Subject: [removed] Digest V2011 #171
From: [removed]@[removed]
Date: 11/2/2011 5:50 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2011 : Issue 171
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      #OldRadio IRC Chat this Thursday Nig  [ charlie@[removed] ]
      Re:OTR on WiFi                        [ Tim Lones <tlones1@[removed]; ]
      Norman Corwin Move free on-line       [ mschmid@[removed] ]
      10-28 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      new Lone Ranger comics                [ "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@hotm ]
      War of the Worlds                     [ James Yellen <jjyellen@[removed]; ]
      10-29 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 30 Octobe  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      10-30 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      The Halloween myth of the War of the  [ "Bob Scherago - Verizon" <scherago@ ]

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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 02:12:01 -0400
    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
    others interested in enjoying OTR from points all over the world. Discussions
    range from favorite shows to almost anything else under the sun (sometimes
    it's hard for us to stay on-topic)...but even if it isn't always focused,
    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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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:46:28 -0400
    From: Tim Lones <tlones1@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re:OTR on WiFi

    I use An IPod Touch with Home Wifi and powered [removed] couple of
    IPod Radio Apps (TuneIn and ShoutCast) have more than enough OTR
    [removed] would like to get one of those WiFi Radios and try it sometime

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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:46:37 -0400
    From: mschmid@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Norman Corwin Move free on-line

    [removed]

    I have new respect for the acting abilities of William Shatner after
    viewing this. It's a full-length documentary on Corwin, with lots of
    great photos, interviews, and recreations done for PBS.

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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:46:42 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-28 births/deaths

    October 28th births

    10-28-1886 - Ruth Gates - Denton, TX - d. 5-23-1966
    actor: Mrs Lenord "Amanda of Honeymoon Hill"
    10-28-1895 - Herb Butterfield - Rhode Island - d. 5-2-1957
    actor: Clarence Wellman "Halls of Ivy"; Hunter Glenn "One Man's Family"
    10-28-1895 - John Boles - Greenville, TX - d. 2-27-1969
    actor, singer: "Texaco Star Theatre"
    10-28-1896 - Howard Hanson - Wahoo, NE - d. 2-26-1981
    conductor, composer: "New York Philharmonic"; "ASCAP World's Fair
    Concert"
    10-28-1897 - Edith Head - San Bernardino, CA - d. 10-24-1981
    costume designer: Intermission Guest "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-28-1902 - Catherine Shepherd - Zimbabwe - d. 2-18-1976
    writer: "The Golden Cockerel"
    10-28-1902 - Elsa Lanchester - Lewisham, England - d. 12-26-1986
    actor: "Arch Oboler's Plays"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Everyman's
    Theatre"
    10-28-1906 - Lou Bring - d. 7-15-1951
    orchestra leader: "The Al Jolson Show"; "The Gracie Fields Show"
    10-28-1908 - David LeWinter - NYC - d. 1-22-1976
    orchestra leader: Late night dance band remotes
    10-28-1910 - Arthur Altman - Brooklyn, NY - d. 1-18-1994
    CBS staff violinist and librarian
    10-28-1912 - Madaline Lee - Dallas, TX - d. 1-10-1974
    actor: Genevive Blue "Amos 'n' Andy"; Wendy Burton "Second Mrs. Burton"
    10-28-1913 - Ruth Peterson - Wauwatosa, WI - d. 2-2-1985
    actor: Linda Carroll "Hawthorne House"
    10-28-1915 - Alwyn Kurts - Perth, Western Australia - d. 5-4-2000
    performer: "Raising a Husband"
    10-28-1915 - Dody Goodman - Columbus, OH - d. 6-22-2008
    actor: "Hopalong Cassidy"; "Arthur Godfrey Show"
    10-28-1917 - Ron Rawson - Iowa - d. 7-18-1994
    announcer: "Right to Happiness"; "Advs. of Topper"; "Advs. of the Thin
    Man"
    10-28-1934 - Cecil Blackwood - Ackereman, MS - d. 11-13-2000
    singer: (Blackwood Brothers Quartet) "Songs of the Gospel"
    10-28-1934 - Johnny Western - Two Harbors, MN
    singer, actor, songwriter: (Ballad of Paladin) Daily show on KFDI
    Wichita, KS

