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The Old-Time Radio Digest!
Volume 2009 : Issue 126
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ISSN: 1533-9289
Today's Topics:
7-2 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
Ed Walker and the Hall of Fame [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
Prep work? [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Which Warner, brother? [ Wich2@[removed] ]
The 39 Forever [removed] [ Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed] ]
Abraham Lincoln (and radio drama) li [ Wich2@[removed] ]
Lost Dragnet episode [ mikennancy2001@[removed] ]
RE: Dragnet [removed] missing guns [ K & J Hammel <haml@[removed]; ]
The missing body in Dragnet [ "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@[removed]; ]
Re: Dragnet questions - Missing Guns [ K & J Hammel <haml@[removed]; ]
7-3 births/deaths [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:05:33 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 7-2 births/deaths
July 2nd births
07-02-1892 - Jack Hylton - Great Lever, England - d. 1-29-1965
bandmaster: CBS 1935-1936 Sundays at 10:30 PM Standard Oil
07-02-1910 - Earl Robinson - d. 7-20-1991
composer: "The Pursuit of Happiness"
07-02-1910 - Jeff Alexander - Whidbey Island, WA - d. 12-4-1989
conductor: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Light Up Time"; "Tums Hollywood Theatre"
07-02-1914 - Clint Alley - d. 3-9-1994
sportscaster: WKOY West Virginia
07-02-1916 - Barry Gray - Red Lion, NJ - d. 12-21-1996
talk show host: "Barry Gray on Broadway"; "Scout About Town"
07-02-1916 - Ken Curtis - Lamar, CO - d. 4-28-1991
singing cowboy: "Hollywood Barn Dance"
07-02-1921 - Paul Atkerson - d. 5-16-1988
newscaster: KPHO Phoenix, Arizona
07-02-1924 - Bryant Arbuckle - d. 6-27-1976
disk jockey: WAIR Winston-Salem, North Carolina
07-02-1927 - Brock Peters - NYC - d. 8-23-2005
actor: Darth Vader "Star Wars"; "Earplay"
07-02-1927 - Charlie Kennedy - Staten Island, NY - d. 4-3-2009
saxophonist: "Gene Krupa's Band"; "Louis Prima's Band"
07-02-1928 - John Timpson - Harrow, England - d. 11-19-2005
presenter: "Today"
07-02-1961 - Maria de Lourdes Hinojosa - Mexico City
radio journalist: "Latino USA"
July 2nd deaths
01-17-1875 - Minetta Ellen - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-2-1965
actor: Francis 'Fanny' Barbour "One Man's Family"
01-31-1927 - Norman Prescott - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2005
producer: Boston radio
03-27-1914 - Snooky Lanson - Memphis, TN - d. 7-2-1990
singer: "Snooky Lanson Show"; "Your Hit Parade"
04-11-1893 - Pat Flanagan - Clinton, IA - d. 7-2-1963
sportscaster, announcer: CBS Network, WBBM in Chicago
05-05-1915 - Ben Wright - London, England - d. 7-2-1989
actor: Hey Boy "Have Gun, Will Travel"; Nicholas Lacey "One Man's
Family"
05-08-1910 - Nathan Van Cleave - Bayfield, WI - d. 7-2-1970
music: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "This Is Your FBI"
05-15-1910 - Walter Cassel - Council Bluffs, IA - d. 7-2-2000
baritone: "General Motors Concerts"; "Calling America"
05-20-1908 - James Stewart - Indiana, PA - d. 7-2-1997
actor: Britt Ponset "Six Shooter"
05-25-1929 - Beverly Sills - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-2-2007
singer: "Major Bowes Capitol Family"; "Uncle Bob's Rainbow House"
05-30-1920 - Franklin J. Schaffner - Tokyo, Japan - d. 7-2-1989
writer, director: "World Security Workshop"; "The March of Time"
06-03-1927 - Boots Randolph - Paducah, KY - d. 7-2-2007
saxophonist: "Grand Ole Opry"
06-09-1905 - Martha Boswell - Kansas City, MO - d. 7-2-1958
singer: (The Boswell Sisters) "The Boswell Sisters"; "Woodbury Soap
Show"
06-10-1919 - Hal Simms - Boston, MA - d. 7-2-2002
announcer: "The Steve Allen Show"; "Stop the Music!"
