Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #110
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Date: 4/8/2007 10:18 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2007 : Issue 110
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  4-7 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Jesse James                           [ "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed] ]
  Did the Lone Ranger Eat?              [ Frank McGurn <[removed]@sbcglobal. ]
  "Pioneers of Primetime"               [ Rentingnow@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 8-14 Apri  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  OTR grammar                           [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  Dodge City Killer - Plot oif a Missi  [ "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@worldn ]

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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:53:57 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-7 births/deaths

April 7th births

04-07-1878 - Bert Swor - Paris, TN - d. 11-30-1943
comedian: "Modern Mistrels"; "Bicycle Party"
04-07-1893 - Irene Castle - New Rochelle, NY - d. 1-25-1969
actor: Best Dressed Woman "Life of Irene Castle"; "Twenty Questions"
04-07-1895 - Bert Wheeler - Paterson, NJ - d. 1-18-1968
comedian: "Frank Sinatra Show"; "New Old Gold Show"
04-07-1897 - Walter Winchell - NYC - d. 2-20-1972
news-gossip caster: "Lucky Strike Dance Hour"; "Jergens Journal"
04-07-1899 - Robert Casasesus - Paris, France - d. 9-19-1972
pianist: "Telephone Hour"; "Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra"
04-07-1900 - Maria "Gamby" Gambarelli - La Spezia, Italy - d. 2-4-1990
ballerina, singer: "Roxy's Gang"; "Dance with Gamby"
04-07-1901 - Gavin Gordon - Chicora, MS - d. 4-7-1983
actor: Doctor Norfolk "Brenthouse"
04-07-1905 - Murray Bolen - Minnesota - d. 10-22-1995
producer, director: "Father Knows Best"; "Mayor of the Town";
"Railroad Hour"
04-07-1908 - Percy Faith - Toronto, Canada - d. 2-9-1976
conductor: "Carnation Contented Hour"; "Pause That Refreshes on the Air"
04-07-1908 - Walt Framer - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 6-21-1988
producer, director: "Break the Bank"; "Strike It Rich"
04-07-1915 - Billie Holliday - Baltimore, MD - d. 7-17-1959
singer: "Artie Shaw Band"
04-07-1915 - Stanley Adams - NYC - d. 4-27-1977
writer: "My Friend Irma"
04-07-1916 - Anthony Caruso - Frankfort, IN - d. 4-4-2003
actor: "This Is Your FBI"
04-07-1918 - Peanuts Hucko - Syracuse, NY - d. 6-19-2003
jazz clarinetist: "Swing Shift"; "I Sustain These Wings"; "Doctor Jazz"
04-07-1919 - Ralph Flanagan - Lorain, OH - d. 12-30-1995
bandleader: "Chesterfield's ABC of Music"; "Let's Go Show"
04-07-1928 - James Garner - Norman, OK
spokesman: Financial Freedom
04-07-1934 - Ian Richardson - Edinburgh, Scotland - d. 2-9-2007
actor: Richard II and Bolingbroke "Richard II"

