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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2010 : Issue 148
A Part of the [removed]!
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
8-22 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
8-23 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Transcriptions [ Paul Adomites <padomites@embarqmail ]
8-24 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
8-25 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Special Agent Five [ "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@ ]
[removed] Dissertation on Meredith Wills [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
Liz McLeod on PBS [ Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@yahoo. ]
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:15:27 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-22 births/deaths
August 22nd births
08-22-1851 - Daniel Frohman - Sandusky, OH - d. 12-26-1940
broadway producer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-22-1879 - Edward Johnson - Ontario, Canada - d. 4-20-1959
operatic tenor: "Metropolitan Opera"
08-22-1893 - Cecil Kellaway - Capetown, South Africa - d. 2-28-1973
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-22-1893 - Dorothy Parker - West End, NJ - d. 6-7-1967
author, panelist: "Author, Author"; "Information, Please"
08-22-1897 - Eddie Dunstedter - Edwardsville, IL - d. 7-30-1974
organist, conductor: "Gold Medal Fast Freight"; "Lineup"; "It Happened
in Hollywood"
08-22-1897 - Elisabeth Bergner - Vienna, Austria - d. 5-12-1986
actor: "Radio Hall of Fame"
08-22-1897 - Nick Lucas - Newark, NJ - d. 7-28-1992
singer: (The Singing Troubador) "Al Pearce and His Gang"
08-22-1900 - Charles Halleck - De Motte, IN - d. 3-3-1986
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"; "American Forum on the Air"
08-22-1904 - Don Prindle - d. 10-25-1968
writer: "The Abbott and Costello Show"; "Niles and Prindle"
08-22-1904 - Jay Novello - Chicago, IL - d. 9-2-1982
actor: Sam Sabaaya "Rocky Jordan"; Glenn Hunter "One Man's Family"
08-22-1906 - James Meighan - NYC - d. 6-20-1970
actor: Michael Waring "The Falcon"; Peter Carver "Lora Lawton"
08-22-1907 - Sherling Oliver - Kipling, AL - d. 8-23-1971
actor: Dudley Trowbridge "Valiant Lady"
08-22-1909 - Julius J. Epstein - NYC - d. 12-30-2000
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-22-1909 - Philip G. Epstein - NYC - d. 2-7-1952
screenwriter: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-22-1910 - David Victor - d. 10-18-1989
writer: "Joan Davis Time"; "Let George Do It"; "The Mel Blanc Show"
08-22-1910 - Lesley Woods - d. 8-2-2003
actor: Mary Wesley "Boston Blackie"; Margo Lane "The Shadow"
08-22-1910 - Rod Brasfield - Smithville, MS - d. 9-12-1958
comedian: "Grand Ole Opry"
08-22-1912 - Charles Carpenter - Chicago, IL - d. 10-18-1978
writer: "Brownstone Theatre"
08-22-1915 - Hugh Paddick - Hoddeston, Hartfordshire, England - d.
11-9-2000
actor: "Beyond Our Ken"
08-22-1917 - Joe Connelly - NYC - d. 2-13-2003
writer: "Harry Von Zell Show"; "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Frank Morgan Show"
08-22-1920 - Ray Bradbury - Waukegan, IL
writer: "Bradbury 13"; "Martian Chronicles"
08-22-1921 - Robert Marsden - London, England - d. 4-5-2007
actor: "Saturday Night Play"
