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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2006 : Issue 118
                         A Part of the [removed]!
                             [removed]
                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  4-29 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  This week in radio history 30 April   [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Re: It's That Time Again 3            [ Justin Felix <justinfelix@[removed] ]
  It's That Time Again 3 Redux          [ "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@j ]
  Radio Days                            [ "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@earthli ]
  Look - up atop that that building!    [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Amos & Andy                           [ "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@sbcgloba ]
  OTR-oriented Print                    [ HK Hinkley <parpark280@[removed]; ]
  It's That Time Again 3                [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
  4-30 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:09:37 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-29 births/deaths

April 29th births

04-29-1896 - Harry McNaughton - Surbiton, England - d. 2-26-1967
actor, panelist: Higgins "It's Higgins. Sir"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
04-29-1897 - Charles Seel - NYC - d. 4-19-1980
actor: "Romance"; "Four-Star Playhouse"; "The Halls of Ivy"
04-29-1899 - Duke Ellington - Washington, [removed] - d. 5-24-1974
bandleader: "Jubilee"; "Orson Welles Theatre"; "Story of Swing"
04-29-1901 - Emperor Hirohito (Showa) - Tokyo, Japan - d. 1-7-1989
emperor: End of war speech
04-29-1903 - Frank Parker - NYC - d. 1-10-1999
singer: "A & P Gypsies"; "Jack Benny Program"; "Frank Parker Show
04-29-1903 - Richard Leibert - Bethlehem, PA - d. 10-22-1976
organist: "Dick Leibert's Musical Revue"; "Organ Rhapsody"
04-29-1904 - Russ Morgan - Scranton, PA - d. 8-8-1969
bandleader: (Music in the Morgan Manner) "Russ Morgan Orchestra"
04-29-1908 - Jack Williamson - Bisbee, Arizona Territory
writer: "Dimension X"
04-29-1912 - Ian Martin - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 7-25-1981
actor: Horace Sutton "Young Dr. Malone"; Harry Archer "Meet Corliss
Archer"
04-29-1912 - John MacVane - Portland, ME - d. 1-28-1984
newscaster: "United or Not"
04-29-1912 - Richard Carlson - Albert Lea, MN - d. 11-25-1977
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
04-29-1913 - Norman Felton - London, England
producer, director: "Author's Playhouse"; "Grand Marquee"
04-29-1914 - Derek Guyler - Wallasey, Merseyside, England - d. 10-8-1999
actor: "It's That Man Again"
04-29-1915 - Donald F. Mills - Piqua, OH - d. 11-13-1999
singer: (The Mills Brothers) "Mills Brothers Quartette"
04-29-1919 - Celeste Holm - NYC
actor: "House on Q Street"; "Great Scenes from Great Plays"; "New
World A-Coming"
04-29-1925 - Michael Wager - NYC
actor: "And Bravely Walk"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
04-29-1936 - Zubin Mehta - Bombay, India
conductor: New York Symphony Orchestra

April 29th deaths

03-06-1927 - William J. Bell - Chicago, IL - d. 4-29-2005
writer: "The Guiding Light"
05-06-1912 - Bill Quinn - NYC - d. 4-29-1994
actor: Guy Aldis "Against the Storm"; Tom Davis "When a Girl Marries"
06-17-1899 - Benny Krueger - Newark, NJ - d. 4-29-1967
bandleader: "The Rudy Vallee Show"; "Side Walk Cafe"
06-24-1914 - Allan E. Sloane - d. 4-29-2001
writer: "Indictment"; "Bulldog Drummond"; "The Man Behind the Gun"
07-01-1881 - Josef Pasternack - Czenstachown, Poland - d. 4-29-1940
conductor: "Atwater Kent Concert"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
07-24-1853 - William Gillette - Hartford, CT - d. 4-29-1937
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"
08-13-1899 - Alfred Hitchcock - London, England - d. 4-29-1980
host: "Murder by Experts"; "Once Upon a Midnight"
08-16-1907 - Mae Clark - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-29-1992
actor: "Family Theatre"; "This Is Your FBI"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-21-1911 - Anthony Boucher - Oakland, CA - d. 4-29-1968
writer: "Advs. of Sherlock Holmes"; "Advs. of Ellery Queen; "Gregory
Hood"
09-06-1909 - Michael Gordon - Baltimore, MD - d. 4-29-1993
film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"
09-27-1915 - Cy Howard - Wisconsin - d. 4-29-1993
creator, writer, producer: "Life with Luigi"; "My Friend Irma";
"Milton Berle Show"
12-25-1893 - Belle Baker - NYC - d. 4-29-1957
actor: "The Eveready Hour"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:09:48 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 30 April to 6 May