April 7th deaths

01-31-1921 - John Agar - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-2002
actor: "Big Show"
02-22-1897 - Alonzo Deen Cole - St. Paul, MN - d. 4-7-1971
writer, producer, director: "Casey, Crime Photographer"
02-23-1899 - Norman Taurog - Chicago, IL - d. 4-7-1981
film director: "Biography in Sound"; "Bud's Bandwagon"
02-27-1920 - Jose Melis - Havana, Cuba - d. 4-7-2005
bandleader: "Arthur Godfrey"s Talent Scouts"; "Arthur Godfrey Time"
03-03-1914 - Donald Gray - Fort Beaufort, South Africa - d. 4-7-1978
BBC actor from 1947 to 1951
04-01-1912 - Lou Merrill - Canada - d. 4-7-1963
actor: Thomas Hyland "Crime Classics"; Aaron Saul "Point Sublime"
04-06-1884 - Walter Huston - Toronto, Canada - d. 4-7-1950
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Cavalcade of America"
04-07-1901 - Gavin Gordon - Chicora, MS - d. 4-7-1983
actor: Doctor Norfolk "Brenthouse"
04-16-1898 - Marian Jordan - Peoria, IL - d. 4-7-1961
commedienne: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Kaltenmeyer's Kindergarten"
04-26-1918 - Helen Burgess - Portland, OR - d. 4-7-1937
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-13-1911 - Maxine Sullivan - Homestead, PA - d. 4-7-1987
vocalist: "Night Life"
06-22-1902 - Phil Duey - Macy, IN - d. 4-7-1982
singer: "Lucky Strike Dance Orchestra"; "Leo Reisman Orchestra";
"Happy Bakers"
08-02-1914 - Beatrice Straight - Old Westbury, NY - d. 4-7-2001
actor: "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
09-01-1893 - Betty Blythe - Los Angeles, CA - d. 4-7-1972
actor: "The Whistler"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Let George Do It"
11-14-1914 - Ken Carson - Colgate, OK - d. 4-7-1994
singer: (Lustre Cream Shampoo commercial) "Day in the Life of Dennis
Day"
11-16-1899 - Mary Margaret McBride - Paris, MO - d. 4-7-1976
commentator: "Mary Margaret McBride"; "Martha Deane"
11-29-1905 - Chester Erskine - Hudson, NY - d. 4-7-1986
film director: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-30-1873 - Frederic William Wile - La Porte, IN - d. 4-7-1941
commentator: "Political Situation in Washington"
xx-xx-xxxx - Grace Coppin - d. 4-7-1993
actor: Maude "The Life of Riley"

Ron Sayles

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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:55:00 -0400
From: "Mark Kinsler" <kinsler33@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Jesse James

My own father, John Harmon, had been a young man in the days of Wild
West. When I was six years old, my father (then 74, about 1939)
introduced me to a man probably twenty some years older than he
who had rode with Jesse James.

Mr Harmon: You met a man who rode with Jesse James?

I am speechless (for a change.)

And honored.

Mark Kinsler

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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 08:55:25 -0400
From: Frank McGurn <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Did the Lone Ranger Eat?

I have listened to the Lone Ranger for about 70 years and since I'm
older things bother me. As example:

Did the Lone Ranger and Tonto eat meals?

Did they  have a coffee pot or  frying Pan?

Did they have a tent  or did they sleep in  the rain?

Did they feed and groom Silver and Scout?

Did the Ranger or Tonto walk into a store to buy food?

Did they have a change of cloths and ever take a bath?

These questions could be applied to almost OTR western charters too

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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:31:43 -0400
From: Rentingnow@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Pioneers of Primetime"

PBS is broadcasting on WNET New York "Pioneers  of Prime Time" which
supposedly discusses radio with Hope, Benny, Berle and  others.

Check local listing and all that stuff.

If someone doesn't  get PBS contact me off line.

Larry Moore

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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 10:31:59 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 8-14 April

 From Those Were the Days --

4/8

1941 - Earle Graser, the eight-year voice of the The Lone Ranger, died
in an auto accident. Brace Beemer, previously the show's announcer, took
over the title role.

4/11

1921 - The first live sports event on radio took place this day over
KDKA.  Pittsburgh sports writer, Florent Gibson, gave an account of the
action in  the lightweight boxing match between Johnny Ray and Johnny
Dundee.

1943 - Nick Carter, Master Detective debuted on Mutual.

4/12

1932 - The thrill-comedy, Joe Palooka, which would also be a popular
comic strip, made its debut on CBS.

1935 -  "Your Hit Parade" premiered

Joe

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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 11:17:55 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR grammar

The subject of spelling of words varies from word to word and even when
there is a set rule to abide by, there is often an exception.  Comic books
(like VARIETY magazine) have their own language and forms of spelling.
Alright can be accepted (I can name two issues of THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN from
the 1960s in which that word was spelled that way.)

Recently, after finishing an OTR book, I had a couple friends look over the
manuscript for possible errors and corrections.  Many questions came up.  Is
baby sit one word or two?  When describing a show like [removed] THEATER, is it
properly spelled THEATER or THEATRE?  I have to watch an episode of the TV
series to find out.  That spelling goes back and forth from one TV show to
another so TV programs did not stick to one form of spelling.  Or do I list
it as GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER since the broadcast I am describing in the
manuscript aired during the one season it was titled GENERAL ELECTRIC
THEATER instead of [removed] THEATER?  In the magazine entitled AMERICAN MAGAZINE
or THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE?  Is high-clientele hyphonated or not?  Is Buddah
capitalized or not?

