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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2009 : Issue 6
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  Ring A Ding!                          [ Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed] ]
  1-7 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: Remarkable On-Air Fluffs          [ <georgewagner@[removed]; ]
  OTR on TV on Web                      [ david degerald <ddegerald@[removed] ]
  Barrymore                             [ Robert Everest <erest@[removed]; ]
  Re: radio about radio                 [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  Re: Cleaning ETs                      [ rand@[removed] ]
  Re: Radio Shows abot Radio            [ Cnorth6311@[removed] ]
  Cigarette and Smoking in the Plots/D  [ "Beito, David" <dbeito@[removed] ]
  RE: How about some radio shows about  [ "Marty" <martyd64@[removed]; ]
  1-8 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  Re: On air flubs                      [ drwatsonrnb@[removed] ]
  re: How about some radio shows about  [ Dan <teac35@[removed]; ]
  Re: Live Flubs                        [ Dixonhayes@[removed] ]
  OTR in the News                       [ seandd@[removed] ]

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:07:32 -0500
From: Stephen A Kallis <skallisjr@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Ring A Ding!

Howard Blue, comenting on my posting on the Captain Midnight radio show,
notes,

Although I don't recall the radio version, the TV one affectd me to the
point where I named my first dog "Cap" and ever since I lost my "glows in
the dark decoder ring with the secret compartment" (1950?) I have been
looking for it.

Actually, the Captain Midnight radio program only offered "decoders,"
called Code-O-Graphs, in either badge or pocket form; never a ring.  The
TV show offered two, called Decoder Pins, both made of plastic.

However, the Sky King radio program in 1949, offered the Magni-Glo
Writing Ring, a "fits any finger" ring with a crownpiece with a secret
compartment, a glow-in-the-dark piece of plastic, and a miniature
ballpoint pen with which to write messages.  The same year, the program
also offered the Sky King Spy=Detecto Writer, probably one of the most
multifunction radio premiums ever offered.  It had a cipher disk
("decoder") , an inch scale, a magnifier, and even a printing
arrangement.  It was a pocket item, though it fit a bit awkwardly.

There was never a true Decoder Ring offered as a radio premium.  However,
the PF tennis shoes people offered a "Magic Ring" in the 1960s, which was
a cryptological premium.  It was associated with the Jonny Quest
television show.  Outside of being made entirely of plastic, the PF ring
was much like the earlier radio premiums, even to the point of having a
secret compartment!  The PF ring is rather rare, and getting one in prime
condition would probably cost $100 or more, if a collector is lucky, but
it was as ingeniously designed as its predecessor.  (In 2000, Ovaltine
offered a Secret Decoder Ring, advertising it on their container labels.
It was designed with a huge crownpiece, with the cipher elements looking
much like the Radio Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pins or the
Captain Midnight Code-O-Graph badges.)

Stephen A. Kallis, Jr.

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:15 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-7 births/deaths

January 7th births

01-07-1873 - Adolph Zukor - Ricse, Austria-Hungary - d. 6-10-1976
film executive: "Time Capsule"; "Flashback"; "Cavalcade of Stars"
01-07-1887 - H. Leopold Spitalny - Odessa, Ukraine - d. 10-14-1971
conductor: "Goin' To Town"; "Serenade to America"; "Vest Pocket
Varieties"
01-07-1888 - Myrtle Vail Damerel - Joilet, IL - d. 9-18-1978
actor: Myrtle Spear "Myrt and Marge"
01-07-1889 - H. R. Baukhage - La Salle, IL - d. 1-31-1976
commentator: "Four Star News"; "News and Comments"
01-07-1896 - Arnold Ridley - Bath, Somerset, England - d. 3-12-1984
actor: Arthur 'Doughy' Hood "The Archers"; Charles Godfrey "Dad's Army"
01-07-1896 - Marjorie Crossland - d. 11-xx-1954
actor: "Myrt and Marge"
01-07-1898 - Art Baker - NYC - d. 8-26-1966
announcer, emcee: "People Are Funny"; "Dinah Shore Show"
01-07-1900 - Malcolm Uren - Hindmarsh, South Australia - d. 7-22-1973
writer: "The Stirling Story"
01-07-1900 - Mary Lewis - Hot Springs, AR - d. 12-31-1941
soprano: "Metropolitan Opera"
01-07-1903 - Alan Napier - Birmingham, England - d. 8-8-1988
actor: "Campbell Playhouse"
01-07-1903 - Betty Hanna - d. 10-25-1976
actor: Deborah Matthews "Ma Perkins"; Luella Hayworth "Step Mother"
01-07-1906 - Betty Bolton - England - d. 4-2-2005
performed on British radio in the 1930s
01-07-1908 - Eliot Daniel - Massachusetts - d. 12-6-1997
music: "Fabulous Dr. Tweddy"; "The King's Men"; "Rudy Vallee Show"
01-07-1910 - Joe Bigelow - d. 2-20-1976
writer, producer: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
01-07-1913 - Shirley Ross - Omaha, NE - d. 3-9-1975
actor, singer: "Raleigh and Kool Cigarette Program with Tommy Dorsey"
01-07-1922 - Vincent Gardenia - Naples, Italy - d. 12-9-1992
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
01-07-1929 - Terry Moore - Los Angeles, CA
actor: Shirley 'Bumps' Smith "Smiths of Hollywood"
01-07-1930 - Douglas Kiker - Griffin, KS - d. 8-14-1991
nbc newsman: "Meet the Press"
01-07-1933 - Lee Evans - The Bronx, NY
pianist: "Voices of Vista"
01-07-1937 - Ron Chudley - Dunedin, New Zealand
writer: "CBC Stage"