    October 28th deaths

    01-26-1914 - Jack de Manio - Hampstead, England - d. 10-28-1988
    announcer: "Today"; "Jack de Manio Precisely"; "Woman's Hour"
    02-22-1891 - George Jeske - Utah - d. 10-28-1951
    writer: "Truth or Consequences"
    02-27-1893 - Maurice Spitalny - Tetieff, Russia - d. 10-28-1986
    conductor: Music director for KDKA Pittsburgh
    03-04-1910 - Miriam Kressyn - Poland - d. 10-28-1996
    Was the most popular Yiddish artist on radio of her day
    03-24-1918 - Bill Aya - d. 10-28-1985
    sportscaster: KEVE Seattle, Washington
    04-01-1917 - Leon Janney - Ogden, UT - d. 10-28-1980
    actor: Danny Stratford "Life of Mary Sothern"; Richard Parker "Parker
    Family"
    05-27-1924 - Eric Lauder - Rugby, England - d. 10-28-1999
    actor: "Violent Shore"
    07-27-1918 - Veola Vonn - NYC - d. 10-28-1995
    actor: Dimples Wilson "Blondie"; Princess Nadji "Chandu the Magician"
    08-12-1927 - Porter Wagoner - West Plains, MO - d. 10-28-2007
    singer: "Grand Ole Opry"
    08-18-1917 - Mary Rolfe - Brooklyn NY - d. 10-28-1996
    actor: Mary Aldrich "The Aldrich Family"; Rose O'Brien "Rose of My
    Dreams"
    08-29-1913 - Sylvia Fine - NYC - d. 10-28-1991
    writer: (Wife of Danny Kaye) "Danny Kaye Show"; "Forecast"; "Bud's
    Bandwagon"
    09-15-1915 - Phil Brito - Boomer, WV - d. 10-28-2005
    narrator: "Moon River"
    09-16-1919 - Larry Dobkin - NYC - d. 10-28-2002
    actor: Archie Goodwin "Advs. of Nero Wolfe"; Ellery Queen "Advs. of
    Ellery Queen"
    09-17-1907 - Alice Yourman - South Dakota - d. 10-28-2000
    actor: Mary Andrews "Archie Andrews"; [removed] Aldrich "Aldrich Family"
    09-20-1917 - Red Auerbach - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-28-2006
    legendary baskeball coach: "The Inside Track"
    10-06-1899 - Mitchell Leisen - Menominee, MI - d. 10-28-1972
    director: Lux Radio Theatre
    11-02-1892 - Alice Brady - NYC - d. 10-28-1939
    actor: "Hollywood Hotel"
    12-08-1937 - James MacArthur - Los Angeles, CA - d. 10-28-2010
    actor: "Theatre Guild of the Air"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:46:49 -0400
    From: "Martin Grams, Jr." <mmargrajr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  new Lone Ranger comics

      Dynamite Entertainment recently announced that they will follow-up their
    recently concluded LONE RANGER series and LONE RANGER/DEATH OF ZORRO
    miniseries with a new, ongoing Lone Ranger title. Set to debut in
    January 2012, the new series will be written by Ande Parks with art by
    Esteve Pols (ZORRO RIDES AGAIN). Alex Ross - surprise - supplies a painted
    cover, while Francesco Francavilla is set to be the regular cover artist. The
    reason may be because of the planned Disney movie -- which, contrary to
    popular opinion and news that hit the fan last month, they are still planning
    a LONE RANGER movie, now scheduled for 2013.

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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:46:53 -0400
    From: James Yellen <jjyellen@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  War of the Worlds

    With the anniversary of the famous Welles Halloween broadcast approaching,
    I invite you to go to my OTR website, THE WISTFUL RADIO CHRONICLES,
    where you can enjoy an epic saga wherein our heroic protagonist, inspired
    by the the Welles radio prank, attempts his own Halloween alien
    invasion prank with spectacular results. I call this [removed]
    THE HALLOWEEN HOAXERS MEET ORSON WELLES

    [removed]

    While you are there, you can enjoy other nostalgic tales of Old Time Radio
    captured for posterity in an on-line novel of warmth, reminiscence, and
    riotous pleasure.