08-22-1922 - Shelley Winters - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-14-2006
actor: "Hollywood Star Preview"
08-22-1930 - Don Parcher - d. 7-9-2006
newscaster: WTMJ Milwaukee, Wisconsin
08-22-1936 - John Callaway - New Martinsville, WV - d. 6-23-2009
journalist: "Chicago Tonight"; "Nightline"
08-22-1942 - Kathy Lennon - Los Angeles, CA
singer: (The Lennon Sisters) "Music on Deck"; "Voices of Vista";
"Guest Star"
08-22-1952 - Heather Nimmo - Falkirk, Scotland
writer: "Fly In-Fly-Out"; "I'll Write to Ritchie Benaud"
August 22nd deaths
01-21-1899 - Ernestine Hill - Rockhampton, Australia - d. 8-22-1972
writer: "Santa Clause of Christmas Creek"
02-04-1910 - Lansing Hatfield - Franklin, VA - d. 8-22-1954
singer: "Met Opera Auditions of the Air"
02-16-1903 - Norman Shelley - d. 8-22-1980
actor: John H. Watson "Corner In Crime, Saturday Night Theatre"
03-04-1892 - Helen Van Tuyl - Iowa - d. 8-22-1964
actor: Ellen Collins "Bachelor's Children"
04-11-1911 - Bob Dixon - Stamford, CT - d. 8-22-1998
announcer: Edward R. Murrow: created the phrase "Listen to Murrow
tomorrow"
04-30-1926 - Ward Chase - Chicago, IL - d. 8-22-1996
newscaster: WOKY Milwaukee, Wisconsin
05-18-1908 - Del King - Kansas City, KS - d. 8-22-1964
announcer: "Avalon Time"; "Tommy Dorsey's Kool Show"
05-20-1906 - Sandra Michael - Denmark - d. 8-22-2003
creator, writer: "Against the Storm"
06-03-1924 - Colleen Dewhurst - Montreal, Canada - d. 8-22-1991
actor: "Will Cather: A Look of Rememberance"
06-17-1874 - Robert Boice Carson - Rossville, IN - d. 8-22-1941
director of the Apollo Orchestra on KVOO Tulsa, Oklahoma
06-21-1909 - Ted Sherdeman - d. 8-22-1987
producer, director, writer: "Latitude Zero"; "Sad Sack"; "Sears Radio
Theatre"
07-01-1923 - Ralph Young - NYC- d. 8-22-2008
singer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
07-28-1874 - Alice Duer Miller - NYC - d. 8-22-1942
author: "Author, Author"
09-23-1913 - Helen Hiett - Tazewell, IL - d. 8-22-1961
correspondent, newscaster: "Helen Hiett News"; "News Roundup"
11-21-1882 - Alfred White - d. 8-22-1972
actor: Soloman Levy "Abie's Irish Rose"
12-08-1914 - Floyd Tillman - Ryan, OK - d. 8-22-2003
country singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Music Time"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:15:32 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-23 births/deaths
August 23rd births
08-23-1869 - Edgar Lee Masters - Garnett, KS - d. 3-5-1950
author: "Cavalcade of America"; "CBS Radio Workshop"
08-23-1883 - Art Van Harvey - Chicago, IL - d. 7-7-1957
actor: Vic Gook "Vic and Sade"; Jeffery Barker "Welcome Valley"
08-23-1897 - Ray Perkins - Boston, MA - d. 1-31-1969
emcee, singer: "National Amateur Night"; "Show of the Week"; "Nickel
Man"
08-23-1902 - Carl Hohengarten - St. Louis, MO - d. 12-3-1968
orchestra leader: "Double Everything"; "Knickerbocker Playhouse"
08-23-1902 - Charles Paul - NYC - d. 9-18-1990
organist: "Kate Smith"; "As the Twig is Bent"
08-23-1905 - Rags Ragland - Louisville, KY - d. 8-20-1946
actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
08-23-1906 - Harriet Parsons - Burlington, IA - d. 1-2-1983
commentator: (Daughter of Louella Parsons) "Hollywood Hotel"
08-23-1908 - Natalie Bodanya - NYC - d. 3-4-2007
opera soprano: "The Metropolitan Opera"
08-23-1910 - John Nesbitt - Victoria, British Columbia, Canada - d.
