Subject: [removed] Digest V2010 #117
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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2010 : Issue 117
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      Lord Haw Haw                          [ "howstean2@[removed]" <howstean ]
      Lord Haw-Haw                          [ jack and cathy french <otrpiano@ver ]
      7-1 births/deaths                     [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      Births 100 Years Ago                  [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      H. Copland Robinson Jr.               [ <otrbuff@[removed]; ]
      Breakfast in Hollywood: The movie     [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      the shadow                            [ Grams46@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1904 11:26:30 -0400
    From: "howstean2@[removed]" <howstean2@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lord Haw Haw

    Several listmembers have mentioned William Joyce,
    the wartime propagandist.

    A blogger has a good article on Joyce at http:
    [removed] - it should still
    be on the first page.

    Regards from England
    Phil

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    Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1904 11:26:39 -0400
    From: jack and cathy french <otrpiano@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Lord Haw-Haw

    George Wagner considers the trial and execution of William Joyce by
    the British to be "at best extralegal" since this radio traitor was a
    [removed] citizen who was born in Boston. (Actually he was born in
    Brooklyn, NY, but the [removed] birth citizenship still existed.)

    Since his place of birth was not in question, Joyce then thought the
    same way as Wagner does now; Joyce was convinced he could not be
    convicted for treason in Great Britain. But alas, both were [removed]

    Joyce was born in 1906 to Irish immigrants in the [removed], who had
    become naturalized citizens. But the family moved permanently back to
    Ireland when Joyce was a mere youngster and he never set foot in the
    [removed] again. By age 30, he was a Hitler worshipper and street
    organizer in London. Eventually he jumped to Germany in 1939 to
    become a radio mouthpiece for the Nazis in Berlin. Soon the street-
    brawler from London was the microphone hero of Berlin and Germany
    awarded him the War Merit Cross.

    After the war, he was rounded up and brought back to England to face
    trial for treason in September 1945. In British law, anyone who
    invokes the protection of the Crown (as Joyce did when he obtained a
    British passport) owes allegiance to the Crown and therefore his
    American birth could not save him. Not from the trial (found guilty
    after three days) nor from hanging (the noose snuffed out his life in
    January 1946 after months of appeals.)

    Jack French
    Editor: RADIO RECALL
    <[removed]>

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    Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1904 11:26:47 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  7-1 births/deaths

    July 1st births

    07-01-1881 - Josef Pasternack - Czenstachown, Poland - d. 4-29-1940
    conductor: "Atwater Kent Concert"; "Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-01-1894 - John Lair - Livingston, KY - d. 11-13-1985
    announcer, director: "National Barn Dance"; "Sunday Mornin' Gatherin'"
    07-01-1899 - Cavan O'Connor - Nottingham, England - d. 1-11-1997
    singer: "The Vagabond Lover"
    07-01-1899 - Charles Laughton - Scarborough, England - d. 12-15-1962
    actor: "Three Ring Time"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Blue Ribbon Town"
    07-01-1901 - Irna Phillips - Chicago, IL - d. 12-23-1973
    actor, writer: Mother Moran "Today's Children"; "The Guiding Light";
    "Road of Life"
    07-01-1902 - William Wyler - Muhlhausen, Germany - d. 7-28-1981
    film director: "Screen Director's Playhouse"; "Hollywood Fights Back"
    07-01-1907 - Bill Stern - Rochester, NY - d. 11-19-1971
    sportscaster: "Carnival of Champions"; "Colgate Sports Newsreel"
    07-01-1908 - Alvino Rey - Oakland, CA - d. 2-24-2004
    bandleader: "Horace Heidt and His Brigadiers"
    07-01-1909 - Gertrude Fass - d. 3-6-2005
    writer: "Suspense"; "The Whistler"
    07-01-1909 - Madge Evans - NYC - d. 4-26-1981
    panelist: "Leave It to the Girls"; "Who Said That?"
    07-01-1911 - Larry Berns - Belfast, Northern Ireland
    producer, director: "The Bill Goodwin Show"
    07-01-1912 - Murray Matheson - Casterto, Australia - d. 4-25-1985
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"
    07-01-1913 - Dolph Nelson - d. 12-7-1981
    actor, director: "Captain Midnight"; "Art Linkletter's House Party"
    07-01-1914 - Michael Wilson - McAlester, OK - d. 4-9-1978
    blacklisted screen writer: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-01-1916 - Olivia De Havilland - Tokyo, Japan
    actor: "Plays for Americans"; "Your Hollywood Parade"; "Lux Radio
    Theatre"
    07-01-1920 - Alexander Lepak - d. 3-25-2009
    percussionist: "Hartford Symphony Orchestra"
    07-01-1920 - Ronnie Bonner - Philadelphia, PA - d. 4-19-1991
    song writer: "Uncle Wip"
    07-01-1921 - Margarita Duparinova - Bulgaria - d. 11-3-2005
    actor: Starred in Bulgarian radio
    07-01-1923 - Ralph Young - NYC- d. 8-22-2008
    singer: "Fitch Bandwagon"
    07-01-1925 - Farley Granger - San Jose, CA
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre", "Screen Guild Theatre"
    07-01-1927 - Grady Bass - d. 7-24-1991
    sportscaster: KSFA Nacogdoches, Texas
    07-01-1931 - Leslie Caron - Boulogne, France
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    07-01-1934 - Jamie Farr - Toledo, OH
    actor: Armed Forces Radio
    07-01-1934 - Jean Marsh - London, England
    actor: "Earplay"

