Subject: [removed] Digest V2006 #119
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Date: 4/30/2006 4:18 PM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 119
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  No Death Dates                        [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Radio Days                            [ "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed] ]
  Amos and Andy                         [ "Jed Dolnick" <jdolnick@[removed] ]
  Et Tu WAMU?                           [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
  Phyl Coe                              [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
  cylinder recordings                   [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]
  Re: the phyl coe mysteries            [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Seattle Convention 6/23-24            [ HRRMIKES@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:26:22 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  No Death Dates

The following is a list of birthdays for May with no death dates.
That could mean they are still alive, but not necessarily.

05-01-1916 - Glenn Ford - Quebec, Canada
actor: Christopher London "Advs. of Christopher London"
05-03-1910 - Norman Corwin - Boston, MA
writer, director: "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Twenty-Six by Corwin"
05-03-1915 - Betty Comden - Brooklyn, NY
writer, actor: "Revuers"
05-03-1919 - Pete Seeger - NYC
folk singer, songwriter: "Off the Page"
05-03-1921 - Joe Ames - Malden, MA
singer,: (Ames Brothers) "Sing It Again"; "Robert Q. Lewis Show"
05-04-1921 - Patsy Garrett - Atlantic City, NJ
singer: "Broadway Matinee"; "Jackie Gleason-Les Tremayne Show"
05-04-1930 - Gordon Gould - Chicago, IL
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-05-1925 - Monica Lewis - Chicago, IL
singer: "Jan August's Revere Camera Show"
05-05-1927 - Jim Lowe - Springfield, MO
disc jockey, host: (King of Trivia) WNEW New York
05-05-1927 - Pat Carroll - Shrevport, LA
actor: "We Hold These Truths"; "Fifty Years After Fourteen August"
05-06-1914 - Arline Blackburn - NYC
actor: Kitty Kelly "Pretty Kitty Kelly"; Eileen Turner "The O'Neills"
05-06-1926 - Marguarite Piazza - New Orleans, LA
singer: "Encore"
05-06-1945 - Richard Eyer - Santa Monica, CA
actor: Bobby "My Friend Irma"
05-07-1931 - Teresa Brewer - Toledo, OH
singer: "Steve Allen Show"
05-08-1926 - Don Rickles - NYC
announcer: "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
05-08-1946 - Candice Bergen - Beverly Hills, CA
actor: (Daughter of Edgar Bergen) "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
05-09-1918 - Mike Wallace - Brookline, MA
announcer, actor: "Spike Jones Show"; Flamond "Crime Files of Flamond"
05-09-1936 - Glenda Jackson - Cheshire, England
actor: Stevie Smith "Stevie"; Guest Panelist "[removed]"
05-10-1922 - Mary Small - Baltimore, MD
singer: (Little Miss Bab-O) "Little Miss Bab-O's Surprise Party"
05-10-1937 - Arthur Kopit - NYC
writer: "Earplay"
05-11-1909 - Pattie Chapin - Atlantic City, NJ
singer: "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
05-11-1912 - Bob Trendler
pianist, conductor: "Bob Trendler Orchestra"
05-11-1913 - Tutti Camaratta - Glen Ridge, NJ
orchestra leader: "Double Feature"
05-11-1919 - John Michael Hayes - Worcester, MA
writer: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"; "Twelve Players"; "Sam Spade";
"Alias Jane Doe"
05-11-1927 - Mort Sahl - Montreal, Canada
comedian: "Mort Sahl Show"
05-11-1930 - Marilyn King - Salt Lake City, UT
singer: (The King Sisters) "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
05-13-1915 - Ruth Doering Reynolds - Chicago, IL
singer: (Doring Sisters) "Contented Hour"
05-14-1925 - Patrice Munsel - Spokane, WA
singer: "Prudential Family Hour"; "Voice of Firestone"
05-14-1937 - Lloyd Battista - Cleveland, OH
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-15-1910 - Walter Cassel - Council Bluffs, IA
baritone: "General Motors Concerts"; "Calling America"
05-15-1918 - Eddy Arnold - Henderson, TN
