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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 60
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  The case of the missing persons       [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
  Re: best cast spoof?                  [ StevenL751@[removed] ]
  3-6 births/deaths                     [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
  RE: Mr. Keen actually finding a lost  [ "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed]; ]
  Mr. Keen                              [ "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed] ]
  At The Point of a Needle              [ "wayne_johnson" <wayne_johnson@mind ]

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:52:01 -0500
From: <otrbuff@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  The case of the missing persons

Every episode I have listened to, however, doesn't involve any missing
persons.  They're all murder who-done-its. It's always a The ____-Murder
Case.  So my question is, did Mr Keen ever actually trace any missing
persons?

Ah, Chris Holm, there you go writing about things you know not of.  It's
obvious you've never picked up a copy of my 364-page hardback with photos
and every installment outlined of "Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons:  A
Complete History and Episode Log of Radio's Most Durable Detective"
([removed]).  There you would have learned the difference!  I
refer you especially to Chapter 3, "Lost and Found," and Chapter 4, "The
Tracer as Chaser," to ferret all this out.

Without giving too much away, I'll assure you that, yes, the kindly old
investigator was indeed on the trail of misplaced mortals for the first six
years of his airlife, 1937-43.  During those years you had what purported to
be perfectly sane individuals who vanished for their own selfish interests,
other personal reasons, or -- in an occasional darker story line --
disappeared because someone "misappropriated" them through kidnapping or
payoffs or whatever.  It was up to the tracer of lost persons to put on his
deductive cap and track them down, ultimately answering the intriguing
question of "why" they went away in the first place.

The tracer was a lovable old man during that epoch.  He laughed a lot,
socialized with his "clients" (whom he never charged, remarking that "I have
far more money than I could ever spend"), and wasn't limited to the environs
of New York (as almost exclusively he was when he traded that motif for
killer-hunting), journeying all over America and even outside U. S.
territory when a missing person's case warranted.

All of this, mind you, before his 12-year reign as a relentless searcher of
murderers, 1943-55.  And I'll just bet you didn't realize that he aired more
episodes (1,693) than any other sleuth in broadcasting history in any medium
(a little known fact).

Chris, my boy, you've missed a great deal of what made Mr. Keen great.  I'll
bet you don't even know the man's given name!  I suggest you order a copy of
the tome today so the saints might preserve ya!

Jim Cox

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 21:48:42 -0500
From: StevenL751@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Re: best cast spoof?

In a message dated 3/5/2008 6:18:43 [removed] Eastern Standard Time,
[removed]@[removed] writes:

 Are there any surviving cast spoofs of another series besides  this,
Gunsmoke, and Red Ryder?

The series "One Man's Family" and "I Love a Mystery" shared many  of the same
leading cast members, and my favorite spoof is the one they did,  which they
called "I Love a Family".

- Steve Lewis

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:42:34 -0500
From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  3-6 births/deaths

March 6th births

03-06-1882 - Guy Kibbee - El Paso, TX - d. 5-24-1956
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
03-06-1885 - Ring Lardner - Niles, MI - d. 9-27-1933
writer: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "NBC Presents: Short Story"
03-06-1900 - Jay C. Flippen - Little Rock, AR - d. 2-3-1971
actor: Sergeant "Rookies"
03-06-1904 - Hugh Williams - Bexhill-on-Sea, England - d. 12-7-1969
actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
03-06-1905 - Adelaide Hawley - d. 12-21-1998
consultant on women's issues: "Adelaide Hawley Show"
03-06-1905 - Bob Wills - Limestone County, TX - d. 5-13-1975
western singer: (Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys) "Rexall Rhythm
Round-Up"
03-06-1906 - Lou Costello - Paterson, NJ - d. 3-3-1959
comedian: "Chase & Sanborn Hour"; "Abbott and Costello Show"
03-06-1913 - Ella Logan - Glasgow, Scotlans - d. 5-1-1969
singer: "The Chase and Sanborn Hour"; "Kraft Music Hall"
03-06-1914 - Kiril Kondrashin - Moscow, Russia - d. 3-7-1981
conductor: "Van Cliburn Concert"
03-06-1916 - Red Callender - Richmond, VA - d. 3-8-1992
jazz bass player: "Jubilee"; "One Night Stand"
03-06-1916 - Rochelle Hudson - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 1-17-1972
actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
03-06-1916 - Virginia Gregg - Harrisburg, IL - d. 9-15-1986
actor: Helen Asher "Richard Diamond, Private Detective"
03-06-1917 - Frankie Howerd - York, England - d. 4-19-1992
comedian: "Frankie Howerd Show"
03-06-1918 - Roger Price - Charleston, WV - d. 10-31-1990
writer, actor: "The Comedy Writers Show"
03-06-1923 - Ed McMahon - Detroit, MI
actor-announcer: Monitor"
03-06-1927 - William J. Bell - Chicago, IL - d. 4-29-2005
writer: "The Guiding Light"
03-06-1930 - Lorin Maazel - Paris, France
conductor: "NBC Summer Symphony"
03-06-1934 - Art Blaske - d. 8-25-1997
disk jockey: KFAM St. Cloud, Minnesota
03-06-1942 - David Cleve - England - d. 9-16-2005
actor: "Out of School"

