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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2008 : Issue 283
                             A Part of the [removed]!
                                 [removed]
                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      OTR in North Jersey                   [ "Doug Douglass" <dougdouglass@[removed] ]
      12-11 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]
      The Man in Black                      [ Conrad Binyon <cbinyon@[removed]; ]
      Re: Fibber's closet on radio          [ Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed]; ]
      RE: Fibber Film                       [ Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed]; ]
      Sound and Fury                        [ Robert Everest <erest@[removed]; ]
      Getting One "Up" on Superman          [ Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed]; ]
      Howard McNear                         [ mchone@[removed] ]
      12-12 births/deaths                   [ Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed]; ]

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    Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:39:08 -0500
    From: "Doug Douglass" <dougdouglass@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  OTR in North Jersey
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    Skyline Theatre Company
    Presents
    "It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play"
    by Joe Landry

    Saturday, December 13th at 7:30PM
    At The Hermitage - Jacqua Hall
    335 North Franklin Turnpike
    Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey

    $25 General Admission
    $15 Seniors & Students
    Box Office: 800-474-1299

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    Doug Douglass

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    Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 23:39:22 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-11 births/deaths

    December 11th births

    12-11-1882 - Fiorello La Guardia - NYC - d. 9-20-1947
    NYC mayor: "Douglas Corrigan Parade"; "This Is New York"; "Reads the
    Funnies"
    12-11-1883 - Victor McLaglen - Tunbridge Wells, England - d. 11-7-1959
    actor: Captain Flagg "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"; Mountie Eric
    Lewis "Red Trails"
    12-11-1894 - Eddie Dowling - Woonsocket, RI - d. 2-18-1976
    host: "We, the People"; "Ziegfeld Follies of the Air"
    12-11-1905 - Pare Lorentz - Clarksburg, WV - d. 3-4-1992
    writer: "Columbia Workshop"
    12-11-1908 - Sally Eilers - NYC - d. 1-5-1978
    actor: "Edgar Bergen/Charlie McCarthy Show"
    12-11-1910 - Samuel Kurtzman - d. 1-14-1998
    writer: "The Bob Hope Show"
    12-11-1911 - Beecher Pete Kirby - Sevierville, TN - d. 10-17-2002
    dobro, guitar, banjo player: (Member Smokey Mountain Boys) "Grand Ole
    Opry"
    12-11-1911 - Sam Levenson - NYC - d. 8-27-1980
    humorist: "Arthur Godfrey Show"; "City Club Forum"
    12-11-1914 - Marie Windsor - Marysville, UT - d. 12-10-2000
    actor: "Escape"; "Suspense"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-11-1915 - Dolly Good - Mt. Carmel, IL - d. 11-12-1967
    singer: (Girls of the Golden West) "National Barn Dance"
    12-11-1920 - Eddie Firestone, Jr. - San Francisco, CA - d. 3-1-2007
    actor: Joey Brewster "That Brewster Boy"; William Herbert Murray "One
    Man's Family"
    12-11-1922 - Robert Arden - London, England - d. 3-25-2004
    actor: "America Looks Abroad"
    12-11-1923 - Betsy Blair - Cliffside, NJ
    actor: "Favorite Story"; "Meet Me in St. Louis"
    12-11-1926 - Dick Tufeld - Los Angeles, CA
    announcer: "The Amazing Mr. Malone"; "Space Patrol"
    12-11-1943 - Christine Lyons - Detroit, MI
    free-lance radio reporter: "Update, Where Are They Now?"
    12-11-1947 - Charles Palliser - Holyoke, MA
    author: "The Journal of Simon Owen"

