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Date: 8/28/2005 9:12 AM
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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2005 : Issue 259
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  More on Brace Beemer                  [ "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed] ]
  8-27 births/deaths                    [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Names in the News                     [ Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@erols ]
  Les Paul                              [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  NY Times: Ward Marston                [ Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed]; ]
  This week in radio history 28 August  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  "Coming on like Gangbusters"          [ tomheston@[removed] (Irish Tom) ]
  Margot Stevenson on TCM Sunday morni  [ Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@earthlin ]
  OTR tributes                          [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  YTJD expense account                  [ tedshumaker@[removed] ]
  Various #258 follow-ups               [ "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed]; ]
  Major Huppal                          [ "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed]; ]
  Dagwood Sandwich on radio             [ "WILLIS G Saunders" <saunders8@veri ]
  Les Paul                              [ Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@sbcglob ]

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:37:58 -0400
From: "Irene Heinstein" <IreneTH@[removed];
To: "OTR" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  More on Brace Beemer

I do a lot of genealogy work and am subscribed to 2 genealogy websites where
I checked out some info.

So here's my 2 cents:  It appears that Brace IS his given name.  It's the
name that appears on the census (which I viewed) and also on his grave stone
(picture of which I viewed)..
It is most likely that his  birthdate is Dec 9, 1902, which is consistent
with the age 7 given on the census which was conducted in April 1910 .  His
full name was Brace Bell Beemer, Bell being his mother's maiden name.

1910 Illinois Census
Lawrence County, Lawrence Township, Lawrenceville City
Enumerated April 21, 1910
lived on Market Street

Father:  Joseph D.
Age 45
Born in Illinois
Parents born in Germany
Worked in a hotel
[Died 1925]

Mother:  Bertine Bell
Age 32
Born in Illinois
[Remarried:  O'Brecht]
[Died 1967 in Michigan]

Bertine's Parents:
 Robert and Sarah Bell, born in Illinois

Son:  Brace
Age 7

Daughter:  Catherine
Age 5

Servant
Age 25

Find A Grave has a picture of his grave stone which clearly shows 1902-1965

Cemetery records show his birth date as Dec 9, 1902 and death date as March
1, 1965

Brace Beemer's daughter:   Barbara Beemer Daniel

I also checked out Bell's Woods on the official Illinois website and it's
actually called Beall Woods, but is pronounced Bell.   The last living heir
was a woman named Laura Beall.

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:38:05 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio List <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  8-27 births/deaths

August 27th births

08-27-1871 - Theodore Dreiser - Terre Haute, IN - d. 12-28-1945
writer: "The Heinz Magazine of the Air"
08-27-1882 - Samuel Goldwyn - Warsaw, Poland - d. 1-31-1974
panelist: "People's Platform"
08-27-1896 - Morris Ankrum - d. 9-2-1964
actor: "Shakespeare Festival"; "Campbell Playhouse"; "A Report to the Nation"
08-27-1899 - C. S. Forester - Cairo, Egypt - d. 4-2-1966
poet, biographer, novelist: "Keep 'Em Rolling"; "Words at War"; "Theatre Guild
On the Air"
08-27-1901 - Al Ritz - Newark, NJ - d. 12-22-1965
comedian: (The Ritz Brothers) "Hollywood Hotel"
08-27-1901 - John Gannon - Wyoming - d. 11-8-1969
actor: Billy Fairfield "Jack Armstrong"
08-27-1901 - Roger Pryor - New York City, NY - d. 1-31-1974
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Summer Symphony"
08-27-1905 - Frederick O'Neal - Brooksville, MA - d. 8-25-1992
actor: "New World A-Coming"
08-27-1908 - Frank Leahy - O'Neill, NE - d. 6-21-1973
football coach (Notre Dame): "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "Bill Stern Colgate
Sports Newsreel"
08-27-1916 - Larry Thor - Canada - d. 3-15-1976
actor: Danny Clover "Broadway Is My Beat"
08-27-1916 - Martha Raye - Butte, MT - d. 10-19-1994
comedienne: "Tuesday Night Party"; "Cavalcade of America"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
08-27-1916 - Vicki Vola - Denver, CO - d. 7-21-1985
actress: Shanghai L'il DeVries "Jungle Jim"; Edith Miller "Mr. District
Attorney"
08-27-1921 - Leo Penn - d. 9-5-1998
actor, film director: "Family Theatre"; "Hollywood Calling: George Fisher
Interviews"
08-27-1925 - Carter Stanley - Stratton, VA - d. 12-1-1966
bluegrass singer: (The Stanley Brothers) "Farm and Fun Program"
08-27-1926 - Pat Coombs - London, England - d. 5-25-2002
comedian: Nola "Hello Playmates"
08-27-1936 - Anne Whitfield - Oxford, MS
actress: Phyllis Harris "Phil Harris/Alice Faye Show"; Sandy Carter "Woman in
My House"