06-15-1905 - James Robertson Justice - Wigtown, Scotland - d. 7-2-1975
actor: "Star Bill"
06-23-1884 - Marley R. Sherris - Toronto, Canada - d. 7-2-1956
announcer: "Midweek Hymn Sing"; "National Vespers"
07-09-1910 - Alfred Kreymborg - NYC - d. 7-2-1991
writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
07-10-1926 - Fred Gwynne - NYC - d. 7-2-1993
actor: "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
07-21-1899 - Ernest Hemingway - Oak Park, IL - d. 7-2-1961
author: "NBC University Theatre"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Screen Guild
Theatre"
07-23-1936 - Don Drysdale - Van Nuys, CA - d. 7-2-1993
baseball announcer: California Angels, Chicago White Sox, Los Angeles
Dodgers
07-24-1898 - Amelia Earhart - Atchinson, KS - d. 7-2-1937
aviatrix: "Amelia Earhart", "Cities Service Concerts"
08-29-1927 - Marion Williams - Miami, FL - d. 7-2-1994
gospel singer: "Soundstage"
09-08-1906 - Orlo Bagley - d. 7-2-1986
sportscaster: KOMB Cottage Grove, Oregon
09-30-1896 - Howard Wright - San Diego, CA - d. 7-2-1990
actor: "Lights Out"; "Mystery is My Hobby"; "Ma Perkins"
10-04-1916 - Jan Murray - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-2-2006
emcee: "Songs for Sale"; "Meet Your Match"
10-13-1926 - Ray Brown - d. 7-2-2002
jazz bassist: "Bands for Bonds"; "Here's to Veterans"; "White House
Jazz Festival"
11-09-1909 - Kay Thompson - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1998
singer: "Fred Waring Show"; "Your Hit Parade"; "Tune-Up Time"
11-16-1890 - George Seldes - Alliance, NJ - d. 7-2-1995
journalist: His book "A Disease Called Fascism" adapted for "Words at
War"
12-14-1899 - DeFord Bailey - Smith County, TN - d. 7-2-1982
harmonica soloist: "WSM's Barn Dance"; "Grand Ole Opry"
12-18-1916 - Betty Grable - St. Louis, MO - d. 7-2-1973
actor: "Hollywood Showcase"; "Screen Guild Theatre"; "So You Want to
Lead a Band"
xx-xx-xxxx - John Walsh - d. 7-2-1945
actor: Private Homer Stubbs "Dear Mom"; Chuck Blair "Romance of Helen
Trent"
Ron
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:05:39 -0400
From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Ed Walker and the Hall of Fame
MWOTRC's own Ed Walker has been nominated for the National Radio Hall of
Fame. Ed is one of four nominees in the "Local or Regional - Pioneer"
category, and you can help by going to this address and casting your vote:
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The main web site for the Radio Hall of Fame is: [removed] There
you will find details about all the nominees and categories.
Many MWOTRC members will remember Ed doing the Joy Boys radio show with
Willard Scott on WRC radio.
On the HOF web site they describe "Ed Walker - the Washington, DC legend
whose program 'Play it Again, Ed' aired on WMAL and garnered one of the
largest audiences in DC radio history. Walker currently hosts the nostalgia
show "The Big Broadcast" on WAMU airing radio programs from the 30s, 40s and
50s."
Help give Ed the recognition he deserves -- cast your vote today!
Ed was a guest at the MANC Convention and will probably be a guest this year
again.
For more about Ed and Willard, you can also visit [removed]
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:06:31 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Prep work?
From: ISRAEL COLON <colon@[removed];
Horn and Hardart sponsored the Children's Hour
Wonderful memories! When I first got to my "second hometown" in the late
'70's, I believe there were two left - one on Lexington in the '20's (?), and
the one a little east of Grand Central, that I think became the last
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"Nickel Throwers" ... would literally throw the nickels onto the
marble counter before you. They never made mistakes
Pre-counted stacks/groups?
Best,
-Craig W.
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:07:10 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Which Warner, brother?
From: "Tom van der Voort" <evander800@[removed];
'Gateway To Hollywood' ... features movie industry
titans [removed] Warner and Jesse Lasky
Tom, if it was an "industry titan," I'd guess it was JACK Warner, or [removed]
Mayer?
But - if it WAS [removed] Warner, the actor, I'd love to hear it.
(Folks, did this wonderful Character Man - DeMille's Jesus, It's a
Wonderful Life and many other Capras, etc. - do radio?)
Best,
-Craig
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:09:56 -0400
From: Sean Dougherty <seandd@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: The 39 Forever [removed]
In euologizing Michael Jackson, Wall Street Journal columnist Dan Henninger,
who frankly looks old enough to know better, demonstrates a funadmental
misunderstanding of Jack Benny's joke about being 39. He claims that Benny
was trying to be an enternally young celebrity with the act. In the act,
Benny's character was older than he was in real life.
