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                            The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                              Volume 2008 : Issue 265
                         A Part of the [removed]!
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                                 ISSN: 1533-9289


                                 Today's Topics:

  11-18 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
  True Crime Radio                      [ vzeo0hfk@[removed] ]
  Serials                               [ "Roger Keel" <[removed]@[removed] ]
  Christmas marathon                    [ JJLjackson@[removed] ]
  Looking for info.                     [ "Frank McGurn Jr." <[removed]@sbcg ]
  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]

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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:50:59 -0500
From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  11-18 births/deaths

November 18th births

11-18-1836 - William S. Gilbert - London, England - d. 5-29-1911
composer: (Gilbert and Sullivan) "The Railroad Hour"
11-18-1860 - Jan Ignace Paderewski - Kurilovka. Poland - d. 6-21-1941
concert pianist, statesman: "Paderewski's Eightieth Birthday Tribute"
11-18-1885 - James Brennan - Boston, MA - d. 8-24-1956
composer, pianist: "The Sachs Program"
11-18-1888 - Frances Marion - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-12-1973
screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
11-18-1891 - Sigmund Anker - Bern, Switzerland - d. 4-23-1958
violinist: KFRC San Francisco, California
11-18-1899 - Eugene Ormandy - Budapest, Hungary - d. 3-12-1985
conductor: "Roxy's Gang"; "Phildelphia Orchestra"
11-18-1900 - Don Quinn - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-30-1967
writer: "Fibber McGee and Molly"; "Halls of Ivy"
11-18-1901 - Dr. George Gallup - Jefferson, IA - d. 7-26-1984
statistician: "Living 1948"
11-18-1907 - Gwen Meredith - Orange, Australia - d. 10-3-2006
writer: "Blue Hills"; "The Lawsons"
11-18-1908 - Imogene Coca - Philadelphia, PA - d. 6-2-2001
comedienne: "Big Show"
11-18-1909 - Johnny Mercer - Savannah, GA - d. 6-25-1976
singer: "Camel Caravan"; "Johnny Mercer's Music Shop"; "Dinah Shore
Show"
11-18-1912 - Arthur Peterson - Mandan, ND - d. 10-31-1996
actor: Reverend John Rutledge "The Guiding Light"; "World's Great
Novels"
11-18-1919 - Georgia Carroll - Bloomington Grove, TX
singer: (Wife of Kay Kyser) "Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge"
11-18-1923 - Alan Shepard - Derry, NH - d. 7-21-1998
astronaut: "NASA Audio News"; "Space Story"
11-18-1926 - Dorothy Collins - Windsor, Ontario, Canada - d. 7-21-1994
singer: "Your Hit Parade"
11-18-1928 - Mickey Mouse - Hollywood, CA
cartoon character: "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
11-18-1936 - Don Cherry - Oklahoma City, OK - d. 10-19-1995
jazz trumpeter: "Manhattan Melodies"
11-18-1939 - Brenda Vaccaro - Brooklyn, NY
actor: "We Hold These Truths"
11-18-1945 - Glenn Walken - Queens, NY
actor: (Brother of Christopher) Michael Bauer "The Guiding Light"

November 18th deaths

03-13-1913 - Harold J. Stone - NYC - d. 11-18-2005
actor: Sergeant Waters "21st Precinct"
03-30-1902 - Ted Heath - Wandsworth, London, England - d. 11-18-1969
bandleader: "Ted Heath and His Orchestra"
05-01-1888 - [removed] Armstrong - Waverley, Australia - d. 11-18-1973
writer: "Drought"
05-29-1924 - Bob Corley - Macon, GA - d. 11-18-1971
actor: Beulah "Beulah"
06-07-1907 - Tom Slater - Parkersburg, WV - d. 11-18-1961
announcer: "Kitty Keen"; "Jack Berch Program"; "For Men Only"
06-14-1929 - Cy Coleman - NYC - d. 11-18-2004
jazz pianist, composer: "Cy Coleman at the Piano"; "Voices of Vista"
06-18-1893 - Gladys Gooding - Macon, MO - d. 11-18-1963
organist, singer: organist at Madison Square Garden
07-06-1910 - Dorothy Kirsten - Montclair, NJ - d. 11-18-1992
singer: "Keepsakes"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Light Up Time"
07-11-1894 - Walter Wanger - San Francisco, CA - d. 11-18-1968
film producer: "Information, Please"; "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Lux
Radio Theatre"
07-14-1880 - Donald Meek - Glasgow, Scotland - d. 11-18-1946
actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
08-29-1916 - Max Bice - d. 11-18-2002
newscaster: KMO Seattle, Washington
09-06-1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy - East Boston, MA - d. 11-18-1969
ambassador to Great Britain: "Ambassador Joseph Kennedy"
09-18-1948 - Ken Brett - Brooklyn, NY - d. 11-18-2003
part of the Los Angeles Dodgers broadcast team
09-21-1916 - Zinovy Gerdt - Sebezh, Russia - d. 11-18-1996
actor: Read poetry and prose on radio
10-07-1888 - Henry Wallace - Adair County, IA - d. 11-18-1965
vice president: "Free World Theatre"
10-15-1900 - Fritz Feld - Berlin, Germany - d. 11-18-1993
actor: "NBC Uinversity Theatre"; "Nightbeat"; "Advs. of the Saint"
10-30-1891 - Bill Brandt - d. 11-18-1963
sports commentator: "Inside of Sports"
11-29-1894 - H. Leslie Atlass - d. 11-18-1960
Chicago radio pioneer, CBS executive
12-12-1909 - Louis G. Cowan - Chicago, IL - d. 11-18-1976
producer: "The Quiz Kids"; "Murder at Midnight"
12-12-1913 - Hal Dickinson - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-18-1970
organized Modernaires: "Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra"
xx-xx-1919 - Walter McGraw - d. 11-18-1978
director: "Believe It or Not"; "The Chase"