 From Those Were The Days --

4/30

1945 - "How would you like to be queen for a day!" That opening line,
delivered by host, Jack Bailey, was first heard on Mutual on this day.
The first Queen for a Day was Mrs. Evelyn Lane.

1945 - Arthur Godfrey began his CBS morning show. His theme was Seems
Like Old Times. Arthur Godfrey Time ran until this very same day in
1972. Godfrey's show used live talent and not records. His popularity
with listeners was the major reason that several sponsors gave Godfrey
the freedom to ad-lib their commercials and, from time to time, joke
about the products as well.

5/1

1931 - Singer Kate Smith began her long and illustrious radio career
with CBS on this, her birthday. The 22-year-old Smith started out with
no sponsors and a paycheck of just $10 a week for the nationally
broadcast daily program. However, within 30 days, her salary increased
to a more respectable $1,500 a week, or $[removed] in 2005 dollars
according to [removed]

5/5

1935 - The program, Rhythm at Eight, made its debut. The star of the
show was 24-year-old Ethel Merman. Though Merman would become a legend
years later, she didn't fare so well on radio. Her show was taken off
the air after 13 weeks and Miss Merman returned to her first love,
Broadway.

5/6

1937 - A student of history, a broadcaster or anyone interested in news
coverage, will remember this day and the words of NBC's Herbert
Morrison. "Oh, the humanity!" Morrison's emotion-filled historic
broadcast of the explosion of the dirigible, Hindenburg at Lakehurst,
NJ, became the first recorded coast-to-coast broadcast as it was carried
on both the NBC Red and NBC Blue networks from New York City.

Joe

--
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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 03:13:05 -0400
From: Justin Felix <justinfelix@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: It's That Time Again 3

Alas, Honest Harold never appeared in the story (unless perhaps he was
the silent, unidentified man in Floyd's barber chair; if so, that hardly
counts). Then I turned to the foreword by Norman Corwin and found it
to be just two sentences long, both of those sentences praising the book's
editor.

Hi Richard - 

As the author of the Honest Harold / Great
Gildersleeve story, I too was surprised to see
"Saturday Morning Paper" in its stead {it appeared in
ITTA 2}.  There apparently was a mix-up somewhere down
the line after I submitted the story.  However, that
doesn't take away from my enthusiasm for the book. 
There are some fun stories in it, and I'm looking
forward to finishing it this weekend.  I hope you
enjoy the rest of it (and enjoyed my story - even if
it doesn't feature Harold Hemp).  :)  

Godspeed, Justin.  

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:00:55 -0400
From: "Stephen A Kallis, Jr" <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  It's That Time Again 3 Redux

Richard Carpenter seems disappointed in the latest of the It's That Time
Again books.  However, he bases his judgement on one story and the fact
that Norman Corwin's entry is extremely brief.

The concept behind the new book is one of those things we'd have loved to
have heard back then: characters from different radio shows meet to
interact.  Often, though, this means that one character tends to be more
central than the other(s).  The editor's own story brings in Jack
Armstrong, Tom Mix, and Nick Carter, yet clearly the central character is
Jack Armstrong.  Likewise, in a story by Martin Grams, Paladin is more to
the forefront than Matt Dillon.  Richard Lupoff's tale made both The
Whistler and The Mysterious Traveler more involved with an actual story
than they ever were on the radio, but here they were still subordinated
to the story of a lady passenger on a train traveling with the corpse of
her uncle.

In any anthology, some of the stories are more likely to strike a chord
with a reader than others.  Quite a few delivered exactly what they
promised.

