Subject: [removed] Digest V2007 #122
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Date: 4/21/2007 10:18 PM

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                                The Old-Time Radio Digest!
                                  Volume 2007 : Issue 122
                             A Part of the [removed]!
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                                     ISSN: 1533-9289

                                     Today's Topics:

      4-21 births/deaths                    [ Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed] ]
      col flack                             [ "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed]; ]
      This week in radio history 22-28 Apr  [ Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed] ]
      Howard Hoffman Info.!                 [ Ljk2476@[removed] ]

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    Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 22:21:09 -0400
    From: Ronald Sayles <bogusotr@[removed];
    To: Olde Tyme Radio Digest Digest <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  4-21 births/deaths

    April 21st births

    04-21-1891 - Dr. Howard W. Haggard - d. 4-22-1959
    alcoholism expert: "Devils, Drugs and Doctors"
    04-21-1895 - Max Jordan - San Remo, Italy - d. 11-28-1977
    correspondent: "NBC News"
    04-21-1898 - King Calder - Maryland - d. 6-28-1964
    actor: James Anderson "Second Mrs. Burton"; Will Stevenson "Barry
    Cameron"
    04-21-1905 - Ted Osborne - Grand Rapids, MI - d. 2-12-1987
    actor: Dr. Carough "Dr. Kildare"; Professor Whiz the Owl "Cinnamon Bear"
    04-21-1907 - Beatrice Kay - The Bronx, NY - d. 11-8-1986
    singer: "Gaslight Gayeties"; "Beatrice Kay Show"
    04-21-1911 - Leonard Warren - The Bronx, NY - d. 3-4-1960
    singer: "Voice of Firestone"; "Telephone Hour"
    04-21-1914 - Norman Panama - Chicago, IL - d. 1-13-2003
    writer: "Pepsodent Show starring Bob Hope"; "Lux Radio Theatre"
    04-21-1915 - Anthony Quinn - Chihauha, Mexico - d. 6-3-2001
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Your Radio Theatre"
    04-21-1916 - Hunter D. Hancock - Uvalde, TX - d. 8-4-2004
    disk jockey: Early rhythm and blues rock 'n' roll platter spinner
    04-21-1919 - Don Cornell - NYC - d. 2-23-2004
    singer: "Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade"; "One Night Stand"; "The Big
    Show"
    04-21-1920 - Jim Nabbie - d. 9-12-1992
      lead tenor: (Member of the Ink Spots) "The Four Ink Spots"; "Let's
    Go Nightclubbing"
    04-21-1921 - Betty Jane Rhodes - Rockford, IL
    vocalist: "Meet Me at Parky's"; "The Packard Hour"
    04-21-1923 - Tex Antoine - d. 1-12-1983
    announcer: "The Eternal Light"; "Jane Pickens Show"
    04-21-1930 - Kirby Ayres - d. 11-16-2005
    disk jockey: "Bob and Ray Present the CBS Radio Network"
    04-21-1932 - Elaine May - Philadelphia, PA
    comedienne: "Mike Nicholes and Elaine May"; "Monitor"

