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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 75
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  This week in radio history 23-29 Mar  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
  Art - and joy! - is where you find i  [ Wich2@[removed] ]
  Re-creations and more in NW PA        [ Paul Adomites <padomites@embarqmail ]
  OTR stars on "I've Got a Secret"      [ Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed] ]
  American Radio in the OTR era on the  [ George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@hotmai ]
  Sam Hayes                             [ "Robert Birchard" <bbirchard@earthl ]
  3-23 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  Re: Sir Arthur C. Clarke              [ "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed]; ]
  OLDE TYME RADIO NETWORK               [ Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@cha ]
  listening to OTR on the web           [ "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@hotmail. ]

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:08:41 -0400
From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  This week in radio history 23-29 March

 From Those Were The Days --

3/23

1940 - Truth or Consequences was first heard on radio. The Ralph
Edwards-produced program was hosted by Mr. Edwards. The show was
originally heard on only four CBS stations. Later, NBC picked up the
show where it eventually became the most popular of all radio quiz shows.

3/24

1932 - Belle Baker hosted a radio variety show from a moving train ... a
first for radio broadcasting. The program originated from a Baltimore
and Ohio train that chugged its way around the New York area. The
broadcast was heard on WABC in New York City.

1935 - After a year as a local show from New York City, Major Bowes'
Original Amateur Hour was heard on the entire NBC network. The show
stayed on the air for 17 years. Later, Ted Mack took over for Bowes and
made the move from radio to television.

3/25

1943 - Jimmy Durante and Garry Moore premiered on network radio. The
pair replaced the popular Abbott and Costello following Lou Costello's
heart attack. Durante and Moore stayed on the air for four years.

3/27

1943 - Blue Ribbon Town was first heard on CBS.

3/28

1941 - Louella Parsons hosted Hollywood Premiere for the first time on
CBS. The gossip columnist introduced famous guests who appeared in
dramatized stories.

1944 - WQXR in New York City, owned by The New York Times newspaper,
banned singing commercials from its airwaves as of this day.
Understandable, since the station has always been the classical music
voice of Manhattan and t here aren't many classical singing commercials.

3/29

1932 - Jack Benny appeared on radio for the first time. He agreed to
join then newspaper columnist, Ed Sullivan, on his interview show.

1937 - The serial, Our Gal Sunday, debuted. The question, 'Can this girl
from a small mining town in the West find happiness as the wife of a
wealthy and titled Englishman?" was asked each day for next 22 years.

Joe

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:09:50 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Art - and joy! - is where you find [removed]

Dear Mark-

(And Jim, and  [removed])

From: Mark Higgins paul_frees_fan@[removed]

My  brother recently pointed me toward the
Radio Drama Revival  website,

For those open to the continued use of the audio drama form,  Fred Greenhalgh
does yeomanlike work at that site. Offering work by some of the  best going,
[removed] the aforementioned Crazy Dog, & others. As well, interviews  with the
folks involved.

and for the Ides of
March, they  presented the Quicksilver production of
"The Tragedy of Julius Caesar", which  I listened to
and thoroughly enjoyed.

You're very kind, Mark. My  gang works very hard, and we take this medium
very seriously (alas, the lack of  that level of commitment is a big problem
with some modern groups.)

As  far as Jim's points, I think that many Listers here who know me from FOTR
will  testify to my love of the Classic Network Era and it's Veterans. And I
am  blessed to be able to say that several have told me that that respect is
reciprocated. In fact, the usual response from the real Big Names, is not,
"how  DARE you presume to do what we used to do!", but rather, the exact
opposite:  "Thank you young folks for trying to keep the genre going! (And by
the way - I'm  available!)"

So I would only say that, when it comes to OTR and  Contemporary Audio there
is no need for it to be "either, or."

I adore  Golden Age Cinema - in fact, reaching back to the Silent days; I
grew up in the  60's, and love "Silver Age" comic books; The TV shows of that
era
- DICK VAN  DYKE, etc. - are among my favorites. But does all that mean that
I should not  got to a newly-released film, buy an occasional currently
printed comic, or  watch some of today's excellent Cable series? That would
be silly
 self-deprivation!

In rosy nostalgia, there sometimes seems to be a vibe  of, "if I embrace the
New, I am somehow "cheating on" the Old." Nah. To use the  old saying, "Love
does not Divide; it Multiplies."

All best,
-Craig W.

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:10:05 -0400
From: Paul Adomites <padomites@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re-creations and more in NW PA
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Here in Franklin, PA, we have done six nights of old time radio recreations,
through the Franklin Barrow-Civic Theatre. We usually have shows around
Valentine's Day, a summer show (August 3 this year) and a Halloween Show.
We've done Captain Midnight, The Lone Ranger, Ozzie and Harriet, The
Bickersons, Boston Blackie, Suspense, X Minus One, and my two favorites, "Good
Ghost" and "Where Do You Get Your Ideas?" from Quiet Please.