March 6th deaths

01-06-1915 - Margaret Muse - Dallas, TX - d. 3-6-2006
actor: "Family Theatre"
01-26-1907 - Rita Ascot - d. 3-6-1988
actor: "Fay "Ma Perkins"; "Chicago Theatre of the Air"
02-02-1905 - Ayn Rand - St. Petersberg, Russia - d. 3-6-1982
author: "Lux Radio Theatre"
05-11-1900- Georgia Fifield - d. 3-6-1985
actor: Mrs. Hipplewater "Frank Watanabe and Honorable Archie"
05-14-1895 - Lew Lehr - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-6-1950
comic: "Ben Bernie, The Old Maestro"; "Stop Me If You've Heard This One"
05-26-1904 - George Formby - Lancashire, England - d. 3-6-1961
singer, actor: "Manitoba Flood Relief Show"
06-04-1927 - Phil Rammacher - d. 3-6-2003
drums: "The Hoagy Carmichael Show"
06-05-1908 - Edward James - d. 3-6-1995
creator of "Father Knows Best"
06-10-1921 - Chuck Thompson - Palmer, MA - d. 3-6-2005
sportscaster: Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore Colts
06-24-1921 - Peggy DeCastro - On a Sugar Plantation, Dominican
Republic - d. 3-6-2004
singer: (The DeCastro Sisters) "Steve Lawrence Show"; "Here's to
Veterans"
06-26-1892 - Pearl S. Buck - Hillsboro, WV - d. 3-6-1973
author: "America's Town Meeting of the Air"; "Pacific Story"
06-29-1901 - Nelson Eddy - Providence, RI - d. 3-6-1967
singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Vicks Open House"; "Chase & Sanborn Hour"
07-01-1909 - Gertrude Fass - d. 3-6-2005
writer: "Suspense"; "The Whistler"
07-11-1942 - Tommy Vance - Oxford, England - d. 3-6-2005
presenter: Radio 1
07-20-1912 - Tom McDermott - McHenry, IL - d. 3-6-1996
producer, director: "Portia Faces Life"; "Rosemary"; "Wendy Warren
and the News"
08-19-1873 - Fred Stone - Longmont, CO - d. 3-6-1959
comedian: "Gulf Headliners"
08-31-1900 - Cedric Foster - Hartford, CT - d. 3-6-1975
commentator: "News and Commentary"
09-05-1918 - Max Harris - Bournemouth, England - d. 3-6-2004
composer: "Round the Horn"
09-06-1904 - Maxie Rosenbloom - NYC - d. 3-6-1976
light heavyweight boxing champion, actor: "Slapsie Maxie Show"
09-08-1905 - Henry Wilcoxon - Dominica, West Indies - d. 3-6-1984
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
09-19-1904 - Elvia Allman - Concord, NC - d. 3-6-1992
comedienne: Tootsie Sagwell "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show";
Cora Dithers "Blondie"
10-11-1887 - Oscar Shaw - Philadelphia, PA - d. 3-6-1967
singer: "Broadway Varieties"
10-20-1882 - Margaret Dumont - Brooklyn, NY - d. 3-6-1965
actor: "Paramount Movie Parade"
10-27-1918 - Teresa Wright - NYC - d. 3-6-2005
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-06-1854 - John Philps Sousa - Washington, [removed] - d. 3-6-1932
composer of marches: "John Philip Sousa Speaks"
11-23-1888 - Al Bernard - New Orleans, LA - d. 3-6-1949
singer: "Dutch Masters Minstrels"; "Molle Merry Minstrels"
11-26-1907 - Frances Dee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 3-6-2004
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
12-25-1912 - Leighton Noble - Pasadena, CA - d. 3-6-1994
vocalist, band leader: "Leighton Noble and His Orchestra"
xx-xx-1935 - Graham Armitage - Manchester, England - d. 3-6-1999
actor: Sherlock Holmes "Sherlock Holmes"

Ron Sayles
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:10:27 -0500
From: "Kirby, Tom" <Kirby@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  RE: Mr. Keen actually finding a lost person

Chris Holm writes:

Every episode I have listened to, however, doesn't involve any missing
persons.  They're all murder who-done-its. It's always a The 
____-Murder
Case.  So my question is, did Mr Keen ever actually trace any missing
persons?

I've heard at least one: Keen and Clancy find a dog trying to get
someone
to let it into an apartment, and end up finding the owners, who've fled
the city to get away from gangsters.

Sorry, but I don't recall the title of the episode.

-- Tom

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:11:00 -0500
From: "Belpedio, Dr. James" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Mr. Keen

I too listened to Mr. Keen as a kid, and I sometimes wondered why they -
Keen and Clancey -  never actually "traced' lost persons. Of course I
remember the half hour shows, I think sponsored by Chesterfield. I read
somewhere that the series actually began as a 15 minute show and that in
the early shows they actually tracked down some missing persons

I do recall, also, Bob and Ray's hilarious skit, "Mr. Trace, keener than
most persons,"
although I cannot remember where I heard it, whether on radio or early
television.

JBelpedio
Worcester, MA

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Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:05:40 -0500
From: "wayne_johnson" <wayne_johnson@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  At The Point of a Needle

The topic of scariest OTR program has come up on this digest from time to
time in the last few years.  Most always, "Three Skeleton Key" is mentioned
as THE most scarey program ever.   I've listened to it and think that it
certainly qualifies, HOWEVER, I just heard a program that sent chills all
through me.  Nearly thirty minutes of grinding my teeth, pure tension, an
urge to scream.  I don't know if I could ever listen to it again but I DO
know that as of this minute, I don't want to it again.  I listened in the
day-time and that was enough for me.

"At The Point of a Needle" is my nomination for the scariest program.  We
all have different preferences but had I actually lived throught that, I
would be WILLING to die!

At The Point of a Needle, SUSPENSE, 9-23-62 (the second to the last program
in the series -- and in the age of OTR).  Betty Garde is amazing.  (shiver)

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