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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 16
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
[removed] [ jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns) ]
The Chicago Pause [ Jim Harmon <jimharmonotr@[removed] ]
1-19 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Arthur Anderson Goes Irish! [ seandd@[removed] ]
Smoking [ "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@attorneyross. ]
1-20 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:32 -0500
From: jameshburns@[removed] (Jim Burns)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: [removed]
I applaud the courage of the Digester who ate his Sen-Sens from over
sixty years ago!
For years, I've wondered what would happen, if one ate the bubblegum,
from an unopened pack of early 1980s baseball [removed]
;-)
Jim Burns
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:38 -0500
From: Jim Harmon <jimharmonotr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The Chicago Pause
The Chicago Pause was a pause in dialogue as Craig Wichman states. To
expound on the point a bit further, the pause was explained to me by the late
Jack Lester, who played Sky King, and characters on many soap operas.
The scripters for some soap operas were lazy, or overworked, writing many
soapy tear-jerkers. Sometimes a script for a daily episode was only some
seven pages, less than half as many as would be used on a fast-moving kid
adventure serial like Jack Armstrong. So the actors would have to stretch
it out.
JILL: Coffee?
(pause)
JACK: Yes, thank you.
(pause)
JILL: Cream?
(pause)
JACK: Please. (pause) And two sugars, if you will.
Or that's the way Jack Lester told it to me. -- JIM HARMON
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:05:47 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-19 births/deaths
January 19th births
01-19-1809 - Edgar Allan Poe - Boston, MA - d. 10-7-1849
author: Several of his works adapted for radio
01-19-1866 - Harry Davenport - NYC - d. 8-9-1949
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Family Theatre"
01-19-1886 - May Day - Isle of Jersey - d. 7-8-1945
Gave beauty talks on KF0X Long Beach, California
01-19-1886 - Samuel Pettengill - Oregon - d. 3-20-1974
conservatice commentator: Weekly 15 minute program on ABC
01-19-1887 - Alexander Woollcott - Phalanx, NJ - d. 1-23-1943
commentator: "Early Bookworm"; "Town Crier"
01-19-1905 - Anne Hummert - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-5-1996
producer: "Backstage Wife"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
01-19-1905 - Oveta Kulp Hobby (Hobbe) - Killeen, TX - d. 8-16-1995
first commanding officer of the wacs: "Meet the Press"
01-19-1906 - Lanny Ross - Seattle, WA - d. 4-25-1988
singer: "Lanny Ross Program"; "Maxwell House Show Boat"
01-19-1908 - Ish Kabibble (Merwyn Bogue) - Erie, PA - d. 6-4-1994
comedian: "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
01-19-1909 - Hans Hotter - Offenback am Main, Germany - d. 12-6-2003
bass-baritone: "Metropolitan Opera"
01-19-1909 - Merrill E. Joels - Hartford, CT - d. 9-5-2001
actor: "Counterspy"; "Aunt Jenny"; "The Big Story"
01-19-1909 - Norman Barry - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-25-1997
announcer: "Dan Harding's Wife"
01-19-1910 - Jaime Del Valle - d. 9-16-1981
producer, director: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Count of Monte
Cristo"
01-19-1913 - Edward M. Asherman - d. 7-1-2005
composer/guitarist/singer: Xavier Cugat Orchestra
01-19-1916 - Marion Sweet - d. 7-17-1978
actor: Dragon Lady "Terry and the Pirates"
01-19-1919 - Ray Eberle - Hoosick Falls, NY - d. 8-25-1979
singer: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra"; "Glenn Miller's Moonlight
Serenade"
01-19-1922 - Guy Madison - Pumpkin Center, CA - d. 2-6-1996
actor: Wild Bill Hickok "Wild Bill Hickok"
01-19-1927 - Nancy Dickerson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 10-18-1997
newswoman: "784 Days That Changed America (Watergate Scandal)
01-19-1927 - Peter Fernandez - NYC
actor: George Bigelow "The Aldrich Family"; "Skip "Right to Happiness"
01-19-1928 - "Little" Jimmie Sizemore
singer with father Asher: "Grand Ole Opry"
01-19-1931 - Robert MacNeil - Montreal, Canada
newscaster: CBC Canada
01-19-1931 - Tippi Hedren - New Ulm, MN
actor: "World's Fair Holiday"
01-19-1932 - George Mann MacBeth - Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 2-16-1992
poet, producer: BBC Radio
01-19-1939 - Phil Everly - Chicago, IL
singer: (The Everly Brothers) "March of Dimes"; "Country Hoedown"