I have also created a local heroine, Franklin Frankie, and her private eye
sidekick Bette Noir, who specialize in "thwarting" bad guys (each ep has to
have at least seven uses of the word "thwart" -- I think it's aB funny
word)B with references to local people, places and events. Each episode also
has a commercial which begins, "Say, kids," in which I encourage youngsters to
persuade their fathers to buy for their mothers such things as jewelry (from a
local merchant), a plane trip, or a membership to Curves. The preparation and
rehearsal take a little more than a week, as opposed to the theatre's
large-scale productions (which they do really well, and supply us with a link
to vocal talent) so our little troupe has a fun fine time without too much
effort and the audiencesB love it. We used to do three re-creations plus a
half-hour of Franklin Frankie, but the shows were getting a little long for
our older fans, so we do two half-hours of old shows, Frankie, and a shorter
skit, like the Bickersons. Last time we even did "The Copper Clapper Caper."

If you're headed this way, please stop by. Email me or check out the
Barrow-Civic theatre website for more info.

Paul Adomites

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:10:19 -0400
From: Larry Jordan <midtod@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR stars on "I've Got a Secret"

I too saw the episode of "I've Got A Secret" that David Ballarotta
mentioned as having been aired on the Game Show Network earlier this
week. It was quite a surprise to see the old radio stars, and the
panelists obviously were fans as they readily identified each of the
women, who performed a little snippet from their own radio programs
and challenged the four panelists to guess who they were.

There was also a mention of the fact that Arthur Godfrey was going to
be doing a special all-night radio broadcast to commemorate his 30th
anniversary on CBS, and he commented that he had done an earlier all-
nighter. He acted like being on all night was very unusual but surely
there were stations that stayed on the air 24/7, weren't there? I
wonder if any OTR fans have copies of these Godfrey shows?

Dick Kollmar, who was among the guests on "IGAS," was, of course,
radio's "Boston Blackie" and you would know that immediately from
hearing his speaking voice. I'm a big fan of that show. As you
probably know, he was married to Dorothy Kilgallen, a panelist on
"What's My LIne?" who was also a fearless newspaper reporter who
scored major scoops in addition to writing the "Voice of Broadway"
column for the New York Journal-American. The couple had their own
morning radio show for years on WOR in New York City called
"Breakfast With Dorothy and Dick." (I'm still trying to find copies
of this show). She died in November 1965 under circumstances that are
highly suspicious (see [removed]
[removed]) and her husband, Dick, was also found dead in
bed of an apparent drug overdose in 1971, under circumstances
that were rather questionable. But I digress.

On "IGAS" there was also some good-natured kidding about Bud Collier
having portrayed "Superman" on radio, since he did not have the
physique for it! Of course, host Garry Moore and panel member Henry
Morgan were also radio veterans. Henry routinely chided his sponsors
with barbs that sometimes offended them, but often spurred sales.

I wish I'd thought to DVR this episode of the show. It's too bad we
don't know about these in advance.

Larry Jordan

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:10:40 -0400
From: George Tirebiter <tirebiter2@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  American Radio in the OTR era on the CBC

Last night I was listening to Fibber McGee and Company (as the show was
called during Molly's absence) for 4/3/39. At the opening Harlow Wilcox says
the show is now being carried on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
During the body of the show one of the usual parade of visitors to 79 Wistful
Vista is a Canadian Mountie who welcomes Fibber to Canada.  At the close
Fibber again mentions the show is being carried in Canada. Now I think I have
read on this list or elsewhere that some American shows of the OTR era were
syndicated to Canadian radio stations, but I had never heard of an American
network show being simultaneously on the CBC. Was this true of any programs
other than Fibber? And how long did Fibber remain on the CBC?

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:11:01 -0400
From: "Robert Birchard" <bbirchard@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Sam Hayes
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Anyone on the group (except Bobb Lynes--thanks, Bobb, for your input) have
any information about Sam Hayes? I received the following inquiry:

Dear Bob,

I'm trying to clear rights for the short film BUNKER HILL-1956 and there's a
problem with one participant. Sam Hayes. I "think" he was a radio announcer
on one of the stations out in LA and I was hoping that you might have heard
of him. Do you, and do you know if he had family?

