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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 36
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
January 2009 Deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Re: Green Lantern [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK [ Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed]; ]
CHANDU Information! [ Ljk2476@[removed] ]
2-16 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:14:16 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: January 2009 Deaths
11-25-1920 - Ricardo Montalban - Mexico City, Mexico - d. 1-14-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "As Easy as [removed]"
04-21-1923 - John Mortimer - London, England - d. 1-16-2009
author: "Rumpole of the Bailey"
12-06-1924 - Susanna Foster - Chicago, IL - d. 1-17-2009
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Mail Call"
Ron
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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:14:27 -0500
From: <georgewagner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Green Lantern
Bob, might your friend be recalling the "Green LAMA" series?
Sincerely,
George Wagner
georgewagner@[removed]
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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:14:34 -0500
From: Jerry Haendiges <Jerry@[removed];
To: Old Time Radio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK
Hi Friends,
Here is this week's schedule for my Olde Tyme Radio Network. Here you
may listen to high-quality broadcasts with Tom Heathwood's "Heritage
Radio Theatre," Big John Matthews and Steve "Archive" Urbaniak's "The
Glowing Dial" and my own "Same Time, Same Station." Streamed in
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION
ESCAPE
Episode 3 7-21-47 "The Diamond As Big As The Ritz"
Stars: Jack Edwards Jr. and William Johnstone
CBS RADIO WORKSHOP
Episode 47 12-16-56 "The Big Event"
Stars: William Redfield and Ralph Bell
HONEYMOON IN NEW YORK
7-28-48 "The McQuarters Celebrate Their 42nd Anniversary"
NBC Sustaining
Host: Ed Herlihy
Announcer: Wayne Howell
Music: Eve Young, Arlo
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES
12-6-41 "Who Or What Is Mike How"
Host: Ralph Edwards
Announcer: Mel Allen
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HERITAGE RADIO THEATER
THE NBC UNIVERSITY THEATRE
(NBC) 3/6/49 "The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe"
stars Joseph Schildkraut
Three tales: "Nosology" "Cask of Amontillado" and "The Fall of the House
of Usher." Superb radio drama.
THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR
(CBS) 1/13/58 "The Cake Recipe" Peg Lynch/Alan Bunce.
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THE GLOWING DIAL
Quiet Please - "Beezer's Cellar"
originally aired October 10, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Lotte Staviski, Warren Stevens, Charles Egelston.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
Quiet Please - "Shadow Of The Wings"
originally aired April 17, 1949 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
Quiet Please - "The Oldest Man In The World"
originally aired May 21, 1949 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Don Briggs, Nancy Sheridan.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
Quiet Please - "And Jeannie Dreams Of Me"
originally aired October 17, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Murray Forbes, Ruth Last, Arthur Cole.
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
Quiet Please - "Good Ghost"
originally aired October 24, 1948 on ABC
Starring: Ernest Chappell as the man who spoke to you,
Anna Maude Morath, Sarah Fussell, Claudia Morgan (Mrs. Ernest Chappell).
Written and Directed by: Wyllis Cooper
Sustained.
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If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.
Jerry Haendiges
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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:15:16 -0500
From: Ljk2476@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: CHANDU Information!
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First of all, to everybody who has responded here on the list as well as
those who have e-mailed me directly regarding information regarding CHANDU
THE
MAGICIAN: "Thank you!"
A few things I can speculate here: August 4, 1931, absolutely IS the
date that CHANDU premiered on station KHJ in Los Angeles, California. I have
the
article from the LOS ANGELES TIMES and I have found a 1933 ad in
BROADCASTING magazine from the Earnshaw-Young advertising agency that notes
that exact
date as the first broadcast of CHANDU on the radio. As far as I've been able
to check, CHANDU was broadcast live on station KHJ as a Monday through Friday
format, each week. If Michael Ogden's date for the last CHANDU broadcast
being on Saturday, September 9, 1933, that would suggest almost a solid two
years
of programs - something like 480 episodes - that is, if the series were
broadcast 5 days a week for two years without a rest. It would make sense,
but
once again, I don't know if station KHJ took a summer break from broadcasting
CHANDU over the summer season, as so many radio shows did. Not to mention any
holidays or special news bulletins that might have pre-empted the show. That
might explain the last show on station KHJ being broadcast on a Saturday.