    April 21st deaths

    01-02-1904 - James Melton - Moultrie, GA - d. 4-21-1961
    singer" "Palmolive Hour"; "Telephone Hour"; "Harvest of Stars"
    02-21-1933 - Nina Simone - Tyron, NC - d. 4-21-2003
    singer: "Voices of Vista"
    03-03-1890 - Edmund Lowe - San Jose, CA - d. 4-21-1971
    actor: Sergeant Quirt "Captain Flagg and Sergeant Quirt"
    04-18-1911 - Louis Vittes - d. 4-21-1969
    writer: "Advs. of The Thin Man"; "Affairs of Peter Salem"; "The Lone
    Wolf"
    05-03-1902 - Walter Slezak - Vienna,  Austria - d. 4-21-1983
    actor: "Lux Radio Theatre"; "Best Plays"; "Studio One"; "Columbia
    Workshop"
    06-09-1890 - Leslie Banks - West Derby, England - d. 4-21-1952
    actor: "Theatre of Romance"
    06-25-1915 - Peter Lind Hayes - San Francisco, CA - d. 4-21-1998
    actor: "Jack Benny Program"; "Texaco Town"; "Ford Show"; "Lum and Abner"
    07-07-1927 - Gloria Mann - New York - d. 4-21-1961
    actor: Veronica Lodge "Archie Andrews"
    07-22-1894 - Major George Fielding Eliot - Brooklyn, NY - d. 4-21-1971
    cbs military analyst during World War II
    08-13-1904 - Charles "Buddy" Rogers - Olathe, KS - d. 4-21-1999
    bandleader, actor: (America's Boyfriend) "Twin Stars"; "Pick-A-Date"
    08-21-1908 - Bob Jellison - Des Moines, IA - d. 4-21-1980
    actor: Oswald Ching "Story of Mary Marlin"; Buster Gunn "Great Gunns"
    08-29-1906 - Joe Sawyer - Guelph, Canada - d. 4-21-1982
    actor: Sergant 'Biff' O'Hara "Rin-Tin-Tin"
    10-12-1930 - Cyril Tawney - d. 4-21-2005
    folk singer: "Folkspin"; "Alan Lomax Show"
    10-21-1892 - Gummo Marx - NYC  - d. 4-21-1977
    comedian: (Marx Brothers) "American Review"
    10-31-1909 - Thelma Boardman - Panama Canal Zone - d. 4-21-1978
    actor: Minnie Mouse "Mickey Mouse Theatre of the Air"
    11-05-1895 - Charles MacArthur - Scranton, PA - d. 4-21-1956
    playwright: "Jumbo Fire Chief Program"; "Chase and Sanborn Hour"
    xx-xx-1882 - Nils Thor Granlund - Korpibomboia, Lapland, Sweden - d.
    4-21-1957
    broadway producer: "[removed] and His Girls"

    Ron Sayles
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    Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 23:28:56 -0400
    From: "EDWARD CARR" <edcarr@[removed];
    To: <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  col flack

    good afternoon
    can someone enlighten me as to who was col. flack.
    was this a 15min radio show? or a tv show?
    also i find i have many 1/2 shows on 16in disc
    dennis day, a fred waring, are just some, do you
    have 1/2 shows that we could get together on?
    edcarr@[removed]
    and thanks for any info on flack as i can't find it
    ed

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    Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:13:56 -0400
    From: Joe Mackey <joemackey108@[removed];
    To: otrd <[removed]@[removed];
    Subject:  This week in radio history 22-28 April

     From Those Were The Days --

    4/22

    1940 - The first all-Chinese commercial radio program was broadcast over
    KSAN in San Francisco, CA.

    1946 - Tex McCrary and Jinx Falkenburg arrived at WEAF in New York City
    with an entertaining morning show called, Hi, Jinx.

    4/24

    1949 - Dick Powell starred in Richard Diamond, Private Detective on NBC.
    The show stayed on the air for four years.

    1955 - X-Minus One, a show for science fiction fans, was first heard on NBC.

    4/25

    1938 - Your Family and Mine, a radio serial, was first broadcast.

    4/27

    1921 - Weather broadcasts were heard for the first time on radio when
    WEW in St. Louis, MO aired weather news.

    1931 - NBC presented Lum and Abner for the first time.

    1932 - The Texaco fire chief, Ed Wynn, was heard on Texaco Star Theater
    for the first time. Wynn, a popular vaudeville performer, demanded a
    live audience to react to his humor if he was to make the switch to
    radio. The network consented and Wynn became radio's first true superstar.

    1937 - The initial broadcast of Lorenzo Jones was heard over NBC.

    4/27

    Studio One on CBS was first broadcast. The show was full of great stars,
    but no sponsors. CBS dropped Studio One after a year on radio.

       Joe

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    Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 18:19:25 -0400
    From: Ljk2476@[removed]
    To: [removed]@[removed]
    Subject:  Howard Hoffman Info.!
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    To Mr. [removed] King - Thanks so  much for the information on Howard Hoffman! I
    suspected he stayed in Chicago,  but as I said, I have not found any
    information on him at all from other  old-tirme radio reference books,
    outside of his
    work on the CHANDU show. I was  intending to go to the Chicago Public Library
    this coming week to do a search on  him. I'd like to find out if he is the
    same
    "Howard R. Hoffman" who worked in  Hollywood as an actor in the 1950s into the
    '60s. It certainly could be, as the  "Howard R. Hoffman" noted in the
    Internet Movie Database was born in Ohio in  1893 and died in 1969. That
    would have
    made him about when he landed the role of  "Chandu" in 1935 in Chicago, which
    would fit the ages of other "Chandus" like  Gayne Whitman and Tom Collins.
    (Bela Lugosi was born in 1882, but carried his  age well, until the very late
    1930s.) Thanks for your help! - Lenny  Kohl

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