singer: (Tennessee Plowboy) "Checkerboard Square"; "Eddy Arnold Show"
05-15-1918 - Joseph Wiseman - Montreal Canada
actor: "Crime Does Not Pay"
05-15-1921 - Margaret Lipper - Oliver, PA
actor: Hazel Toumey "Career of Ann Blair"; Patsy Curtis "Brenda Curtis"
05-15-1936 - Anna Maria Alberghetti - Pesano, Italy
singer: "Here's to Veterans"
05-16-1912 - Studs Terkel - The Bronx, NY
journalist, sometimes actor: "Destination Freedom"; "Ma Perkins"
05-18-1908 - Del King - Kansas City, KS
announcer: "Avalon Time"; "Tommy Dorsey's Kool Show"
05-18-1922 - Bill Macy - Revere, MA
actor: "Earplay"
05-18-1924 - Jack Whitaker - Philadelphia, PA
disc jockey, sportscaster: "Jack the Bachelor"; "Sports Shots"
05-18-1931 - Robert Morse - Newton, MA
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-18-1936 - Joel Kupperman - Chicago, IL
panelist: "Quiz Kids"
05-19-1906 - Bruce Bennett - Tacoma, WA
actor: "Proudly We Hail"
05-20-1911 - Patricia Dunlap - Bloomington, IL
actor: Betty Fairfield "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy"
05-20-1920 - Dorothy Howe (Virginia Vale) - Dallas, TX
actor: "Gateway to Hollywood"
05-20-1936 - Anthony Zerbe - Long Beach, CA
actor: "Earplay"
05-21-1912 - Lucille Manners - Newark, NJ
singer: "Cities Service Concert"
05-21-1918 - Jeanne Bates - Berkeley, CA
actor: Teddy Lawson "One Man's Family"; "Gunsmoke"
05-22-1934 - Peter Nero - NYC
socialite pianist: "Voices of Vista"
05-23-1917 - Murray McLean - Chicago, IL
actor: Jimmy Allen "Air Adventures of Jimmy Allen"
05-23-1919 - Betty Garrett - St. Joseph, MO
singer-actor: "Savings Bond Show"; "Guest Star"; "Showtime"
05-23-1927 - Gerald Hiken - Milwaukee, WI
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-24-1912 - Rachel Carley - Brussels, Belgium
singer: (Radio's French Girl) "Manhattan Merry-Go-Round"
05-24-1924 - Theodore Bikel - Vienna, Austria
actor: "Eternal Light"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-24-1932 - Elaine Malbin - NYC
singer: "Serenade to America"; "Saturday Matinee with Elaine Malbin"
05-25-1915 - Van Alexander - NYC
bandleader: "The Callihans"; "Fitch Bandwagon"
05-25-1916 - Kevin O'Morrison - St. Louis, MO
actor: Charlie Wild "Charlie Wild, Private Detective"
05-25-1921 - Kitty Kallen - Philadelphia, PA
singer: "Kitty Kallen Calling"; "Harry James and His Music Makers"
05-25-1923 - Eddie Ryan - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "The Charlotte Greenwood Show"; "Let's Pretend"
05-25-1929 - Beverly Sills - Brooklyn, NY
singer: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"
05-26-1908 - Vera Van - Marion, OH
singer: "The George Jessel Show"; "The Vicks Open House"
05-26-1912 - Barbara Lee - Denver, CO
actor: "Big Sister"; "Valiant Lady"; "Our Gal Sunday"
05-26-1923 - Roy Dotrice - Island of Guernsey, Channel Islands
actor: Sir Gregory Pitkin "Men from the Ministry"
05-26-1931 - Chet Norris - Manhattan Beach, NY
actor: "Tomnorrow Calling"; "Cisco Kid"; "ABC Radio Workshop"
05-27-1915 - Herman Wouk - NYC
writer: "Town Hall Tonight"; "Fred Allen Show"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-27-1921 - Franklin Adams, Jr. - Chicago, IL
actor: Skippy "Skippy"; Davy Jones "Davy Jones"
05-27-1925 - Tony Hillerman - Sacred Heart, OK
writer: "The Zero Hour"
05-27-1934 - Harlan Ellison - Cleveland, OH
writer: "[removed] 68"
05-28-1919 - Frank Middlemass - Stockton-on-Tees, England
actor: "Top the Manor Born"
05-29-1914 - Grace McCarthy - Chapman, KS
singer: (Doring Sisters) "Contented Hour"
05-29-1918 - Kay Lorraine - St. Louis, MO
singer: "Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street"
05-29-1936 - Arlene McQuade - NYC
actor: Rosalie Goldberg "The Goldbergs"
05-30-1923 - Jimmy Lydon - Harrington Park, NJ
actor: Jimmy "Young Love"
05-30-1936 - Keir Dullea - Cleveland, OH
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-31-1918 - Bill Harringron- Indianapolis, IN
singer, songwriter: "Your Hit Parade"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:43:16 -0400
From: "Stuart Lubin" <StuartLubin@[removed];
To: "Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Days

