radio
10-09-1909 - Robert Beatty - Hamilton, Ontario, Canada - d. 3-3-1992
announcer: BBC Radio Newsreel"; "London Column"
10-16-1917 - Alice Pearce - NYC - d. 3-3-1966
actor: Daphne "Henry Morgan Show"
10-30-1915 - Fred Friendly - NYC - d. 3-3-1998
writer, director: "Hear It Now"; "Who Said That?"; "Quick and the Dead"
12-02-1918 - Ezra Stone - New Bedford, MA - d. 3-3-1994
actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
12-12-1907 - Allen Massey - Midland, TX - d. 3-3-1983
singer: (Louise Massey and the Westerners) "National Barn Dance";
"Show Boat"
12-25-1912 - Tobe Reed - Seattle, WA - d. 3-3-1988
announcer: "The Bickersons"; "Burns and Allen"; "Frances Langford Show"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:04:31 -0500
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: This week in radio history 4-10 March
From Those Were The Days
3/4
1877 Emile Berliner came up with a thing called the microphone.
1925 Calvin Coolidge took the oath of office in Washington DC. The
presidential inauguration was broadcast on radio for the very first time.
1930 'The Redhead', Red Barber, began his radio career this day.
Barber broadcast on WRUF at the University of Florida in Gainsville. He
soon became one of the best known sports voices in America.
1942 Shirley Temple had a starring role in Junior Miss on CBS. The
show, heard for the first time, cost $12,000 a week ($172,943 in 2009
dollars) to produce and stayed on the airwaves until 1954.
1951 Sir John Gielgud, starring as Hamlet, was heard on The [removed] Steel
Hour on the NBC.
1952 President Harry Truman dedicated the Courier, the first seagoing
radio broadcasting station, in ceremonies in Washington, DC.
3/6
1948 Ralph Edwards created a quiz on Truth or Consequences called The
Walking Man. After ten weeks of guesses by contestants playing the game,
it was finally revealed that Jack Benny was The Walking Man.
3/7
1933 CBS debuted Marie the Little French Princess which had a run of
two years.
1944 Norman Corwin hosted a program titled, Columbia Presents Corwin
on the CBS network this day.
3/8
1925 Bernard McFadden was a physical culturist who had a radio show in
New York City. But not for long. McFadden failed to show up for his
daily morning program, causing a young, studio engineer, John Gambling,
to ad lib on the air for a solid hour. As a result, the station (WOR)
decided to give Gambling the morning announcer's job. John Gambling
stayed at WOR for many years, then turned the mike over to his son, who,
finally, turned the program over to his son ... all named John. Mr.
Gambling's Rambling with Gambling program attracted tri state (New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut) audiences in record numbers for over 70 years
on the 50,000 watt talk radio powerhouse at 710 AM on your radio dial
from New York each morning.
3/9
1945 Those Websters debuted on CBS. Willard Waterman starred as George
Webster.
3/10
1922 Variety magazine greeted readers with the front page headline
that read, "Radio Sweeping Country - 1,000,000 Sets in Use."
1955 The last broadcast of The Silver Eagle was heard.
Joe
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Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 21:04:39 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 3-4 births/deaths
March 4th births
03-04-1880 - Channing Pollack - Washington [removed] - d. 8-17-1946
lecturer, author: "America's Town Mettking of the Air"; "Wake Up
America"
03-04-1888 - David Frederick Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-14-1976
early radio broadcaster: Creator of "March of Time"
03-04-1888 - Fred Smith - Clarksburg, IN - d. 8-15-1976
announcer: (America's first Ambassador of the Radio) "Newsacting"
03-04-1888 - Knute Rockne - Voss, Norway - d. 3-31-1931
football coach: "Biography in Sound"
03-04-1892 - Helen Van Tuyl - Iowa - d. 8-22-1964
actor: Ellen Collins "Bachelor's Children"
03-04-1896 - George Shelton - NYC - d. 2-12-1972
comedian: "Sunday Night Party"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
03-04-1903 - Harold Berens - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 5-10-1995
actor: "Ignorance Is Bliss"
03-04-1904 - Dorothy Page - Northampton, PA - d. 3-26-1961
vocalist: "Paducah Plantation"
03-04-1904 - Joseph Schmidt - Davideny, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary - d.