It's probably safe to say that at least 400 shows - if not more - were
broadcast.
I was first under the impression that the CHANDU cast and crew only did
live shows until they were ready for syndication, but news blurbs in
magazines like BROADCASTING suggest that some stations were using recorded
transcription discs of the show only a few months after the program began. I
suspect
that the syndication date most often given for the earliest existing CHANDU
show recording is correct. The episode is dated March 17, 1932, Chapter 9:
"Transferred to Europe." BROADCASTING magazine noted on February 15th of
1932 that
a large syndication deal between the sponsor, The Los Angeles Soap Company
(makers of "White King Soap") and the Scott Howe Bowen, Inc. company:
"for a series of transcriptions of the SHANDU THE MAGICIAN program [sic] now
being featured on the CBS-Don Lee chain on the west coast. The program has
been placed with about 45 stations. Earnshaw-Young, Co. Los Angeles, handles
the account."
So, it's quite possible that CHANDU was nationally syndicated for many
stations around the country, early in March of 1932. Quite a number of
stations -
again - had been broadcasting the series via "land wires, " rebroadcasts from
station KHJ, or ordered outright transcription discs of the entire series
to stations as far as St. Louis, Honolulu, etc.
As far as Michael Ogden suggestion that station KNX started running
CHANDU THE MAGICIAN on Tuesday, September 9, 1932, and that the station's
last
broadcast was on Saturday, January 27, 1934, to continue the series that
station KHJ might have dropped - well, I don't think this is so. For one
thing,
station KN/X began broadcasting CHANDU as far back as February, 1932. Here's
a
blurb from - once more - BROADCASTING magazine, also from February 15, 1932:
"LOS ANGELES school children petitioned the sponsors of 'Chandu' daily
mystery serial over KHJ at 8:15 [removed], to give the feature earlier so ti could
not interfere with home study. So the Chandu act will be given over KNX,
Hollywood at 5:45 [removed] weekdays on a transcription. The KHJ series will
continue
as a "live" act. The KNX series will go back to the first episode, while the
KHJ series continues its regular sequence."
So, if station KNX picked up the show sometime in February of 1932 and it
ran until January 27, 1932, that - again - would suggest, close to 2 years of
running the series. The last known available CHANDU episode transcription
recording (untitled, so far) is from August 21, 1933, and is noted as
Chapter
381. If a nationally syndicated series began sometime early in March of 1932,
that would suggest that there would be well more than 400 episodes in the
series. On November 26th, 1934, radio columnist Carroll Nye reported for the
LOS
ANGELES TIMES that there would be no renewal of CHANDU in the near future:
"Vera Oldham, who wrote the scripts for "Chandu," says she sees no
possibility for the serial returning on the air ... [Gayne] Whitman only
recently
concluded a series of travelogues for KHJ ... he works in pictures and makes
transcriptions between radio engagements." My last piece of evidence (so far)
of CHANDU ending as a nationally syndicated show sometime in 1934 comes from
a column in the CHICAGO DAILY TRIBUNE from August 12, 1934:
"Robert Regent [juvenile] - Played role of Regent, Chandu's nephew, 21/2
years in 'Chandu,' radio mystery serial and finally took the name. Son of
Georgia Wilson, once well known Portia. He has been on stage since 4."
The article is about the cast of "The Drunkard" a comic revival of the old
circa 1890s melodrama. Apparently young Robert Regent ([removed] Bob Bixby) was
part of the cast. So, if CHANDU THE MAGICIAN radio show actually ran - as the
columnist states - for 2 and a half years - then the show officially ended -
at least in syndication - in the middle or late 1934.
It's awfully hard to date the broadcasts as an official log of the 1930s
shows does not appear to exist anywhere. Could a relative of Harry A.
Earnshaw have this material somewhere? Maybe. Maybe not. After a few
marriages and
moving from the [removed] and the Bahamas back and forth, Cyril Armbrister's
CHANDU material - scripts. logs, recordings, etc. - appear to be lost. Ditto
for
Raymond Morgan, Sr.'s material. Ditto for Vera Oldham's papers, too.