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:01:14 -0400
From: "joe@[removed]" <sergei01@[removed];
To: "OTR List" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Radio Days

I've never seen Radio Days by Woody Allen, but the description makes it
sound pretty good - showing currently in HD on HDNet.

(excerpt from schedule)

(All times Eastern/Pacific. All schedules subject to change)

Mon., May  1 -  7:45 AM ET /  4:45 AM PT
RADIO DAYS
1987 - PG - 1:25
Cast: Mia Farrow, Seth Green, Julie Kavner, Director: Woody Allen
Woody Allen film about the culture of radio before television, centering on
his days growing up in Brooklyn, his goofy extended family, and the legends
of radio they adored.

Mon., May  1 -  6:30 PM ET /  3:30 PM PT

Fri., May  5 -  9:30 AM ET /  6:30 AM PT
======================

js

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:30:35 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Look - up atop that that building!

From: <otrbuff@[removed];

While on the West Coast recently  I encountered a journal
... with a moniker of "The Berkeley Daily Planet" ...  What
a throwback to a vintage era!

Dear Jim -

Vintage, yes; radio, no.

I'd expect Mr. Tollin might fly to the  rescue here; but in case he doesn't:
from Wikipedia -

"When Superman first appeared in comics (in 1938's Action Comics #1),  his
alter ego Clark Kent worked for a newspaper named the Daily Star ... When  the
Superman newspaper comic strip appeared, the fictional newspaper's name was
permanently changed to the Daily Planet to avoid a name conflict with real
newspapers which had Star in their name."

Best,
- Superman's pal, Craig

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:32:34 -0400
From: "Frank McGurn" <[removed]@[removed];
To: "The Old Time Radio Digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Amos & Andy
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I grew up in a home with no prejudice and A&A was alway listened to and
enjoyed.
In my youth I was a Plasterer (Union) and I worked for several years with a
crew of Colored
(Not Black or African Americans) Plasterers. They refered to me as a white
Spot. A&A was on the air on Friday night and on Monday, at work, we all
would talk about  Andy's love life or Kingfish's wild schemes or the phony
Henry Van Porter. We worked with a guy we called Lightening. The point is
the colored loved it and could relate the characters to people they knew. We
did a lot of laughing during the day and work was fun, the day was over
before you knew it.

I have over 70 A & A half hour shows and I have listrened to all of them and
I don't remember ever hearing any reference to Negro or Colored. The NAACP
was just getting started in the late 1940's. So they couldn't attack A & A.

Chicago grew as city of neighborhoods Irish, German, Italian, Greek &
Colored plus any other nationality that exists. In some parts of the the
neighdorhoods still exist, the younger generation have opted for suburbs. My
point is that A & A was popular all over Chicago for every one. A & A
started in Chicago on WGN only it was called Sam & Henry Changed to A & A
when it went to NBC Blue network. Where can I buy a box of Rinso?

Did any one complain about Life with Luigi, The Goldberg, Abie's Irish
Rose, Charlie Chan, Kalenmyer's Kindergarten ?

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 12:32:04 -0400
From: HK Hinkley <parpark280@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR-oriented Print

 Jim Cox says:

How many other names of OTR-oriented print organs
might there be out there?

The Metropolis, Illinois, weekly newspaper is The Planet.  They also have
a painting of Superman on the water tower and a statue of Supe in the
downtown area.  I can't imagine the connection.

Stay tuned,  HK

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 15:09:34 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  It's That Time Again 3

Then I turned to the foreword by Norman Corwin and found it
to be just two sentences long, both of those sentences
praising the book's editor. Despite these
disappointments, I look forward to reading the rest of the book.

Richard Carpenter mentioned the lack of Honest Harold and the brief Norman
Corwin foreward.

Corwin's foreward was brief because of his age and health.  Having Mr.
Corwin take time out of his schedule to endorse the book, even if it is
brief, is beneficial and says a lot about his character and attempts to
endorse any thing old-time radio.  I once asked to Patricia Hitchcock
O'Connell, Hitchcock's daughter, in the interest that she would write a
foreward for a book I wrote.  She told me she wasn't very good at writing
anything but shrugged it off saying "If I can do something I'll let you
know."  I took it as a brush-off even though we've communicated numerous
times in the past.  Four months later I received a small handwritten letter
of maybe four sentences and her signature in the mail out of the blue, and
realized what she did.  I admire her honesty and attempt to help preserve
her father's name for a book that had at the time, not yet documented one of
the last few aspects of her father's career.  I admire Corwin for the same
reasons.