The column is online, free, here:
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The relevant quote
is "When Jack Benny said he was 39, people thought it was a running joke.
No. Jack Benny knew. Jack Benny was a genuine celebrity, so he decided to
stay 39. His fans agreed. Jack Benny was always 39."
But if you actually listen to the radio shows (or watch the TV shows), you'd
know they are constantly joking about how old he really is. There are
erasure marks on his birth certificate. Old women from his fan club say he
was "before their time" when they meet him, he is bald, his joints creak,
etc. I mean, in hindsight, jokes aobut George Burns being tired and over
the hill on a 1938 radio show become even funnier when you know that he
lived to 100 and died in the 1990s.
The fundamental joke about Benny's character was that it was a send-up of
exactly the kind of vanity that encourages entertainers to try and deny
their real ages and stay young forever. He didn't "decide to stay 39," he
just decided that it was funny that others in his field tried to do so.
Sean Dougherty
SeanDD@[removed]
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:14:30 -0400
From: Wich2@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Abraham Lincoln (and radio drama) lives again -
for just one day next week!
Dear Friends-
(A reminder:)
With thanks for the kind words about our shows in the past, another invite
for those in the NY area:
[removed]#070909
Best,
-Craig Wichman
Quicksilver Radio Theater
[removed] There may well be several FOTR stalwarts in the house, with which to
mingle; and there will definitely be a famous sfx prop on hand, courtesy of
Lister Max Schmid!
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:15:33 -0400
From: mikennancy2001@[removed]
To: old time radio <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: Lost Dragnet episode
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Thanks to all of you who replied to the questons I had about the emergence of
Frank [removed] I seem to recall that the character of Ed Jacobs pinch-hit for
Ben Romero until Frank Smith's character came [removed] I right in thinking
this?
Also, I am quite certain that there was a Dragnet radio episode with a
character who was shot four times in the [removed] taped this episode when I
was a very young kid and listened back to it often (the tape itself has long
since disappeared).B I remember that the shooter was a character named Abner
who was being robbed and who shot at the perp; Abnder had a friend or
colleague named Danville who was shot in the same encounter; Friday and Smith
are interested in a man named Norman Halleck who turns out not to be their
[removed] Is any of this ringing a bell or am I just suffering from early
Alzheimers?
Mike in Mountain View
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:15:41 -0400
From: K & J Hammel <haml@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: RE: Dragnet [removed] missing gunshot victim
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Just saw the mention of an episode of dragnet where someone was shot 4 times
in the chest and then Friday and side kick couldn't locate the body. [removed]
this is a real dragnet episode, that I listened to [removed] I'll see if I
can locate it. The rest of story is that the 'victim' was a robber, who was
shot by a store owner he and an accomplice sought to steal from.
I think the 'victim' managed to get himself to a bus bench and hide in plain
sight. If I find the episode, I'll post the title.
Kathy H.
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:17:17 -0400
From: "Bob Acosta" <boacosta@[removed];
To: "oldtime radio digest" <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: The missing body in Dragnet
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Hello all,
i certainly do remember the show. They never found the dead person who was
shot at a bus stop i believe. It did happen.
Robert Acosta
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:17:25 -0400
From: K & J Hammel <haml@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject: Re: Dragnet questions - Missing Gunshot Suspect
I found the episode That Mike M had asked [removed] the one where the
supposedly dead suspect went missing. The title is "The Big Gone"
appropriately enough. Jerry Haendiges' log says it was broadcast on November
30, 1954.
The 'dead' guy and an accomplice robbed a florist shop, but the shop owner
had a gun and put 4 bullets into the 'dead' guy. When the police came to
investigate, there is no body, but there was a few drops of blood on the
sidewalk.
I was not quite correct in my earlier post about the 'dead' guy being on the
bus bench. It wasn't the 'dead' guy, but rather his accomplice. As Mike
indicated, the 'dead' guy was not located by the end of the episode.
Hope this helps.
Kathy H.