August 27th deaths

01-21-1919 - Jinx Falkenburg McCrary - Barcelona, Spain - d. 8-27-2003
hostess: "Hi! Jinx"; "Tex & Jinx"; "Weekend"
02-13-1920 - Joan Edwards - New York City, NY - d. 8-27-1981
singer: "Chesterfield Presents"; "Your Hit Parade"
03-21-1912 - Suzanne Kaaren - Brooklyn, NY - d. 8-27-2004
actress: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-25-1892 - Bennett Cerf - New York City, NY - d. 8-27-1971
narrator, panelist: "Biography in Sound"; "What's My Line?"
06-30-1894 - Phillips Carlin - New York City, NY - d. 8-27-1971
announcer: "Palmolive Hour"; "Atwater Kent Hour"
07-26-1902 - Gracie Allen - San Francisco, CA - d. 8-27-1964
comedienne: "The Adventures of Gracie"; "The George Burns and Gracie Allen
Show"
09-20-1925 - Joan Barton - d. 8-27-1976
actress: Cashier "Meet Me at Parky's"
12-11-1911 - Sam Levenson - New York City, NY - d. 8-27-1980
humorist: "Arthur Godfrey Show"; "City Club Forum"
--
Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:38:19 -0400
From: Jack & Cathy French <otrpiano@[removed];
To: OTRBB <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Names in the News

The current issue of "Senior Beacon", a newspaper in Silver Spring, MD,
has a front-page article about my book, "Private Eyelashes: Radio's
Lady Detectives" which includes a color photo of me, holding an antique
microphone.

You can view this feature by going to their web site, listed below:

[removed]

Jack French
Editor: RADIO RECALL

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:38:35 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Les Paul

I am glad to see all of this interest in Les Paul. Les Paul hails
from the town of my birth, Waukesha, Wisconsin and my mother knew him
when they were children

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 09:55:11 -0400
From: Steve Carter <scarter2@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  NY Times: Ward Marston

There is an interesting article about Ward Marston who restores old
recordings. Of course I thought of OTR:
a password in necessary to read the article:

[removed]

Is the an article, or site that has to do with OTR restoration? Is
someone working on a project like that?

Steve

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:14:34 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 28 August to 3
 September

 From Those Were The Days --

8/28

1922 - The first commercial to be broadcast on radio was heard on WEAF
in New York City. Announcer [removed] Blackwell spoke about Hawthorne Court,
a group of apartment buildings in Queens, New York. The Queensboro
Realty Company, of Jackson Heights, bought what was called Toll
Broadcasting. WEAF, owned by AT&T, sold their block programming, five
one-minute programs, one a day for five days, for $50 plus long-distance
toll fees. The Queensboro Realty Company paid $100 for 10 minutes of
commercial airtime.

 From The [removed] --

1938 -- The first degree given to a ventriloquist's dummy is awarded to
Charlie McCarthy--Edgar Bergen's wooden partner. The honorary degree,
"Master of Innuendo and Snappy Comeback," is presented on radio by Ralph
Dennis, the dean of the School of Speech at Northwestern University.

8/30

1951 - Screen Directors' Playhouse was heard for the final time on NBC.
  The program had featured some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

8/31

1941 - The Great Gildersleeve, a spin-off of Fibber McGee and Molly,
started on NBC.

