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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2010 : Issue 108
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
6-16 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
A centennial to celebrate [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:06:51 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 6-16 births/deaths
June 16th births
06-16-1885 - Tom Howard - County Tyrone, Ireland - d. 2-27-1955
comedian: "It Pays to Be Ignorant"; "Sunday Night Party"
06-16-1890 - Bertha Brainard - South Orange, NJ - d. 6-11-1946
manager of the commercial program division of NBC in 1937
06-16-1890 - Stan Laurel - Ulverston, England - d. 2-23-1965
comedian: "Ruth Lyons Show"
06-16-1892 - Al Llewelyn - d. 4-6-1964
comedian, singer: (Brad and Al) Heard over CBS and NBC
06-16-1895 - Murray Leinster - Norfolk, VA - d. 6-8-1975
writer: "Dimension X"
06-16-1898 - Harold McClinton - d. 6-29-1977
producer: "This Is War"
06-16-1899 - Frank X. Capano - Philadelphia, PA - d. 2-10-1956
singer and program director
06-16-1899 - Helen Traubel - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-28-1972
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Telephone Hour"; "Jimmy Durante Show"
06-16-1903 - Louis Raderman - d. 10-xx-1974
musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
06-16-1903 - Ona Munson - Portland, OR - d. 2-11-1955
actor: Lorelei Kilbourne "Big Town"
06-16-1907 - Jack Albertson - Malden, MA - d. 11-25-1981
actor: "Milton Berle Show"; "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; "Cavalcade
of America"
06-16-1907 - Joan Winters - Dayton, OH - d. 1-1-2001
actor: Alice Ames "Girl Alone"; Sylvia Bertram "Road of Life"
06-16-1907 - Stuart Allen - NYC - d. 10-xx-1978
baritone: (Richard Himber Orchestra) "The Monday Night Show"
06-16-1908 - Grace Albert - d. 4-9-2003
singer: "The Honeymooners"; "Time Out"; "Cavalcade of America"
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"
06-16-1914 - Edward Gruskin - d. 11-15-2005
writer: "Nick Carter, Master Detective"; "Rendezvous in Paris"
06-16-1916 - Stanley Niss - Illinois - d. 7-21-1969
writer, director: "Counterspy"; "Gang Busters"; "Twenty-First Precinct"
06-16-1919 - Al Viola - Brooklyn, NY - d. 2-21-2007
guitarist: "Elgin Thanksgiving Day Greeting to America"
06-16-1919 - Mason Jones - Hamilton, NY - d. 2-18-2009
horn player: Philadelphia Orchestra
06-16-1920 - Amy Sedell - NYC
actor: "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; "Gangbusters"; "Big Sister"
06-16-1958 - Mark Lewisohn - London, England
radio news administrator: "The Beeb's Lost Beetle Tapes"
June 16th deaths
01-02-1932 - Peter Redgrove - Kingston-on-Thames, England - d. 6-16-2003
writer: "The Nature of Cold Weather"
01-06-1914 - George Reeves - Woolstock, IA - d. 6-16-1959
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Crime Does Not Pay"
02-10-1905 - Chick Webb - d. 6-16-1939
bandleader: "Chick Webb and His Orhestra"
02-11-1905 - Liebert Lombardo - London, Canada - d. 6-16-1993
musician: (Guy Lombardo's Orchestra) "Lady Esther Serenade"
02-14-1913 - Mel Allen - Birmingham, AL - d. 6-16-1996
sportscaster, announcer: "White Owl Sports Smoker"; "Truth or
Consequences"
02-16-1937 - Gary Barkdoll - d. 6-16-2001
disk jockey: WAYZ Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
02-29-1920 - Arthur Franz - Perth Amboy, NJ - d. 6-16-2006
actor: In radio following WWII
04-01-1908 - Bob Nolan - New Brunswick, Canada - d. 6-16-1980
singer: (Sons of the Pioneers) "The Roy Rogers Show"
04-03-1921 - George Bauer - d. 6-16-2004
announcer, newscaster: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
04-28-1882 - Henry Bellamann - Fulton, MO - d. 6-16-1945
author: "King's Row" based on his novel
07-07-1922 - Artie Malvin - NYC - d. 6-16-2006
vocalist: "Moonlight Serenade"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Wehrmact Hour"
08-02-1913 - Hal Block - d. 6-16-1981
writer, panelist: "Burns and Allen"; "Milton Berle Show"; "What's My
Line"
08-04-1904 - Alice Bahman - d. 6-16-1970
woman's program: (Mother of Jonathan Winters) WIZE Springfield, Ohio
08-07-1911 - Nicholas Ray - Galesville, WI - d. 6-16-1979
director: Free lance
08-16-1891 - Harry V. "Pappy" Cheshire - Emporia, KS - d. 6-16-1968
actor: "The Old Corral"
10-13-1884 - Jack McLaren - Fitzroy, Australia - d. 6-16-1954
writer: "The Ghost of the Cabaret"
10-13-1896 - Jack Shilkret - NYC - d. 6-16-1964
orchestra leader: "Bond Bread Show"; "Let's Be Charming"; "Tea Time
Tunes"
11-20-1891 - Reginald Denny - Richmond, Surrey, England - d. 6-16-1967
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Texaco Star
Theatre"
12-17-1909 - Murray Brody - d. 6-16-2004
producer: KOH Reno, Nevada
Ron
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Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:06:59 -0400
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: A centennial to celebrate
Saturday of this week, June 19, marks the centennial anniversary of the
actress identified for playing "the mother of the airwaves," Virginia Payne.
For 27 years, from 1933 to 1960, she never missed a daily performance of Ma
Perkins, something nobody else in the business could claim for such a
durable stint.
This is strictly personal opinion, of course, but based on everything I have
read about washboard weepers in the halycon days (and that's a lot), if
determining the favorite dishpan drama had been put to a vote among American
housewives, Ma Perkins would have won easily. It was, unequivocally, the
most beloved narrative of them all. I think the unparalleled writing of
Orin Tovrov for more than two decades and the indomitable Virginia Payne
with the wavering tremelo in her voice were prime reasons.
No one would have believed that the Cincinnati doctor's daughter could
convince a nationwide audience at 23 that she was an elderly widow who had
to pick up the pieces of the hand fate dealt her following the death of her
husband. She was left with a lumber business to run and three kids to
raise. Virginia Payne, never married, a devout Catholic, talented musician
(she held two master's degrees from the University of Cincinnati), and the
first feminine president of AFTRA (1958) after serving chapters in Chicago
and New York, was absolutely persuasive. She readily portrayed the
conscience of Rushville Center, among the wisest residents of the Midwest,
to whom everybody turned with their dilemmas.
Although I knew some who played other roles in daytime radio, and thought
many were absolutely sterling in their achievements, I can't think of one
who equalled Virginia Payne for her myriad accomplishments -- on her
signature series, and on many others in which she carried recurring roles.
She returned to Cincinnati to live out her days after radio and playing on
the stage in touring productions. She died in her native city February 10,
1977 at 66, about the age she was representing all those years.
Saturday we celebrate again the passing of an incomparable legend.
Jim Cox
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