11-16-1942
singer: "General Motors Concerts"
03-04-1907 - Edgar Barrier - NYC - d. 6-20-1964
actor: Simon Templar "The Saint"
03-04-1907 - Pat McGeehan - Steelton, PA - d. 1-3-1988
announcer, actor: "Abbott and Costello"; "The Red Skelton Show"
03-04-1908 - Lee Allman - d. 10-8-1989
actor: (Sister of James Jewell) Lenore 'Casey' Case "The Green Hornet"
03-04-1909 - Harry Elders - d. 11-25-1993
actor: Dr. Bill Evans "Road of Life"; David Houseman "Stepmother"
03-04-1910 - Miriam Kressyn - Poland - d. 10-28-1996
Was the most popular Yiddish artist on radio of her day
03-04-1911 - Margaret Wood - Great Yarmouth, England - d. 2-9-2002
scripwriter for BBC radio schools
03-04-1913 - John Garfield - NYC - d. 5-21-1952
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Free Company"; "Treasury
Star Parade"
03-04-1914 - Ward Kimball - Minneapolis, MN - d. 7-8-2002
disney animator: "Here's to Veterans"
03-04-1916 - William Alland - Delmare, DE - d. 11-10-1997
actor: "Mercury Theatre"; "Doorway to Life"; "Frontier Gentleman"
03-04-1920 - Alan MacNaughtan - Bearsden, Scotland - d. 8-29-2002
actor: "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy"
03-04-1921 - Harry Besse - d. 1-29-1994
disk jockey: KSWI Council Bluffs,Iowa
03-04-1921 - Joan Greenwood - London, England - d. 2-28-1987
actor: "Stagestruck"
03-04-1922 - Martha O'Driscoll - Tulsa, OK - d. 11-3-1998
actor: "Your Blind Date"
03-04-1932 - Miriam Makeba - Johannesburg, South Africa - d. 11-10-2008
click singer: "The World of Folk Music"
03-04-1934 - Barbara McNair - Racine, WI - d. 2-4-2007
singer/actor: "America Swings"
03-04-1934 - John Dunn - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 11-28-2004
announcer, newsreader: "Roundabout"; "Housewive's Choice"; "Breadfast
Special"
03-04-1944 - Edwin Drake - Grand Rapids, MI
composer: "Back to God Hour"
March 4th deaths
01-06-1927 - Jack Voorhies - Sheffield, AL - d. 3-4-2008
radio personality: (Voice of the Shoals) Created Luther Appleby and
his mule Chilton
04-13-1907 - Harold E. Stassen - West St. Paul, MN - d. 3-4-2001
presidential candidate: "Meet the Press"; "The People's Platform"
04-21-1911 - Leonard Warren - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-4-1960
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Telephone Hour"
05-06-1911 - Artie Bland - d. 3-4-2002
disk jockey: KWBU Corpus Christi, Texas
05-18-1900 - Lew White - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-4-1955
organist: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Break the Bank"; "Betty
Moore"
05-29-1935 - Bryar Martin - Ulverston, Cumbrio, England - d. 3-4-2009
newsreader: BBC Radio 4
06-04-1920 - Fedoro Barbieri - Trieste, Italy - d. 3-4-2003
opera singer: "Metropolitan Opera"
06-06-1872 - Arthur H. Adams - Lawrence, New Zealand - d. 3-4-1936
his stage play "Mrs. Pretty and the Premier" was adapted for radio
07-09-1907 - Eddie Dean - Posey, TX - d. 3-4-1999
actor: Larry Burton "Modern Cinderella"
07-15-1927 - Nan Martin - Decatur, IL - d. 3-4-2010
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
08-05-1908 - Don Albert - d. 3-4-1980
orchestra leader: WGN Chicago, Illinois 1935
08-23-1908 - Natalie Bodanya - NYC - d. 3-4-2007
opera soprano: "The Metropolitan Opera"
09-20-1924 - Michael Hardwick - Leeds, England - d. 3-4-1991
author: Adapted Sherlock Holmes for radio
10-08-1891 - Florence Malone - d. 3-4-1956
actor: Christy Allen "Against the Storm"; Mrs. Diamond "Advs. of
Captain Diamond"
10-25-1912 - Minnie Pearl - Centerville, TN - d. 3-4-1996
comedian: (Queen of Country Comedy) "Grand Ole Opry"
11-14-1904 - Art Hodes - Nikoliev, Russia - d. 3-4-1993
jazz pianist: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "This Is Jazz"; "WNYC
Jazz Festival"
11-15-1909 - Sydney Smith - d. 3-4-1978
actor: Abie Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of Ellery
Queen"
11-20-1883 - Edwin August - d. 3-4-1964
drama critic on KFI Los Angeles, California
11-25-1909 - Verne Smith - NYC - d. 3-4-1978
announcer: "Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet"
12-03-1873 - Atwater Kent - Burlington, VT - d. 3-4-1949
inventer and radio manufacturer: Maker of Atwater Kent radios
12-11-1905 - Pare Lorentz - Clarksburg, WV - d. 3-4-1992
writer: "Columbia Workshop"
12-17-1911 - Richard Sale - NYC - d. 3-4-1993
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
Ron
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