    Such golden delights as Inner Sanctum, Dr. [removed], Gabriel Heatter and his
    Voice of Doom, Orson Welles' Mercury Theater, Our Miss Brooks, Fibber
    McGee and Molly, Dimension X and Gangbusters woven into humorous stories
    that could take place only in the Golden Days of WISTFUL RADIO.

    I invite you to check it out.

    Jim Yellen

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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:48:20 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-29 births/deaths

    October 29th births

    10-29-1873 - Walter C. Kelly - Mineville, NY - d. 1-6-1939
    actor: (The Virginia Judge) "The Eveready Hour"
    10-29-1880 - Gleason L. Archer - Great Pond, ME - d. 6-28-1966
    lecturer: "Laws That Safeguard Society"
    10-29-1883 - William K. Wells - NYC - d. 4-17-1956
    writer: "Under Arrest"
    10-29-1889 - Anna Case - Clinton, NJ - d. 1-7-1984
    singer/actor: WJZ New York City
    10-29-1891 - Fanny Brice - NYC - d. 5-29-1951
    comedian: Baby Snooks Higgins, "Baby Snooks"
    10-29-1894 - Jack Pearl - NYC - d. 12-25-1982
    comedian: Baron Munchausen "Baron and the Bee, Jack and Cliff, Jack
    Pearl Show"
    10-29-1897 - Hope Emerson - Hawarden, IA - d. 4-24-1960
    actor: Henrietta Topper "Advs. of Topper"; Elsie the Cow "Happy Island"
    10-29-1901 - Akim Tamiroff - Baku, Russia - d. 9-17-1972
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-29-1902 - Lillian Leigh - d. 5-18-1987
    actor: (Wife of Jack Kirkwood) "Jack Kirkwood Show"; "Fibber McGee and
    Molly"
    10-29-1903 - Olive Pell - Kalgoorlie, Australia - d. 1-xx-2002
    writer: "Then Came the Day They Came"
    10-29-1905 - Herbert Lateau - d. 3-xx-1984
    producer: "The National Farm and Home Hour"
    10-29-1908 - Robert K. Adams - d. 2-13-1981
    actor: "Dr. Susan"; Hilltop House"; Your Family and Mine"
    10-29-1908 - Ruth Russell - Peoria, IL
    actor: Nancy Donovan "Just Plain Bill"; Kathy "Our Gal Sunday"
    10-29-1909 - Virginia Clark - Peoria, IL
    actor: Helen Trent "Romance of Helen Trent"
    10-29-1910 - Lew Parker - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-27-1972
    actor: John Bickerson "The Bickersons" "Mennen Shave Time with Lew
    Parker"
    10-29-1916 - Hadda Brooks - Los Angeles, CA - d. 11-21-2002
    pianist: "Jubilee"
    10-29-1921 - Bill Mauldin - Mountain Park, NM - d. 1-22-2003
    cartoonist: "Command Performance"; "Armed Forces V-J Program"
    10-29-1921 - Ed Kemmer - Reading, PA - d. 11-9-2004
    actor: Buzz Corey "Space Patrol"
    10-29-1922 - Neal Hefti - Hastings, NE - d. 10-11-2008
    composer, et al: "Woody Herman Show"; "Manhattan Melodies"
    10-29-1925 - Geraldine Brooks - NYC - d. 6-19-1977
    actor: "Hollywood Fights Back"; "Voice of the Army"
    10-29-1925 - Paul Daneman - London, England - d. 4-28-2001
    actor: "The Hobbit"
    10-29-1925 - Robert Hardy - Cheltenham, England
    actor, writer: "The Leopard and the Lillies"
    10-29-1933 - Douglas Cameron - Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
    presenter: "Today"; "double act"