Best regards,
Dennis
milefilms@[removed]

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Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:27:51 -0400
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-23 births/deaths

March 23rd births

03-23-1874 - Fiddlin' John Carson - Cobb County, GA - d. 12-11-1949
fiddler: Made debut on staation WSB Atlanta, Georgia
03-23-1891 - Dr. [removed] DeHaan - Zeeland, MI - d. 12-13-1965
evengelist: "Radio Bible Class"
03-23-1892 - Nadea Dragonette Loftus - d. 10-xx-1982
Sister and business manager of Jessica Dragonette
03-23-1893 - Arnold Johnson - Chicago, IL - d. 7-25-1975
bandleader: "The Majestic Theatre Hour"; "True Story Time"
03-23-1898 - David Newell - Chicago, IL - d. 9-26-1986
outdoorsman: "Fishing and Hunting Club of the Air"
03-23-1899 - Peggy Paige - Ashville, NC - d. 8-26-1974
actor: Sassy "Grits and Gravy"; Nancy "Main Street Sketches"
03-23-1905 - Joan Crawford - San Antonio, TX - d. 5-10-1977
actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Everyman's Theatre"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
03-23-1905 - Sidney Walton - Mississippi - d. 1-16-1958
announcer: "Arthur Tracy, Street Singer"; "Changing Times"
03-23-1906 - Richard L. Evans - Salt Lake City, UT - d. 11-1-1971
announcer: "Music and the Spoken Word" (Mormon Tabernacle Choir)
03-23-1910 - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo, Japan - d. 9-6-1998
film director: NHK Tokyo, Japan
03-23-1910 - Paula Winslowe - Grafton, ND - d. 3-7-1996
actor: Peg Riley "Life of Riley"; Jill "Joe E. Brown Show"
03-23-1911 - Herbert Rudley - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-9-2006
actor: "Helen Hayes Theatre"; "Great Plays"; "Hollywood Radio Theatre"
03-23-1912 - Francis DeSales - Philadelphia, PA - d. 9-25-1988
actor: Bill Weigand "Mr. and Mrs. North"; Parris Mitchell "King's Row"
03-23-1915 - Louis Quinn - Chicago, IL - d. 9-15-1988
actor: "Studio One"
03-23-1917 - Josef Locke - Londonderry, Northern Ireland - d. 10-15-1999
actor: "Variety Fanfare"
03-23-1917 - Oscar Shumsky - Philadelphia, PA - d. 7-24-2000
violinist: "Voice of Firestone"
03-23-1920 - Alfred Palca - Manhattan, NY - d. 6-18-1998
writer: Wrote for NBC radio while still in college
03-23-1920 - Maurice Marsac - La Croix, France - d. 5-6-2007
actor: French Teacher "Our Miss Brooks"
03-23-1926 - Martha Wright - Seattle, WA
actor: "Stars for Defense"
03-23-1938 - Christopher Glenn - NYC - d. 10-17-2006
news correspondent: "World News Roundup"; "The World Tonight"
03-23-1957 - Amanda Plummer - NYC
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"

March 23rd deaths

02-06-1917 - Raymond Katz - NYC - d. 3-23-2000
director, creator: "Navy Hour"; "Maisie"; "Woman of the Year"
02-13-1920 - Eileen Farrell - Willimantic, CT - d. 3-23-2002
singer: "Eileen Farrell Sings"; "Prudential Family Hour"
02-14-1901 - Peggy Allenby - NYC - d. 3-23-1966
actor: Susan Price "David Harun"; Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"
02-16-1910 - Jerry Lester - Chicago, IL - d. 3-23-1995
actor: John Benson "Life of Mary Sothern"
02-22-1920 - Giulietta Masina - San Girogio di Piano, Italy - d.
3-23-1994
actor: Pallina "Terzoglio"
03-25-1920 - Howard Cosell - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 3-23-1995
sportscaster: "Speaking of Sports"
04-25-1907 - Paula Trueman - NYC - d. 3-23-1994
actor: "Great Plays"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
05-05-1919 - George London - Montreal, Canada - d. 3-23-1985
singer: "The Voice of Firestone"
05-10-1889 - Mae Murray - Portsmouth, VA - d. 3-23-1963
actor: "Your Unseen Friend"
06-03-1905 - Paulette Goddard - Whitestone Landing, Long Island, NY -
d. 3-23-1990
actor: "Cresta Blanca Players"
06-26-1904 - Peter Lorre - Rozsahegy, Hungary - d. 3-23-1964
actor: [removed] Moto "Mr. Moto"; "Creeps By Night"; "; "Mystery in the Air"
07-20-1918 - Cindy Walker - Mart, TX - d. 3-23-2006
songwriter: "National Barn Dance"; "Spike Jones"; "Lifebouy Show"
09-30-1923 - Donald Swann - Llanelli, Wales - d. 3-23-1994
composer, pianist: "Third Programme with Henry Reed"
10-03-1910 - Gwen Davenport - Colon, Canal Zone, Panama - d. 3-23-2002
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
10-31-1905 - Dewey Cole - d. 3-23-1991
sound effects: "The Lone Ranger"; "Challenge of the Yukon"
12-07-1916 - Dorothea Brooking - Buckinghamshire, England - d. 3-23-1999
announcer for the BBC