8-10-1960
commentator: ""John Nesbitt and the News"; Passing Parade"
08-23-1912 - Gene Kelly - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 2-2-1996
actor: "Cresta Blanca Hollywood Players"; "Star for a Night"; "Suspense"
08-23-1915 - Ralph Amati - d. 6-xx-1980
sound effects: "One Man's Family"; "I Love A Mystery"
08-23-1919 - Olin Tice - Savannah, GA - d. 1-8-1998
announcer: "The Mindy Carson Show"; "The Peggy Lee Show"
08-23-1922 - George Kell - Swifton, AR - d. 3-24-2009
baseball announcer: Detroit Tigers
08-23-1924 - Frank Pacelli - d. 3-7-1997
actor: "Cavalcade of America"; "Sportsman Club"; "War Town"
08-23-1925 - Larry Nunn - Marshfield, OR - d. 10-20-1974
actor: Don Bradley "Glorious One"; Peter Bretn "Brenthouse"
08-23-1926 - Eugene Troopnick - Boston, MA - d. 2-19-2003
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
08-23-1928 - Marian Seldes NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
08-23-1947 - Willy Russell - Whiston, England
writer: "I Read the News Today"
August 23rd deaths
01-10-1883 - Francis X. Bushman - Norfolk, VA - d. 8-23-1966
actor: John Fairchild "Step Mother"; Peter Standish "Betty and Bob"
02-09-1884 - Wilmer Walter - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-23-1941
actor: David Harum "David Harum"; Andy Agnes "The Gumps"
03-27-1902 - Sidney Buchman - Duluth, MN - d. 8-23-1975
movie writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-28-1897 - Frank Hawks - Marshalltown, IA - d. 8-23-1938
flying ace: "Roads of the Sky"; "Time Flies"
05-16-1882 - Mary Gordon - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 8-23-1963
actor: Mrs. Emmett "Those We Love"; Mrs. Hudson "Sherlock Holmes"
05-20-1899 - Virginia Sale - Urbana, IL - d. 8-23-1992
actor: Martha "Those We Love"
05-28-1928 - Maynard Ferguson - Montreal, Canada - d. 8-23-2006
trumpeter: "Bud's Bandwagon"
06-07-1903 - Glen Gray - Metamora, IL - d. 8-23-1963
bandleader: "Camel Caravan"
06-15-1910 - David Rose - London, England - d. 8-23-1990
conductor: "Red Skelton Show"; "David Rose Show"; "Bold Venture"
07-02-1927 - Brock Peters - NYC - d. 8-23-2005
actor: Darth Vader "Star Wars"; "Earplay"
07-06-1918 - Sebastian Cabot - London, England - d. 8-23-1977
actor: Toussiant Charbonneau "Horizons West"; "Studio One"; "Lives of
Harry Lime"
07-12-1895 - Oscar Hammerstein II - NYC - d. 8-23-1960
lyricist: "Pet Milk Show"
07-26-1883 - Walter Blaufuss - Milwaukee, WI - d. 8-23-1945
composer, conductor, pianist: "Breakfast Club"; "Viennese Ensemble"
08-22-1907 - Sherling Oliver - Kipling, AL - d. 8-23-1971
actor: Dudley Trowbridge "Valiant Lady"
10-13-1919 - Marion Hargrove - Mount Olive, NC - d. 8-23-2003
author: "MGM Theatre of the Air"; "Information, Please"; "March of Time"
10-18-1915 - Reuben Ship - Montreal, CA - d. 8-23-1975
writer: "Life of Riley"; "The Man Who Liked Christmas"
10-23-1911 - Martha Rountree - Gainesville, FL - d. 8-23-1999
co-founder, moderator: "Meet the Press"
xx-xx-1897 - Nan Rae - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-23-1946
singer: (The Clark Sisters) "Eddie Cantor Show"; "Kate Smith"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:16:27 -0400
From: Paul Adomites <padomites@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Transcriptions
Friends :
I've been involved with our local theatre group doing OTR nights about three
times a year for the past five years or so. In the course of those
adventures, I have transcribed a bunch of OTR shows which I'll be happy to
email to anyone who's interested. (It takes me about a full day to transcribe
a half-hour show.) Here's what I have. Let me know.
From Quiet, Please : "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" and "Good Ghost"
From The Bickersons : "Eighth Anniversary" "Blanche Buys a Horse" and
"Valentine's Day"
From Suspense : "Hide and Seek" and "Dead Earnest"
From Pat Novak for Hire : "Rory Malone"
From X-Minus One : "Protection" and "Tunnel Under the World"
From Fort Laramie : "Never the Twain"
From Ozzie and Harriet : "Haunted House" and "Buying a Valentine"
From Radio City Playhouse : "The Plotters" (a terrific little gem!)