    December 11th deaths

    01-05-1938 - Lindsay Crosby - California - d. 12-11-1989
    actor: "Bing Crosby Show"
    01-15-1914 - Carlos Ramirez - Tocaim, Colombia - d. 12-11-1986
    vocalist: "Grapevine Rancho"
    01-31-1909 - Walter Coy - Great Falls, MT - d. 12-11-1974
    actor: Michael Lanyard/Lone Wolf "Lone Wolf"
    02-03-1919 - Dolly Dawn - Newark, NJ - d. 12-11-2002
    bandleader: "Dolly Dawn and Her Dawn Patrol"
    02-20-1906 - Richard Himber - Newark, NJ - d. 12-11-1966
    bandleader: "Studebaker Champions"; "Your Hit Parade"
    03-23-1874 - Fiddlin' John Carson - Cobb County, GA - d. 12-11-1949
    fiddler: Made debut on staation WSB Atlanta, Georgia
    04-14-1914 - Arnold Perl - d. 12-11-1971
    writer: "The Big Story"; "I Fly Anything"; "The Amazing Mr. Tutt"
    04-25-1921 - Robert Q. Lewis - NYC - d. 12-11-1991
    disc jockey, comedian, host: "Arthur Godrey Time"; "Robert Q. Lewis
    Show"
    05-04-1874 - Frank Conrad - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-1941
    "the father of radio broadcasting" Started radio station KDKA in his
    garage
    05-15-1913 - James Baxter - Yucalpa, CA - d. 12-11-1964
    writer of radio scripts
    05-28-1898 - Andy Kirk - Newport, KY - d. 12-11-1992
    bandleader: (Clouds of Joy) "Andy Kirk and His Orchestra"
    05-28-1912 - Dave Barbour - Flushing, NY - d. 12-11-1965
    orchestra leader, composer, actor: "Electric Hour"; "Chesterfield
    Supper Club"
    06-25-1911 - Reed Hadley - Petrolia, TX - d. 12-11-1974
    actor: Red Ryder "Red Ryder"; Chad Remington "Frontier Town"
    07-07-1911 - Lou Maury - Butte, MT - d. 12-11-1975
    pianist: "What's the Name of That Song?"
    07-16-1888 - Percy Kilbride - San Francisco, CA - d. 12-11-1964
    actor,host: "Paul Whiteman Presents"; "Melody Round-Up"; "Stars in the
    Air"
    08-08-1900 - James Pierce - Freedom, IN - d. 12-11-1983
    actor: Tarzan "Tarzan"
    08-18-1937 - William Rushton - London, England - d. 12-11-1996
    comediam: "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue"
    09-03-1893 - Anthony Collins - Hastings, England - d. 12-11-1963
    composer: "Ceiling Unlimited"
    09-11-1909 - Anne Seymour - NYC - d. 12-11-1988
    actor: "Mary Marlin "Story of Mary Marlin"; Francie Nolan "Tree Grows
    in Brooklyn"
    09-16-1908 - Neil Reagan - Tampico, IL - d. 12-11-1996
    director, announcer: (Brother of Ron) "Dr. Christian"; "Straight Arrow"
    09-19-1910 - Arthur Mullard - London, England - d. 12-11-1995
    actor: Jack (Dad Porter) "Industrial Inaction"; "Brothers In Law"
    10-02-1905 - Mary Breckinridge - NYC - d. 12-11-2002
    correspondent: "CBS News of Europe"; "World News Today"
    10-09-1915 - Lee Wiley - Port Gibson, OK - d. 12-11-1975
    singer: "Lee Wiley"; "Eddie Condon's Jazz Concerts"; "It's Florida's
    Treat"
    10-19-1916 - David Lewis - Pittsburgh, PA - d. 12-11-2000
    actor: "Wake Up America"
    11-02-1909 - Fred Lowery - Palestine, TX - d. 12-11-1984
    whistler: (The Blind Whistler) "New Fred Lowrey Show"; "Horace Heidt
    Show"

    Ron

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    Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:10:35 -0500
    From: Conrad Binyon <cbinyon@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  The Man in Black
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    --- On Wed, 12/10/08, wayne_johnson@[removed] comments:

>     Another actor in the same catagory (distinctive voices): Joseph Kearns.

    Here's a webpage I developed for readers of the Digest on Joseph Kearns

    [removed]

    Conrad Binyon

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    Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:33:26 -0500
    From: Fred Berney <fsberney@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Re: Fibber's closet on radio

    At 11:40 PM 12/10/2008, you wrote:

>     Can anyone direct me to an online clip of the film featuring
>     Fibber McGee opening his closet

    Here is the URL for the clip on Youtube.

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    Fred
    Check us out for old time radio & TV shows & Movie Serials
    [removed]

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    Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:33:57 -0500
    From: Michael Biel <mbiel@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  RE: Fibber Film

    The film of Fibber McGee and his sound effects man opening the closet that
    Bob Cockrum asks about was filmed in 1946 or 47 for The March Of Time
    newsreel titled "Radio Today".  I have it on 16mm film but I think it might
    be on one of Martin Grimes' DVD compilations.  I loaned the film to Fred
    Berney a couple of years ago and he might be putting it on a Satellite Media
    DVD.  The segments from this MOT have been used in many compilations
    including the HBO "Remember When" program about radio narrated by Dick
    Cavett, but I don't remember if this clip was on it.  I don't see this clip
    yet on YouTube or Prelinger, but maybe it is somewhere on line.