    July 1st deaths

    01-15-1915 - Rod MacLeish - Bryn Mawr, PA - d. 7-1-2006
    writer: "Six By Corwin"
    01-19-1913 - Edward M. Asherman - d. 7-1-2005
    composer/guitarist/singer: Xavier Cugat Orchestra
    01-28-1921 - Alfred Marks - London, England - d. 7-1-1996
    actor: "Beginners Please"
    02-21-1938 - Wolfman Jack - Brooklyn, NY - d. 7-1-1995
    disc jockey: Mexican Border Radio"
    02-27-1927 - Guy Mitchell - Detroit, MI - d. 7-1-1999
    singer: "Stars On Parade"; "1957 March of Dimes Galaxy of Stars"
    03-11-1921 - Eloise McElhone - d. 7-1-1974
    panelist: "Leave It to the Girls"
    03-21-1926 - Virginia Weidler - Eagle Rock, CA - d. 7-1-1968
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    03-22-1912 - Karl Malden - Chicago, IL - d. 7-1-2009
    actor: "Theatre Guild On the Air"; "Our Gal Sunday"; "Aldrich Family"
    04-03-1924 - Marlon Brando - Omaha, NE - d. 7-1-2004
    actor: "Streetcar Named Desire"; "As Easy as [removed]"
    04-04-1875 - Pierre Monteux - d. 7-1-1964
    conductor: "The NBC Symphony Orchestra"
    04-15-1928 - Jimmy Ogg - Los Angeles, CA - d. 7-1-1986
    actor: "Smilin' Ed's Buster Brown Gang"
    04-16-1930 - Herbie Mann - NYC - d. 7-1-2003
    jazz flutist: "Voices of Vista"; "Sounds of Freedom"
    06-07-1919 - Ray Scherer - Fort Wayne, IN - d. 7-1-2000
    nbc white house correspondent: "News of the World"; "Army-McCarthy
    Hearings"
    06-25-1897 - Wilkie Mahoney - d. 7-1-1976
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show:
    07-21-1922 - Mollie Sugden - Keighley, England - d. 7-1-2009
    actor: Worked in British radio
    08-06-1917 - Robert Mitchum - Bridgeport, CT - d. 7-1-1997
    actor: "Family Theatre"; "So Proudly We Hail"
    08-08-1910 - Sylvia Sidney - The Bronx, NY - d. 7-1-1999
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Columbia Presents Corwin"; "Philip Morris
    Playhouse"
    08-10-1909 - Claude Thornhill - Terre Haute, IN - d. 7-1-1965
    bandleader: "The Judy 'N Jill 'N Johnny Show"
    09-04-1908 - Ed Dmytryk - Grand Forks, Canada - d. 7-1-1999
    film director: "George Fisher Interviews the Stars"
    09-10-1916 - Dorothy Lowell - NYC - d. 7-1-1944
    actor: Sunday Brinthrope "Our Gal Sunday"; Linda Clark "Hilltop House"
    10-04-1910 - James Doyle - St. Paul, MN - d. 7-1-1980
    announcer: "The Great Gildersleeve"; "Rogue's Gallery"
    12-23-1913 - Anton M. Leader - Boston, MA - d. 7-1-1988
    director: "Eternal Light"; "Murder at Midnight"; "Suspense"; "Words at
    War"
    12-25-1918 - Maritta M. Wolff - Grass Lake, MI - d. 7-1-2002
    novelist: (Whistle Stop) "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-26-1891 - Tony Wons - Menasha, WI - d. 7-1-1965
    host: "Tony Wons Scrapbook"; "House by the Side of the Road"; "Camel
    Quarter Hour"
    12-29-1915 - Robert Ruark - Wilmington, NC - d. 7-1-1965
    novelist: "Who Said That?"

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1904 11:26:55 -0400
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Births 100 Years Ago