From Fibber McGee and Molly : "Fall House Cleaning" and "McGee the Wrestler"
From Columbia Radio Workshop : "Meridian 7-1212"
Paul Adomites
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:16:29 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-24 births/deaths
August 24th births
08-24-1875 - Frank Craven - Boston, MA - d. 9-1-1945
actor: "Arthur Hopkins Presents"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-24-1884 - Earl Der Biggers - Warren, OH - d. 4-5-1933
author: Charlie Chan books
08-24-1896 - Cyril Armbrister - d. 9-18-1966
producer, director: "Chandu the Magician"; "Strange As It Seems";
"Terry and the Pirates"
08-24-1898 - Malcolm Cowley - Belsano, PA - d. 3-28-1989
speaker: "NBC University Theatre"
08-24-1900 - Jimmy Fidler - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-9-1988
commentator: "Jimmy Fidler"
08-24-1900 - Preston Foster - Ocean City, NJ - d. 7-14-1970
actor: "NBC University Theatre"
08-24-1900 - Ralph Kirbery - Paterson, NJ - d. 8-14-1993
singer: (The Dream Singer) "Mohawk Treasure Chest"; "Musical Moments
Revue"
08-24-1903 - Claude Hopkins - Alexandria, VA - d. 2-18-1984
bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Let's Go Nightclubbing"
08-24-1905 - Charles C. Alsup - d. 9-21-1987
sportscaster: KICS Clovis, New Mexico
08-24-1905 - Don Douglas - Kinleyside, Scotland - d. 12-31-1945
actor: "Good News of 1939"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Did Justice
Triumph?"
08-24-1909 - Ridley Bell - d. 6-22-1989
newscaster: WGBA Columbus, Ohio
08-24-1912 - Durward Kirby - Covingnton, KY - d. 3-15-2000
announcer, emcee: "Club Matinee"; "Honeymoon in New York"
08-24-1913 - Howard Duff - Bremerton, WA - d. 7-8-1990
actor: Sam Spade "Advs. of Sam Spade"; Mike McCoy "McCoy"; Josh
Chandler "Dear John"
08-24-1916 - Hal Smith - Petosky, MI - d. 1-28-1994
singer, piccolo: "California Melodies"
08-24-1917 - Dennis James - Jersey City, NJ - d. 6-3-1997
host, announcer: "Lawyer Q"; "Major Bows Original Amateur Hour"
08-24-1923 - Helena Carter - NYC - d. 1-11-2000
actor: "Anacin Hollwood Star Theatre"
08-24-1924 - Lou Teicher - Wilkes Barre, PA - d. 8-3-2008
pianist: (Ferrante and Teicher) "The Zero Hour"; "Hollywood Radio
Theatre"
08-24-1924 - Patricia Maloney - Chisholm MN
newswriter: KSTP St. Paul
08-24-1927 - Jerry Damon - d. 1-24-1979
announcer: "X Minus One"; "The Eternal Light"
08-24-1933 - Bobby Ellis - Chicago, IL - d. 11-23-1973
actor: Henry Aldrich "Aldrich Family"; Chester A. Riley, Jr. "Life of
Riley"
08-24-1957 - Stephen Fry - London, England
actor: Guest Panelist "One Minute Please"
August 24th deaths
01-06-1897 - Billy M. Greene - NYC - d. 8-24-1973
actor: Sheriff McGrath "His Honor, The Barber"
02-15-1916 - Mary Jane Croft - Muncie, IN - d. 8-24-1999
actor: Sandra Martin "Story of Sandra Martin"; Alice Henderson "Beulah"
02-17-1919 - Kathleen Freeman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-24-2001
actor: California Artists Radio Theatre"
02-27-1902 - Joe Tarto - d. 8-24-1976
musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
04-08-1915 - R. Norwood Smith - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-24-1999
singer: "Norwood Smith Sings"
04-16-1909 - Dick Wynn - d. 8-24-1996
announcer: "Count of Monte Cristo"; "The Lone Wolf"
06-27-1933 - Gary Crosby - Los Angeles, CA - d. 8-24-1995
singer: "Gary Crosby Show"; "Bing Crosby Show"
08-07-1921 - Warren Covington - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-24-1999
orchestra leader: "Warren Covington and His Orchestra"
08-28-1900 - Rudy Schrager - Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-24-1983
musical director: "Box 13"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-02-1896 - Amanda Randolph - Louisville, KY - d. 8-24-1967
actor: Mama "Amos 'n' Andy"; Oriole "Beulah"
09-04-1903 - Leonard Lee - d. 8-24-1964
writer: "Sherlock Holmes"
09-09-1924 - Jane Greer - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-24-2001
singer, actor: "Rudy Vallee Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-24-1908 - John Winters - Williamsport, PA - d. 8-24-1990
organist: "Frank Merriwell"; "When a Girl Marries"; "Young Dr. Malone"