    October 29th deaths

    01-14-1923 - Shirley (Ione) Cowell - Tulsa, OK - d. 10-29-1997
    singer: "The Shirley Cowell Show"
    02-18-1890 - Adolphe Menjou - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 10-29-1963
    host: "Texaco Star Theatre"; "Eternal Light"; "Hallmark Playhouse"
    02-18-1917 - Jack Slattery - Missouri - d. 10-29-1979
    announcer: "House Party"; "You Bet Your Life"
    02-29-1888 - Tess Sheehan - Ann Arbor, MI - d. 10-29-1972
    actor: Dorrie Warren "Wendy Warren and the News"
    03-08-1909 - Anthony Donato - Prague, NE - d. 10-29-1990
    composer: "Surprise Serenade"
    03-12-1905 - Milton Merlin - California - d. 10-29-1996
    writer: "The Halls of Ivy"; "The Man Called X"; "Presenting Charles
    Boyer"
    03-xx-1896 - Billy Artzt - Philadelphia, PA - d. 10-29-1949
    orchestra leader: "Blondie"; "Myrt and Marge"; "Shirley Temple Time"
    04-08-1921 - Franco Corelli - Ancona, Italy - d. 10-29-2003
    operatic tenor: "Gala Performance"
    04-12-1907 - Hubert Fincher - Waldo, AR - d. 10-29-1979
    country music: "Crazy Water Crystals Barn Dance"
    04-23-1924 - Norman Painting - Leamington Spa, England - d. 10-29-2009
    actor: Phil Archer "The Archers"
    05-16-1913 - Woody Herman - Milwaukee, WI - d. 10-29-1987
    bandleader: (The Thundering Herd) "Wildroot Show"
    06-07-1897 - Mann Holiner - Brooklyn, NY - d. 10-29-1958
    producer, director: "Baby Snooks Show"; "Frank Sinatra Show"; "Jubilee"
    06-14-1908 - John Scott Trotter - Charlotte, NC - d. 10-29-1975
    conductor: "Kraft Music Hall"; "Philco Radio Time"
    07-03-1919 - Fred Maddox - Boaz, AL - d. 10-29-1992
    bass: "The Maddox Brothers and Rose"
    07-04-1885 - Louis B. Mayer - Minsk, Byelorussia, Russian Empire - d.
    10-29-1957
    film executive: "Good News of 1938/39"; "Songs By Sinatra"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    07-06-1894 - Myra Marsh - Maine - d. 10-29-1964
    actor: Dora Foster "A Date with Judy"; Mother "My Friend Irma"
    07-13-1946 - Robert Caswell - Rockhampton, Australia - d. 10-29-2006
    writer: "Little Lunches"; "The Phone Friend"
    07-29-1924 - Lloyd Bochner - Toronto, Canada - d. 10-29-2005
    actor: "The Chase"; "CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    08-20-1908 - Al Lopez - Tampa, FL - d. 10-29-2005
    baseball hall of fame: "Greatest Sports Thrills"; "Tops In Sports"
    10-23-1922 - Ewell Blackwell - Fresno, CA - d. 10-29-1996
    baseball pitcher: "Babe Didrickson Zaharius Sports Show"
    12-14-1912 - Morey Amsterdam - Chicago, IL - d. 10-29-1996
    comedian: "Morey Amsterdan Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:48:28 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 30 October to 5
     November

     From Those Were The Days

    10/30

    Orson Welles, known to radio audiences as The Shadow, presented his
    famous dramatization of [removed] Wells' The War of the Worlds on CBS's
    Mercury Theater at 8 [removed]

    10/31

    1942   One of the great wartime shows premiered. CBS debuted Thanks to
    the Yanks, starring Bob Hawk. It became one of the most popular of the
    wartime programs.

    11/1

    1937   The first broadcast of Hilltop House was aired on CBS; while on
    NBC, the comic strip character Terry and the Pirates debuted.

