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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2012 : Issue 127
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
8-7 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Orson Welles show? [ "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@jun ]
GREAT PLAIN RADIO HISTORY SYMPOSIUM [ Steven Smethers <smethers@[removed] ]
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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:14:50 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 8-7 births/deaths
August 7th births
08-07-1883 - Reinald Werrenrath - NYC - d. 9-12-1953
baritone: "Old Company Program"
08-07-1884 - Billie Burke - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-14-1970
comedian: "Billie Burke Show"; Mrs. Featherstone "Gay Mrs. Featherstone"
08-07-1902 - Charles Cornell - Budapest, Hungary - d. 12-3-1993
composer: "Boston Blackie"; "Date with Judy"
08-07-1903 - Hilda Hopkins Burke - d. 4-6-1978
soprano: WBAL Baltimore, Maryland
08-07-1904 - Dr. Ralph Bunche - Detroit, MI - d. 12-7-1971
activist: "The Big Show"
08-07-1904 - Herbert Colin Rice - Guilford, England - d. 5-27-1991
creator, writer, producer: "Bobby Benson"
08-07-1906 - Ernestine Wade - Mississippi - d. 4-14-1983
actor: Sapphire Stevens "Amos 'n' Andy"
08-07-1907 - Alexander Turner - London, England - d. xx-xx-1993
writer: "Coat of Arms"
08-07-1908 - Dave Bacal - NYC - d. 9-12-1986
staff organist for CBS
08-07-1908 - Kathleen Fitz - d. 4-22-1998
actor: Judy Price "Dr. Christian"; Portia Brent "Brenthouse"
08-07-1909 - Sheldon Stark - NYC - d. 2-6-1997
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"; "Straight Arrow"
08-07-1910 - Freddie Slack - Westby, WI - d. 8-10-1965
pianist, bandleader: "Kraft Music Hall"
08-07-1911 - Nicholas Ray - Galesville, WI - d. 6-16-1979
director: Free lance
08-07-1913 - George Van Eps - Plainfield, NJ - d. 11-29-1998
guitarist: "Pete Kelly's Blues"; "Guest Star"; "Just Jazz"
08-07-1914 - Clifford Thorsness - d. 6-14-2002
sound effects: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Edgar Bergen/Charlie
McCarthy Show"
08-07-1914 - June Travis - Chicago, IL - d. 4-14-2008
actor: Stormy Curtis/Wilson "Girl Alone"; Bernice Farraday "Arnold
Grimm's Daughter"
08-07-1920 - Mel Diamond - NYC - d. 4-5-2002
comedy writer: Kate Smith, Milton Berle, Bob Hope and Mickey Rooney
08-07-1921 - Poni (Jane) Adams - San Antonio, TX
contestant escort: "Darts for Dough"
08-07-1921 - Warren Covington - Philadelphia, PA - d. 8-24-1999
orchestra leader: "Warren Covington and His Orchestra"
08-07-1926 - Stan Freberg - Los Angeles, CA
comedian: "That's Rich"; "Stan Freberg Show"
08-07-1927 - Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer - Paris, IL - d. 1-21-1959
actor: "Thirty Minutes In Hollywood"
08-07-1942 - Garrison Keillor - Anoka, MN
vocalist, storyteller: "A Prarie Home Companion"
August 7th deaths
01-05-1902 - Eve Sully - NYC - d. 8-7-1990
comedian: appeared with husband Jesse Block on radio
01-18-1892 - Oliver Hardy - Harlem, GA - d. 8-7-1957
comedian: "Ruth Lyons Show"
01-28-1900 - Mahlon Merrick - Farmington, IA - d. 8-7-1969
music: "Jack Benny Program"; "Skippy Hollywood Theatre"
01-28-1914 - Tom Neal - Evanston, IL - d. 8-7-1972
actor: "I Am An American"; "The Unexpected"
02-09-1901 - Walter Preston - Quincy, IL - d. 8-7-1982
singer: "Philco Hour"
03-07-1905 - Ruth Freed Akst - Vancouver, Canada - d. 8-7-1989
composer/violinist lead singing and instrumental trio on radio
03-07-1937 - Anne Kristen - Scotland - d. 8-7-1996
actor: "Carver"
03-10-1903 - Leon Bismark "Bix" Beiderbecke - Davenport, IA - d.