1946 - "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!"
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound ... the caped crusader
returned to radio on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Superman had been
dropped from the program schedule earlier in the year, but the outrage
of youngsters brought the show back to the airwaves. Wow! The amazing
power of Kryptonite in the hands of kids! Bud Collyer, later of TV's
Beat the Clock, played Clark Kent aka Superman on the series. His
identity had been well guarded for years. Most people didn't have a clue
as to the identity of Superman until a TIME magazine article about
Collyer appeared in 1946.

9/1

1922 - The first daily news program on radio was The Radio Digest, on
WBAY. The program, hosted by George F. Thompson, the program's editor,
originated from New York City.

9/2

1931 - 15 Minutes with Bing Crosby debuted on CBS.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:15:14 -0400
From: tomheston@[removed] (Irish Tom)
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  "Coming on like Gangbusters"

I still hear people using catch-prases from old-time radio -- "What a
revoltin' development dis is!" (Bill Bendix, The Life of Riley)....
"Gettum up, Scout!"  was Tonto's answer to "Hi-Yo, Silver!  Awaaaay!"
And some awe-struck rancher would ask the sheriff: "Say, who was that
masked man?"  Nobody needs to be told nowadays, "Why, that was the Lone
Ranger."
      And how about, "Oh, Ceesco!"  Oh, Seenorita!"  (And we kids would
say, "Oh, mush!")
      "Faster than a speeding bullet."  (Superman).
       "Well, now, I wouldn't say that."  Wasn't that twang of Mr. [removed]
, on Fibber McGee?
       "I'll whiz right over," of course, was the famous  promise of
Lightening, on Amos and Andy, which also gave us other lines still used:
"Holy Mack'el, Andy!"  "Ain't dat sumpin!"  "Check and double check."
and "I'se regusted." are a few I remember.
        Now and then somebody leaves with the line: "I'd better be --
shoveling -- off."  That, of course, came from the guy who said,
"Greetings, Riley.  It is I, Dig-be  O'Dell, your friendly undertaker.
You're looking fine, Riley.  Very - -  natural."   (also from The Life
of Riley).
       And I'm still hearing people (usually women) saying, "Time wounds
all heels."    Now a permanent part of western philosophy, that famous
line came from  Jane Ace (Jane Epstein), of Easy Aces, an old-time radio
hit that came into being by accident.  But that's another story.
And by the way, "Coming on like Gangbusters"  is an apt description of
the  socko sound effects at the opening of each Gangbusters broadcast --
the shuffling  cadence of marching prisoners,  rattling  machine gun
fire, wailing sirens.  Anything with a knockout intro since then has
been "coming on like Gangbusters."  But I doubt anyone  ever said it on
that radio show.
        Oh, yeah, there's a lot more old-time radio contributed to our
lives and our language.  But we're a little short of time, so, until
next week, "Goodby, good luck, and may the Good Lord take a likin' to
ya."  Now who was it said that?

               Tom Heston

  Slan agus Go n-eiri an bothar leat.

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 15:16:07 -0400
From: Anthony Tollin <sanctumotr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Margot Stevenson on TCM Sunday morning

Turner Classic Movies is showing INVISIBLE STRIPES at 6 AM Eastern/5 AM
Central this Sunday morning.  The film stars George Raft, Humphrey Bogart,
William Holden and Margot Stevenson.  The 1939 film was made the year after
Margot costarred as "The Shadow's friend and companion" opposite Orson
Welles.  Of course, you'll be able to meet Margot Stevenson in person in
October at the 30th Annual Friends of Old-Time Radio Convention.
--Anthony Tollin

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:28:21 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR tributes

   One that I can think of off hand was Floyd (Howard McNear) the barber
on Andy Griffith and Floyd the barber on Gildersleeve.
   Joe

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 20:29:06 -0400
From: tedshumaker@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  YTJD expense account
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There was a pilot filmed for YTJD but it never sold made and to broadcast TV.
Chris' idea sounds interesting though.