January 19th deaths
01-20-1898 - Norma Varden - London, England - d. 1-19-1989
actor: "Crime Classics"; "NBC University Theatre"
01-22-1914 - Joy Hodges - Des Moines, IA - d. 1-19-2003
vocalist; "The Joe Penner Show"
01-28-1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi - Osaka, Japan - d. 1-19-1976
radio antenna designer
03-01-1917 - Cliffie Stone - Stockton, CA - d. 1-19-1998
host: "Hollywood Barn Dance"; "The Cliffie Stone Show"
03-10-1918 - Laddie Seaman - Reading, PA - d. 1-19-1942
actor: Scoop Ward "News of Youth"; Biff Bradley "Pepper Young's Family"
04-18-1908 - Irra Petina - Petrograd, Russia - d. 1-19-2000
singer: "The Railroad Hour"
04-22-1920 - Hal March - San Francisco, CA - d. 1-19-1970
comedian: Matt Henshaw "December Bride"; Mr. Cook "Too Many Cooks"
05-16-1916 - Adriana Caselotti - Bridgeport, CT - d. 1-19-1997
singer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
05-26-1884 - Charles Winninger - Athens, WI - d. 1-19-1969
actor: Captain Henry "Show Boat"; Uncle Charlie "Uncle Charlie's Tent
Show"
05-31-1904 - Clifton Utley - Chicago, IL - d. 1-19-1978
newsman: (Father of Garrick) "Comments by Clifton Utley"
06-07-1893 - Lillian Althouse - d. 1-19-1979
saxophonist: KFI Los Angeles
07-08-1917 - Glenn Langan - Denver, CO - d. 1-19-1991
actor: "Chuck Morgan "Stand By For Crime"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-04-1898 - Hugh O'Connell - d. 1-19-1943
actor, comedian: "Vanity Fair"
09-05-1879 - Harold Sanford - Florence, MA - d. 1-19-1945
conductor: "Philco Hour"; "Exploring America with Carveth Wells"
09-05-1939 - John Stewart - San Diego, CA - d. 1-19-2008
singer: (Kingston Trio) "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar; "Guest Star"
09-11-1887 - Gus Arnheim - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-19-1955
orchestra leader: "Woodbury Soap Show"
10-18-1913 - Martin Blaine - Illinois - d. 1-19-1989
actor: Adam Sheppard "FBI in Peace and War"; Scott 'Tubby' Truman
"Valiant Lady"
11-09-1913 - Hedy Lamarr - Vienna, Austria - d. 1-19-2000
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-17-1917 - Byron Keith - Illinois - d. 1-19-1996
Started his career in radio in Boise, Idaho in the 1930s
12-28-1887 - Charles Dingle - Wabash, IN - d. 1-19-1956
actor: Employer "Meet the Dixons"
Ron
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 14:23:16 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Arthur Anderson Goes Irish!
Let's Pretend star and official biographer Arthur Anderson will do a live
radio interview on Wednesday January 21 at 10:00 [removed] ET on Irish Radio
105-107, which can be heard on the internet at [removed].
They'll be talking about Let's Pretend and the Mercury Theater, but of course
also Arthur's role as the world's most famous fake Irishman, Lucky the
Leprechaun from Lucky Charms commercials.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:01:21 -0500
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <joe@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Smoking
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
But it's also true that many people, for much the last 200 years,
smoked tobacco. So, in the interest of realism, it is only right that
actors portraying those people do the same. (I'm not a smoker, and
I've done it; for instance, playing Sherlock Holmes.) Not always lazy
writing - pragmatic writing.
Quite true. But I wonder whether the same effect could be gotten
some other way. For example, when one has a drink in a movie or TV
show, it's not necessary that they actually drink something with
alcohol. Is there some way to make a fake cigarette or cigar?
I know when I went to see Frank Ferante's "Groucho: A Life in
Review," I didn't like the fact that he lit up a real cigar, whose
fumes I found quite obnoxious, and I know people who won't go to see
the show because if it. An unlit cigar would have been sufficient.
On radio, of course, no one had to really smoke because we didn't see
them anyway. But in the otr era, the health effects were largely
unknown.
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:33:47 -0500
From: rand@[removed]
Of course, way back then, manufacturers didn't understand addiction
and the health effects. They just knew that if someone started
smoking, they stayed pretty loyal to the habit, sort of like people
who enjoyed a little opium or cocaine on occasion at the turn of
the century.
I'm not so sure they didn't. Some of the information revealed in
recent lawsuits shows that the cigarette companies knew a lot more
than people thought and actively concealed quite a bit from the
public.