    11/2

    1931   Myrt and Marge was heard for the first time on CBS. The program
    centered on two chorus girls who competed for the same parts and the
    same men. The creator and writer (Cliff Thomas wrote some) of the
    series, Myrtle Vail, also played the role of Myrt; and the original
    Marge was performed by Vail's daughter, Donna Fick. Three other
    performers played the part when Donna died giving birth. Myrt and Marge
    continued for 11 years.

    11/5

    1934   The first broadcast of The Gumps was heard on CBS. Wilmer Walter
    played Andy Gump, Agnes Moorehead was Gump's wife, Min, and Jackie Kelk
    was son, Chester. Karo syrup and Pebico toothpaste/tooth powder sponsored.

    1950   "The greatest stars of our time on one big program" was the
    introduction by actress Tallulah Bankhead, who opened the 90 minute Big
    Show on NBC. It was a big show all right. The peacock saw red as losses
    exceeded a million dollars in the three years the program was on the air.

    Joe

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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:49:19 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  10-30 births/deaths

    October 30th births

    10-30-1751 - Richard Brinsley Sheridan - Dublin, Ireland - d. 7-7-1816
    writer: (Inventor of the Malaprop) Some performers made use of the
    malaprop
    10-30-1879 - Eily Malyon - London, England - d. 9-26-1961
    actor: Lady Greystroke "Tarzan"
    10-30-1885 - Ezra Pound - Hailey, ID - d. 11-1-1972
    poet and traitor: "Italian Propaganda Broadcast"
    10-30-1891 - Bill Brandt - d. 11-18-1963
    sports commentator: "Inside of Sports"
    10-30-1896 - Bill Terry - Atlanta, GA - d. 1-9-1989
    sportscaster: WAGA Atlanta
    10-30-1896 - Ruth Gordon - Wollaston, MA - d. 8-28-1985
    actor: "Lincoln Highway"; "Meet Mr. Weeks"; "Orson Welles Theatre"
    10-30-1898 - Arthur Kohl - Chicago, IL - d. 8-29-1983
    actor: Fred Andrews "Archie Andrews"; Bob Graham "Bachelor's Children"
    10-30-1901 - Chester Bagg - d. 10-13-1988
    baritone: WCBC Zion, Illinois
    10-30-1906 - Paul J. Smith - Calumet, MI - d. 1-25-1985
    music: "The Eddie Bracken Show"
    10-30-1907 - Renzo Cesana - Rome, Italy - d. 11-8-1970
    creater: "The Steve Allen Show"
    10-30-1908 - Patsy Montana - Hot Springs, AK - d. 5-3-1996
    yodeling country singer: (Prairie Ramblers) "Nationial Barn Dance"
    10-30-1910 - Francia White - Greenville, TX - d. 10-22-1984
    singer: "Palmolive Beauty Box Theatre"; "Fred Astaire Show";
    "Telephone Hour"
    10-30-1911 - Milton Lieberthal - d. 6-5-1989
    writer: "The Sheriff"
    10-30-1911 - Ruth Hussey - Providence, RI - d. 4-19-2005
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-30-1912 - Preston Lockwood - Leyton, England - d. 4-24-1996
    actor: "Sherlock Holmes"
    10-30-1915 - Fred Friendly - NYC - d. 3-3-1998
    writer, director: "Hear It Now"; "Who Said That?"; "Quick and the Dead"
    10-30-1918 - Harvey Lowe - Victoria, Canada - d. 3-11-2009
    host: "Call of China"
    10-30-1918 - Jerry Adler - d. 3-13-2010
    harmonica" Paul Whiteman Orchestra
    10-30-1918 - Joan Banks - NYC - d. 1-18-1998
    actor: Arline Harrison Manning, "Portia Faces Life"; Carlotta Lagorro
    Armour, "Today's Children"
    10-30-1918 - William N. Burch - d. 10-1-2005
    producer: "Truth or Consequences"; "Gene Autry's Melody Ranch"
    10-30-1922 - Jane White - NYC - d. 7-24-2011
    actor: Cloak and Dagger"; CBS Radio Mystery Theatre"
    10-30-1923 - Hershel Bernardi - NYC - d. 5-9-1986
    actor: "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar"
    10-30-1924 - Norman Bird - Coalville, England - d. 4-22-2005
    actor: Major Burnaby "The Sittaford Mystery"
    10-30-1926 - Charles Woolf - California - d. 6-18-1994
    actor: "Life of Riley"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    10-30-1927 - Joe Adcock - Coushatta, LA - d. 5-3-1999
    baseball player: "Baseball: An Action History"
    10-30-1939 - Sammy Ogg - Lexington, VA
    actor: Little Beaver "Red Ryder"; Donnie Henderson "Beulah"
    10-30-1951 - Harry Hamlin - Pasadena, CA
    actor: "We Hold These Truths"