Ron

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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:51:07 -0500
From: vzeo0hfk@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  True Crime Radio
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   Academically inclined OTR Digest suscribers may be interested in
   getting hold of this old issue of the American Quarterly. I met Elena
   at a conference several years ago

   Howard Blue

   Razlogova, Elena.

   Elena Razlogova - True Crime Radio and Listener Disenchantment with
   Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946 - American Quarterly 58:1 American
   Quarterly [removed] (2006) 137-158 True Crime Radio and Listener
   Disenchantment with Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946 Elena Razlogova In
   Depression-era Oklahoma, at a remote farmhouse in Comanche County,
   local sheriffs caught up with two small-time armed robbers, George
   Sands and Leon Siler. A gunfight ensued, and the owner of the farm
   died in the cross fire. Three years later, in February of 1939, a
   popular "true crime" radio program, Gang Busters, reenacted these
   events over the national CBS network. After the broadcast, producers
   received a letter from the farmer's widow, Berniece Medrano, who
   declared Gang Busters' rendition of the gunfight a fraud. Medrano
   insisted that the lawmen deliberately shot her husband: In the first
   place, the Bandits did not order us to cook dinner, there was much
   more shooting than you had in the play -- and my husband was not
   killed in cross fire -- one of those honorable, and noble, Gang
   Bustin' laws did it -- deliberately -- and I can prove it if given a
   chance. . . . I don't know that you have any right using my name
   without permission concerning a bunch of lies. The broadcast failed to
   depict the social order as Medrano saw it -- rigged against farmers,
   with lawmen cast as villains and bandits as victims. Eyewitnesses
   interviewed for the broadcast also objected to the script.

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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:51:32 -0500
From: "Roger Keel" <[removed]@[removed];
To: <[removed]@[removed];
Subject:  Serials

Dominick Cancilla asked about serials to listen to with his son.  So here
are my suggestions:

Magic Island -- Good story about a search for a missing girl, mysterious
island and young hero.

Cinnamon Bear -- Great Christmas story

Moon over Africa -- Treasure. Lost City, and a talking severed head.

Flash Gordon -- Complete story in 26 shows, the last two introduce Jungle
Jim

Jungle Jim -- Jim's early adventures were serials.

And of course:

Adventures by Morse and I Love a Mystery.

Roger Keel

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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:52:35 -0500
From: JJLjackson@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Christmas marathon
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Have you started your Christmas cards yet? Wait, we haven't even gotten to
Thanksgiving! Well I've got something to inspire you as you do the finishing
touches on those home-made presents, or as you bake your Christmas cookies.
On
Dec. 6 and 7, Radio Out of the Past presents their third holiday marathon.
Dedicated to a wonderful broadcaster and friend, Fred Bertelsen, it features
24
 hours of old-time-radio Christmas shows.  That's 12 straight hours on 2
days! Starting at 9 am Pacific (noon eastern) and ending at 9 pm Pacific
(midnight eastern) each day. Everything from Burns and Allen to the Shadow.
Oh,  did
I mention prizes? Yes, each host will give away one prize per hour. So you
don't want to miss it. That's the Old-time-radio Marathon on Dec. 6 and 7 on
[removed] See ya there!

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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 04:54:47 -0500
From: "Frank McGurn Jr." <[removed]@[removed];
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  Looking for info.

Back many years ago in the early 1940's I remember a program called "Easy
Money" the moral of show was there in no easy money. The program had case
history's of various ploys to cheat in business or dishonest com artist to
get easy money.
I don't remember is it was a network show or if it local in Chicago. It was
an evening program. I'm not sure if it was a 15 minute or a half hour.
My father use to listen with me and pointed out there were good lessons. Well
as result no one has ever cheated out of money, because I never had any.

Anyone know any about "Easy Money"?

Frank McGurn

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Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 02:12:01 -0500
From: charlie@[removed]
To: [removed]@[removed]
Subject:  #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Night!

A weekly [removed]

For the best in OTR Chat, join IRC (Internet Relay Chat), StarLink-IRC
Network, the channel name is #OldRadio.  We meet Thursdays at 8 PM Eastern
and go on, and on! The oldest OTR Chat Channel, it has been in existence
over nine years, same time, same channel! Started by Lois Culver, widow
of actor Howard Culver, this is the place to be on Thursday night for
real-time OTR talk!

Our "regulars" include OTR actors, soundmen, collectors, listeners, and
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range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
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it's always a good time!

For more info, contact charlie@[removed]. We hope to see you there, this
week and every week!

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