    July births 100 years ago

    07-02-1910 - Jeff Alexander - Whidbey Island, WA - d. 12-4-1989
    conductor: "Amos 'n' Andy"; "Light Up Time"; "Tums Hollywood Theatre"
    07-04-1910 - Gloria Stuart - Santa Monica, CA
    actor: "Suspense"
    07-06-1910 - Alexander Kendrick - d. 5-17-1991
    correspondent: "Years In Crisis"; "As Europe Sees the Marshall Plan"
    07-06-1910 - Dorothy Kirsten - Montclair, NJ - d. 11-18-1992
    singer: "Keepsakes"; "Kraft Music Hall"; "Light Up Time"
    07-08-1910 - Jack Rubin - New York - d. 10-10-1952
    writer: "Hallmark Hall of Fame"; "The Hardy Family"; "Hilltop House";
    "The O'Neills"
    07-09-1910 - Alfred Kreymborg - NYC - d. 7-2-1991
    writer: "The Columbia Workshop"
    07-10-1910 - Helen Pickens - Macon, GA
    singer: (Pickens Sisters) "The Pickens Sisters"; "The Magic Key"
    07-10-1910 - Hugh B. Cave - Chester, England - d. 6-27-2004
    writer: "Escape"; "Romance"
    07-14-1910 - Boris Aplon - Chicago, IL - d. 11-27-1995
    actor: Ivan Shark "Captain Midnight"
    07-15-1910 - Ken Lynch - Cleveland, OH - d. 2-13-1990
    actor: Lt. Matt King "Twenty-First Precinct"; Christopher Gard "Cafe
    Istanbul"
    07-18-1910 - Lou Bush - Louisville, KY - d. 9-19-1979
    orchestra leader: "Guest Star"; "Stars for Defense"; "Here's to
    Veterans"
    07-18-1910 - Wyn Sayre - Lakeview, IA - d. 12-17-2007
    singer: (Doring Sisters) "Contented Hour"
    07-19-1910 - Fred Kirby - Charlotte, NC - d. 4-22-1996
    country, bluegrass: "Briarhoppers"
    07-20-1910 - Muriel Evans - Minneapolis, MN - d. 10-26-2000
    four radio shows of her own in Washington [removed]
    07-21-1910 - Carl Ravazza - Alameda, CA - d. 7-29-1968
    bandleader: "Carl Ravazza and His Orchestra"; "One Night Stand"
    07-21-1910 - Himan Brown - NYC
    actor, producer: Papa Marino "Little Italy"; "Inner Sanctum Mysteries"
    07-21-1910 - Mary Eastman - Kansas City, MO
    soprano: "Atwater Kent Hour"; "Waltz Time"
    07-22-1910 - Dorris Macon - d. 2-15-1982
    singer: (Son of Uncle Dave Macon) :"Grand Ole Opry"
    07-23-1910 - Gale Page - Spokane, WA - d. 1-8-1983
    actor: Holly Sloan "Story of Holly Sloan"; Gertrude Lamont "Masquerade"
    07-23-1910 - Nat Brandywine - NYC - d. 3-7-1978
    pianist, bandleader: "Wonderful City"
    07-25-1910 - Ted Dale - d. 7-25-1975
    orchestra leader: :Carnation Contented Hour"
    07-28-1910 - Bill Goodwin - San Francisco, CA - d. 5-9-1958
    announcer, actor: "George Burns and Gracie Allen Show"; Johnny
    Fletcher "Johnny Fletcher"
    07-28-1910 - Frank Loesser - NYC - d. 7-28-1969
    composer: "Cavalcade for Victory"; "Abe Burrows Show"; "Heartbeat of
    Broadway"
    07-29-1910 - Joseph Curtin - Cambridge, MA - d. 4-5-1979
    actor: Nick Charles "Advs. of the Thin Man"; John Perry "John's Other
    Wife"
    07-29-1910 - Sydney Roslow - d. 11-12-2002
    psychologist: "What Makes You Tick?"

    Ron

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    Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1904 11:27:01 -0400
    From: <otrbuff@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  H. Copland Robinson Jr.

    My friend Cope Robinson, whom I never met in person but got to know through
    his sporadic posts on this forum, passed away in Chapel Hill, N. C. on
    February 19.  Cope, who had helped me with his observations as I prepared
    several books, was a valuable contributor to OTR preservation.  I tried to
    reach him several times without success recently for help with a new
    project.  To my disappointment, his obituary is on the Internet.

    As VP-marketing and advertising for Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company, he was
    "there every day" in the studio when Arthur Godfrey Time was broadcast in
    the 1940s and 1950s.  From his years of association with those performers I
    gained many insights never possible elsewhere, and some of them I shared
    with readers.  I remember fondly a very intense project on which we worked
    together on the life of Robert Q. Lewis.  His memory of those days seemed as
    clear as a bell and he answered numerous requests thoroughly and
    objectively.  His impressions were sound and complete.  Though we only
    talked and wrote one another, I considered him one of the most reliable
    reference sources from "those days" that I have been able to mine.

    I'm grateful for people like Cope Robinson who have been interested in
    helping record the story of OTR for present and future generations.  I shall
    miss him for multiple reasons, and I am sure any of you who knew him or read
    his insights will miss him, too.

    Jim Cox

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    Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1904 11:27:08 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otr-digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  Breakfast in Hollywood: The movie

        Currently [removed] is showing
    the feature film Breakfast in Hollywood with Tom Breneman, based on the
    radio show.  The film centers around the show but with the usual movie
    boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl storyline, along with a
    few other story lines of several people who go to the show and what
    happens in their personal life.  Co-starring Bonita Granville, Zasu
    Pitts, Beulah Bondi, Billie Burke, Hedda Hopper and others.
       This should be posted for about a week.
       Joe

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    Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1904 11:03:14 -0400
    From: Grams46@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  the shadow
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    were the shortwave radios that the shadow/lamont  cranston and margo  lane
    used battery operated portable  devices?

    thanks  and peace from kathy
    support our  troops; end the wars
    john  3:16

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