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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2004 : Issue 389
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
12-8 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Best of Fred Allen? [ "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@ya ]
The Hermit's Cave [ Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed] ]
#OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig [ charlie@[removed] ]
Effort of Imagination [ "Barnett, Tom L" <[removed]@acs ]
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 14:57:56 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 12-8 births/deaths
December 8th births
12-08-1904 - George Stevens - Oakland, CA - d. 3-8-1975
film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-08-1906 - Richard Llewellyn - St. David's, Wales - d. 11-30-1983
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "NBC University Theatre"
12-08-1907 - Frank Faylen - St. Louis, MO - d. 8-2-1985
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"
12-08-1911 - Lee J. Cobb - NYC - d. 2-11-1976
actor: the tailgunner "Roosty of the AAF"; "Citizen of the World"; "Hollywood
Startime"
12-08-1914 - Mary Patton - MN - d. 11-8-1982
actress: Marie Martel "Arnold Grimm's Daughter"; Lila North "Fat Man"
December 8th deaths
02-11-1882 - John H. Mills - Bellfonte, PA - d. 12-8-1967
singer: (Father of the Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
03-02-1914 - Martin Ritt - NYC - d. 12-8-1990
film director, teacher: "Coming Home"
03-03-1924 - Cathy Downs - Port Jefferson, Long Island, NY - d. 12-8-1976
actress: "Your Movietown Radio Theatre"; "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Mail Call"
05-04-1903 - Luther Adler - NYC - d. 12-8-1984
actor: Peter Gentle "Mystery Without Murder"; "Greatest Story Ever Told
(1938-39)"
07-15-1893 - William Dieterle - Rhein-Palatinate, Germany - d. 12-8-1972
movie director: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Screen Director's Playhouse"
09-13-1900 - Gladys George - Patton, ME - d. 12-8-1954
actress: "Lincoln Highway"
09-26-1925 - Marty Robbins - Glendale, AZ - d. 12-8-1982
country/western singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Country Style [removed]"; "Big Sound"
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Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:27:47 -0500
From: "jazmaan@[removed]" <dmf273@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Best of Fred Allen?
Please recommend outstanding Fred Allen episodes for a neopyhte? Thanks.
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Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 18:28:30 -0500
From: Melanie Aultman <otrmelanie@[removed];
To: OTRDIGEST <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The Hermit's Cave
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I just listened to about sixteen episodes. They begin with "The mummers in the
Little Theater of the [removed]" Is that mummers as in actors ([removed]
is my friend) or something else?
Melanie Aultman
otrmelanie@[removed]
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 08:31:40 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!
A weekly [removed]
For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio. We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over six years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!
Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
it's always a good time!
For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!
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Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:57:25 -0500
From: "Barnett, Tom L" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Effort of Imagination
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Paul Adomites, speaking of OTR and entertainment, observes,
what's unique about radio is how it lets you create the pictures in
your own head, which involved A) some effort and B) some creativity on
your part. Which could not be more unlike the zillions of dollars
Hollywood spends (and then charges us) to relieve us from the expenditure
of one second's effort. Enjoying radio is much different in every way
from every other kind of entertainment out there now
And if you follow that to its logical end, however. Radio relieves us of the
imagination and additional effort involved ni creating the voices and sound
effects that can be present in a great novel. Radio is to reading (in a
loose sense) what television is to radio.
TLB
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