January 7th deaths

01-28-1904 - Irene Beasley - Whitehaven TN - d. 1-7-1980
actor: Old Dutch Girl "Red Hook 31"
02-08-1905 - Don Ball - Block Island, RI - d. 1-7-1974
staff announcer for CBS during the 1930s.
03-13-1896 - Leona Powers - Salida, CO - d. 1-7-1970
actor: Mrs. Bixby "My Son Jeep"; [removed] Brown "Aldrich Family"
04-29-1901 - Emperor Hirohito (Showa) - Tokyo, Japan - d. 1-7-1989
emperor: End of war speech
05-04-1912 - Louis Brown - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-7-2007
composer/conductor: "The Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis Show"
07-12-1915 - Joseph Bolton - The Bronx, New York - d. 1-7-1997
composer: appeared on various radio stations
08-30-1905 - Sarah Selby - St. Louis, MO - d. 1-7-1980
actor: Grace Graves "Junior Miss"; Wife "My Mother's Husband"
09-26-1912 - Jacqueline de Wit - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-7-1998
actor: Ruth Thompson "Meet Mr. McNutley"; Valerie "Second Husband"
09-29-1913 - Trevor Howard - Cliftonville, England - d. 1-7-1988
actor: "London Playhouse"
10-21-1915 - Owen Bradley - Westmoreland, TN - d. 1-7-1998
music director fort WSM Nashville, Tennessee
10-22-1895 - Clair Loring Farrand - d. 1-7-1981
inventor of the cone radio loudspeaker
10-29-1889 - Anna Case - Clinton, NJ - d. 1-7-1984
singer/actor: WJZ New York City
12-31-1910 - Richard Kollmar - Ridgewood, NJ - d. 1-7-1971
actor: John Perry "John's Other Wife"; Boston Blackie "Boston Blackie"

Ron

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:11 -0500
From: <georgewagner@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Remarkable On-Air Fluffs

Here are two classics:

     Lowell Thomas. The episode where Thomas is reduced to sobbing giggles by
a report that a man in Oregon claims he can change the shape of the Aurora
Borealis by flapping a bed sheet at the phenomenon.

     ABC News. In this one absolutely none of the audio links to news
correspondents works. There is, simply, no news. The anchor is reduced to
near-hysterics. ("Mother warned me there'd be days like this!") No news may
or may not be good news, but in this case it is hilarious.

     Sincerely,

     George Wagner
     georgewagner@[removed]

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:08 -0500
From: david degerald <ddegerald@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  OTR on TV on Web
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Recently on Internet Archive (wonderful site) I noticed a Bob Hope "Thanks For
the Memories" TV special (in the "Classic TV" section). It's about his USO
work and contains film of "Command Performance" with appearances from Jerry
Colonna, Betty Grable, Betty Hutton, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Judy Garland
and Lana Turner. A lot of the show is people on front of radio mics.

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 17:06:03 -0500
From: Robert Everest <erest@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Barrymore

the "illness" was actually an excuse for  Lionel to not step on the toes
of the Reginald Owen performance in the MGM  film, then in release.

AMC ran this movie version this year and in the intro the host gave this
reason for Barrymore non performance on radio.

   Rob

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:23:51 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: radio about radio
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In a message dated 1/7/2009 4:24:51 [removed] Central Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

I would  like to see a list of radio shows that are about radio

I can think of an entire [removed] hilarious "Magnificent  Montague."  I
heard some episodes recently for the first time and the humor  held up
surprisingly well.

Dixon

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:41:28 -0500
From: rand@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Cleaning ETs

In reference to cleaning [removed]

In addition to what Joe said, I'd mention that what you're using is a very
mild mixture of ammonia, which is what works on the palmitic acid residue.

Some people use alcohol based products on vinyl - NEVER use them on
acetate ET's since they eat away the black lacquer where the groove is
recorded.