I haven't read a book or comic book (since the subject of GREEN HORNET
comics were mentioned) that did not have a word mis-spelled.  It happens.  I
can only guess how many e-mails I have gotten from people over the years
telling me that the word "pix" is not a word when I was reprinting a review
from VARIETY magazine as they spelled it, and VARIETY had their own form of
spelling and language for their columns.  (It's one of the reasons VARIETY
was and still is unique among other publications.)
Martin Grams

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Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2007 19:31:06 -0400
From: "Stewart Wright" <stewwright@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Dodge City Killer - Plot oif a Missing
 Gunsmoke Episode

The following is a plot summary of the second of the Missing GUNSMOKE
episodes:  Dodge City Killer.  I will provide plot summaries of the
remaining three 1952 Missing episodes at weekly intervals.

GUNSMOKE
Dodge City Killer
05/17/1952
Script by Hugh Purdum

EPISODE NOTE:
   The cover page of the script for this episode, which contains cast, crew
and production information, has the title, Dodge City Killer.

PLOT
   Saloon and hotel owner Jack Grace fancies himself a ladies man,
especially with his female employees.  Dillon saves Grace from being shot by
an employee, Annie, who resisted his unwanted, amorous advances.

   Chester arrives and lets Matt know that an old friend, Clancy Yarr, is
waiting for him at the front desk of Grace's hotel.  Yarr has brought his
wife Narisha, the daughter of the Comanche warrior chief Black Eagle, with
him and Grace is refusing to give them a room.  Matt convinces Grace to
provide accommodations for the Yarrs.  The Marshal treats his friend's wife
with great respect and Narisha has made her first friend in Dodge.

   Moreau, the storekeeper, lets Matt know that some folks in Dodge want to
run Narisha out of town.  Dillon expects trouble and it happens that night
during a card game between Matt, Clancy, Moreau, and a new man in town,
Morgan Wade.  Wade, a gunman working for Grace, draws his guns and gets the
drop on his fellow card players.  The three men turn the tables on Wade when
they convince him that each of them has a gun under the table pointed at the
gunman.  Wade folds under their bluff and Matt makes Wade unload his guns.
When the bluff is made clear to an angry Wade and he threatens them, Matt
orders the gunman to get out of town.

   Chester enters the saloon with news that Narisha has stabbed Jack Grace.
When Matt reaches the dying Grace, he notices that the man has scratches on
his face and a bite mark on his arm.  Clancy identifies the knife used to
kill Grace as Narisha's.  She has taken a horse and fled Dodge.

   Dillon refuses to form a posse composed of angry townsmen; he and Clancy
will go after the woman and bring her back to stand trial.  At nightfall,
Matt makes an obvious camp.  He believes that Narisha is nearby because she
wants to stay close to Clancy, so she will see the camp and perhaps come in
when she realizes who is after her.

   While waiting for Narisha to show up, Matt and Clancy come under rifle
fire.  Clancy is slightly wounded.  The two men then maneuver to catch their
unseen assailant and encounter Narisha holding a rifle.  She has knocked out
the shooter:  the disgruntled Morgan Wade.

   Matt knows that Narisha will not get a fair trial in Dodge, so he gathers
sworn affidavits from Doc and other witnesses and with Chester, takes her
before Judge Craddock in Hays City.  When the Judge listens to Narisha's
testimony on how Grace attacked her and reads the affidavits regarding the
injuries she sustained during Grace's attack, Grace's previous attacks on
other women, and the scratches and bite mark on Jack Grace, the Judge finds
Narisha innocent of any criminal act.

   Later, Matt reminds Clancy and Narisha that Kansas is still on the
frontier and many people still have bitter memories of loved ones killed
during the Indian wars and it will take time for those memories to fade.
The Yarrs and Matt part as friends.

   Additional information, such as Cast credits, from each script will be
posted on the GUNSMOKE Forum of The Nostalgia Pages Forums Website after
each Plotline Summary is posted in the Digest.  The Nostalgia Pages Forums
can be found at:
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Signing off for now,

Stewart

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