--
A. Joseph Ross, [removed] [removed]
92 State Street, Suite 700 Fax [removed]
Boston, MA 02109-2004 [removed]
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:06:50 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 1-20 births/deaths
January 20th births
01-20-1878 - Finlay Currie - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 5-9-1968
actor: John H. Watson "BBC Home Theatre"
01-20-1894 - Harold Gray - Kankakee, IL - d. 5-9-1968
cartoonist: Creater of "Little Orphan Annie"
01-20-1895 - Roscoe Ates - Grange, MS - d. 3-1-1962
stuttering comedian: "Shell Chateau"; "Comedy Stars of Hollywood"
01-20-1896 - George Burns - NYC - d. 3-9-1996
comedian: "Advs. of Gracie"; "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"
01-20-1896 - Rolfe Sedan - NYC - d. 9-15-1982
actor: "Escape"; "Suspense"; "Mystery in the Air"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
01-20-1898 - Norma Varden - London, England - d. 1-19-1989
actor: "Crime Classics"; "NBC University Theatre"
01-20-1898 - Tudor Owen - Wales, UK - d. 3-13-1979
actor: Jocko Madigan "Pat Novak for Hire"; Editor "Alias Jane Doe"
01-20-1899 - Joseph Buloff - Vilnius, Lithuania - d. 2-27-1985
actor: Barney Glass "House of Glass"
01-20-1900 - Colin Clive - [removed], France - d. 6-26-1937
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
01-20-1903 - Leon Ames - Portland, IN - d. 10-10-1993
actor: "Earplay"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
01-20-1912 - Paula Stone - NYC - d. 12-23-1997
moderator: "Leave It to the Girls"
01-20-1914 - Roy Plomley - Kingston-upon-Thames, England - d. 5-28-1985
announcer: Desert Island Discs"; "We Beg to Differ"; "One Minute Please"
01-20-1919 - Tony Shryane - St. Austell, England - d. 9-22-2003
BBC radio producer
01-20-1920 - DeForest Kelley - Atlanta, GA - d. 6-11-1999
actor: "Suspense"
01-20-1920 - Derek Bond - Glascow, Scotland - d. 10-15-2006
actor: "A Christmas Carol"
01-20-1921 - Connie Haines - Savannah, GA - d. 9-22-2008
singer: "Abbott and Costello Show"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
01-20-1922 - Ray Anthony - Bentleyville, PA
band eader: Band remotes for CBS 1951-1952
01-20-1924 - Slim Whitman - Tampa, FL
singer: "Louisiana Hayride"
01-20-1926 - Patricia Neal - Packard, KY
actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"
01-20-1927 - Dawn Lake - Sydney, Australia - d. 1-1-2006
singer: "The Jack Davey Program"
January 20th deaths
01-27-1914 - Alexander Albert Avola - Boston, MA - d. 1-20-2000
guitarist/arranger: Artie Shaw Orchestra; Tommy Dorsey Orchestra
02-18-1903 - Jacques Fray - Paris, France - d. 1-20-1963
pianist, disc jockey: "Fray and Braggiotti"
03-17-1918 - Bill Felton - Greenland, MI - d. 1-20-2005
newscaster, disc jockey: "Valley Varieties"; "Recreation Room"
04-06-1927 - Gerry Mulligan - NYC - d. 1-20-1996
jazz saxophonist: "Sound of Jazz"; "White House Jazz Festival"; "Voice
of Vista"
05-01-1924 - Dennis Main Wilson - Dulwich. London, England - d.
1-20-1997
producer: "Goon Show"; "Hancock's Half Hour"; "Citizen Smith"
05-03-1880 - Horace Murphy - Finley, TN - d. 1-20-1975
actor: Buckskin Blodgett "Red Ryder"
05-04-1929 - Audrey Hepburn - Brussels, Belguim - d. 1-20-1993
actor: "[removed] Story"; "Stagestruck"
05-29-1894 - Beatrice Lillie - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-20-1989
commedienne: "Beatrice Lillie Show"
06-02-1904 - Johnny Weissmuller - Windber, PA - d. 1-20-1984
actor: Movie Tarzan and Jungle Jim
06-05-1907 - D'Artega - Silao, Mexico - d. 1-20-1998
conductor, composer: "Enna Jettick Melodies"
07-11-1922 - Bernard Punsly - NYC - d. 1-20-2004
actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
07-16-1907 - Barbara Stanwyck - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-20-1990
actor: "Prudential Family Hour of Stars"; "This Is My Story"
08-05-1917 - Don Stanley - Stoughton, WI - d. 1-20-2003
announcer: "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; "Out of the Deep"; "The Saint"
08-18-1902 - Joseph Catizone - Italy - d. 1-20-1973
trumpeter
09-14-1890 - Anthony Frome - Bellaire, OH - d. 1-20-1962
as "The Poet Prince" he sang and read poetry over NBC Blue in early
1930s
10-24-1891 - Nila Mack - Arkansas City, KS - d. 1-20-1953
director: "Helen and Mary"; "Let's Pretend"
11-14-1906 - Mercer McCloud - d. 1-20-1993
actor: Fran Cummings "Second Husband"
11-14-1913 - George Smathers - Atlantic City, NJ - d. 1-20-2007
[removed] senator from florida: "Meet the Press"
11-26-1911 - Robert Donley - Carmichaels, PA - d. 1-20-2004
actor: "Lieutenant Carpenter "Front Page Farrell"
12-05-1922 - Alan Freed - Johnstown, PA - d. 1-20-1965
disc jockey: "Moondog Show"; "Alan Freed Show"; "Camel Rock and Roll
Party"
Ron
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