Also, you might want to use caution.  Archivists generally feel, if I'm
not mistaken, that wet cleaning of a lacquer can cause it to deteriorate
faster.  So, if you're going to clean them, make sure you get the best
transfer you can after you do it.

Randy

________
Randy A. Riddle
[removed]
Mebane, NC

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:21:26 -0500
From: Cnorth6311@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Radio Shows abot Radio

Here is a show i have listened to a few  times.

Behind the mike

Charliue

steps!
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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:37:16 -0500
From: "Beito, David" <dbeito@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Cigarette and Smoking in the Plots/Dialogue of
 OTR Shows

All of us our familiar with the many commercials promoting cigarette
brands during the OTR era.  Less well known are any references to
smoking other than these commercials.  Does anybody have examples of
references to smoking, either positive or negative, in the plots or
dialogue of OTR shows?

David T. Beito

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Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:49:55 -0500
From: "Marty" <martyd64@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE:  How about some radio shows about radio?

In regards to Ted Kneebone's request of "radio shows about radio", there is
a Fibber McGee & Molly show called "Fixing the Radio", from March 20, 1945.

Marty

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 00:20:47 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  1-8 births/deaths

January 8th births

01-08-1879 - Emory S. Land - Canon City, CO - d. 11-28-1971
[removed] naval officer: "Information Please"
01-08-1892 - Leeman Bone - Arkansas - d. 7-25-1976
guitarist: "Hoss Hair Pullers"
01-08-1901 - Forman Brown - Otsego, MI - d. 1-10-1996
wrote for CBS radio
01-08-1902 - Alexander Gray - Wrightvilles, PA - d. 10-4-1975
baritone: "Chesterfield Quarter Hour"
01-08-1903 - Roger Bower - NYC - d. 5-17-1979
announcer, emcee: "Can You Top This?"; "Stop Me If You Heard This One"
01-08-1904 - Peter Arno - d. 2-22-1968
panelist: "Stop Me If You Heard This Before"
01-08-1908 - William Hartnell - London, England - d. 4-23-1975
actor: The Doctor "Doctor Who"
01-08-1909 - George D. Crothers - Fort Morgan, CO - d. 11-27-1998
moderator: "Invitation to Learning"
01-08-1909 - Jose Ferrer - Santurce, PR - d. 1-26-1992
actor: Philo Vance "Advs. of Philo Vance"; Minister "We Love and Learn"
01-08-1910 - Dick Jurgens - Sacremento, CA - d. 10-5-1995
orchestra leader: "Summer Spotlight Revue"
01-08-1910 - Fabian Andre - La Crosse, WI - d. 3-30-1960
arranger for dance orchestras on NBC
01-08-1910 - Richard Cromwell - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-11-1960
actor: Kit Marshall "Those We Love"
01-08-1911 - Butterfly McQueen - Tampa, FL - d. 12-22-1995
actor: Oriole "Beulah"; Butterfly "Jack Benny Program"
01-08-1914 - Sam Cowling - Jeffersonville, IN - d. 2-14-1983
singer: (The Three Romeos) "The Breakfast Club"; "Club Matinee"
01-08-1915 - Guy Mauffette - Montreal, Canada - d. 6-29-2005
announcer: Worked with CBC radio, Canada's French network
01-08-1920 - Robert Gordon Bollard - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-2-1964
coordinaator of radio stations services
01-08-1921 - Guy Bagli - d. 2-21-1971
sportscaster: WALT Tampa, Florida; WTVT Petersburg, Florida
01-08-1923 - Giorgio Tozzi - Chicago, IL
opera singer (bass): "The Chicago Theatre of the Air"
01-08-1923 - Larry Storch - NYC
comedian: "Duffy's Tavern"
01-08-1926 - Chester Feldman - d. 5-25-1997
producer: "The Henry Morgan Show"
01-08-1926 - Soupy Sales - Franklinton, NC
script writer, disc jockey: WHTN Huntington, WV
01-08-1930 - May Wynn - NYC
actor: "Amos 'n' Andy Show"
01-08-1933 - Charles Osgood - NYC
reporter: "Osgood File"
01-08-1935 - Elvis Presley - Tupelo, MS - d. 8-16-1977
singer: "Grand Ole Opry"; "Louisiana Hayride"
01-08-1952 - Margaret Fischer - Sydney, Australia
writer: "The Gay Divorecc"