    Michael Biel  mbiel@[removed]

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    Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:25:52 -0500
    From: Robert Everest <erest@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Sound and Fury

    Some weeks ago a link was posted about a story listing the best books
    about old radio.  Most would be familiar to most of us.  One I didn't
    recognize was Sound and Fury by Francis Chase.
    The Pratt Library in Baltimore had a copy so I went and pick it up.  Now
    I didn't have high hopes, because it had last been taken out in April
    1990, but it was a pleasant surprise.  It was written around the time
    the US entered WWII.  Published in 1942 the author apparently had to
    revise with the flow of current events.
    The book covers the history of early radio, and most facets of radio;
    drama, comedy, news, propaganda and the development of radio for  war use.
    One the best chapters covers Munich crisis and how radio news was able
    to bring the story into American homes.
    Rob

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    Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:26:33 -0500
    From: Michael Hayde <mikeh0714@[removed];
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Getting One "Up" on Superman

    I've been wading though over 1,000 circulating
    episodes of radio's various "Superman" [removed] and
    I've yet to hear the Man of Steel say "Up! Up and
    away!"  When he's taking off, it's always just "[removed]
    and away!"  Sometimes, when he's is already flying,
    he'll say "Up!  Up!" (or "Down! Down!"), but he never
    adds "...and away!"

    So, gang: is "Up! Up and away!" a misquoted catch
    phrase (much like "Just the facts, ma'am" or "Play it
    again, Sam")?  Does it derive from the two magazine
    articles by that title (Saturday Eve. Post in 1941 and
    New Republic in 1947)?  Or can someone give me at
    least one broadcast date where he DOES actually say
    it?

    Thanks,
    Michael

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    Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 19:33:26 -0500
    From: mchone@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Howard McNear

    Speaking of Howard [removed]
    A few years ago I was watching the 1932 movie Grand Hotel on VHS.  In the very last
    scene, as a new group of guests are checking in, two people exit a large car and
    walk to the lobby-the spiffily dressed man says something (I don't remember what)
    to the woman and he sounds exactly like Howard McNear.  I re-wound the tape to
    catch it several times and would have sworn that it was him.  Does anyone know?  I
    searched through the film credits and he is not listed, but it was a very short
    clip.

    Roby McHone
    Support our Troops-
    give war a chance

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    Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 23:04:42 -0500
    From: Ron Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  12-12 births/deaths

    December 12th births

    12-12-1886 - Violet Kemble Cooper - London, England - d. 8-16-1961
    actor: "School for Scandal"
    12-12-1893 - Edward G. Robinson - Bucharest, Romania - d. 1-26-1973
    actor: Steve Wilson "Big Town"
    12-12-1898 - Noreen Gammill - Missouri - d. 12-21-1988
    actor: Sister Dinwiddie "Bill Goodwin Show"; Cathy "Opie Cates Show"
    12-12-1902 - Helen Menken - NYC - d. 3-27-1966
    actor: Brenda Cummings "Second Husband"
    12-12-1904 - Pete Pumiglio - d. 10-20-1996
    musician: "The Ipana Troubadors"
    12-12-1907 - Allen Massey - Midland, TX - d. 3-3-1983
    singer: (Louise Massey and the Westerners) "National Barn Dance";
    "Show Boat"
    12-12-1907 - Jean Anderson - Eastbourne, England - d. 4-1-2001
    actor: "Front Line Family (The Robinsons)"
    12-12-1908 - Hank Ladd - Chicago, IL - d. 6-9-1982
    actor: Beetle "Phil Baker Show"
    12-12-1908 - Victor Babin - Moscow, Russia - d. 3-1-1972
    concert pianist with a career in radio
    12-12-1909 - Karen Morley - Ottumwa, IA - d. 3-8-2003
    blacklisted actor: "War Town"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-12-1909 - Louis G. Cowan - Chicago, IL - d. 11-18-1976
    producer: "The Quiz Kids"; "Murder at Midnight"
    12-12-1910 - Mary Lou Clark - NYC
    singer: (The Merry Macs) "Bing Crosby Show"; "New Old Gold Show"
    12-12-1910 - Morris Mamorsky - d. 3-12-2003
    composer, musical director: "The Eternal Light"; "Wanted"; "Words at
    War"
    12-12-1911 - Jules Dassin - Middletown, CT - d. 3-31-2008
    writer: "Kate Smith"; Yiddish Theatre
    12-12-1913 - Hal Dickinson - Buffalo, NY - d. 11-18-1970
    organized Modernaires: "Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra"
    12-12-1913 - Winston Burdette - Buffalo, NY - d. 5-19-1993
    newscaster: (protege of Edward R. Murrow) "CBS World News Round Up"
    12-12-1914 - Buzzy Bavasi - NYC - d. 5-1-2008
    baseball executive: "Monitor"; "Top In Sports"
    12-12-1915 - Bea Fontane - New Milford, NJ - d. 3-25-2002
    singer: (The Fontane Sisters) "Chesterfield Supper Club"
    12-12-1915 - Frank Sinatra - Hoboken, NJ - d. 5-14-1998
    singer, actor: (The Voice), "Your Hit Parade"; "Frank Sinatra Show";
    Rocky Fortune "Rocky Fortune"
    12-12-1916 - Acrivy Fukuzawa - Constantinople, Turkey
    opera singer: "Radio Paris"; "Radio Strassbourg"
    12-12-1917 - Richard Martin - Spokane, WA - d. 9-4-1994
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    12-12-1918 - Joe Williams - Codele, GA - d. 3-29-1999
    blues singer: "Count Basie and His Orchestra"; "Stars for Defense"
    12-12-1919 - Seymour Korman - d. 8-2-1993
    newsman for Mutual
    12-12-1923 - Bob Barker - Darrington, WA
    disc jockey: "Bob Barker Show"
    12-12-1929 - John Osborne - London, England - d. 12-24-1994
    dramatist: "Danger"
    12-12-1938 - Connie Francis - Newark, NJ
    singer: "Horn and Hardart Children's Hour"
    12-12-1950 - Louis Nowra - Melbourne, Australia
    writer: "Albert Names Edward"
    12-12-1950 - Louis Nowra - Melbourne, Australia
    writer: "Albert Names Edward"
    12-12-1950 - Stephanie McCarthy - Mildura, Australia
    writer: "Out of Mind"