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 01:08:22 -0400
From: "Jan Bach" <janbach@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Re: Sir Arthur C. Clarke

Hello again --

As long as Arthur C. Clarke's name has been brought up on the event of his
death (and although his relationship with Old Time Radio is tangential at
best) I thought I would mention that during my years as a music professor
our College of Fine and Applied Arts played host to him at Northern Illinois
University (yes, that recently unfortunate university) way back in 1971,
inviting him to campus to give his talk "The Future Isn't What It Used to
Be." I have a recording of this entire speech and will be happy to share it
as an mp3 file with anyone off-line if they request it. It's very
interesting to hear him relate so many examples of his fertile imagination,
which envisioned many things far beyond the communications satellite and his
novel "The Sentinel" (which became the film 2001).

And if anyone is interested, they may see a photo of a much younger me with
Sir Arthur on my website, at [removed]. Just click on the
third picture in the fifth row.

yOurs TRuly,
Jan Bach

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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:38:25 -0400
From: Jerry Haendiges <jerryhaendiges@[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
high-quality audio, on demand, 24/7 at [removed]
Many new titles have been added to our High-Quality mp3 catalog at:
[removed]
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SAME TIME, SAME STATION

Happy Easter!

THE COLUMBIA WORKSHOP
Episode 86   4-16-38   "The Terrible Meek"
A one-act stage play for three voices: to be played in darkness, by
Charles Rann Kennedy.
Stars: Ann Boley as Mary, House Jameson as the Captain, Eustace Wyatt as
the Soldier
Director: William N. Robeson

NBC UNIVERSITY THEATER
Episode 83    4-9-50    "The Nazarene"
Adapted from Scholem Asch's 1939 novel on the life of Jesus Christ.
Narrated by: Gayne Whitman.
Stars: Larry Dobkin, Nestor Paiva, Steven Chase, Frank Gerstle,
Whitfield Connor, Peter McCabe, Shepard Menken, Jan Arvan, James Nusser,
Paul Frees, Herbert Rawlinson, David Wolfe.
Music: Cantor Paul Ludoff.
Adapted by Ernest Knoy

HALLMARK PLAYHOUSE
Episode 118    3-22-51   "The Long Love"
Stars: Van Johnson, Lurene Tuttle
CBS HALLMARK CARDS
HOST: James Hilton
ANNOUNCER: Frank Goss
==================================

HERITAGE RADIO THEATER

Happy Easter!

OUR MISS BROOKS
(CBS) 4/9/50 "Dyeing Easter Eggs" - Eve Arden.

SUSPENSE
(CBS) 4/20/43 "The Moment of Darkness" starring Peter Lorre, Wendy
Barrie and George Zokor.

THE ADVENTURER'S CLUB
(Synd) 1932-33 The Old Sea Captain's Tale.
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THE GLOWING DIAL

  The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show - "The Courtship Of Elliott Lewis"
originally aired September 25, 1953 on NBC
Starring: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roose, Anne
Whitfield, Walter Tetley, John Hubbard, The Sportsmen, Jacqueline
Fontaine, Bill Forman announcing.
Sponsor: RCA

The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show - "Little Alice's First Date"
originally aired October 9, 1953 on NBC
Starring: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roose, Anne
Whitfield, Walter Tetley, John Hubbard, The Sportsmen, Gil Stratton Jr.,
Bill Forman announcing.
Sponsor: RCA

The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show - "A Night With Phil Harris"
originally aired December 4, 1953 on NBC
Starring: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roose, Anne
Whitfield, Walter Tetley, John Hubbard, The Sportsmen, Bill Forman
announcing.
Sponsor: RCA

The Phil Harris / Alice Faye Show - "A Trip To The Moon"
originally aired November 13, 1953 on NBC
Starring: Phil Harris, Alice Faye, Elliott Lewis, Jeanine Roose, Anne
Whitfield, Walter Tetley, John Hubbard, The Sportsmen, Bill Thompson, Ed
Kemmer, Lyn Osborne,  Bill Forman announcing.
Sponsor: RCA
==================================

If you have any questions or request, please feel free to contact me.

      Jerry Haendiges

      Jerry@[removed]  562-696-4387
      The Vintage Radio Place   [removed]
      Largest source of Old Time Radio Logs, Articles and programs on
the Net

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Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 17:32:53 -0400
From: "B. J. Watkins" <kinseyfan@[removed];
To: oldtimeradio Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  listening to OTR on the web
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My favorite site for OTR mp3s for listening or downloading is [removed]
Some of the shows are in really great sound quality, for instance , the
multi-part Yours Truly Johnny Dollars!

Barbara

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