January 8th deaths

01-02-1905 - Michale Tippett - London, England - d. 1-8-1998
composer: "Midsummer Marriage"
01-03-1918 - Jesse White - Buffalo, NY - d. 1-8-1997
actor: "Hollywood Radio Theatre"; "Sears Radio Theatre"
01-24-1902 - Walter Kiernan - New Haven, CT - d. 1-8-1978
commentator, emcee: "Sparring Partners"; "Weekend"
01-30-1907 - Lois Wilson - Iowa - d. 1-8-1983
actor: "Jack Benny Program"
03-25-1909 - Jay Blackton - NYC - d. 1-8-1994
composer, conductor, pianist: "Stu Erwin Show"; "Broadway Showtime"
03-26-1928 - Carole Carr - London, England - d. 1-8-1997
singer, actress: "Calling All Forces"
05-02-1952 - Campbell McComas - Melbourne, Australia - d. 1-8-2005
regular performer on Australia's ABC radio
05-16-1891 - Richard Tauber - Linz, Austria-Hungary - d. 1-8-1948
opera singer: "General Motors Concert"
05-19-1919 - George Auld - Toronto, Canada - d. 1-8-1990
bandleader: "Saturday Night Swing Session"
05-29-1899 - Don Brodie - Cincinnati, OH - d. 1-8-2001
grouch: "The Grouch Club"
06-11-1889 - Wesley Ruggles - Los Angeles, CA - d. 1-8-1972
film director: (Brother of Charlie) "Screen Guild Theatre"
06-18-1906 - Ray Bauduc - New Orleans, LA - d. 1-8-1988
drummer, composer: "The Bob Crosby Show"
06-19-1915 - Pat Buttram - Addison, AL - d. 1-8-1994
actor: (Sage of Winston County) "National Barn Dance"
07-14-1911 - Terry-Thomas - London, England - d. 1-8-1990
comedian: "Top of the Town"
07-21-1899 - Sara Dougherty Carter - Flatwoods, VA - d. 1-8-1979
singer: (Carter Family) XERA Mexico
07-23-1910 - Gale Page - Spokane, WA - d. 1-8-1983
actor: Holly Sloan "Story of Holly Sloan"; Gertrude Lamont "Masquerade"
08-15-1901 - Sam Perrin - d. 1-8-1998
writer: "Jack Benny Program"; "Phil Baker Show"; "Tommy Riggs and
Betty Lou"
08-23-1919 - Olin Tice - Savannah, GA - d. 1-8-1998
announcer: "The Mindy Carson Show"; "The Peggy Lee Show"
08-28-1914 - Richard Tucker - NYC - d. 1-8-1975
opera tenor: "Chicago Theatre of the Air"; "Standard Hour";
"Metropolitan Opera"
09-01-1922 - Yvonne De Carlo - Vancouver, Canada - d. 1-8-2007
actor: " Screen Guild Theatre"; "MGM Musical Comedy Theatre"
09-28-1922 - Romeo Cascarino - Philadelphia, PA - d. 1-8-2002
cheif arranger: Armed Forces Special Service Orchestraq
10-10-1889 - Harold Vermilyea - NYC - d. 1-8-1958
actor: Cornlius Potter "Big Sister"; Mr. Bruce "Stella Dallas"
11-06-1905 - Isabel Carothers - Mt. Pleasant, IA - d. 1-8-1937
actor: Lu "Clara, Lu and Em"
12-22-1911 - Milton E. Drentz - d. 1-8-2000
seminary producer: "The Eternal Light"

Ron

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 10:58:34 -0500
From: drwatsonrnb@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: On air flubs
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   Sticking with Fibber Mcgee and Molly, Hal Peary visited on 03/28/44
   when Fibber had pneumonia. It is listed at [removed] as
   [removed]

   He tripped over his lines several times in this one as did Harlow
   Wilcox I believe. If I remember right, he even commented on it during
   the show saying he was nervous. Time to go listen again.

   Rich

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 11:03:00 -0500
From: Dan <teac35@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  re: How about some radio shows about radio?

CBS Radio Workshop - "I Have Three Heads"

 it's a show about radio production as told by 2 Ampex tape recorders

dan

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:18:46 -0500
From: Dixonhayes@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: Live Flubs
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Speaking of flubs, which show, was it "Pat Novak for Hire," ended with an
announcer flubbing a cast list reading then signing off "This is ABC, the
National Broadcasting Company" with laughter being heard in the  background?

And Dave Goldin once offered a collection of radio bloopers as a Radio
Yesteryear "Listener's Digest" or "Special Feature," supposedly actual
recordings
differing from the often-staged urban legends that permeated Kermit  Schafer's
[removed] know where those can be found now?

Dixon

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Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 14:19:03 -0500
From: seandd@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  OTR in the News

Here's a history of the Bob Hope Classic golf tournament, that mentions many OTR stars:

[removed]

Chicago-area radio recreation group "Those Were the Days Players," a staple of Thursday night entertainment at the Friends of Old Time Radio Convention ([removed]) are profiled here:

[removed],[removed]

Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]

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