Incidentally, anyone who e-mailed me the past week and a half - I apologize
for not e-mailing sooner.  Part of Southern York County in Pennsylvania was
without phone service (which also means the internet for me) as a result of
a storm that passed through while we were attending the Cincinnati OTR
COnvention.  If you e-mailed and didn't get a reply, I'm working on it now.

Martin

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Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:25:37 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  4-30 births/deaths

April 30th births

04-30-1870 - Franz Lehar - Romorn, Austria-Hungary - d. 10-24-1948
operetta composer: "Railroad Hour"; "Showtime"
04-30-1903 - Fulton Lewis, Jr. - Washington, [removed] - d. 8-21-1966
commentator: "News and Comments"
04-30-1907 - Sidney Harmon - Poughkeepsie, NY - d. 2-29-1988
writer, director: "The Life of Riley"; "Honest Abe"
04-30-1909 - Bud Linn - Indianapolis, IN - d. 7-31-1968
singer: (The King's Men) "Kraft Music Hall"; "Fibber McGee and Molly"
04-30-1911 - Orin Tovrov - Boston, MA - d. 8-16-1980
writer: "The Brighter Day"; "Ma Perkins"; "Manhattan Mother"
04-30-1912 - Eve Arden - Mill Valley, CA - d. 11-12-1990
actor: Connie Brooks "Our Miss Brooks"; Libby Collins "Lux Radio
Theatre"
04-30-1916 - Phil Brown - Cambridge, MA - d. 2-9-2006
actor: "Arch Obolor's Playes"
04-30-1916 - Robert Shaw - Red Bluff, CA - d. 1-25-1999
choral director: "Radio Hall of Fame"; "American School of the Air"
04-30-1917 - Bea Wain - The Bronx, NY
singer: (The Reverie Girl) "Your Hit Parade"; "Your All-Time Hit Parade"
04-30-1919 - Jack Haskell - Akron, OH - d. 9-26-1998
singer: "Dave Garroway Show"; "Music from the Heart of America"
04-30-1923 - Al Lewis - NYC - d. 2-3-2006
actor: hosted weekly radio program on WBAI-FM New York
04-30-1925 - Corinne Calvert - Paris, France - d. 6-23-2001
actor: "Martin and Lewis Show"
04-30-1926 - Cloris Leachman - Des Moines, IA
actor: Local radio as a teenager
04-30-1926 - Lou Cioffi - d. 5-2-1998
news reporter: "The Warning Bell"; "Big News of 1957/58"
04-30-1948 - Perry King - Alliance, OH
actor: Han Solo "Star Wars"

April 30th deaths

03-02-1918 - Elmira Roessler - St. Louis, MO - d. 4-30-1975
actor, singer: Jennifer Davis "Backstage Wife"; Tweetsie Herringbone
"Ma Perkins"
03-12-1888 - Hall Johnson - Athens, GA - d. 4-30-1970
choral director: (Hall Johnson Choir) "Paducah Plantation"; "Show Boat"
04-20-1889 - Adolf Hitler - Braunau, Austria - d. 4-30-1945
dictator: Propaganda broadcasts
06-15-1909 - Mickey Katz - Cleveland, OH - d. 4-30-1985
clarinetist: (Father of Joel Grey) "The Spike Jones Show"
07-31-1900 - Elmo Roper - Hebron, NE - d. 4-30-1971
pioneering polster: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"; "Word from
the People"
08-04-1905 - Luther Roundtree - d. 4-30-1990
banjo player: "The Spike Jones Show"
12-06-1900 - Agnes Moorehead - Clinton, MA - d. 4-30-1974
actor: Margo Lane "The Shadow";  Marilly "Mayor of the Town"
12-31-1908 - Jonah Jones - Louisville, KY - d. 4-30-2000
jazz trumpeter: "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concert"; "Army Bandstand";
"Manhattan Melodies"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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