09-28-1926 - Jerry Clower - Amite County, MS - d. 8-24-1998
comedian: "The Grand Ole Opry"
10-10-1906 - Paul Creston - NYC - d. 8-24-1985
composer: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "Creeps By Night"
11-18-1885 - James Brennan - Boston, MA - d. 8-24-1956
composer, pianist: "The Sachs Program"
11-19-1940 - Roger Hume - London, England - d. 8-24-1996
actor: Bert Fry "The Archers"
11-20-1912 - Harold Ensley - Arkansas - d. 8-24-2005
produced over 5,000 radio shows
12-07-1912 - Louis Prima - New Orleans,LA - d. 8-24-1978
jazz trumpeter: "You Can't Have Everything"; "Songs by Sinatra"; "The
Navy Swings"
12-07-1939 - Nomi Mitty - NYC - d. 8-24-1994
actor: "The Goldbergs"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:16:46 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-25 births/deaths
August 25th births
08-25-1885 - Chick Sale - Huron, SD - d. 11-7-1936
humorist: "General Motors Family Party"; "RCA Victor Hour"
08-25-1896 - Dick Ryan - Connecticut - d. 8-12-1969
actor: "The Nebbs"
08-25-1901 - Ken Christie - Binghamton, NY - d. 4-xx-1967
choral director: "The Ford Summer Hour"; "Telephone Hour"
08-25-1903 - Michael Bartlett - North Oxford, MA - d. 2-1-1978
singer: "The Jack Benny Program"
08-25-1904 - Alice White - Paterson, NJ - d. 2-19-1983
actor: Blondie Bumstead "Blondie"
08-25-1908 - Walter Burke - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-4-1984
actor: Mark Saber's Assistant "Inspector Mark Saber"
08-25-1909 - Michael Rennie - Bradford, Yorkshire, England - d.
6-10-1971
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-25-1910 - Albert Ward - d. 2-20-2009
director: "Romance"; "Casey, Crime Photographer"; "Columbia Workshop"
08-25-1910 - Ruby Keeler - Halifax, Nova Scotia - d. 2-28-1993
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-25-1911 - Herbert (Edwin) Harris - London, England - d. 4-xx-1995
author: "The Detective's Wife"
08-25-1912 - John Rarig - Washington - d. 1-2-1991
singer: (Member Sportsmen Quartet) "Jack Benny Program"
08-25-1912 - Zinn Arthur - d. 3-11-2003
orchestra leader: WFIL Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
08-25-1913 - Bob Crosby - Spokane, WA - d. 3-9-1993
bandleader, singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Bob Crosby Show"; "Jack Benny
Program"
08-25-1914 - Dolores O'Neill - d. 12-12-2006
singer: The Bob Chester Orchestra
08-25-1916 - Guy Hall - NYC - d. 5-10-2009
saxophonist: "Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye"
08-25-1916 - Van Johnson - Newport, RI - d. 12-12-2008
actor: "Request Performance"; "Romance"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Suspense"
08-25-1917 - Mel Ferrer - Elberon, NJ - d. 6-2-2008
actor: "Eternal Light"; "Cloak and Dagger"; "MGM Theatre of the Air"
08-25-1918 - Leonard Bernstein - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-14-1990
conductor: "Metropolitan Opera"
08-25-1918 - Richard Greene - Plymouth, England - d. 6-1-1985
actor: "Somerset Maugham Theatre"; "This Is Hollywood"; "Cavalcade of
America"
08-25-1921 - Monty Hall - Winnipeg, Canada
host (communicator) "Monitor"
08-25-1924 - Karl A. Mackey - Cleveland, OH - d. 10-13-2002
actor: "Hodge Podge Lodge"; "Wizard of Music"
08-25-1931 - Hal Fishman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-7-2007
television news anchor: Got start on campus radio at Cornell
08-25-1931 - Regis Philbin - NYC
newscaster: KOGO San Diego
08-25-1943 - Bill Holm - nr: Minneota, MN - d. 2-25-2009
writer: "Prairie Home Companion"
August 25th deaths
01-19-1919 - Ray Eberle - Hoosick Falls, NY - d. 8-25-1979
singer: "Glenn Miller and His Orchestra"; "Glenn Miller's Moonlight
Serenade"
01-22-1920 - William Warfield - West Helena, AR - d. 8-25-2002
bass-baritone singer: "Edgar Bergen Show"; "Beyond Victory"
02-12-1912 - Stan Kenton - Wichita, KS - d. 8-25-1979
bandleader: "Bob Hope Show"; "Stan Kenton Concerts"
02-14-1900 - Eddie Marr - New Jersey - d. 8-25-1987
actor: Press Agent "Jack Carson Show"; "Jack Benny Program"; "I Fly
Anything"
02-22-1932 - Ted Kennedy - Brookline, MA - d. 8-25-2009
[removed] senator: "Meet the Press"
03-06-1934 - Art Blaske - d. 8-25-1997