(Although
Raymond Morgan, Jr., has a LOT of material on the radio and TV series, QUEEN
FOR A DAY, if any radio historians want to contact him!) I believe it wasn't
until early 1933 that New York radio station picked up the syndicated CHANDU
THE MAGICIAN, and we've found articles from newspapers like THE WASHINGTON
POST from March 2, 1936 that finally got around to picking up the transcribed
adventures of CHANDU! So, it appears that CHANDU was running somewhere around
the country - Canada, etc. - throughout most of the 1930s.
The other biggest mystery that we have yet to solve is the assertion
that actor Jason Robards once played "Chandu." It's listed in one
encyclopedia
on old-time radio, and the solution to a newspaper crossword puzzle on old
movie and radio trivia back in the late '60s. Jason Robards, Sr. was a well
known character actor in the 1930s. We wonder if he might have played
"Chandu" at
least once for a "live broadcast" in Canada, back in 1935, when the show was
syndicated there. We feel Jason Robards, Jr. would have been far too young
in the 1930s to play that role on radio. We then surmised that he might have
played "Chandu" for the 1948-1950 revival. We contacted the son of Tom
Collins, Cyril "Ted" Armbrister and Lois Culver on this subject, but not one
of them
knew of Jason Robards, Jr. or Sr. "subbing" for Tom Collins during the
series. There is also an intriguing column by Dorothy Kilgallen early in 1950
noting that director-producer Cyril Armbrister was working on a [removed] version
of
CHANDU THE MAGICIAN and was casting for a new "Chandu." Could a pilot have
been made with Jason Robards, [removed] Nobody seems to know!
Anyway; we'll keep plugging away, trying to find the last few mysteries
regarding CHANDU THE MAGICIAN. Again, everybody, thanks for your time and
suggestions! - Lenny Kohl
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Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 23:15:23 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 2-16 births/deaths
February 16th births
02-16-1884 - Bert Kalmer - NYC - d. 9-17-1947
lyricist: "You Bet Your Life"
02-16-1884 - Joe Smith - NYC - d. 2-22-1981
comedian: (Smith and Dale) "Al Jolson"; "Kate Smith"
02-16-1893 - Jack Doty - Wisconsin - d. 4-13-1935
actor: Captain Hughes "Jack Armstrong, the All-American Boy"
02-16-1893 - Katherine Cornell - Berlin, Germany - d. 6-8-1974
actor: "Tribute to Ethel Barrymore"; "Victory Clothing Collection"
02-16-1896 - Alexander Brailowsky - Kiev, Ukriane, Russia - d. 4-25-1976
pianist: "Music America Loves Best"; "New York Philharmonic"
02-16-1900 - Albert Hackett - NYC - d. 3-16-1995
playwright: "Star Spangled Theatre"
02-16-1901 - Chester Morris - NYC - d. 9-11-1979
actor: Boston Blackie "Boston Blackie"; Great Merlini "Great Merlini"
02-16-1902 - Leif Eid - Idaho - d. 3-28-1976
nbc bureau chief: Washington, Ottawa and Paris
02-16-1903 - Edgar Bergen - Chicago, IL - d. 9-30-1978
ventriloquist: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
02-16-1903 - Norman Shelley - d. 8-22-1980
actor: John H. Watson "Corner In Crime, Saturday Night Theatre"
02-16-1904 - George F. Kennan - Milwaukee, WI - d. 3-17-2005
post world war two diplomat: "Meet the Press"
02-16-1904 - James Baskett - Indianapolis, IN - d. 7-9-1948
actor: Gabby Gibson "Amos 'n' Andy"
02-16-1905 - Carleton D. Smith - d. 4-27-1984
announcer/executive: "Fireside Chat with FDR"
02-16-1909 - Hugh Beaumont - Lawrence, KS - d. 5-14-1982
actor: Appeared on radio in 1931
02-16-1909 - Jeffrey Lynn - Auburn, MA - d. 11-24-1995
actor: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Gulf Stream Guild Theatre"
02-16-1910 - Jerry Lester - Chicago, IL - d. 3-23-1995