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Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2009 12:17:31 -0400
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject: 7-3 births/deaths
July 3rd births
07-03-1878 - George M. Cohan - Providence, RI - d. 11-5-1942
composer: "Collier Hour"; "Ed Sullivan Show"; "Free Company"
07-03-1881 - Leon Errol - Sydney, Australia - d. 10-12-1951
actor, comedian: WENR Chicago
07-03-1890 - Herbert A. Bell - Rock Valley, IA - d. 1-30-1970
radio manufacturer: Co-founder of Packard-Bell in 1945
07-03-1899 - Herb Polesie - d. 6-8-1979
panelist,director: "Twenty Questions"; "It Pays to Be Ignorant"
07-03-1900 - John Mason Brown - Louisville, KY - d. 3-16-1969
host-critic: "Of Men and Books"
07-03-1903 - John Lake - Leesburg, VA - d. 6-28-1960
actor: "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"; "Twelve Players"
07-03-1903 - Wynne Gibson - NYC - d. 5-15-1987
actor: Amah "Thanks for Tomorrow"; Angie "When a Girl Marries"
07-03-1906 - George Sanders - St. Petersburg, Russia - d. 4-25-1972
host: "High Adventure"; "Hollywood Hotel"; "[removed] Steel Hour";
"Cavalcade of America"
07-03-1908 - Robert B. Meyner - Phillipsburg, NJ - d. 5-27-1990
governor new jersey: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
07-03-1911 - Pembroke Davenport - Dallas, TX - d. 1-27-1985
pianist, arranger: "Fred Waring's Pennsylvanians"
07-03-1913 - Dorothy Kilgallen - Chicago, IL - d. 11-8-1965
commentator: "Voice of Broadway"; "Breakfast with Dorothy and Dick"
07-03-1915 - Jerry Gray - Boston MA - d. 8-10-1976
bandleader: "I Sustain the Wings"; "Philip Morris Frolics"; "Club 15"
07-03-1919 - Fred Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 10-29-1992
bass: "Maddox Family Band"
07-03-1920 - Louise Allbritton - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 2-16-1979
actor: "Screen Guild Theatre"; "This Is My Best"; "Cavalcade of America"
07-03-1926 - Anne Gerety - NYC - d. 10-25-2003
actor: Aunt Bery "Star Wars"
07-03-1930 - Pete Fountain - New Orleans, LA
dixieland clarinetist: "New Year's All-Star Parade of Bands"
07-03-1930 - Robert Robertson - St. Andrews, Scotland - d. 1-16-2001
actor: "Have Gun, Will Travel"
07-03-1937 - Tom Stoppard - Zlin, Czechoslovakia
writer: "Earplay Weekday Theatre"; "The Dissolution of Dominic Boot"
July 3rd deaths
01-02-1925 - Larry Harmon - Toledo, OH - d. 7-3-2008
actor: "The Great Gildersleeve"
02-25-1913 - Jim Backus - Cleveland, OH - d. 7-3-1989
comedian: Hubert Updike "Alan Young Show"; Chester Fenwick "Sad Sack"
03-22-1920 - Ross Martin - Grodek, Poland - d. 7-3-1981
actor: Soap Opera "Janice Grey"
03-25-1914 - Forrest Bartlett - d. 7-3-2006
newscaster: KGER Long Beach, California
03-27-1921 - Harold Nicholas - Winston-Salem, NC - d. 7-3-2000
dancer: (The Nicholas Brothers) "Big Broadcast of 1936"; "Ben Bernie
Show"
05-07-1906 - Irving Reis - NYC - d. 7-3-1953
director: "The Free Company"; "Columbia Workshop"; "Brave New World"
07-28-1901 - Rudy Vallee - Island Pond, VT - d. 7-3-1986
singer, bandleader, emcee: (The Vagabond Lover) "Fleischmann Hour";
Rudy Vallee Show"
08-06-1914 - Dorothy Ashmore - d. 7-3-1989
women's programming: WCAT Orange, Massachusetts
10-08-1919 - Gabriel Dell - Barbados, British West Indies - d. 7-3-1988
actor: (The Dead End Kids) "Texaco Star Playhouse"
10-23-1918 - James Daly - Wisconsin Rapids, WI - d. 7-3-1978
actor: "Monitor"
11-02-1899 - Evelyn MacGregor - Pittsfield, MA - d. 7-3-1967
singer: " American Melody Hour"; "American Album of Familiar Music"
11-16-1913 - Jack "Smilin' Jack" Smith - Bainbridge Island, WA - d.
7-3-2006
singer: "Breezing Along"; "Prudential Family Hour"; "Jack Smith Show"
12-22-1885 - Deems Taylor - NYC - d. 7-3-1966
commentator: "Deems Taylor Music Series"; "Prudential Family Hour";
"RCA Victor Show"
12-24-1920 - John Barron - London, England - d. 7-3-2004
actor: "Dad's Army"; "Brothers In Law"
Ron
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