Ted

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:09:36 -0400
From: "Derek Tague" <derek@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Various  #258 follow-ups
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Alan Altounian posted:

I don't know if it originated during OTR, but I would guess that Jack
Benny's mock-dramatic response of "well!"  is still a fairly widely
understood expression of a light-hearted retort to a friendly verbal jab.
(even among those who have never heard of JB or OTR.)

Then add Jack's "Now cut that out!" to the litany. I don't  know if Mr.
Kubelsky
originated that, but he clearly made it his own.

When my favourite Boston Blackie aficianado Chris Werner expounded
upon the generational pop culture gap, he commented:

Ask anyone under 20 to hum the song 'This Old Man' vs ask the same group to
identify the theme. Good Barney marketing of out-of-copyright melodies
changes a generations context of things.

Isn't the official name of that song "The Children's Marching Song"?  I like
my version better: "This old man, he played 'one,"/ He played 'one'
with Irene [removed]" (the song then follows the tradiditional knick-knack
paddy-whack trajectory). Repeat the lyrics with famous folks
whose names rhyme with the spoken-out numbers, [removed], "...he
played  five with Colin [removed]"

Re: Sandy Singer's posting on Les Paul:
 There's going to be an article about him in "The (Newark
NJ) Star-Ledger" tom'w (28). Try out [removed]

ARRRGH! Steve Jansen said that:

"Jackson" (grandpa often called me that)-Jack Benny Show

There's a young Jack Benny fan who calls me "Jackson" largely because
my pet name for her is "Livvie," the way Phil Harris referred to
Mary Livingstone.

Our man in NYC, James Burns weighed in that Les Paul:

is a frequent guest on the national overnight
talker,  WOR's THE JOEY REYNOLDS SHOW.

We're hoping to get Mr. Reynolds as a guest at the annual
FOTR "Funny Friday" comedy panel. Be there. Aloha.

Derek Tague

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:19:04 -0400
From: "Walden Hughes" <hughes1@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Major Huppal

Hi Everybody,

does any one have a copy of the Major Huppal show that survives.  Frank
Bresee would like a copy of it.  Take care,

Walden Hughes

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Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:19:25 -0400
From: "WILLIS G Saunders" <saunders8@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Dagwood Sandwich on radio

Hi Folks,

Here's the answer I can give about how a Dagwood sandwich was handled on
radio.  Please keep in mind that the answer is over fifty years old and is
from the memory atop my little pointed head, after it was run through the
pencil sharpener.

The only time I can remember was when Blondie's and Cora Dithers' womens'
club were having refreshments at Blondie's house, and the object was to see
who could make the most dainty sandwiches.

Dagwood and Mr. Dithers felt left out, so they decided the would make the
biggest sandwich they could and enter it into the contest.

When the time came for the entries to be presented, here came Dagwood and
Mr. Dithers with a sandwich so big that it had to be rolled into the room on
a cart.  As you can imagine, Blondie and Mrs. Dithers just about went
through the floor in embarrassment.

When Blokndie found her voice, she had the nerve to ask what was in the
sandwich.  I believe it was Mr. Dithers who started from the top naming the
ingredients of the sandwich until he got to the halfway point.  After that,
Dagwood took over, naming the rest of the ingredients, until he reached the
bottom.

As I remember it, the rest of the ladies were good sports and named the
sandwich that Dagwood and Mr. Dithers made the winter of the contest.  The
visualization was up to the listener.

Pointed headedly yours,

Buck Saunders

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Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 02:58:52 -0400
From: Michael Shoshani <mshoshani@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Les Paul

Sandy Singer writes, about Les Paul:

In the '30s, he was known around Chicago as Rubarb Red, on the Barn
Dance, Chicago's answer to our Grand Old Opry.

Actually, it was the other way around.  George D. Hay was "The Solemn
Old Judge" on WLS Chicago when he started the WLS Barn Dance in 1924.
It wasnt until the next year that Hay moved to Nashville and started
the WSM Barn Dance, which was soon renamed the Grand Ole Opry.

Michael Shoshani
Chicago

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