    October 30th deaths

    02-06-1899 - Ramon Novarro - Durango, Mexico - d. 10-30-1968
    actor: Freelance
    02-10-1903 - Lewis Allan - NYC - d. 10-30-1986
    writer for theatre, radio, television and films
    04-08-1915 - Carlyle Austin - d. 10-30-1985
    sportscaster: KEVR Seattle, Washington
    05-11-1914 - Bob Atcher - Hardin County, KY - d. 10-30-1993
    singer: "Faultless Starch Time"; "WLS Barn Dance"
    05-14-1918 - June Duprez - Teddington, England - d. 10-30-1918
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    06-11-1904 - Allen Roth - St. Louis, MO - d. 10-30-1972
    conductor: "Broadway Matinee"; "So You Think You Know Music"
    06-15-1918 - Grace McDonald - Boston, MA - d. 10-30-1999
    actor: "Treasury Star Parade"; "Hollywood Personals"
    06-16-1903 - Louis Raderman - d. 10-30-1974
    musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    06-19-1921 - Buddy Brees - NYC - d. 10-30-1994
    singer: "Art Mooney and his Orchestra"; "Bob Chester and his Orchestra"
    08-01-1906 - Judd McMichael - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-30-1989
    singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "Fred Allen Show"
    08-12-1912 - Sam Fuller - Worcester, MA - d. 10-30-1997
    producer, director: "The Aldrich Family"; "The Jack Carson Show"
    08-28-1924 - Peggy Ryan - Long Beach, CA - d. 10-30-2004
    dancer, actor: "Mail Call"; "Bob Hope Show"; "Proudly We Hail"
    09-09-1873 - Max Reinhardt - Baden, Austria - d. 10-30-1943
    film director: "Texaco Star Theatre"
    10-14-1907 - Pert Kelton - Great Falls, MT - d. 10-30-1968
    actor: Agnes "Magnificent Montague"; Lolita "We Are Always Young";
    "Milton Berle Show"
    10-27-1908 - Josephine Antoine - Boulder, CO - d. 10-30-1971
    singer: "Contented Hour"
    11-24-1911 - Kirby Grant - Butte, MO - d. 10-30-1985
    singer, actor: "Gatewood to Hollywood"; "Hollywood Barn Dance"
    11-26-1933 - Robert Goulet - Lawrence, MA - d. 10-30-2007
    singer-actor: "Guard Session"; "Voices of Vista"
    12-05-1886 - Rose Wilder Lane - De Smet, SD - d. 10-30-1968
    writer: (Daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder) "Hallmark Hall of Fame";
    "Helen Hayes Theatre"
    12-26-1921 - Steve Allen - NYC - d. 10-30-2000
    comedian, actor, singer, composer and anything else you might mention:
    "Steve Allen Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2011 19:49:39 -0400
    From: "Bob Scherago - Verizon" <scherago@[removed];
    To: "Old Time Radio" <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic

    The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic

    By Professor W Joseph Campbell American University, Washington DC

    Mass panic and hysteria swept the United States on the eve of Halloween in
    1938, when an all-too-realistic radio dramatization of The War of the Worlds
    sent untold thousands of people into the streets or heading for the hills.
    The radio show was so terrifying in its accounts of invading Martians
    wielding deadly heat-rays that it is remembered like no other radio program.

    Or, more accurately, it is misremembered like no other radio program.

    Read the whole article at [removed] or
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