disk jockey: KFAM St. Cloud, Minnesota
03-28-1896 - Abram E. Borodkin - Russia - d. 8-25-1978
cellist: NBC and CBS networks
04-08-1881 - Arthur B. Allen - Gowanda, NY - d. 8-25-1947
actor: "Snow Village Sketches"; "Kate Smith Show"; Stebbens Boys"
04-10-1927 - Sidney Appleman - Chicago, IL - d. 8-25-1994
string bassist: Clyde McCoy's Band
04-25-1915 - Cliff Bruner - Houston, TX - d. 8-25-2000
fiddle: "The Musical Brownies"
04-25-1916 - Irving Gaynor Neiman - d. 8-25-1996
began career by writing scripts for NBC
04-27-1882 - Herman Bundesen - d. 8-25-1960
health official: "Adventures in Health"
05-21-1923 - Dorothy Hewett - Perth, Western Australia - d. 8-25-2002
writer: "Frost at Midnight"
06-06-1891 - Ted Lewis - Circleville, OH - d. 8-25-1971
singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
06-18-1914 - [removed] Marshall - Owatonna, MN - d. 8-25-1998
narrator: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
06-22-1919 - Gower Champion - Geneva, IL - d. 8-25-1980
choreographer: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Guest Star"
07-23-1908 - Irving Mansfield - d. 8-25-1988
producer: "It's Always Albert"; "The Morey Amsterdam Show"
08-11-1915 - Berne Surrey - d. 8-25-1992
sound effects: "Suspense (Sorry, Wrong Number)"; "Whistler"; "Sam Spade"
08-27-1905 - Frederick O'Neal - Brooksville, MA - d. 8-25-1992
actor: "New World A-Coming"
09-09-1899 - Waite Hoyt - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-25-1984
sportscaster, "Sports Review"; "According to Hoyt"; play-by-play:
Cincinnati Reds
09-22-1895 - Paul Muni - Lemberg, Austria-Hungary - d. 8-25-1967
actor: "Free Company"; "Radio Hall of Fame"
09-26-1929 - Peter Dews - Yorkshire, England - d. 8-25-1997
producer: "The Archers"
09-30-1924 - Truman Capote - New Orleans, LA - d. 8-25-1984
author: "Cather: A Look of Remembrance"
10-03-1918 - Perry Lafferty - Davenport, IA - d. 8-25-2005
producer: "Meet the Music"; "Columbia Workshop"
10-24-1894 - Ted "Kid" Lewis - London, England - d. 8-25-1971
bandleader: "Live Band Remotes"
Ron
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:00:11 -0400
From: "jsalerno@[removed]" <jsalerno@[removed];
To: OTR List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Special Agent Five
Over on Arsclist, or was it 78-L? we have had a brief discussion about
Special Agent Five, an episode of which survives from Dec. 6, 1932.
Elizabeth McLeod can be seen on the PBS series History Detectives
discussion of the show.
Since no one else seems to be inclined to spill the beans, I will.
Look here to see the show online -
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Elizabeth is on briefly and you can see and hear briefly the record, an
RCA home recording, as it is auditioned.
View the transcript -
[removed]
View the script for Special Agent Five, Episode IV, Part 1: "The Lamar
Bank Robbery":
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[removed]
There just isn't that much OTR from this early around.
joe salerno
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:01:24 -0400
From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: [removed] Dissertation on Meredith Willson
X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative
X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain
The following link is to an online copy of a 2008 University of Florida
dissertation
on The Orchestral Works of Meredith Willson by Valerie A Austin.
The first third is about his background and his involvement with RADIO.
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:00:44 -0400
From: Alan/Linda Bell <alanlinda43@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Liz McLeod on PBS
Saw an episode of History Detectives Monday, Aug 23 on KQED San Francisco. It
featured an interview segment with one of our fave OTR experts on this forum,
Elizabeth McLeod. It was regarding a script some people had of an old radio
show called Special Agent Five from the early '30s. Interesting program, and
great to see the person behind the expertise.
It's available online, in case you didn't see it. Check it out.
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