actor: John Benson "Life of Mary Sothern"
02-16-1911 - Hal Porter - Thornbury, Australia - d. 9-29-1984
writer: "The Forger"
02-16-1911 - "Curly" Noland - Tennessee - d. 1-16-1911
bass: "The Swift Jewel Cowboys"
02-16-1912 - Del Sharbutt - Ft. Worth, TX - d. 4-26-2002
announcer: "Hobby Lobby"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Victory Theatre"
02-16-1914 - Jimmy Wakely - Mineola, AR - d. 9-23-1982
country singer: "All-Star Western Theatre"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
02-16-1915 - Carlotta Dale - Ardmore, PA
vocalist: "Music for Moderns"; "Rhapsody in Rhythm"
02-16-1915 - Dorothy Lovett - Providence, RI - d. 4-28-1998
actor: Libby Collins "Lux Radio Theatre"
02-16-1915 - Leah Ray - Norfolk, VA - d. 5-27-1999
vocalist: (The Phil Harris Band) "Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou"
02-16-1917 - George Neise - Chicago, IL - d. 4-14-1996
actor: "The Judy Canova Show"; "The Man Called X"
02-16-1918 - Patty Andrews - Mound, MN
singer (Andrews Sisters) "Andrews Sisters Revue"
02-16-1918 - Win Blake - d. 8-4-2003
disk jockey: WKXL Concord, New Hampshire
02-16-1921 - Francis Rickett - Covington, KY
writer: "Family Theatre"; "Al Goodman's Musical Album"
02-16-1921 - Norman Swallow - Eccles, England - d. 12-5-2000
producer: "Speaking Personally"
02-16-1921 - Wayne Howell - d. 7-8-1993
announcer, disc jockey: "Chamber Music Chamber Society of Lower Basin
Street"
02-16-1922 - Robert Campbell - Detroit, MI - d. 5-xx-1981
announcer: "Out of the Deep"
02-16-1926 - Vera-Ellen - Cincinnati, OH - d. 8-30-1981
actor: "Martin and Lewis Show"; "Tony Awards"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
02-16-1928 - Desmond Cory - Lancing, Sussex, England - d. 1-xx-2001
Script writer for the BBC
02-16-1932 - Gretchen Wyler - Bartlesville, OK - d. 5-27-2007
singer-actor: "Sounds of Freedom"
02-16-1933 - Rod Trongard - d. 7-16-2005
announcer: Minnesota radio
02-16-1937 - Gary Barkdoll - d. 6-16-2001
disk jockey: WAYZ Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
February 16th deaths
01-06-1934 - Bobby Lord - Sanford, FL - d. 2-16-2008
country music artist: "Country Music Time"
01-19-1932 - George Mann MacBeth - Lanarkshire, Scotland - d. 2-16-1992
poet, producer: BBC Radio
02-09-1912 - Bob Hannon - Chicago, IL - d. 2-16-1993
singer: "American Melody Hour"; "Waltz Time"
02-17-1906 - Virginia Mansfield - Covington, KY - d. 2-16-2001
singer: "Andy and Virginia"; "Turn Back the Clock"
03-10-1918 - Gloria Stewart - d. 2-16-1994
actor: (Wife of James Stewart) "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-18-1911 - Smiley Burnette - Summum, IL - d. 2-16-1967
host, comedian: "Smiley Burnette Show"; "Hollywood Hotel"
04-12-1914 - Ken Williams - Canada - d. 2-16-1984
actor: Brian Wells "David Harum"
05-04-1909 - Howard Da Silva - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-16-1986
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Forecast"; "Suspense"
07-03-1920 - Louise Allbritton - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 2-16-1979
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is My Best"; "Cavalcade of America"
08-01-1912 - Ronnie Kemper - Missoula, MT - d. 2-16-1997
bandleader: "Ronnie Kemper"; "Horace Heidt Orchestra"
08-03-1911 - Ken Patterson - Montana - d. 2-16-1990
actor: "Dragnet"
08-29-1904 - Ronald Watkins - Surrey, England - d. 2-16-2001
Reader of prose and poetry
09-29-1907 - Richard Harkness - Artesian, SD - d. 2-16-1977
newscaster: NBC network, occassionally filled in for [removed] Kaltenborn
11-30-1915 - Brownie McGhee - Knoxville, TN - d. 2-16-1996
blues guitarist, singer: "New World A' Coming"; "This Is Jazz)
Ron
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