8-7-1931
jazz musician: "Band Remotes"
03-16-1885 - Rev. Dr. William L. Stidger - Moundsville, WV - d. 8-7-1949
pastor: "Getting the Most Out of Life"
04-13-1889 - Herbert Yardley - Washington, IN - d. 8-7-1958
writer: "Stories of the Black Chambers"
05-18-1894 - Raymond Paige - Wausau, WI - d. 8-7-1965
conductor: "Hollywood Hotel"; "Musical Americana"; "Stage Door Canteen"
05-30-1912 - Jerry D. Lewis - d. 8-7-1996
writer: "This Is Your FBI"
06-09-1912 - Ingolf Dahl - Hamburg, Germany - d. 8-7-1970
conductor, pianist
06-11-1920 - Robert Hutton - Kingston, NY - d. 8-7-1994
actor: "Proudly We Hail"; "NBC University Theatre"
07-15-1900 - Helen Shields - Champaign, IL - d. 8-7-1963
actor: Linda Dale "I Love Linda Dale"; Sylvia Meadows "Amanda of
Honeymoon Hill"
07-25-1917 - Arthur Alsberg - NYC - d. 8-7-2004
wrote comedy routines for Milton Berle and Danny Kaye
07-27-1920 - Henry "Homer" Haynes - d. 8-7-1971
comedian: (Homer and Jethro) "WLS National Barn Dance"
07-29-1938 - Peter Jennings - Toronto, Canada - d. 8-7-2005
news broadcaster: "When Conventions Were Conventions"
08-16-1888 - Howard Marsh - Bluffton, IN - d. 8-7-1969
singer: "Buick Presents"; "Evening in Paris"; "Frigidaire Program"
08-25-1931 - Hal Fishman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-7-2007
television news anchor: Got start on campus radio at Cornell
09-14-1918 - Bill Hanrahan - d. 8-7-1996
newscaster, announcer: "Inheritance"
10-05-1913 - Lois January - Fort Worth, TX - d. 8-7-2006
actor: "County Fair"
10-20-1922 - John Anderson - Clayton, IL - d. 8-7-1992
actor: William Clark "Horizons West"
Ron
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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 15:14:59 -0400
From: "danhughes@[removed]" <danhughes@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Orson Welles show?
Someone asked this question on the Cincinnati OTR board:
"I am trying to track down a tribute to radio and free speech that aired just
before or during World War II. The narrator was Orson Welles, and a frequent
refrain was, "Do you hear me,
America?" It describes the microphone as the soapbox where "anyone with a
worthwhile message" can speak his/her piece. There is a brief speech by
Quincy Howe, who was then president of the ACLU.
I had a cassette of this at one time, as the B side to a MERCURY THEATER
episode (and I probably bought it at a convention in years past), but it
seems to be gone. Anybody know the title of it, or have a recording of it?"
Thanks for any help!
---Dan Hughes
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Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2012 17:02:59 -0400
From: Steven Smethers <smethers@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: GREAT PLAIN RADIO HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
Relive the days when sports announcers "re-created" baseball games!
This year's Great Plains Radio History Symposium will focus on the days when
stations aired dramatizations of ballgames. Legendary sports broadcaster Tom
Hedrick is one of few living sports announcers who produced baseball
re-creations, and his featured session will focus on this lost production art
form.
The symposium will be held on Friday, October 12, at the Campus
Holiday Inn at Kansas State University.
Another featured speaker will be Bill Miller, whose career as an
announcer and programmer spans six decades, and who hosts a syndicated music
program on over 80 affiliated stations.
The annual Richard Ward Fatherley Luncheon will honor affiliates of
The Bill Miller Show and honor Hutchinson broadcaster Cliff Shank with the
Huck Boyd Community Service in Journalism Award, an annual honor bestowed by
the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media.
Tickets for the symposium presentations are $15 and may be purchased
online at [removed] or at the door. Reservations for the Fatherley
Luncheon must be made by October 5 online or by sending a check to the A. Q.
Miller School of Journalism and Mass Communications, 105 Kedzie Hall, Kansas
State University, Manhattan, Kansas 66502.
The symposium is sponsored by the A. Q. Miller School of Journalism
and Mass Communications, the Huck Boyd National Center for Community Media
and the K-State Center for Engagement and Community Development.
J. Steven Smethers, [removed]
Associate Director for Undergraduate Studies
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