    December 12th deaths

    01-31-1902 - Tullulah Bankhead - Huntsville, AL - d. 12-12-1968
    actor, hostess: "Johnny Presents"; "Big Show"
    02-27-1891 - David Sarnoff - Minsk, Russia - d. 12-12-1971
    executive: National Broadcasting Company"
    02-27-1907 - Mildred Bailey - Tekoa, WA - d. 12-12-1951
    singer: (Rockin' Chair Lady) "Mildred Bailey Show"; "Camel Caravan"
    03-05-1927 - Jack Cassidy - NYC - d. 12-12-1976
    singer, actor: "Stars for Defense"; "Cue Magazine Salutes ASCAP"
    03-10-1915 - Ranald MacDougall - Schenectady, NY - d. 12-12-1973
    writer: "The Man Behind the Gun"; "Passport for Adams"; "There Was a
    Woman"
    04-12-1919 - Ivor Barry - South Wales, UK - d. 12-12-2006
    actor: "Sears Radio Theatre"
    04-18-1902 - Harry Owens - O'Neil, NE - d. 12-12-1986
    bandleader: "Hawaii Calls"; "Sweet Leilani Time"; Harry Owens and His
    Orchestra"
    05-07-1923 - Anne Baxter - Michigan City, IN - d. 12-12-1985
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"
    05-11-1913 - John Weigel - Springfield, MO - d. 12-12-2002
    announcer: "The Chicago Theatre of the Air"; "Meet the Meeks"
    05-23-1883 - Douglas Fairbanks - Denver, CO - d. 12-12-1939
    commentator: "KHJ Los Angeles 1921"
    07-04-1898 - Johnny Lee - Los Angeles, CA - d. 12-12-1965
    actor: Algonquin J. Calhoune "Amos 'n' Andy"
    07-25-1922 - Earl Gillespie - Chicago, IL - d. 12-12-2003
    sportscaster: voice of the Milwaukee Braves
    08-02-1903 - Victor McLeod - d. 12-12-1972
    writer: "The Bing Crosby Show"; "Stop or Go"
    08-08-1906 - Richard Cunliffe - McKeesport, PA - d. 12-12-1968
    composer, arranger: "Ted Weems and His Orchestra"
    08-25-1914 - Dolores O'Neill - d. 12-12-2006
    singer: The Bob Chester Orchestra
    08-26-1912 - Chuck Foster - Jeanette, PA - d. 12-12-2001
    bandleader: "Treasury Bandstand"; "One Night Stand"
    08-29-1916 - George Montgomery - Brady, MT - d. 12-12-2000
    actor: "Hollywood Star Time"; "NBC University Theatre of the Air"
    09-05-1893 - George Sokolsky - Utica, NY - d. 12-12-1962
    news commentator: 15-minute weekly series on ABC
    09-24-1915 - Larry Gates - St. Paul, MN - d. 12-12-1996
    actor: "Radio City Playhouse"
    10-01-1902 - Joe Rines - Boston, MA - d. 12-12-1986
    jack of all trades: (Married to Portland Hoffa) "Joe Rines Show"
    11-05-1931 - Ike Turner - Clarksdale MS - d. 12-12-2007
    singer: (Ike and Tina) "Lost and Found Sound"
    11-07-1911 - Dick Stark - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 12-12-1986
    announcer: "It Pays to be Ignorant"; "Perry Mason"; "Walter Winchell's
    Jergens Journal"

    Ron

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