If there were postings on the movie, RADIO DAYS, I missed them. Because of
its title, many OTR friends of mine and I flocked to the movie.  There was
very little about radio days there, and I found the movie mediocre. The
moral of this story: If you are making a movie, title it after some popular
hobby, whether it has to do with that hobby or not.  You will at least be
guaranteed that some people will attend, in high hopes.

Stuart Lubin

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 20:44:10 -0400
From: "Jed Dolnick" <jdolnick@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Amos and Andy

The NAACP was founded in 1909, so yes it was around to protest A&A, which it
did.

This whole thing is complicated. Roy Willkins, for example, thought it was a
great radio program. Later, as head of the NAACP, he pushed to have the TV
version cancelled. A&A made some blacks think of the old, hated minstrel
shows, and of white men playing in blackface. After WW-II,  black Americans
were less willing to accept second-class citizenship, and more willing to
protest.

Melvin Patrick Ely does a much better job than I can in answering Frank
McGurn's questions, in his book "The Adventures of Amos and Andy: A Social
History of an American Phenomenon". Look for it on Amazon.

Jed

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 21:48:29 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Et Tu WAMU?

PRI talk show host Tavis Smiley takes cheap shots at WAMU - home of four 
hours OTR per week courtesy of Ed Walker - in this Washington Post profile.

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

[removed] 

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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:16:30 -0400
From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Phyl Coe

On Saturday, April 29, 2006, at 12:18 AM, kathy wrote:

In  "Phyl Coe Mysteries"
Phyllis Coe (a detective) solved mysteries but did not reveal  the
solution.
listeners were to send in the solutions and win money.
Does anyone know who starred as the detective?

I explained the complete history of this series in my book, "Private
Eyelashes; Radio's Lady Detectives" and identified all of the cast,
with the exception of the title lead, who was unknown to most of the
OTR community as of 2004.

However in October 2005, I posted on this Digest that Jim Jones, an OTR
researcher from Utah, had located several 1930s news clippings
identifying "Phyl Coe" as radio actress, Peggy Allenby.

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:16:50 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  cylinder recordings

In catching up on my Digest reading (WHY do I let myself get so behind!) I
read the post from ddunfee@[removed] asking about dramatic recordings on
Edison wax cylinders. I haven't seen any response as of Digest 118 so maybe
others are not aware of the site either. Go to

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to see the thousands of cylinder recordings available for listening or
downloading. The dramatic recordings can be found at

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It's a great site. Have fun!

Barbara

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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:17:40 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: the phyl coe mysteries

   Kathy wrote --

   > phyllis coe (a detective) solved mysteries but did not reveal  the 
solution. listeners were to send in the solutions and win money.
does anyone know who starred as the detective?

   I've been listening to the shows again as well and my question is, 
does anyone know who-dun-it?  I usually always suspect the wrong person.
   I hate not having the mystery solved.
   Joe

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